Hyundai E&C, KAI to develop export-type package for defense industry

Hyundai E&C, KAI to develop export-type package for defense industry

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) will jointly develop an export package for ...

S.Korea to benefit from rising global defense spending

S.Korea to benefit from rising global defense spending

South Korea is expected to log another year of record defense exports in 2023 thanks to growing military budgets across the world as local major arm...

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 ...

Noroo Paint, GS E&C jointly develop anti-carbonation paint for concrete

Noroo Paint, GS E&C jointly develop anti-carbonation paint for concrete

Noroo Paint, in collaboration with GS Engineering & Construction Co., announced on Tuesday the development of "Qfit Protect," a high-performance...

Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles

Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles

South Korea's defense and IT service company Hanwha Systems Co. will develop core technology for an active protection system (APS), or state-of-the-...

SKC earns ISO 37001 certification for anti-corruption management

SKC earns ISO 37001 certification for anti-corruption management

SKC, the chemical materials unit of South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, announced on Thursday that it has received the ISO 37001 certificatio...

Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug

Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will develop an anti-cancer drug that combines oncolytic virus technology with biosimilars un...

SillaJen starts US trial of anti-cancer drug from Basilea

SillaJen starts US trial of anti-cancer drug from Basilea

SillaJen Inc. said on Monday it has enrolled the first patient in a US phase 1 trial of an anti-cancer drug BAL0891 licensed from Swiss drugmaker Ba...

Hanwha Aerospace secures tech to catch illegal drones using nets

Hanwha Aerospace secures tech to catch illegal drones using nets

South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace Co. has secured technology to respond to threats from unmanned aerial vehicles such as drones.The company seeks the a...

S.Korea to spur defense sector tech with $1.5 bn R&D investment

S.Korea to spur defense sector tech with $1.5 bn R&D investment

South Korea plans to accelerate growth in the defense industry, a future growth engine of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, by investing more tha...

CJ Logistics opens office in Poland to beef up European business

CJ Logistics opens office in Poland to beef up European business

CJ Logistics said on Tuesday that it has opened an office in Wroclaw, Poland’s largest industrial city located in the southwest, as part of th...

Kia participates in IDEX 2023, largest defense exhibition in MENA

Kia participates in IDEX 2023, largest defense exhibition in MENA

On Monday, Kia Corp. announced its participation in IDEX 2023, a defense industry trade show being held at the National Exhibition Center in Abu Dha...

LG Uplus to participate in Drone Show Korea

LG Uplus to participate in Drone Show Korea

On Sunday, South Korean mobile telecom carrier LG Uplus Corp. announced that it would host a joint exhibition hall with Kakao Mobility, GS Engineeri...

Korean shipbuilding, defense sectors offer bright 2023 outlook

Korean shipbuilding, defense sectors offer bright 2023 outlook

South Korea’s major companies in shipbuilding, defense and construction industries expect strong earnings this year, despite growing concerns ...

KAI expects 2023 sales to grow by a third, driven by fighter jets

KAI expects 2023 sales to grow by a third, driven by fighter jets

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, said on Wednesday it aims to achieve 3.83 trillion w...

GC Biopharma, Sanofi to jointly market Plavix

GC Biopharma, Sanofi to jointly market Plavix

GC Biopharma Co. (formerly Green Cross Corp.) said on Monday it has entered into a joint sales partnership with Sanofi-Aventis Korea, the South Kore...

Kepco E&C takes first step in protecting nuclear power plants from drones

Kepco E&C takes first step in protecting nuclear power plants from drones

Kepco Engineering & Construction Co. has teamed up with South Korea's defense company Terra Defense to establish a system aimed at protecting nu...

LIG Nex1 to work with Romanian state-run defense supplier

LIG Nex1 to work with Romanian state-run defense supplier

South Korea's defense contractor LIG Nex1 Co. will join hands with ROMARM, a Romanian state-run defense company, to develop anti-aircraft missiles a...

S.Korea's InnoGene sets its public offering price at 3,000 won

S.Korea's InnoGene sets its public offering price at 3,000 won

InnoGene, which is seeking to be listed on the Kosdaq market at the end of this month, said on Wednesday that it has confirmed its offering price at...

Hanwha Aerospace joins Romania's defense modernization efforts

Hanwha Aerospace joins Romania's defense modernization efforts

South Korean aircraft engine maker and defense utility company Hanwha Aerospace Co. has signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ro...

S.Korea's Boryung receives EU GMP certification

S.Korea's Boryung receives EU GMP certification

South Korean pharmaceutical company Boryung announced that its production facility for anti-cancer injections in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, ...

Hyundai Doosan Infracore bags $256 mn Turkey defense deal

Hyundai Doosan Infracore bags $256 mn Turkey defense deal

Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., a South Korean construction equipment maker, won a 313.1 billion won ($255.5 million) defense deal from Turkey, sugges...

S.Korea's top sci-tech school creates cutting-edge anti-drone technology

S.Korea's top sci-tech school creates cutting-edge anti-drone technology

A research team at South Korea's top science and technology university has developed an anti-drone technology that can remotely neutralize a city-in...

Celltrion Healthcare launches anti-cancer biosimilar Vegzelma in Japan

Celltrion Healthcare launches anti-cancer biosimilar Vegzelma in Japan

Celltrion Healthcare Co. Ltd. said on Thursday that it launched Vegzelma, a biosimilar to the anti-cancer drug Avastin (active ingredient: bevacizum...

Poongsan’s sale of ammunition, artillery shells surges on Ukraine war

Poongsan’s sale of ammunition, artillery shells surges on Ukraine war

Poongsan Corp., one of South Korea’s leading copper smelters and defense equipment makers, saw its sales of ammunition and artillery shells su...

LG Chem completes acquisition of US biotech firm AVEO

LG Chem completes acquisition of US biotech firm AVEO

LG Chem Ltd. is set to complete its $571 million purchase of the US biotech firm AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Friday, which would strengthen its ant...

MedPacto's anti-cancer substance designated as US FDA fast-track item

MedPacto's anti-cancer substance designated as US FDA fast-track item

South Korean biotech company MedPacto Inc. ’s Vactosertib monotherapy for osteosarcoma patients has been designated as a fast-track developmen...

Korean steelmakers accuse Japanese rivals of product dumping

Korean steelmakers accuse Japanese rivals of product dumping

As Japanese hot-rolled steel plates have flooded into South Korea at even lower prices than those from China, Korean steel manufacturers are consi...

K-defense sector to reach annual export of $16 bn for two consecutive years

K-defense sector to reach annual export of $16 bn for two consecutive years

The South Korean defense market is forecast to sign export contracts worth more than 20 trillion won (15.7 billion) combined this year on the back o...

LIG Nex1 signs maritime surveillance radar-II defense contract

LIG Nex1 signs maritime surveillance radar-II defense contract

LIG Nex1 Co. said on Friday that it has signed an agreement with the Naval Logistics Command for the Maritime Surveillance Radar-II project, which w...

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