Series C investment
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Bio & Pharma
NKMax's US subsidiary listed on Nasdaq
South Korean natural killer (NK) cell drugmaker NKMax Co. on Wednesday said its US subsidiary NKGen Biotech on Monday was listed on the Nasdaq Globa...
Oct 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
POSCO Int’l to build permanent magnet factory in US with Star Group
South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc. is expediting its push to expand its presence in the electric vehicle supply chain, one of seven...
Oct 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Korea’s SKC to invest up to $70 mn in US smart glass firm Halio
SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemicals maker, is set to invest as much as $70 million in Halio Inc., a US smart glass technology company, to expand the ...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
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...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus invests $7.4 mn in S.Korean edu-tech startup
South Korea’s No. 3 wireless carrier LG Uplus Corp. on Tuesday said it will make an equity investment of some 10 billion won ($7.4 million) in...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Tel launches world’s 1st Korean large language model
SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday announced the official launch of the world’s first Korean large language model (LLM) “A.”, or A Dot, whi...
Sep 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
NeoCannBio completes $7.4 mn series B funding
South Korea's NeoCannBio, a medical cannabis startup backed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), announced on Tuesday that it ha...
Sep 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Samsung C&T invests $11 mn in construction robot venture
South Korean construction and engineering company Samsung C&T Corp. has invested 15 billion won ($11.2 million) in the construction robot startu...
Sep 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
SKC plans world’s largest biodegradable plastic plant in Vietnam
South Korea’s SKC Ltd., secured an investment registration certificate (IRC) to establish the world’s largest biodegradable plastics m...
Sep 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
SK Telecom to commercialize UAM with American partner
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will launch domestic commercial operations in urban air mobility (UAM) with Joby Aviation, a Santa Cruz, California-b...
Sep 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Unid expands potassium hydroxide plant in Ulsan
OCI Group-affiliated chemical company Unid announced on Thursday that it has completed the expansion of its Ulsan plant after investing 11 billion w...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai E&C, Naver Cloud to develop futuristic healthy housing model
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) on Thursday announced its signing of a deal with Naver Cloud on cooperation in the de...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai E&C seeks expansion to Poland, Ukraine
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) will open a branch in Warsaw, Poland, to join a project to build small modular reacto...
Sep 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai E&C, Poland bolster partnerships in nuclear power
Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major affiliate of South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co., is boosting its networks in the nuclear p...
Sep 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung C&T sells 3GW solar energy project in US to local firm
Samsung C&T Renewables, the renewable energy corporation of South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. in the US, announced on Thursday that it has s...
Sep 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK C&C to provide corporate employee healthcare
South Korea’s SK C&C on Tuesday signed an agreement to offer employee healthcare management programs to companies with digital healthcare ...
Sep 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
KT&G to build new factory in Indonesia
South Korea's KT&G Corp. has received a commitment of active investment support from the Indonesian government for building a local new factory....
Sep 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea's KT invests in domestic startups Upstage, Qanda
South Korea's KT Corp. has invested 20 billion won ($15 million) in two domestic artificial intelligence (AI) startups. For the second time in ...
Sep 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Ecoplant to build data center linked to landing station in Pohang
South Korea's SK Ecoplant is set to establish, for the first time in South Korea, a global data center linked to a landing station in Pohang, North ...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea's Eximbank, Australia's EFA sign MOU on mineral supply chains
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) on Thursday in Seoul signed a memorandum of understanding with Export Finance Australia (EFA) on cooperat...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK C&C, Yonsei Univ. to develop digital manufacturing experts
South Korea's digital solutions provider SK C&C will open a master’s degree program at Yonsei University in Seoul to develop experts in di...
Sep 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean SMEs
S.Korea's Lotte Group helps SMEs penetrate Indonesian market
South Korea's Lotte Group through Friday is holding the event Korea Expo in Jakarta in the Indonesian capital with the Korea Trade-Investment Promot...
Sep 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Disney Plus movin’ on up in Korea with hit K-drama series 'Moving'
Disney Plus, a global over-the-top (OTT) streaming service provider, is rapidly enhancing its presence in South Korea, with its latest original seri...
Sep 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korean gov't to invest $827 mn in cyber security sector by 2027
South Korea will invest 1.1 trillion won ($827.1 million) in the information security sector by 2027, nearly double its combined budget of 556.9 bil...
Sep 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ Foodville to invest $37 mn to build bakery plant in US
Tous les Jours, the bakery brand under South Korea's CJ Foodville, unveiled plans on Tuesday to invest over 50 billion won ($37 million) in its firs...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
Australia’s renewables speeding toward net zero: Palisade
Australia, among the largest carbon emitters globally, is embarking on a once-in-a-generation shift from heavy dependence on fossil fuels to the ele...
Sep 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai, LG to spend combined $7.6 bn to build EV, battery plants in US
Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd. will spend a combined $7.59 billion to build electric vehicle and battery cell plants in Georgia, th...
Sep 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Galaxy Z foldables set early sales record in Europe
Samsung Electronics Co. 's Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 smartphones have set early sales records in Europe, with annual sales of the company's folda...
Sep 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai Engineering to produce offshore wind power on Chuja Islands
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering on Thursday said it signed the day before a memorandum of understanding with Equinor Korea, LG Chem Ltd., PO...
Sep 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s July factory output slows at fastest pace since February
South Korea’s factory output contracted at the fastest rate in six months last month on subdued global demand especially from China, while its...
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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