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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver Band surpasses 6 mn MAU in US
South Korea’s Naver Corp. said on Friday its group-based social media platform Band reached 6.04 million monthly active users (MAU) in the Uni...
Nov 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Team Naver unveils digital twin platform in Saudi Arabia
Naver Cloud, the cloud subsidiary of South Korean online giant Naver Corp., said on Friday that Team Naver participated in the Cityscape Global 2024...
Nov 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver’s AI-powered search, online shopping services to go into full swing
South Korea’s Naver Corp. has been preparing for years to take its artificial intelligence-based services to the next level. The tech giant no...
Nov 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
HD Hyundai Infracore wins diesel engine award in Italy
South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co.'s new diesel engines were selected as the best diesel engines of the year in Italy.This marks the first time ...
Nov 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Electronics accelerates foray into private 5G service
LG Electronics Inc.'s push to expand its presence in the burgeoning private 5G network market is poised to gain traction. The South Korean electroni...
Nov 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Naver to lead hyper-personalized shopping trends with super app
Naver Corp., South Korea's largest internet portal, will launch an AI-driven shopping app in the first half of 2025 to boost its lackluster e-commer...
Nov 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Hyundai E&C signs engineering deal for two nuclear reactors in Bulgaria
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has signed a nuclear power plant design contract with Bulgaria's state nuclear power ...
Nov 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Korean choreography copyrights to be protected by Naver Z deal
South Korean dance choreography copyrights will be protected through an agreement between Naver Z Corp., the operator of Asia’s largest metave...
Nov 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK’s Korea Zinc takeover attempt to spur search for white knights
North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd.’s attempt to take control of Korea Zinc Inc. and the country’s plan to require ...
Oct 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Naver D2SF accelerates investments in Silicon Valley startups
South Korea's online giant Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) said on Friday it started to discover and invest i...
Oct 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
South Korean VCs in search of better returns abroad
South Korean venture capitalists’ appetite for foreign entrepreneurs shows no sign of waning as they continue to look for better returns overs...
Oct 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea’s KF-21, Lockheed's F-16 shortlisted for Philippine fighter jet deal
South Korea’s homegrown fighter jet KF-21 is competing against US defense firm Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-16 for the Philippine governmen...
Oct 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver Cloud launches AI meeting minutes service
Naver Cloud, the cloud subsidiary of South Korean online giant Naver Corp., said on Friday the launch of Naver Works Clova Note, an AI-based enterpr...
Oct 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea’s No.1 soju maker HiteJinro to foray into global beauty market
HiteJinro Group, South Korea’s No. 1 alcoholic beverage maker with a century-old history, has tapped cosmetics development and production as a...
Oct 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Liner raises $20 mn in Series B funding
South Korean AI search startup Liner said on Friday it raised 270 billion won ($200 million) in a Series B funding round led by Atinum Investment an...
Oct 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai unveils world’s 1st high-pressure ammonia dual-fuel engine
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said on Thursday it has developed the world's first ammonia dual-fuel engine with a high-pressure direct injection s...
Oct 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai E&C, Surbana Jurong to team up on power projects
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) established a cooperative network with Singapore's largest public-sector ...
Oct 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver Labs tops in spatial intelligence tech at ECCV
Naver Labs' spatial intelligence technology was recognized as superior to that of Google, Apple, and Meta at the world's leading computer vision con...
Oct 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
HL to acquire French parking robot firm Stanley Robotics for $24 million
HL Group, the construction-to-auto parts conglomerate in South Korea, will acquire the world’s sole outdoor self-driving parking robot-produci...
Oct 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics transports KAI’s T-50TH to Thailand
South Korea's CJ Logistics transported two T-50TH fighter jets, manufactured by Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), to Thailand, the company sa...
Oct 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Naver to upgrade Korean map service for foreigners
South Korean online giant Naver Corp. is set to upgrade its digital map service for foreigners to attract more global users as the domestic market g...
Oct 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Naver Pay partners with GLN International
South Korea's Naver Pay announced on Wednesday that it partnered with Hana Bank’s global payment network subsidiary, GLN International, to lau...
Oct 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Sambark LFT rebranded as Lotte Engineering Plastics
Sambark LFT Co., a plastic materials producing unit of Lotte Chemical Corp., has changed its name to Lotte Engineering Plastics Co., the company sai...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Naver to retire $306 mn shares, but stock remains weak
South Korea’s leading internet portal operator Naver Corp. will buy back and retire about 400 billion won ($306 million) worth of shares by th...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung Galaxy AI phones surpass 20 mn units in S. Korea
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Sunday that more than 20 million smartphones in South Korea are now equipped with its Galaxy AI technology, driven...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband unveils upgraded AI-powered IPTV service
SK Broadband Co., South Korea’s No. 2 internet service provider, has upgraded the voice command function of its internet protocol television (...
Sep 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver to set up Middle Eastern headquarters in Saudi Arabia
Naver Corp., which has been actively seeking to unlock opportunities in the Middle East with its new growth engines artificial intelligence, cloud a...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
KakaoTalk to adopt full-screen ads as sales, profit growth stunted
Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messenger and chat app KakaoTalk, is set to introduce full-screen advertisements on the ch...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
OpenResearch gets $7.5 mn seed round
OpenResearch, an AI search service founded by former Kakao Brain CEO Kim Il-Doo, said on Thursday that it got a seed round 10 billion won ($7.5 mill...
Sep 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai opens climate change response edu Center in Vietnam
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. said on Thursday that it has established a climate change response education center in Thanh Hoa Province, Vie...
Sep 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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