Ssangyong Motor changes name to KG Mobility

Ssangyong Motor changes name to KG Mobility

South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Co., whose new owner is KG Group, has renamed itself KG Mobility, its first name change in 35 years.With its new...

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...

Samsung Electronics gets highest-level certification from AWS

Samsung Electronics gets highest-level certification from AWS

South Korea's electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. has achieved the highest level of "Platinum" certification from the Alliance for Water Stewa...

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...

LG Chem supplies RO filters for Chinese lithium extraction project

LG Chem supplies RO filters for Chinese lithium extraction project

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. has supplied reverse osmosis (RO) filters for a project to extract lithium from China's largest salt lake.The company on ...

CGBio inks export deal for hyaluronic acid fillers with Chinese distributor

CGBio inks export deal for hyaluronic acid fillers with Chinese distributor

CGBio, a South Korean bio-regenerative medical company, has signed an export deal with Shanghai Feiting Trading Co., a Chinese medical device distri...

Hyundai Doosan Infracore wins Italian innovation award

Hyundai Doosan Infracore wins Italian innovation award

Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., a construction machinery subsidiary of HD Hyundai Group, announced on Tuesday that its 14-ton hybrid electric wheel ex...

Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

South Korea's Yanolja Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, announced on Tuesday its partnership with SK Discovery Co. to build a proptech ...

Samsung Elec boosts robotics as key growth engine: Vice chairman

Samsung Elec boosts robotics as key growth engine: Vice chairman

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest chip producer, will go all out to expand its robotics business, Vice Chairman and Co-CEO Han Jong...

Korea's Kooksoondang sees its makgeolli exports surpass $10 mn mark

Korea's Kooksoondang sees its makgeolli exports surpass $10 mn mark

Kooksoondang Co., a South Korean brewery that produces traditional rice-based wines, announced on Tuesday that its exports reached an all-time high ...

SK C&C, Naver Cloud team up to boost AI services for Korean companies

SK C&C, Naver Cloud team up to boost AI services for Korean companies

SK C&C, a leading information technology service provider in South Korea, has announced a partnership with Naver Cloud to develop ultra-large ar...

LS E-Link partners with Logen to boost EV charging

LS E-Link partners with Logen to boost EV charging

LS E-Link, a new corporation of South Korea's LS Group that specializes in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and operation, has signed a...

Doosan Robotics signs medical robot MOU with Chinese company

Doosan Robotics signs medical robot MOU with Chinese company

Doosan Robotics Inc., a South Korean company affiliated with the Doosan Group, announced on Tuesday that it had signed an MOU with Guangxi Pinge, a ...

Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business

Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business

Wave Lifestyle Tech, a South Korean foodtech robot company, said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’...

S.Korea's brewery Seoul Jangsu forms marketing tie-up with fashion industry

S.Korea's brewery Seoul Jangsu forms marketing tie-up with fashion industry

With South Korea's traditional milky rice wine makgeolli seeing its second heyday centered on the 20- and 30-something crowds, marketing tie-ups tar...

GC Biopharma wins $44 mn flu vaccine order from WHO agency

GC Biopharma wins $44 mn flu vaccine order from WHO agency

South Korea's pharmaceutical firm GC Biopharma Corp. said on Monday that it has won a $44.3 million (57.9 billion won) order for flu vaccines in a d...

Korea's KSOE lands $240 mn order for LPG carriers

Korea's KSOE lands $240 mn order for LPG carriers

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a shipbuilding intermediate holding company of South Korea's HD Hyundai Group, said on Monday ...

Bespin Global to work with GBike for smart mobility business in Vietnam

Bespin Global to work with GBike for smart mobility business in Vietnam

Bespin Global, a cloud delivery platform company based in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it had partnered with GBike, a micromobility tech ...

Hanwha Solutions secures 9.7% stake in US battery materials company

Hanwha Solutions secures 9.7% stake in US battery materials company

Hanwha Solutions Corp., a South Korean company focused on energy services, petrochemicals and real estate development, recently acquired a 9.73% sta...

Lotte Global Logistics establishes resource recycling platform in Korea

Lotte Global Logistics establishes resource recycling platform in Korea

South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics has established a resource recycling platform across ten logistics centers. The company has introduced the solu...

Lunit's Insight DBT gets certification from EU for medical device

Lunit's Insight DBT gets certification from EU for medical device

South Korean medical AI company Lunit said on Monday that its 3D breast tomosynthesis artificial intelligence (AI) image analysis solution, "Lunit I...

Toray Advanced Materials acquires S.Korea's water treatment company

Toray Advanced Materials acquires S.Korea's water treatment company

Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. announced on Monday the acquisition of Hanmee Entec Co., Ltd., the industry's longest-running water treatment fa...

Samsung Heavy partners with Kongsberg Maritime for autonomous ships

Samsung Heavy partners with Kongsberg Maritime for autonomous ships

Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the world’s largest shipbuilders, has signed a joint development agreement with Kongsberg Maritime AS, a Norw...

Samsung gets $191 million profit valuation from investment in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung gets $191 million profit valuation from investment in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung Electronics Co. is found to have earned 250 billion won ($191 million) in profit valuation from its investment made two months ago in Rainbo...

HD Hyundai to rename subsidiaries to boost brand identity

HD Hyundai to rename subsidiaries to boost brand identity

HD Hyundai Co., a South Korean conglomerate that operates in shipbuilding, construction equipment, oil refining and other sectors, plans to rename i...

Two global shareholder voting advisors oppose activist funds in S. Korea

Two global shareholder voting advisors oppose activist funds in S. Korea

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, the world's two biggest advisory bodies for shareholder voting rights, have recommended op...

Korea to ease foreign ownership limit rules; MSCI upgrade eyed

Korea to ease foreign ownership limit rules; MSCI upgrade eyed

South Korea plans to ease regulations that limit foreign ownership of big companies deemed crucial to its economy as the government aims to align it...

S.Korean startup Jobis&Villains expands to UK with tax return service

S.Korean startup Jobis&Villains expands to UK with tax return service

Jobis&Villains Corp., a South Korean startup that offers a tax return service called “3o3,” said on Friday that it had set up a loca...

Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area

Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area

Tmap Mobility Co., a Korean navigation app company, announced on Friday a business agreement to promote cooperation in autonomous driving technology...

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