S.Korea's T&R Biofab secures patent in Japan for 3D-printed liver

S.Korea's T&R Biofab secures patent in Japan for 3D-printed liver

South Korea's regenerative medicine company T&R Biofab Co. on Monday said it obtained a patent in Japan for production technology for liver or...

CJ Olive Young to develop inner beauty as new growth engine

CJ Olive Young to develop inner beauty as new growth engine

South Korea's top beauty chain CJ Olive Young said on Thursday that it plans to capitalize on the growing market for inner beauty, positioning it as...

S.Korea to inject more than $2.3 bn in quantum science, tech by 2035

S.Korea to inject more than $2.3 bn in quantum science, tech by 2035

South Korea will pour more than 3 trillion won ($2.3 billion) into quantum science and technology by 2035, aiming to become the world’s fourth...

Hyundai Engineering's petrochemical plant in Poland starts pilot output

Hyundai Engineering's petrochemical plant in Poland starts pilot output

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering has started pilot small-scale output ahead of mass production at its petrochemical plant in Poland.  ...

Samsung, 4 Korean banks to foster financial software engineers

Samsung, 4 Korean banks to foster financial software engineers

Samsung Electronics Co. and South Korea’s four commercial banks – Shinhan, KB Kookmin, Hana and Woori – have agreed to help suppor...

HD KSOE breaks ground on marine engine plant in Saudi Arabia

HD KSOE breaks ground on marine engine plant in Saudi Arabia

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) said on Sunday its joint venture Makeen has broken ground on a marine engine plant in Saudi ...

Innocean acquires digital marketing company D-Plan 360

Innocean acquires digital marketing company D-Plan 360

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, has acquired the Seoul-based digital marketing company D-Plan 360 to greatly rai...

Hyundai Glovis acquires logistics automation SW company Altiall

Hyundai Glovis acquires logistics automation SW company Altiall

South Korea's leading logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Monday that it has signed a stock purchase agreement related to the acquisit...

POSCO targets robotic automation solutions for new growth

POSCO targets robotic automation solutions for new growth

SEONGNAM, Gyeonggi Province -- POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO Group, aims to enter the rob...

LG Chem’s CEO searches for talent in Japan to lead new growth engines

LG Chem’s CEO searches for talent in Japan to lead new growth engines

Vice Chairman and CEO Shin Hak-cheol of South Korea's largest chemical company LG Chem Ltd. is looking for talent in Japan to lead his company's thr...

S.Korea's Shift Up scouts former OpenAI engineer

S.Korea's Shift Up scouts former OpenAI engineer

South Korea's game develop and design studio Shift Up has hired AI developer Kim Tae-hoon, who hails from Silicon Valley, to enhance its game artifi...

Hanwha aims to develop unmanned fighter jet engine within decade

Hanwha aims to develop unmanned fighter jet engine within decade

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, aims to develop engines for unmanned aircraft within the next decade t...

Naver’s search engine dominance under siege as Google, MS advance

Naver’s search engine dominance under siege as Google, MS advance

South Korea’s online portal Naver Corp., the undisputed search engine leader in the domestic market for decades, is under siege as global Big ...

Samsung Engineering, OMV sign agreement for modular project

Samsung Engineering, OMV sign agreement for modular project

South Korea's Samsung Engineering has partnered with global integrated energy company OMV for project collaboration. Samsung Engineering announced T...

Jang Se-joo returns as Dongkuk chairman, launches holding firm

Jang Se-joo returns as Dongkuk chairman, launches holding firm

Jang Se-joo, former chairman of South Korea’s Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., has returned to the top post after an eight-year hiatus as the steelmake...

Samsung to nurture biotech as next growth engine after chips: Lee

Samsung to nurture biotech as next growth engine after chips: Lee

Samsung Group leader Lee Jae-yong, currently in the US, has vowed to make biotechnology the conglomerate’s second core strategic business afte...

Will Night Crows be Korean game developer WeMade’s savior?

Will Night Crows be Korean game developer WeMade’s savior?

WeMade Co. on Thursday officially launched Night Crows, a new massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), in South Korea as the major do...

Hyundai Engineering, SK Ecoplant to produce carbon-neutral hydrogen

Hyundai Engineering, SK Ecoplant to produce carbon-neutral hydrogen

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. and SK Ecoplant Co. are teaming up with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), a US micro modular reactor (MMR...

Samsung Galaxy may use Bing as default search engine, not Google

Samsung Galaxy may use Bing as default search engine, not Google

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest smartphone maker, is considering switching the default search engine for its Galaxy mobile...

Verismo's CAR-T therapy designated fast-track status by FDA

Verismo's CAR-T therapy designated fast-track status by FDA

Verismo Therapeutics, a US affiliate of South Korean pharmaceutical firm HLB Co., has received fast-track designation from the US Food and Drug Admi...

KT launches cloud-based engineering platform

KT launches cloud-based engineering platform

KT Corp., South Korea's largest telecommunications company, announced the launch of its cloud-based high-performance engineering platform service on...

LG Group Chairman names AI, bio, clean tech as new growth engines

LG Group Chairman names AI, bio, clean tech as new growth engines

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo has pledged to continue investing in future-oriented businesses and human resources despite the global economic slowd...

Samsung accelerates nurturing chip talent at tech universities

Samsung accelerates nurturing chip talent at tech universities

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is expanding programs to foster talented semiconductor engineers and experts by...

Hyundai Heavy tops global 2-stroke engine production

Hyundai Heavy tops global 2-stroke engine production

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. became the world’s first shipbuilder to have marked 200 million brake horsepower (bhp) in cum...

Samsung Elec boosts robotics as key growth engine: Vice chairman

Samsung Elec boosts robotics as key growth engine: Vice chairman

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest chip producer, will go all out to expand its robotics business, Vice Chairman and Co-CEO Han Jong...

Wrtn Technologies joins latest AI fad, looking for prompt engineers

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...

Korea to raise young chip engineers for Samsung, SK Hynix

Korea to raise young chip engineers for Samsung, SK Hynix

South Korea plans to nurture more youths specialized in semiconductors at high schools to ease the worsening shortage of high-skilled workers at d...

POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C

POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C

POSCO Engineering & Construction, the builder affiliate of South Korea's POSCO Group, has changed its name to "POSCO E&C" to mark the first ...

S.Korea's builders diversify biz portfolios to waste battery, other sectors

S.Korea's builders diversify biz portfolios to waste battery, other sectors

South Korea's construction companies are exploring other sectors to find new growth engines amid deteriorating profitability in the housing industry...

LG Electronics picks private 5G network as next growth engine

LG Electronics picks private 5G network as next growth engine

LG Electronics Inc. is seeking to make inroads into the private 5G network market, set to grow rapidly amid accelerated migration to automation in a...

S.Korea’s leading ERP player Douzone Bizon up for sale; EQT Partners in talks MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field required GEPS taps former KB Asset chief risk officer as new CIO Affinity Equity nets $220 mn from block sale of Shinhan Financial F&F’s bid for TaylorMade complicates Centroid's exit