Korean won falls on firm US jobs data, new BOJ head report

Korean won falls on firm US jobs data, new BOJ head report

The South Korean won currency skidded to a four-week low on Monday as stronger-than-expected US employment data renewed expectations that the Federa...

South Korean biotech firms tap Middle East as next key market

South Korean biotech firms tap Middle East as next key market

South Korean biotech companies are speeding up their foray into the Middle East to tap oil money as they seek new growth engines beyond fossil fuels...

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, ...

Chong Kun Dang, Synaffix ink deal to introduce ADC technology

Chong Kun Dang, Synaffix ink deal to introduce ADC technology

Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp. said on Monday that it has signed a contract with Dutch biotechnology firm Synaffix B.V for the use of antibody-...

LG Electronics exhibits Art Lab in New York

LG Electronics exhibits Art Lab in New York

LG Electronics Inc. recently introduced "LG Art Lab," a non-fungible token art trading platform mounted on LG TVs, through a large display board in ...

Daewoong receives approval for its GERD drug Fexuclue in Ecuador

Daewoong receives approval for its GERD drug Fexuclue in Ecuador

Daewoong Pharmaceutical said Friday that it has obtained marketing authorization from Ecuador's National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and S...

NCSOFT lays off 20% of US operation before new game release

NCSOFT lays off 20% of US operation before new game release

NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s major game developing and publishing company, has recently laid off about 20% of its North American operation, joi...

Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia

Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia

Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US,  has applied to the Australian clini...

Korea’s new EV subsidy plan favors Hyundai over Tesla, other imports

Korea’s new EV subsidy plan favors Hyundai over Tesla, other imports

South Korea is revising its electric vehicle subsidy plan in a way that favors local cars such as the Hyundai IONIQ 6 over imported vehicles, includ...

Samsung executives to be called without seniority title

Samsung executives to be called without seniority title

Rank-and file-employees at Samsung Electronics Co. will call their senior executives without their titles as part of the company’s new human r...

Samsung’s Galaxy Book3 series to take on Apple’s MacBook

Samsung’s Galaxy Book3 series to take on Apple’s MacBook

In today’s connected world, the ultimate gadget consumers want brings together everything they need at any time, without hassle.Samsung Electr...

S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant

S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant

South Korea's Samkang M&T Co., a specialist in offshore wind plants and shipbuilding, has been renamed SK oceanplant under a strategy to raise t...

Samsung unveils Galaxy S23 with better camera, processor

Samsung unveils Galaxy S23 with better camera, processor

SAN FRANCISCO – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, unveiled on Wednesday its flagship Galaxy S23 series equipped...

Hanmi's Rolvedon set to post $10 mn in Q4 net sales in US

Hanmi's Rolvedon set to post $10 mn in Q4 net sales in US

South Korean drugmaker Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co.’s neutropenia agent, Rolvedon (eflapegrastim-xnst), is forecast to achieve about $10 million i...

Korea's InCerebro to leverage AI to identify drug candidates

Korea's InCerebro to leverage AI to identify drug candidates

South Korean AI-based drug developer InCerebro aims to identify potential drug candidates using molecular modeling technology, according to its CEO ...

S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company

S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical has licensed a new drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to CS Pharmaceuticals (CSP) of the U...

Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept

Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept

A self-driving vehicle taking a passenger home and then docking into the building so that they can enter the house without being exposed to the outs...

Samsung Electronics' life cycle assessment gauges CO2 emission impact from chips

Samsung Electronics' life cycle assessment gauges CO2 emission impact from chips

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday said it set up a life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for semiconductors to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.T...

JW Pharma to put AI into new drug ingredient development

JW Pharma to put AI into new drug ingredient development

South Korea's drug developer JW Pharmaceutical is expanding the scope of its artificial intelligence (AI) uses from new drug research to the develop...

Hyundai Dept. Store introduces AI chatbot service Jellppo

Hyundai Dept. Store introduces AI chatbot service Jellppo

Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Sunday that it would introduce the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Jellppo." Jellppo is an AI-based one-o...

Samsung Electronics opens experience store in New Delhi

Samsung Electronics opens experience store in New Delhi

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Sunday that its Indian subsidiary Samsung India opened a large experience store in New Delhi’s main street Con...

S.Korea, Japan compete in gastroesophageal reflux drug market

S.Korea, Japan compete in gastroesophageal reflux drug market

South Korea is battling Japan again, this time on the global market to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). South Korea's pharmaceutical pr...

Bridge Biotherapeutics, Pinotbio develop lung cancer treatment

Bridge Biotherapeutics, Pinotbio develop lung cancer treatment

South Korea's biotech companies Bridge Biotherapeutics Inc. and Pinotbio on Thursday said they will jointly develop new antibody-drug conjugates (AD...

'Extraordinary Attorney Woo' maker to create webtoon-based K-drama series

'Extraordinary Attorney Woo' maker to create webtoon-based K-drama series

KT Skylife Co., a broadcasting unit within South Korean telecom behemoth KT Corp., is slated to boost its investment in intellectual property conten...

Inventage Lab launches clinical trials for addiction treatment in Australia

Inventage Lab launches clinical trials for addiction treatment in Australia

South Korea's Inventage Lab, a developer of a drug delivery system platform, on Wednesday said it received approval from the Human Research Ethics C...

LG Innotek, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Q4 profit disappoint

LG Innotek, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Q4 profit disappoint

LG Innotek Co. and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., two major South Korean suppliers for Apple’s iPhone, on Wednesday reported more than a 60% p...

Celltrion increases its stake in British ADC developer Iksuda

Celltrion increases its stake in British ADC developer Iksuda

Celltrion Inc. has secured an additional stake in the UK's antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) developer Iksuda Therapeutics.According to Celltrion on Wed...

Kolmar Korea to establish new cosmetics production base in Sejong City

Kolmar Korea to establish new cosmetics production base in Sejong City

South Korea's cosmetic original design manufacturer Kolmar Korea said Wednesday that it would establish a cosmetics production base equipped with ar...

Hyundai, Kia make up 11.3% of UK's new car registrations in 2022

Hyundai, Kia make up 11.3% of UK's new car registrations in 2022

South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Group accounted for 11.3% of the new car registrations in the UK last year, according to a report that the Socie...

Carrier’s Korea JV aims to raise sales with cold chain biz

Carrier’s Korea JV aims to raise sales with cold chain biz

Carrier Global Corp.’s joint venture in South Korea aims to ramp up sales with the cold chain business, the series of actions and equipment ap...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal