Hyundai’s Supernal, Microsoft to collaborate on UAM projects

Supernal LLC, the urban air mobility affiliate of South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co., and US tech giant Microsoft Corp. have agreed...

Samsung Heavy certified for CMSR power barge design

South Korea's main shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said on Wednesday that it has completed the conceptual design for the compact molten salt re...

Korean startups win 4 out of 23 Best of Innovations at CES 2023

LAS VEGAS – South Korean startups have won four out of the 23 Best of Innovation awards from Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which host...

K-defense sector to reach annual export of $16 bn for two consecutive years

The South Korean defense market is forecast to sign export contracts worth more than 20 trillion won (15.7 billion) combined this year on the back o...

LG Elec, Magna expand partnership into self-driving tech

LAS VEGAS – LG Electronics Inc., the world’s top home appliance producer, expanded its partnership with Canadian car parts maker Magna I...

Blackpink's 'Ddu-du Ddu-du' music video surpasses 2 billion views

K-pop girl group Blackpink's “Ddu-du Ddu-du” music video has surpassed 2 billion views on YouTube on Wednesday, its record label YG Ente...

Korean LCCs cancel China-bound flights due to COVID-19

Toughened COVID-19 testing requirements on Chinese travelers will likely dent hopes for South Korea's low-cost airlines to recover from three years ...

S.Korean companies expect exports to decline in 1% range this year

South Korea's companies expect both sales and exports this year to decline in the 1% range from last year, predicting economic growth in the low 1% ...

SK Networks completes acquisition of local EV charging platform operator

SK Networks Co., a South Korean general trading firm, said on Jan. 3 it has completed the acquisition of SS Charger Co., a leading electric car char...

Sejong kicks off private 5G business for exclusive use for industrial safety

Sejong Telecom, Inc. a mid-sized facilities-based telecommunications business and ICT platform company in South Korea, will launch a private 5G bu...

Samsung Elec to invest $46 mn in S.Korean robot maker

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is set to invest 59 billion won ($46.4 million) in South Korean...

No holds barred: State support for Samsung, SK Hynix, Hyundai Motor

It couldn’t come at a worse time.South Korea’s exports are set for a 4.5% decline in 2023. So believes the Yoon Suk-yeol government.The ...

LG Uplus succeeds in linking open RAN standard equipment

LG Uplus Corp. said on Tuesday that it has succeeded in linking open distributed unit (O-DU) and open RAN (radio access network) radio unit (O-RU) b...

Ideahub to launch new platform for individual investors of patents in Q1

In the next three months, South Korea's Ideahub is poised to launch a platform on which individual investors can also invest in patents.If all goes ...

S.Korean cloud startups get funding despite recession fears

The contraction of South Korea's investment market has not stopped startups specializing in software as a service (SaaS) to attract funds given that...

Namyang sees big increase in overseas sales of Chupa Chups drink

Namyang Dairy Products is strengthening its presence in the overseas business-to-business (B2B) market through carbonated beverages. The famous loll...

Korean banks must increase total shareholder returns: Align Partners

South Korean private equity firm Align Partners Capital Management Inc. is set to lead shareholder activism against the country’s top financia...

Silvia Health attracts investment through pre-Series A funding

Silvia Health Inc., an age-tech startup based in Seoul, South Korea said on Monday that it has completed a pre-Series A investment with the particip...

Korean firms head to CES 2023 to showcase innovative technologies

LAS VEGAS, NV – A growing number of South Korea’s leading companies and startups are heading to CES 2023, the world’s largest tech...

GS Retail to introduce forex kiosks in convenience stores

South Korea's convenience store franchiser GS Retail said on Monday that it would introduce foreign currency exchange kiosks at its convenience st...

Korean won to stay weaker than profitable levels – poll

The South Korean won was expected to stay weaker than levels for corporate profits this year as the local currency was likely to stay under pressure...

Document tool company Business Canvas secures Series A2 round

Business Canvas, a South Korean SaaS (software as a service) startup that services the global document tool "Typed," announced on Tuesday that it ha...

Qatar, UAE spend most on Korean games, pushing back China, US

Middle Eastern countries have emerged as a blue ocean for the South Korean game industry, ranking first in both per-capita usage amount and playtime...

Korean business chiefs’ Year of the Rabbit messages: Keep investing

South Korea’s top business leaders on the first business day of the year stressed the importance of active investment and concentration of r...

LG Electronics speeds up development of intelligent AI solutions

LG Electronics Inc. on Sunday said it will build an ambient computing platform as selected by LG AI Research, a company think tank specializing in a...

Korea’s NPS to be in red in 2022 with 5.3% loss in Jan-Oct

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest such fund, is poised to report an annual loss in 2022 for the fi...

LG Display to showcase high-performance OLED panels for gaming at CES

LG Display Co. said on Thursday that it would unveil new 45-inch ultra-wide OLED panels and 27-inch OLED panels optimized for gaming at CES 2023, th...

S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company

South Korea's bio company Alteogen Inc. on Friday said it signed its fourth technology export contract since its 2018 development of the human recom...

SuperBin completes plastic recycling factory in Seoul suburb

SuperBin, a South Korean startup reshaping the waste recycling ecosystem using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, on Thursday said it had co...

Korean shipbuilders outpace Chinese in LNG carrier orders

South Korea’s three biggest shipbuilders lost their world’s No. 1 title in ship orders for the second consecutive year but still proved ...