Celltrion Healthcare launches anti-cancer biosimilar Vegzelma in Japan

Celltrion Healthcare launches anti-cancer biosimilar Vegzelma in Japan

Celltrion Healthcare Co. Ltd. said on Thursday that it launched Vegzelma, a biosimilar to the anti-cancer drug Avastin (active ingredient: bevacizum...

Hancom Carelink invests in bio big data venture 3bigs

Hancom Carelink invests in bio big data venture 3bigs

South Korea's Hancom Carelink, a digital health care company under Hancom Group, on Wednesday said it bought an unspecified stake in the bio big dat...

Hyundai AutoEver secures international safety, health certification

Hyundai AutoEver secures international safety, health certification

South Korea's mobility software provider Hyundai AutoEver said Wednesday that it has earned the international safety and health management system IS...

Korea’s top probiotic drink maker hy to expand global biz

Korea’s top probiotic drink maker hy to expand global biz

South Korea’s leading probiotic drink maker hy Co. is seeking to expand its health functional food business into the global market as demand f...

Hyundai's four models selected among Car & Driver's best 10 Trucks & SUVs

Hyundai's four models selected among Car & Driver's best 10 Trucks & SUVs

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that Hyundai IONIQ5, Kia EV6, Kia Telluride, and Genesis GV70 were selected as the 2023 Best 10 Trucks & S...

Korea internet data center construction faces health issue

Korea internet data center construction faces health issue

South Korea’s information technology industry hit a snag with building new internet data centers (IDCs) due to controversies over the potentia...

Bespin Global establishes Vietnam Tech Center for cloud, digital innovation

Bespin Global establishes Vietnam Tech Center for cloud, digital innovation

South Korea's cloud management company Bespin Global will foster cloud and digital innovation industries in Central Vietnam. To this end, the compan...

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...

Pan Ocean to transport energy products for Portugal's Galp

Pan Ocean to transport energy products for Portugal's Galp

Pan Ocean Co., the top bulk shipping company in South Korea, has received its first large-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier to provide shipp...

Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food

Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food

South Korea's health functional foods company Novarex and cosmetics company Riiman Korea met to promote the health-functional foods business togethe...

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

Biopharmaceutical company NeoImmuneTech has grabbed an opportunity to supply new drug candidates in development as strategic items to the US gover...

Silvia Health attracts investment through pre-Series A funding

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 biotechs target US labs to speed up regulatory approval for tests

Korean biotechs target US labs to speed up regulatory approval for tests

South Korean molecular diagnostics companies are increasingly buying high-quality laboratories in the US that meet federal regulatory standards in a...

S.Korea's CMG Pharmaceutical opens animal medicine unit

S.Korea's CMG Pharmaceutical opens animal medicine unit

CMG Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of South Korea's CHA Biotech, on Monday announced the launch of an animal medicine unit and entry into the market f...

SK Ecoplant earns AA grade for FTC's voluntary compliance program

SK Ecoplant earns AA grade for FTC's voluntary compliance program

South Korea's construction engineering company SK Ecoplant Co., Ltd. is accelerating its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management effo...

Boryung holds Care-in-Space Challenge in US for space healthcare startups

Boryung holds Care-in-Space Challenge in US for space healthcare startups

South Korea's pharmaceutical company Boryeong said on Friday that it held the first "Care-in-Space Challenge" event, a new space healthcare startup ...

Sulbing opens 1st US store in California in March next year

Sulbing opens 1st US store in California in March next year

South Korean dessert café Sulbing said on Friday that it signed a new master franchise contract to declare its entry into the US market and a...

South Korea needs to attract more foreign professionals: FKI

South Korea needs to attract more foreign professionals: FKI

In order to address the chronic shortage of industrial engineering manpower, a research report proposed that South Korea put more effort into attracti...

SK Car Rental acquires ISO 45001 for safety, health management system

SK Car Rental acquires ISO 45001 for safety, health management system

SK Car Rental said on Wednesday that it has obtained the safety and health management system (ISO45001) certification from the British Standards Ins...

Pan Ocean buys 5% of Hanjin KAL from Hoban Construction

Pan Ocean buys 5% of Hanjin KAL from Hoban Construction

Pan Ocean Co., the shipping affiliate of Harim Group, on Tuesday said it bought a 5% stake or 3.3 million shares in Hanjin KAL Corp. in a block deal...

Blackpink named Entertainer of the Year by Time Magazine

Blackpink named Entertainer of the Year by Time Magazine

Group Blackpink was selected as "2022 Entertainer of the Year" by TIME, a US weekly magazine. The magazine released a list of the most influential p...

Kimchi exports to US reach record high of $27 million so far this year 

Kimchi exports to US reach record high of $27 million so far this year 

Exports of kimchi to the United States increased steadily to reach a record high of $26.7 million worth of the fermented dish between January and No...

Daesang Welllife forms joint venture with Sinopharm Group

Daesang Welllife forms joint venture with Sinopharm Group

Daesang Welllife on Thursday said it has concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China Sinopharm International, an affiliate of China's l...

LG Elec to bet on healthcare, mobility, metaverse in N.America

LG Elec to bet on healthcare, mobility, metaverse in N.America

LG Electronics Inc., the global top home appliance maker, will bet on the healthcare, mobility and metaverse sectors in North America through invest...

LG Energy Solution diversifies supply chains to respond to US IRA

LG Energy Solution diversifies supply chains to respond to US IRA

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has made a preemptive response to the Inflation Reduction Act of the US by securing the supply of lithium carbonate, a key m...

Galaxy S22 smartphone named to Time's 'Best Inventions of 2022'

Galaxy S22 smartphone named to Time's 'Best Inventions of 2022'

The smartphone Galaxy S22 Ultra is one of three products by Samsung Electronics included on a list of this year's best inventions by the American ma...

Korean American women leaders in finance stress finding joy in work

Korean American women leaders in finance stress finding joy in work

NEW YORK – One by one, impeccably dressed Korean American women flocked into the Anchorage Capital Group’s headquarters in New York City...

SK Biopharmaceuticals to make CES debut in January

SK Biopharmaceuticals to make CES debut in January

SK Biopharmaceuticals will take part in CES 2023, the world's largest trade show for IT and electronics held in Las Vegas, to unveil its medical dev...

NPS considers new investment in global real estate

NPS considers new investment in global real estate

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is open to new investments in overseas real estate, the pension fund’s American real estate...

BofA names Korean American Mike Joo as head of North America GCIB

BofA names Korean American Mike Joo as head of North America GCIB

Bank of America Corp. has appointed Korean American Mike Joo as its new head of North America global corporate and investment banking (GCIB), accord...

Shinsegae, Hana Financial, Bain Capital to finance $438 mn Starfield Cheongna Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman courts Korean AI startups as Riyadh, Abu Dhabi vie to build tech hubs K Shipbuilding up for sale as Korean shipyards ride new boom Samsung to buy US health tech firm Xealth in digital health push Korean waste management firm Koentec put on market for $730 mn