Korea's Innocean wins eight awards at Spikes Asia advertising festival

Korea's Innocean wins eight awards at Spikes Asia advertising festival

South Korea-based global marketing communications company Innocean said on Thursday that it received eight awards at the 2023 Spikes Asia, a prestig...

POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C

POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C

POSCO Engineering & Construction, the builder affiliate of South Korea's POSCO Group, has changed its name to "POSCO E&C" to mark the first ...

Lunit to supply AI image analysis solutions to Singapore

 Lunit to supply AI image analysis solutions to Singapore

South Korea's Lunit Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) medical company, announced on Wednesday that it has secured a contract to provide Lunit In...

Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025

Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025

CHA Healthcare Co. operating nearly 90 hospitals and infertility treatment centers across the world, is set to pave the way for South Koreans' inves...

Medical IP's X-ray image analysis software certified as medical device

Medical IP's X-ray image analysis software certified as medical device

Medical IP, a South Korean medical AI company, has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) medical image analysis software "TiSepX Lung Volu...

Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz

Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz

Hankook & Company Co., a South Korean holding company that owns tire and mobility businesses, said on Tuesday that it has acquired the autonomou...

Korea’s SPC Samlip, Siam Makro to tie up for Thai bakery business

Korea’s SPC Samlip, Siam Makro to tie up for Thai bakery business

SPC Samlip Corp., a unit of South Korea’s food and bakery giant SPC Group, said on Monday it has forged a business partnership with Siam Makro...

Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally

Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally

South Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion Group’s founder and Honorary Chairman Seo Jung-jin is readying to return to management just two...

Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app

Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app

South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...

Plant, machinery maker Doosan seeks future from chips, robots

Plant, machinery maker Doosan seeks future from chips, robots

BARCELONA -- South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group is seeking its future growth engines from the semiconductor and robot s...

S.Korea's KGC to spur ginseng sales in China with state-run CR Group

S.Korea's KGC to spur ginseng sales in China with state-run CR Group

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp., is set to accelerate sales of its ginseng products across Chin...

Battery material maker EcoPro Materials eyes $2.3 billion IPO

Battery material maker EcoPro Materials eyes $2.3 billion IPO

EcoPro Materials Co., a unit of South Korea’s battery materials group EcoPro Group, is looking to list its shares on the country’s main ...

dConstruct Robotics becomes 2nd foreign startup to win at D.Day

dConstruct Robotics becomes 2nd foreign startup to win at D.Day

South Korea’s decade-old startup pitch competition D.Day has picked Singapore-based mobile robotics application developer dConstruct Robotics ...

SK Ecoplant's Singaporean affiliate, Thailand's No. 2 conglomerate to develop green power

SK Ecoplant's Singaporean affiliate, Thailand's No. 2 conglomerate to develop green power

Singapore's TES, an electronic waste management specialist and subsidiary of South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co., will jointly pursue the development of e...

S.Korea’s stent maker Taewoong Medical acquired by Olympus for $370 million

S.Korea’s stent maker Taewoong Medical acquired by Olympus for $370 million

Japanese medical device company Olympus on Saturday said it will wholly acquire South Korea’s Taewoong Medical, a maker of gastrointestinal (G...

SK Networks to expand investment in tech firms for future growth

SK Networks to expand investment in tech firms for future growth

SK Networks Co., the general trading and rental arm of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group, will expand direct funding for tech ...

Hyundai Motor Group's 23 vehicle models win Editor's Choice Awards

Hyundai Motor Group's 23 vehicle models win Editor's Choice Awards

Hyundai Motor Group made an announcement on Thursday, saying that its major vehicles had been selected as the best models at the 2023 Editor's Choic...

Turkey approves Hanwha Group's acquisition of DSME

Turkey approves Hanwha Group's acquisition of DSME

The Turkish competition authority has approved Hanwha Group’s acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), the firs...

Fried chicken chain bhc opens first US store in LA

Fried chicken chain bhc opens first US store in LA

South Korea’s No. 2 fried chicken brand bhc Group on Monday said it opened its first store in North America on Friday at the Original Farmers ...

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...

S.Korea's Hwajin Medical gets FDA sales approval for syringes

S.Korea's Hwajin Medical gets FDA sales approval for syringes

HLB Therapeutics Co. announced Thursday that Sofjec, a syringe produced by its subsidiary Hwajin Medical, has been approved for sale by the US Food ...

AI medical software company Lunit to open subsidiary in Europe

AI medical software company Lunit to open subsidiary in Europe

South Korea's Lunit, an artificial intelligence (AI) medical software company, on Friday said its board meeting held on the previous day decided to ...

Igaworks partners with Vietnam’s Clever Group to supply data platform

Igaworks partners with Vietnam’s Clever Group to supply data platform

South Korean big data platform company Igaworks said on Thursday it has signed a contract and strategic alliance deal with Vietnam’s largest m...

Hanwha Group buys HSD Engine for $175.9 million

Hanwha Group buys HSD Engine for $175.9 million

South Korea's Hanwha Group will acquire ship engine maker HSD Engine in a move to shore up its shipbuilding unit following the conglomerate's takeov...

POSCO affiliates mull name changes to represent green push

POSCO affiliates mull name changes to represent green push

South Korean steel giant POSCO Group is considering changing the name of some of its affiliates in a move to rebrand them as sustainable materials a...

Lotte Hotel forms new mileage partnership with Singapore Airlines

Lotte Hotel forms new mileage partnership with Singapore Airlines

On Wednesday, Lotte Hotels & Resorts announced its new mileage partnership with Singapore Airlines, marking the hotel group's first international ...

SK Biopharm holds sales meeting for marketing Cenobamate in US

SK Biopharm holds sales meeting for marketing Cenobamate in US

On Wednesday, SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. announced that its US subsidiary, SK Life Sciences Inc., held a "National Sales Meeting" in San Diego. The p...

KT Group signs MOUs with Mongolian firms to explore joint opportunities

KT Group signs MOUs with Mongolian firms to explore joint opportunities

South Korea's KT Group has signed multiple memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the Mongolian government and economic delegation to explore pote...

Plain sailing for LS with record earnings under Chairman Koo’s leadership

Plain sailing for LS with record earnings under Chairman Koo’s leadership

LS Group’s plan to groom new growth engines from batteries to electric vehicles and semiconductors is set to gain impetus after South Korea&rs...

POSCO ties up with Aussie firm on US EV cell mineral project

POSCO ties up with Aussie firm on US EV cell mineral project

South Korea’s POSCO Group has joined hands with an Australian company to work on an electric vehicle battery material project in the US as it ...

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