Kakao halts its own AI chatbot beta service a day after release

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s platform giant operating the country’s No. 1 chat app KakaoTalk, has introduced its first artificial intell...

Samsung Electronics’ new C-Lab Outside center opens in Gwangju

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday opened its second regional C-Lab Outside center in Gwangju about a month after opening the first regional startup ...

S.Korean biotech GI Innovation's IPO draws tepid market interest

South Korean biotech GI Innovation Inc. is slated to debut on the local public market at less than half of its pre-IPO investment value, facing luke...

Bespin Global to work with GBike for smart mobility business in Vietnam

Bespin Global, a cloud delivery platform company based in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it had partnered with GBike, a micromobility tech ...

Lunit's Insight DBT gets certification from EU for medical device

South Korean medical AI company Lunit said on Monday that its 3D breast tomosynthesis artificial intelligence (AI) image analysis solution, "Lunit I...

Korean ETP market doubles amid increasing distrust of fund managers

South Korea’s exchange-traded product (ETP) market has doubled in four years as more investors preferred their own trades to discretionary inv...

Korean aircraft maker KAI earmarks $3.4 bn in R&D investment by 2032

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, is set to pour 4.5 trillion won ($3.4 billion) into ...

LG Elec to spend over $4 bn on capex in 2023, biggest in a decade

LG Electronics Inc. has decided to go bold to widen the technology gap with its rivals, with its biggest capital expenditure in a decade of more tha...

S.Korean startup Jobis&Villains expands to UK with tax return service

Jobis&Villains Corp., a South Korean startup that offers a tax return service called “3o3,” said on Friday that it had set up a loca...

Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area

Tmap Mobility Co., a Korean navigation app company, announced on Friday a business agreement to promote cooperation in autonomous driving technology...

S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification

South Korea’s top search portal Naver Corp. said on Friday that it had received a global certification for its compliance management system fr...

Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service

Upstage, a South Korean AI tech startup, has unveiled a new version of its generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4, to become the first to offer Open...

S.Korea's Air Premia to launch Incheon-New York route in May

Air Premia, a South Korean hybrid service carrier, announced on Friday the launch of a new air route between Incheon and New York from May 22. ...

Korean Chips Act set to pass parliament in March; coverage expanded

South Korea’s answer to the US CHIPS and Science Act is on course for National Assembly approval by the end of this month as the ruling and op...

LG Chairman Koo on the hunt for talent to win future technology war  

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo is spearheading South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate’s search for top R&D talent in science and ...

Korea Eximbank teams up with US small nuclear reactor firm

The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NuScale Power, a US company that develo...

Hyundai Dept. Store Duty Free to launch metaverse duty-free shop

South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Duty Free announced on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with OlimPlanet for ...

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

The digital security market is rapidly growing in South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries and amid its soaring labor costs.&nb...

Sales of state-sponsored Korean startups up 40% in 2022

South Korean startups sponsored by the government’s information and communication technology acceleration program, dubbed K-Global Project, sa...

Prestige Bio's pancreatic cancer treatment gets US FDA fast-track designation

Prestige Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company in South Korea, announced on Thursday that their pancreatic cancer antibody drug, PBP1510 (Ulenistam...

Hyundai Const. Equipment unveils new BI, slogan at CONEXPO 2023

Hyundai Construction Equipment Co., a construction equipment subsidiary of HD Hyundai Co., announced on Thursday the release of its new brand identi...

Kolon Industries showcases hydrogen fuel cell materials at Tokyo Expo

Kolon Industries Inc., a Korean manufacturer of chemical and textile products, said on Wednesday that it was exhibiting its hydrogen fuel cell parts...

Korea Ginseng Corporation opens new R&D center in California

Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), a leading producer of Korean ginseng products, said on Wednesday that it has opened a new research and development ...

TravelWallet succeeds in attracting $15 mn Series C funding

South Korea's TravelWallet, a global payment service provider, announced on Wednesday that it has raised 19.7 billion won ($15 million) in Series C ...

Korean 3D tech firm Koh Young looks to US medical robot market

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is slated to enter the US me...

Wrtn Technologies joins latest AI fad, looking for prompt engineers

Wrtn Technologies Inc. has joined the latest generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom with its high-paying official job post for a prompt engine...

Kia unveils flagship EV9 design; world premiere in March

Kia Corp. on Wednesday showcased its large flagship electric sport utility vehicle EV9 as the No. 2 South Korean carmaker is extending its EV lineup...

Hyundai, other Korean steelmakers slim down Chinese units

Hyundai Steel Co. has decided to sell its Beijing arm, worth 400 billion won ($310 million) in asset value, hit by declining sales of its affiliates...

Hyundai Elevator to compete in Indonesian smart city projects

Hyundai Elevator Co. said on Wednesday that it will join a South Korean government-led team to bid for smart city projects in Indonesia, where the c...

Doosan Enerbility wins combined cycle power plant order in Kazakhstan

Doosan Enerbility Co., a South Korean power plant builder, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract with Turkestan LLP, a subsidiary of ...