SK Hynix may block Kioxia-Western Digital merger

SK Hynix may block Kioxia-Western Digital merger

South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix Inc. is rumored to be frowning on the integration of Japan’s Kioxia Holdings Corp. with US-based Weste...

POSCO Int’l completes Mexico EV motor core plant for N.American market

POSCO Int’l completes Mexico EV motor core plant for N.American market

POSCO International Corp., the energy and trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., concluded construction on an electric...

SK Telecom launches cloud cost management platform

SK Telecom launches cloud cost management platform

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. on Wednesday announced the launch of Cloud Radar 2.0, its next-generation cloud management platform that leverages arti...

SK to invest in S.Korean company for bio jet fuel materials

SK to invest in S.Korean company for bio jet fuel materials

SK Group, South Korea’s energy-to-semiconductor conglomerate, is set to invest in a local renewable energy ingredient provider for stable proc...

SK Chemicals, Estée Lauder to co-work for eco-friendly packaging

SK Chemicals, Estée Lauder to co-work for eco-friendly packaging

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. announced on Tuesday a partnership with Estée Lauder, the leading global cosmetics brand, to integrate circula...

Robot dog Spot patrols Kia auto plant late at night

Robot dog Spot patrols Kia auto plant late at night

South Korean carmaker Kia Corp. ’s plant in Hwaseong, a southern suburb of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, is guarded late at night by Spot, a fou...

Korea’s LG telecom unit to launch logistics platform service

Korea’s LG telecom unit to launch logistics platform service

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, is poised to launch a platform service that will digitally transform the local logistics s...

SK Telecom introduces paid currency to metaverse ifland

SK Telecom introduces paid currency to metaverse ifland

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has introduced an economic system to its metaverse service "ifland." With this, users can now purchase items with the c...

HiteJinro to build first overseas soju plant in Vietnam

HiteJinro to build first overseas soju plant in Vietnam

South Korea's leading soju maker HiteJinro Co. on Monday unveiled its plan to build a plant in Vietnam. HiteJinro Singapore confirmed a lease a...

Kia to build 2nd purpose-built vehicle plant in Korea

Kia to build 2nd purpose-built vehicle plant in Korea

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to build another purpose-built vehicle (PBV) factory in the country, despite the risk...

LG Chem, GS Caltex form eco-friendly materials alliance

LG Chem, GS Caltex form eco-friendly materials alliance

LG Chem Ltd. and GS Caltex Corp. are accelerating their efforts in the eco-friendly bio-material business involving 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3HP). 3...

S.Korea's SKC to sell polyurethane raw material unit for $304 mn

S.Korea's SKC to sell polyurethane raw material unit for $304 mn

South Korean chemical material company SKC Ltd. is selling its unit for raw materials of polyurethane (PU), a chemical substance.The company’s...

KHNP closes in on Romania’s nuclear plant refurbishment project

KHNP closes in on Romania’s nuclear plant refurbishment project

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) is eyeing to participate in a project to refurbish Romania-based Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant’s unit...

SK Chemicals signs VPPA contract with SK E&S

SK Chemicals signs VPPA contract with SK E&S

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. announced on Thursday a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with SK E&S to shift 10% of the electricity used ...

SGC eTEC E&C completes chip packaging plant in Vietnam

SGC eTEC E&C completes chip packaging plant in Vietnam

South Korea's SGC eTEC E&C Co. on Thursday announced the completion of a cutting-edge semiconductor packaging facility in Vietnam's Yen Phong 2C...

KT&G breaks ground on new plant in Kazakhstan

KT&G breaks ground on new plant in Kazakhstan

South Korea's KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, announced on Thursday the commencement of its new factory's constructio...

Samsung SDI, Stellantis to build 2nd US EV battery plant in Indiana

Samsung SDI, Stellantis to build 2nd US EV battery plant in Indiana

Kokomo, Indiana, will be the site of the second electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the US of South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. and the Netherl...

SK Telecom rolls out super-fast 400 Gbps 5G wired network

SK Telecom rolls out super-fast 400 Gbps 5G wired network

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday announced a national first through its 400 gigabit per second (Gbps) high-capacity wired network used ...

LG Chem to supply cathode materials to Toyota's N.American plant

LG Chem to supply cathode materials to Toyota's N.American plant

LG Chem Ltd. will supply cathode materials to Toyota Motor's North American battery plant, with the South Korean company concluding its second long-...

SK Hynix pins high hopes on specialty DRAM for AI use: CEO

SK Hynix pins high hopes on specialty DRAM for AI use: CEO

In the semiconductor industry, it’s been quite a while since memory chips became a commodity, meaning so low an entry barrier that any chipmak...

Samsung, SK granted indefinite US waiver on chip gear supplies to China

Samsung, SK granted indefinite US waiver on chip gear supplies to China

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, have been granted an indefinite waiver on semiconductor ...

SK Plasma gets investment from Indonesian fund

SK Plasma gets investment from Indonesian fund

South Korea’s SK Plasma on Tuesday said it signed a term sheet, or a nonbinding agreement on the basic terms and conditions of an investment, ...

SK Networks completes acquisition of en-core

SK Networks completes acquisition of en-core

South Korean trading firm SK Networks Co. announced on Friday that it has completed the acquisition process of en-core, a leading data solutions and...

Lotte Biologics to break ground on 1st local CDMO plant in 2024

Lotte Biologics to break ground on 1st local CDMO plant in 2024

South Korea’s Lotte Biologics Co. is set to start building its first local facility for drug manufacturing next year, aiming for 400,000 liter...

SK C&C invests in US startup Glassdome

SK C&C invests in US startup Glassdome

South Korea's SK C&C announced on Thursday that it has made a new investment in Glassdome, a US carbon emission management solution startup.&nbs...

LG Energy Solution to supply EV batteries to Toyota for 10 years

LG Energy Solution to supply EV batteries to Toyota for 10 years

LG Energy Solution Ltd. will supply 20 gigawatt hours (GWh) worth of batteries for electric vehicles of the world’s No. 1 car seller Toyota Mo...

SK Telecom launches ICT infrastructure device

SK Telecom launches ICT infrastructure device

SK Telecom Co. on Wednesday said it launched Cloud Appliance, a cloud infrastructure device based on an ARM chipset.The company applied its virtuali...

SK Telecom enters Japan's pet care market

SK Telecom enters Japan's pet care market

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. has entered the Japanese pet market using its innovative artificial intelligence (AI) under a tie-up with Japan&r...

SK On named to Fortune’s Change the World list

SK On named to Fortune’s Change the World list

South Korea’s electric vehicle (EV) battery maker SK On is among innovative companies that have changed the world according to Fortune, a le...

Samsung SDI to invest $2 bn to build 2nd US battery plant with Stellantis

Samsung SDI to invest $2 bn to build 2nd US battery plant with Stellantis

Samsung SDI Co. will inject $1.98 billion to build a second battery manufacturing plant in the US jointly with Netherlands-based automaker Stellanti...

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