Hyundai L&C targets China’s interior materials market

Hyundai L&C targets China’s interior materials market

Hyundai L&C, a South Korean building materials company under the Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Sunday that it has entered the Chinese ...

Tourist arrival gap between S.Korea, Japan widens sharply

Tourist arrival gap between S.Korea, Japan widens sharply

Since Japan resumed visa-free travel for South Koreans in October last year, South Koreans have been flocking to the neighboring country.But the num...

Korean convention sector enjoys increase in events post-pandemic

Korean convention sector enjoys increase in events post-pandemic

Coex Convention & Exhibition Center, the largest event complex in Seoul, was crowded on Friday for a smart factory and plant automation fair.&ld...

BC Card signs contracts for Indonesia's digital payment project

BC Card signs contracts for Indonesia's digital payment  project

BC Card Co., a South Korean credit card company, said on Friday it has signed two contracts to provide digital payment services for Indonesia’...

KSOE wins order for 2 mid-sized gas carriers at $146 mn

KSOE wins order for 2 mid-sized gas carriers at $146 mn

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), an intermediate shipbuilding holding company for HD Hyundai Co., announced on Friday in a regu...

SK Geo Centric optimizes plastic recycling tech with US company

SK Geo Centric optimizes plastic recycling tech with US company

SK Geo Centric Co., a South Korean energy and chemical company, is accelerating technical negotiations to build the world's first plastic recycling ...

Daewoo E&C wins massive $790 million public project in Libya

Daewoo E&C wins massive $790 million public project in Libya

South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has landed a massive order from the General Electricity Company of Libya.Daewoo E&C on F...

SK Ecoplant targets European waste battery recycling market

SK Ecoplant targets European waste battery recycling market

SK Ecoplant Co., its Singaporean subsidiary TES-AMM, and domestic eco-friendly business and secondary battery materials leader Ecopro Co. are poised...

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality, a hospitality tech company that provides digital solutions for the hotel and tourism industry, said on Tuesday that it has rebrande...

Samsung, Arm partner Gaonchips eyes US as next offshore base

Samsung, Arm partner Gaonchips eyes US as next offshore base

Gaonchips Co., a long-term Samsung Electronics Co’s chip design house partner that also works with British fabless chip company Arm Inc., will...

ISS supports Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee

ISS supports Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is supporting the appointment of Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee Jin Ok-Dong as...

Dayou A-Tech completes building EV seat production facility

Dayou A-Tech completes building EV seat production facility

Dayou A-Tech Co., a South Korean car seat manufacturer under the Dayou Winia Group, announced on Thursday that it has built a seat production facili...

OliX's hair loss treatment candidate approved for clinical trial in Australia

OliX's hair loss treatment candidate approved for clinical trial in Australia

South Korea's OliX Pharmaceuticals has received approval from Australia's Human Research Ethics Committees (HREC) to plan a phase 1 clinical trial o...

Asiana Airline boosts flights to China as demand recovers

Asiana Airline boosts flights to China as demand recovers

Asiana Airlines Inc. said on Thursday that it would increase its flights to China by nearly nine times from this month, aiming to restore half of it...

S.Korea sees under 10 mn Facebook users per month: Report

S.Korea sees under 10 mn Facebook users per month: Report

The number of monthly users in South Korea of the Meta-run social media platform Facebook last month fell to under 10 million.Mobile Index, a big da...

Hyundai Motor spins off 4 in-house startups in mobility, AI, data

Hyundai Motor spins off 4 in-house startups in mobility, AI, data

Hyundai Motor Group has spun off four new in-house startups, including MOBINN with autonomous driving technology and APLAYS with AI-powered music cu...

AhnLab's V3 Mobile Security gets perfect score in AV-TEST evaluation

AhnLab's V3 Mobile Security gets perfect score in AV-TEST evaluation

AhnLab Inc., a computer security solutions provider in South Korea, announced on Thursday that its smartphone security solution "V3 Mobile Security"...

Kyochon F&B opens new store at Kuala Lumpur Airport

Kyochon F&B opens new store at Kuala Lumpur Airport

South Korea's fried chicken chain Kyochon F&B is spreading its wings in Malaysia, where it has recently opened a new store at the bustling Kuala...

SK Networks invests $22 mn in US AI-based device company

SK Networks invests $22 mn in US AI-based device company

South Korea's SK Networks has identified a startup specializing in AI-based devices and software platforms as a new investment target. The startup, ...

Foreign investors net buyers of Korean stocks for 5th straight month

Foreign investors net buyers of Korean stocks for 5th straight month

Foreign investors bought more South Korean stocks in February, extending their buying spree to five months.The Financial Supervisory Service of Kore...

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...

Kumho Petrochem wins BB rating from MSCI's ESG ratings

Kumho Petrochem wins BB rating from MSCI's ESG ratings

Kumho Petrochemical Co. announced on Wednesday that it had received a "BB rating" in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) evaluation by Mo...

Yoon’s US visit to test Biden’s trust as ally over chip, battery issues

Yoon’s US visit to test Biden’s trust as ally over chip, battery issues

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s summit meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden next month will celebrate 70 years of the Korea-US sec...

SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league

SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league

SentBe, a South Korean fintech startup operating a personal international remittance app of the same name, is readying to play in the bigger global ...

KEXIM bank inks $6 billion financing deal with Aramco

KEXIM bank inks $6 billion financing deal with Aramco

The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Tuesday it has signed a three-year framework agreement with Saudi Arabian Oil Co.(Aramco), to provide up to ...

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...

S.Korean fashion brands rush to China for pent-up demand

S.Korean fashion brands rush to China for pent-up demand

South Korean fashion brands are poised to expand their stores in China, aiming to capture pent-up demand in the world’s top consumer market af...

S.Korea lags Taiwan in GNI per capita for first time since 2002

S.Korea lags Taiwan in GNI per capita for first time since 2002

South Korea’s gross national income (GNI) per capita dropped 7.7% on-year last year, coming in below that of its smaller rival Taiwan for the ...

Korean lawmakers mull higher chip tax credits, battery subsidies

Korean lawmakers mull higher chip tax credits, battery subsidies

South Korea’s main opposition party will propose higher tax credits and subsidies for domestic chipmakers and battery manufacturers as early a...

SK Earthon to be reborn as carbon-neutral company

SK Earthon to be reborn as carbon-neutral company

SK Earthon, an oil development subsidiary of South Korea's SK Innovation Co., plans to transform into a carbon-neutral company focused on oil explor...

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