Hyundai Motor transforms buses into mobile office spaces

Hyundai Motor transforms buses into mobile office spaces

South Korea's automaking giant Hyundai Motor Co. said on Monday it had launched the country's first mass-produced mobile office bus: the "Universe M...

Air Busan to resume Busan-Vientiane flights after 3-year hiatus

Air Busan to resume Busan-Vientiane flights after 3-year hiatus

Air Busan Co. recently expanded the number of flights on its Japan routes and continues to resume flights on its Southeast Asian routes. It will now...

SK Group to display eco-friendly tech at next month's CES

SK Group to display eco-friendly tech at next month's CES

South Korea's SK Group next month will display an extended range of carbon-reducing products and technologies at CES 2023, the world's largest exhib...

LG Uplus secures compliance management system certification

LG Uplus secures compliance management system certification

LG Uplus Corp. announced on Sunday it has obtained ISO 37301 certification for its compliance management system, marking a first among the three Sou...

Korean Air resumes regular staff recruitment for 1st time in 3 years

Korean Air resumes regular staff recruitment for 1st time in 3 years

Korean Air Lines Co. for the first time in three years has resumed regular staff recruitment that was suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic.Airline ind...

Samsung eyes new mobile AP chip to take on Apple's iPhone

Samsung eyes new mobile AP chip to take on Apple's iPhone

Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. have had a long rivalry in the global market for smartphones and other mobile devices. In terms of sales...

LG Uplus to debut university-specific metaverse platforms early next year

LG Uplus to debut university-specific metaverse platforms early next year

South Korea's mobile telecom operator LG Uplus said on Thursday that it would introduce a specialized metaverse platform for which all universities ...

Korean Air newly incorporated into 2022 DJSI Korea

Korean Air newly incorporated into 2022 DJSI Korea

Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Wednesday that it has been newly included in the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) Korea announced ...

Doosan obtains certification on hydrogen batteries for drones

Doosan obtains certification on hydrogen batteries for drones

Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) said on Wednesday that its hydrogen fuel cell power pack DP30M2S product, which is mounted on hydrogen-fueled drone...

LG Uplus ramps up user experiences, platforms, metaverse

LG Uplus ramps up user experiences, platforms, metaverse

LG Uplus Corp., the third-largest mobile carrier in South Korea, is improving its user experiences as well as accelerating new businesses such as pl...

S.Korea leads liquid hydrogen fuel tank technology standards

S.Korea leads liquid hydrogen fuel tank technology standards

South Korea's draft proposal on aviation liquid hydrogen fuel tanks was adopted as an international standard at the International Organization for S...

Jeju Air rules Korea-Japan routes to beat legacy carriers

Jeju Air rules Korea-Japan routes to beat legacy carriers

Jeju Air Co., South Korea’s largest budget airline, is dominating flights to Japan to beat full-service carriers (FSCs) in the country such as...

Lordsystem, NHN Doctortour agree to promote mobile passport authentication service

Lordsystem, NHN Doctortour agree to promote mobile passport authentication service

South Korea’s two companies, Lordsystem and NHN Doctortour, decided to cooperate on mobile passport identity verification services, which wi...

Kakao unveils measures to prevent recurrence of service disruptions

Kakao unveils measures to prevent recurrence of service disruptions

South Korea’s Kakao Corp. has unveiled a series of measures to prevent a recurrence of service disruptions after the mobile platform giant cam...

Macquarie bids for transportation card operator Loca Mobility

Macquarie bids for transportation card operator Loca Mobility

Macquarie Asset Management participated in a bid on Dec. 6 to acquire Loca Mobility Corp., Lotte Card Co.’s subsidiary and the second-largest ...

Air Busan offers 4 daily flights on Busan-Fukuoka route

Air Busan offers 4 daily flights on Busan-Fukuoka route

Korea's low-cost carrier Air Busan Co. from Thursday will add a daily flight to its route linking the nation's biggest port city of Busan to Fukuo...

LG Uplus poised to acquire homegrown OTT platform Watcha

LG Uplus poised to acquire homegrown OTT platform Watcha

South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. is slated to acquire homegrown over-the-top (OTT) platform Watcha Inc., investment b...

Korean Air signs agreement with L3Harris for airborne control system

Korean Air signs agreement with L3Harris for airborne control system

Korean Air Lines Co. is collaborating with L3Harris International, an American aerospace contractor, to introduce the airborne control system for th...

Lotte Chem, Air Liquide Korea launch JV for hydrogen business

Lotte Chem, Air Liquide Korea launch JV for hydrogen business

South Korea’s chemical firm Lotte Chemical Corp. and Air Liquide Korea, the Korean unit of the French company Air Liquide SA, announced on Tue...

Hyundai Mobis to unveil new future mobility technologies at CES 2023

Hyundai Mobis to unveil new future mobility technologies at CES 2023

Korea's largest auto parts supplier Hyundai Mobis will take part in CES 2023, the world's largest info tech exhibition, to showcase cutting-edge t...

Korean LCCs resume flights to Taipei after nearly 3 years

Korean LCCs resume flights to Taipei after nearly 3 years

As domestic budget carriers begin opening or resuming flights to Taipei, the skyways between Korea and Taiwan have widened further.Jeju Air announce...

SK Telecom wins global awards for innovative virtualization technology

SK Telecom wins global awards for innovative virtualization technology

SK Telecom, a leading South Korean 5G services provider, announced on Sunday that it won two global awards: Global Telecom Awards 2022 and Leading L...

Kakao Pay seeks to acquire Loca Mobility up for sale by MBK Partners

Kakao Pay seeks to acquire Loca Mobility up for sale by MBK Partners

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is seeking to acquire Loca Mobility Corp...

Samsung Elec expands 5G network solution supply to NTT Docomo

Samsung Elec expands 5G network solution supply to NTT Docomo

Samsung Electronics Co. is expanding its presence in Japan’s telecommunications market with a supply of 5G network equipment to NTT Docomo Inc...

UK grants de facto approval of Korean Air's Asiana takeover

UK grants de facto approval of Korean Air's Asiana takeover

The UK's top watchdog for market competition on Monday accepted corrective measures submitted by Korean Air Lines Co. on its proposed takeover of As...

Korea's SK Inc. revs up power semiconductor value chains via M&As

Korea's SK Inc. revs up power semiconductor value chains via M&As

SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, is ramping up its value chain of third-generation semicondu...

Mobility startup Poen takes first place at Geeks Show Up event in Jeju

Mobility startup Poen takes first place at Geeks Show Up event in Jeju

South Korea’s mobility startup Poen secured first place at the first-ever Geeks Show Up on Nov. 17, a demo day hosted by The Korea Economic Da...

S. Korea's T'way Air to resume Incheon-Chiang Mai route

S. Korea's T'way Air to resume Incheon-Chiang Mai route

South Korea's budget carrier T'way Air on Wednesday said it will resume from Nov. 28 its flight linking Incheon and Chiang Mai, Thailand, with seven...

US extends antitrust review of Korean Air-Asiana merger

US extends antitrust review of Korean Air-Asiana merger

The US competition authority extended its review of the proposed merger between South Korea’s two largest airlines to check if the deal hurts ...

UK regulator flags concerns over Korean Air-Asiana merger

UK regulator flags concerns over Korean Air-Asiana merger

The British antitrust watchdog raised concerns over the impact on competition of the proposed merger between South Korea’s two largest carrier...

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