Daewoong receives approval for its GERD drug Fexuclue in Ecuador

Daewoong receives approval for its GERD drug Fexuclue in Ecuador

Daewoong Pharmaceutical said Friday that it has obtained marketing authorization from Ecuador's National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and S...

SK Bioscience climbs two notches in ESG evaluation, receives BBB rating

SK Bioscience climbs two notches in ESG evaluation, receives BBB rating

SK Bioscience Co., a biopharmaceutical arm of South Korea's SK Group, announced it has received a BBB rating in its latest environmental, social, an...

Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia

Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia

Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US,  has applied to the Australian clini...

SK Ecoplant passes industry-first carbon reduction target verification

SK Ecoplant passes industry-first carbon reduction target verification

South Korea's construction and engineering company SK Ecoplant Co. said on Thursday that it has passed the greenhouse gas reduction target verificat...

SK C&C joins hands with Microsoft for digital healthcare solutions

SK C&C joins hands with Microsoft for digital healthcare solutions

SK C&C, an IT services unit of SK Group, said on Thursday that it had signed an agreement with Microsoft Korea to advance into the global market...

SK Bioscience's SKYCellflu approved by Chilean health authority

SK Bioscience's SKYCellflu approved by Chilean health authority

SK Bioscience Co., a bio and pharmaceutical affiliate of South Korea's SK Group, announced on Thursday that its world-first cell culture-based quadr...

S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant

S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant

South Korea's Samkang M&T Co., a specialist in offshore wind plants and shipbuilding, has been renamed SK oceanplant under a strategy to raise t...

Hanmi's Rolvedon set to post $10 mn in Q4 net sales in US

Hanmi's Rolvedon set to post $10 mn in Q4 net sales in US

South Korean drugmaker Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co.’s neutropenia agent, Rolvedon (eflapegrastim-xnst), is forecast to achieve about $10 million i...

POSCO Chemical breaks ground on second anode material plant

POSCO Chemical breaks ground on second anode material plant

POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., on Jan. 31 broke ground on its second plant to p...

Korea's InCerebro to leverage AI to identify drug candidates

Korea's InCerebro to leverage AI to identify drug candidates

South Korean AI-based drug developer InCerebro aims to identify potential drug candidates using molecular modeling technology, according to its CEO ...

S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company

S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical has licensed a new drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to CS Pharmaceuticals (CSP) of the U...

SK Hynix to halve investment after posting first quarterly loss in decade

SK Hynix to halve investment after posting first quarterly loss in decade

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it will significantly slash its investment for this year after p...

SK Geo Centric receives int'l recognition for eco-friendly polymers

SK Geo Centric receives int'l recognition for eco-friendly polymers

SK Geo Centric Co., South Korea's chemical firm, has received the globally recognized "GRS" certification for its eco-friendly polymers, the company...

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 ele...

JW Pharma to put AI into new drug ingredient development

JW Pharma to put AI into new drug ingredient development

South Korea's drug developer JW Pharmaceutical is expanding the scope of its artificial intelligence (AI) uses from new drug research to the develop...

Korea’s SK E&S opens 1st US EV charging stations with Avis

Korea’s SK E&S opens 1st US EV charging stations with Avis

South Korea’s SK E&S Co. opened its first electric vehicle charging station in the US in a partnership with Avis Budget Group, a major Ame...

Aekyung Chemical develops first fertilizer coating resin with vegetable oil

Aekyung Chemical develops first fertilizer coating resin with vegetable oil

Aekyung Chemical on Friday said it has developed South Korea's first eco-friendly fertilizer coating resin using vegetable oil.Aekyung Chemical, a s...

S.Korea, Japan compete in gastroesophageal reflux drug market

S.Korea, Japan compete in gastroesophageal reflux drug market

South Korea is battling Japan again, this time on the global market to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). South Korea's pharmaceutical pr...

Bridge Biotherapeutics, Pinotbio develop lung cancer treatment

Bridge Biotherapeutics, Pinotbio develop lung cancer treatment

South Korea's biotech companies Bridge Biotherapeutics Inc. and Pinotbio on Thursday said they will jointly develop new antibody-drug conjugates (AD...

SK Telecom, Doosan Robotics launch AI-powered barista

SK Telecom, Doosan Robotics launch AI-powered barista

South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and Doosan Robotics Inc. have jointly launched an artificial intelligence-powered barista, SK Group'...

Inventage Lab launches clinical trials for addiction treatment in Australia

Inventage Lab launches clinical trials for addiction treatment in Australia

South Korea's Inventage Lab, a developer of a drug delivery system platform, on Wednesday said it received approval from the Human Research Ethics C...

SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T

SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it has developed the world’s fastest mobile DRAM chip and ...

HK inno.N's K-CAB to get insurance benefits in China

HK inno.N's K-CAB to get insurance benefits in China

South Korea’s 30th novel medicine K-CAB Tab (active ingredient: tegoprazan), a gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) treatment of HK inno.N, ...

ST Pharm exports $14.6 mn worth of drug ingredients to Europe

ST Pharm exports $14.6 mn worth of drug ingredients to Europe

ST Pharm Co., a South Korean company specializing in contract development and manufacturing of drug ingredients, has signed a supply contract worth ...

SK On, graphite processor Urbix to jointly produce anode materials

SK On, graphite processor Urbix to jointly produce anode materials

South Korea's SK On Co. and US graphite processor Urbix Inc. have signed an agreement to jointly develop high-performance anode materials, Korea's l...

GC Biopharma's Sanfilippo treatment eligible for FDA priority review

GC Biopharma's Sanfilippo treatment eligible for FDA priority review

GC Biopharma Corp. said on Wednesday that its Sanfilippo type A treatment, which is under joint development with Novel Pharma, a bio-venture special...

SK E&S moves into EV charging market

SK E&S moves into EV charging market

South Korea's liquefied petroleum gas supplier SK E&S said on Wednesday that its subsidiary Parking Cloud will begin electric vehicle charging s...

Hyosung Chemical fails to sell any bonds in demand forecast

Hyosung Chemical fails to sell any bonds in demand forecast

South Korea's Hyosung Chemical has failed to receive a single purchase order in its demand forecast for corporate bond issuance.Investment banking s...

SK Innovation-invested Amogy tests ammonia-powered heavy truck

SK Innovation-invested Amogy tests ammonia-powered heavy truck

Amogy Inc. has successfully tested its ammonia-hydrogen power system for large-size semi trucks – the first time that ammonia has been used as...

Daewoong accelerates investment in CDMO business

Daewoong accelerates investment in CDMO business

Daewoong, the holding company of South Korea's pharmaceutical-oriented Daewoong Group, is speeding up its pace to beef up its contract development a...

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