Daedong attracts investment from Kakao for smart mobility projects

Daedong attracts investment from Kakao for smart mobility projects

Daedong Corp., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, has attracted 10 billion won ($7.6 million) from Kakao Mobility Corp. t...

Hyundai Motor to redirect its TaaS, AI functions to self-driving arm 42dot 

Hyundai Motor to redirect its TaaS, AI functions to self-driving arm 42dot 

Hyundai Motor Group will redirect the core functions of its Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) division and AIRS Company to its recently acquired se...

Risks of restructuring rise in Korean platform sector

Risks of restructuring rise in Korean platform sector

South Korean platform operators are feeling cornered following rapid expansion during COVID-19 as growing risks of a global economic recession and r...

LG, KT join forces to launch next-generation service robots

LG, KT join forces to launch next-generation service robots

South Korea’s leading telecommunications company KT Corp. has partnered with LG Electronics Inc. to develop and launch next-generation custome...

LG Chem, ADM to build two bioplastics plants in Illinois

LG Chem, ADM to build two bioplastics plants in Illinois

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemicals maker, said on Tuesday it has signed an agreement with Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM), a globa...

K-bio firms embrace gene therapy CDMO as Samsung looks the other way

K-bio firms embrace gene therapy CDMO as Samsung looks the other way

South Korea’s major biopharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing the cell and gene therapy business under a contract drug-making mechanis...

Six major Korean firms tie up with Petronas for carbon biz

Six major Korean firms tie up with Petronas for carbon biz

South Korea’s six biggest companies joined hands with Malaysia’s state energy firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) for the carbon c...

Chinese game Genshin Impact's summer fest draws large crowds in Seoul

Chinese game Genshin Impact's summer fest draws large crowds in Seoul

Shanghai-based game developer and publisher miHoYo Co. on Wednesday wrapped up its well-attended week-long Genshin 2022 Summer Festival in Seoul.&nb...

Samsung Elec. plans unmanned factories on manpower shortage

Samsung Elec. plans unmanned factories on manpower shortage

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is seeking unmanned factories in a move that other major South Korean manufacturers...

POSCO Chemical wins $10.6 billion cathode order from General Motors

POSCO Chemical wins $10.6 billion cathode order from General Motors

POSCO Chemical Co. announced Thursday that it won 13.8 trillion won ($10.6 billion) worth of cathode orders from General Motors. The company, w...

DL Chemical’s Cariflex to build $384 million latex plant in Singapore

DL Chemical’s Cariflex to build $384 million latex plant in Singapore

South Korea’s DL Chemical Co., a unit of the petrochemical-to-construction conglomerate DL Group, said on Thursday it is spending 500 billion ...

SK Geo Centric, Veolia join forces to lead Asia’s plastic recycling business

SK Geo Centric, Veolia join forces to lead Asia’s plastic recycling business

SK Geo Centric, an SK Innovation Co. subsidiary focused on the eco-friendly chemical business, joined hands with Paris-based Veolia Environnement S....

S.Korean defense stocks boosted by $7.6 bn deal with Poland

S.Korean defense stocks boosted by $7.6 bn deal with Poland

South Korean defense stocks got a boost from a 10 trillion-won ($7.6 billion) export deal with Poland announced last week. Korea Aerospa...

Korean DL E&C to enter SMR biz with Canada’s Terrestrial

Korean DL E&C to enter SMR biz with Canada’s Terrestrial

South Korea’s construction company DL E&C Co. is set to make inroads into the small modular reactor (SMR) business for future growth ...

South Korea to cut red tape, raise student quota to grow chip talent

South Korea to cut red tape, raise student quota to grow chip talent

South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, said on Tuesday it will cut administrative red tape and ease the restrictive s...

Korea to raise cash support on foreign investments in key sectors

Korea to raise cash support on foreign investments in key sectors

South Korea plans to spend more cash on attracting foreign investments in high-tech and core supply chain industries as foreign direct investment to...

LG Uplus aims to recycle 100% of industrial waste in 3 years

LG Uplus aims to recycle 100% of industrial waste in 3 years

LG Uplus Corp. announced it will recycle 100% of industrial waste from its plants by 2025.The mobile network arm of LG Corp. published a report titl...

Korea, game developers in tug of war over P2E genre

Korea, game developers in tug of war over P2E genre

A battle over play-to-earn (P2E) games in South Korea between the government and the industry has yet to show any signs of abating as the authority ...

Hyundai E&C, Samsung Eng. partner with Saudi Aramco

Hyundai E&C, Samsung Eng. partner with Saudi Aramco

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C) Co. and Samsung Engineering Co. were selected as official partners of N...

Krafton founder: Robotics, deep learning should be S.Korea’s future

Krafton founder: Robotics, deep learning should be S.Korea’s future

Krafton Inc. founder and chairman Chang Byung-gyu is a rare example of a serial entrepreneur in South Korea – a country dominated by family-ow...

Lotte Chemical, Bain Capital among bidders for Korea’s Iljin Materials

Lotte Chemical, Bain Capital among bidders for Korea’s Iljin Materials

The much-touted sale of a controlling stake in Iljin Materials Co., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, is flagging as big spenders are ...

NCSOFT publishes second ESG report with a playbook concept

NCSOFT publishes second ESG report with a playbook concept

NCSOFT Corp., a leading South Korean game developer, has published its second annual sustainability report using a playbook map concept. The re...

POSCO Chemical, Britishvolt sign initial deal for battery materials

POSCO Chemical, Britishvolt sign initial deal for battery materials

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s top steel maker, and UK electric vehicle startup Britishvolt Ltd. have signed an initial agreement...

Samsung Eng. to invest in Vietnam for SE Asia water biz

Samsung Eng. to invest in Vietnam for SE Asia water biz

Samsung Engineering Co. agreed to spend $41 million on Vietnam’s largest private water treatment company for the eco-friendly business in Sout...

SK Materials, Showa Denko to jointly seek US semiconductor gas business

SK Materials, Showa Denko to jointly seek US semiconductor gas business

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., and Japanese chemicals company Showa Denko K.K. have agr...

Samsung to fuel rivalry with Sony in mobile image sensor market

Samsung to fuel rivalry with Sony in mobile image sensor market

Samsung Electronics Co. is set to narrow the gap with bigger competitor Sony in the global image sensor market. The South Korean tech giant introduc...

S.Korea ushers in new space era with rocket launch success

S.Korea ushers in new space era with rocket launch success

GOHEUNG, South Korea -- South Korea opened a new space era as it succeeded in the launch of a homegrown space rocket carrying payloads to become the...

Tech experts to discuss future mega-trends at KIF 2022

Tech experts to discuss future mega-trends at KIF 2022

The Korea Investment Festival (KIF), the largest annual investor relations (IR) event in South Korea, will be held June 29-30 at the Fairmont Ambass...

Netmarble to officially launch Seven Knights Revolution on July 28 

Netmarble to officially launch Seven Knights Revolution on July 28 

Netmarble Corp. is poised to officially launch its latest game Seven Knights Revolution on July 28 in South Korea. The South Korean mobile game...

Korea Inc. hit by rising commodity prices, weak won, supply crisis

Korea Inc. hit by rising commodity prices, weak won, supply crisis

South Korea’s major industries, especially the petrochemical and auto parts sectors, are suffering from surging global commodity prices, a wea...

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