GM's SUV Trax Crossover gets 6,000 preorders in 3 days

GM's SUV Trax Crossover gets 6,000 preorders in 3 days

The Chevrolet Trax Crossover, a utility vehicle mass produced by General Motors Korea, is soon expected to exceed 10,000 preorders amid greater-than...

Samsung's Lee visits growth driver MLCC China plant

Samsung's Lee visits growth driver MLCC China plant

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee has chosen Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.'s new multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) plant in Tianjin as ...

SK Energy wins first place in K-BPI gas station sector in Korea

SK Energy wins first place in K-BPI gas station sector in Korea

SK Energy, an energy and petrochemical unit of South Korea's SK Group, has won first place for 17 consecutive years in the gas station sector of the...

Korean research team develops AI chip to cut power use

Korean research team develops AI chip to cut power use

South Korean scientists have developed a chip that needs less electricity for advanced efficiency and data processing to help the country’s se...

Samsung Chairman Lee to meet new premier in China

Samsung Chairman Lee to meet new premier in China

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee arrived in Beijing on March 23 to review the chipmaker’s business in China, which is gradually rec...

Instant noodle maker Nongshim eyes 3rd plant in US

Instant noodle maker Nongshim eyes 3rd plant in US

South Korean instant noodle giant Nongshim Co. is looking to build its third manufacturing plant in the US as the company is seeing sales of its pro...

Hanwha to build solar cell components plant in Georgia

Hanwha to build solar cell components plant in Georgia

South Korea’s Hanwha Advanced Materials Corp. will spend $147 million to build a solar panel components plant in the US state of Georgia, acco...

Hyundai Motor, Kia partner with DeepX to develop robotics services

Hyundai Motor, Kia partner with DeepX to develop robotics services

South Korean carmakers Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have partnered with DeepX, a domestic startup that specializes in designing AI semiconductors...

Hyundai Motor, Kia develop ultra-high-temp hydrogen fuel cells with US firm

Hyundai Motor, Kia develop ultra-high-temp hydrogen fuel cells with US firm

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. has joined forces with Advent Technologies, an American maker of membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), a key componen...

SK Telecom establishes 5G open RAN indoor demonstration network

SK Telecom establishes 5G open RAN indoor demonstration network

South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom Co. has established a 5G open RAN indoor demonstration network at its Bundang headquarters, according to an an...

Kyobo Life chief Shin Chang-jae inducted into insurance hall of fame

Kyobo Life chief Shin Chang-jae inducted into insurance hall of fame

Shin Chang-jae, chief executive and chairman of South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co., has been honored with a prestigious award from the I...

Kolon Industries to make 100% plant-based eco-friendly plastic

Kolon Industries to make 100% plant-based eco-friendly plastic

Kolon Industries Inc.'s Future Technology Institute announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Stora Enso Oyj, a global biomaterials leader f...

SK Ecoplant Americas completes fuel cell project at US hospitals

SK Ecoplant Americas completes fuel cell project at US hospitals

SK Ecoplant Americas has completed a project to supply and install solid oxide fuel cells at US hospitals in collaboration with Bloom Energy. The pr...

Doosan Enerbility wins back-to-back power plant deals in Central Asia

Doosan Enerbility wins back-to-back power plant deals in Central Asia

South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. has secured a series of contracts in Central Asia, including orders in Uzbekistan and Kazakhs...

Korea Western Power lands nation's first solar power order in Oman

Korea Western Power lands nation's first solar power order in Oman

Korea Western Power Co. (KOWEPO) has won its country's first project in solar power generation in Oman.The company on Tuesday announced its successf...

POSCO Future M to spend $300 million on NCA cathode plant in Pohang

POSCO Future M to spend $300 million on NCA cathode plant in Pohang

South Korea's battery component maker POSCO Future M, formerly POSCO Chemical, on Tuesday said it will build its first plant solely for cathode mate...

SK Oceanplant, Corio team up for offshore wind power

SK Oceanplant, Corio team up for offshore wind power

SK Oceanplant, a South Korean offshore wind power subsidiary of SK Ecoplant Co., and Corio Generation, a global offshore wind power developer owned ...

Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service

Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service

Upstage, a South Korean AI tech startup, has unveiled a new version of its generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4, to become the first to offer Open...

Korea's BGF Retail to cut power use with smart devices

Korea's BGF Retail to cut power use with smart devices

BGF Retail, the operator of South Korea’s largest convenience store chain CU, said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understandin...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to research EV energy with three universities

Hyundai Motor, Kia to research EV energy with three universities

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. will form a research ecosystem for sustainable electric vehicle (EV) energy with Seoul National University, Chung-An...

Korea Eximbank teams up with US small nuclear reactor firm

Korea Eximbank teams up with US small nuclear reactor firm

The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NuScale Power, a US company that develo...

Samsung Biologics to invest $1.5 bn for 5th CDMO factory

Samsung Biologics to invest $1.5 bn for 5th CDMO factory

Samsung Biologics Co. is slated to inject 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) to build its fifth plant in South Korea. It will be a fast follow-up investm...

Doosan Enerbility wins combined cycle power plant order in Kazakhstan

Doosan Enerbility wins combined cycle power plant order in Kazakhstan

Doosan Enerbility Co., a South Korean power plant builder, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract with Turkestan LLP, a subsidiary of ...

SGC Energy pursues transformation of biomass power plants in Vietnam

SGC Energy pursues transformation of biomass power plants in Vietnam

South Korea's SGC Energy Co. is pursuing a project to convert coal power plants abroad into those using biomass.The power supplier, which has secure...

LS Electric unveils innovative solutions at Korea, Japan energy exhibitions

LS Electric unveils innovative solutions at Korea, Japan energy exhibitions

LS Electric Co., Ltd., an industrial electric solutions company from South Korea, is set to showcase innovative solutions at smart energy exhibition...

Hanwha Energy sells Spanish solar plant project to Irish firm

Hanwha Energy sells Spanish solar plant project to Irish firm

South Korean energy company Hanwha Energy Corp. said on Wednesday that it had sold a solar power plant project in Spain to Amarenco Solar, an Irish ...

Boeing’s Korean supplier targets UAV market with guided weapons

Boeing’s Korean supplier targets UAV market with guided weapons

Boeing Co.’s leading South Korean contractor aims to develop unmanned aerial vehicles with guided weapons, given the rapidly growing military ...

Hyundai to boost India presence via takeover of GM plant

Hyundai to boost India presence via takeover of GM plant

Hyundai Motor Co., the leading South Korean carmaker, is set to expand its presence in India with a takeover of General Motors Co.’s plant in ...

Hankook Tire halts fire-hit Korean plant, threatens a fifth of global capacity

Hankook Tire halts fire-hit Korean plant, threatens a fifth of global capacity

South Korea’s top tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. shut down a local production complex on Sunday due to a fire, stoking concerns ...

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

Pulmuone, a leading South Korean producer of plant-based foods such as tofu and bean sprouts, is trying to expand the K-food territory in the global...

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