Korea exports snap year-long slide as chips regain momentum

Korea exports snap year-long slide as chips regain momentum

South Korean exports rose in October for the first time in 13 months as semiconductors, the country’s top export item, are on course to regain...

Korea Investment raises $400 mn to expand US assets

Korea Investment raises $400 mn to expand US assets

Seoul-based brokerage firm Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS) has raised $400 million in new bonds to strengthen its investments in the US ...

Daewoong Pharma, Merck team up for AI tech for new drug

Daewoong Pharma, Merck team up for AI tech for new drug

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on Tuesday it signed with memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Merck Life Science to build an arti...

Korea plans wider crackdown on foreigners’ short-selling

Korea plans wider crackdown on foreigners’ short-selling

South Korea’s financial regulator plans wider investigations into illegal short-selling trades by major foreign investment banks to ease conce...

KT unveils B2B generative AI service Mi:dm

KT unveils B2B generative AI service Mi:dm

South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. on Tuesday unveiled Mi:dm, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service for corporate clients, at its Seoul...

S.Korea's SKC to sell fine ceramic business for $270 mn

S.Korea's SKC to sell fine ceramic business for $270 mn

South Korea's SKC Ltd. announced on Tuesday it will sell the fine ceramics business of its subsidiary SK enpulse, a semiconductor materials investme...

S.Korea sees record of beverage exports in Q1~Q3

S.Korea sees record of beverage exports in Q1~Q3

South Korea's exports of beverages from Jan. to Sept. this year exceeded $500 million to break all-time record.Export data released on Thursday by t...

SK E&S to pursue cross-border CCS with Australia’s Santos

SK E&S to pursue cross-border CCS with Australia’s Santos

SK E&S, the clean energy affiliate of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, has signed a deal on cross-border carbon capture and st...

S.Korea to add India, Lithuania to list of nations eligible for E-9 visa

S.Korea to add India, Lithuania to list of nations eligible for E-9 visa

South Korea plans to allow non-professional workers from India and Lithuania to apply for the E-9 visa as the country struggles with a shrinking wor...

Lotte builds US antibody-drug conjugate plant with $82 mn

Lotte builds US antibody-drug conjugate plant with $82 mn

South Korea’s Lotte Biologics Co. is establishing an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) factory in Syracuse, New York, with an investment of 110 bi...

HD Hyundai joins $14 mn offshore wind power project

HD Hyundai joins $14 mn offshore wind power project

HD Hyundai Electric Co., the electrical equipment and energy solution company under South Korea’s shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai Co., has joine...

Harman’s record profits prop up Samsung's Q3 earnings

Harman’s record profits prop up Samsung's Q3 earnings

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, on Tuesday reported a triple-digit quarterly increase in third-quarter profit ...

S.Korea to put self-developed lander on moon by 2032

S.Korea to put self-developed lander on moon by 2032

South Korea plans to put its first lunar lander on the moon by 2032.  In a meeting of the National R&D Project Evaluation Advisory Commit...

BBQ's Chicken Camp gets popularity from foreign tourists

BBQ's Chicken Camp gets popularity from foreign tourists

Foreign tourists looking for Chicken Camp, operated by BBQ, a South Korean fried chicken brand, have been increasing noticeably. Chicken Camp is a c...

Naver replaces Nvidia GPU with Intel CPU for its AI map app server

Naver replaces Nvidia GPU with Intel CPU for its AI map app server

South Korea’s web portal giant Naver Corp. has replaced the main chip supplier of its artificial intelligence server for its map service, Nave...

HYBE to showcase game voice AI tech at G-Star 2023

HYBE to showcase game voice AI tech at G-Star 2023

Supertone, HYBE Co.'s AI audio subsidiary, is set to participate in the international gaming exhibition G-Star 2023, taking place from Nov. 16 to 18...

Hyundai unveils world’s first commercial LTE train signaling system

Hyundai unveils world’s first commercial LTE train signaling system

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean manufacturer of rolling stock, defense products and plant equipment, in a world first has commercialized a train s...

S.Korea leads world in patent applications for robot vacuum cleaners

S.Korea leads world in patent applications for robot vacuum cleaners

South Korea leads the world in the number of patent applications for robot vacuum cleaners.The Korean Intellectual Property Office on Sunday said th...

Hyundai unveils Avante N1 Cup Car

Hyundai unveils Avante N1 Cup Car

Hyundai Motor Co. has unveiled the "Avante N1 Cup Car," which will be introduced in the 2024 season of the largest one-make race event in South Kore...

Samsung to sell certified refurbished Galaxy phones in Korea

Samsung to sell certified refurbished Galaxy phones in Korea

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to sell certified refurbished Galaxy phones in South Korea at prices up to 50% cheaper than brand-new phones, a move e...

Korea Investment, Carlyle Group sign strategic partnership

Korea Investment, Carlyle Group sign strategic partnership

Korea Investment & Securities Co. announced on Friday it has signed a strategic partnership with Carlyle Group, one of the world's leading priva...

AI, SaaS rule October D.Day with Amber Road snagging top spot

AI, SaaS rule October D.Day with Amber Road snagging top spot

Amber Road won this month’s D.Day, South Korea’s oldest monthly startup pitch competition held on Thursday, with its artificial intellig...

LG Elec to launch new business with startup: LG NOVA head

LG Elec to launch new business with startup: LG NOVA head

SAN FRANCISCO – LG Electronics Inc. will set up a new business entity focusing on some of its new growth pillars — digital healthcare, c...

S.Korea’s ModaModa unveils new hair darkening shampoo

S.Korea’s ModaModa unveils new hair darkening shampoo

South Korean haircare brand ModaModa launched its second-generation hair darkening shampoo "ModaModa Zero Gray Black Shampoo" on Thursday. Prev...

S.Korea releases winter schedule for weekly int’l flights

S.Korea releases winter schedule for weekly int’l flights

South Korea will expand its number of weekly flights this winter to Japan and Southeast Asia, two regions expected to have high demand that season, ...

Korea’s Teachers’ Pension names SK Securities VP as CIO

Korea’s Teachers’ Pension names SK Securities VP as CIO

South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension has named Jeon Bum-sik, a vice president at SK Securities Co. with three decades of investment experienc...

Russia Pushes Security Talks With North Korea, China

Russia Pushes Security Talks With North Korea, China

SEOUL—Russia said it supports holding regular security talks with North Korea and China to address the threat posed by the U.S. on the Korean ...

S.Korea’s Q3 GDP up 0.6% on-quarter on recovery in exports

S.Korea’s Q3 GDP up 0.6% on-quarter on recovery in exports

South Korea’s economy in the third quarter grew 0.6% from the previous quarter, extending a growth streak to three consecutive quarters on a r...

S.Korea’s startups see Sept. investment surge 85%

S.Korea’s startups see Sept. investment surge 85%

South Korea’s startups last month saw investment rise for the first time this year.The Seoul-based Startup Alliance, a private support organiz...

Lunit joins Saudi gov't healthcare sandbox

Lunit joins Saudi gov't healthcare sandbox

South Korea's medical AI company Lunit has joined the Saudi Arabian government's Healthcare Sandbox initiative, a move to advance digital transforma...

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