Samsung earns ISO 22301 certification for business continuity

Samsung Electronics Co.'s device solutions division has achieved ISO 22301 certification, the international business continuity management system (B...

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...

LG Energy partners with Seoul Nat'l Univ. for battery technology

South Korea's No. 1 secondary battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Seoul National University on Friday signed an agreement to establish an indu...

ST Pharm exports $14.6 mn worth of drug ingredients to Europe

ST Pharm Co., a South Korean company specializing in contract development and manufacturing of drug ingredients, has signed a supply contract worth ...

SK On, graphite processor Urbix to jointly produce anode materials

South Korea's SK On Co. and US graphite processor Urbix Inc. have signed an agreement to jointly develop high-performance anode materials, Korea's l...

NGeneBio's diagnostic products start to be used in clinical tests in Vietnam

South Korea's medical diagnostics company NGeneBio Co. said on Wednesday that it is expanding its business in the Southeast Asian precision diagnost...

Hanwha, LG Energy team up for US battery production

South Korea’s Hanwha Group will invest in LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s battery production lines for energy storage systems (ESS) in the US, some ...

SK-Ford JV likely to raise $4 bn via US loan program

Glendale, Kentucky -- A battery joint venture between South Korea’s SK On Co. and Ford Motor Co. is likely to raise about $4 billion in a US g...

LG Energy, Honda to build $4.4 billion battery plant in Ohio

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. have launched their first US joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio, LG said o...

K-chicken chain Kyochon signs MOU with Taiwanese food conglomerate

Kyochon F&B, the company operating Kyochon Chicken, said on Friday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding for a master franchise agree...

S.Korea’s battery material exports double to $10 bn

South Korea’s battery material exports more than doubled to exceed overseas sales of electric vehicle cells last year, helping the country&rsq...

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. will boost the production of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packages, or high-density package substrates,...

Osstem Implant to supply 490,000 sets to Chinese government

Osstem Implant Co. said on Wednesday that it has won more than 490,000 sets of implants in a bid for dental implants put up by the Chinese governmen...

PAG joins race to buy Korean burger chain Mom's Touch

Pacific Alliance Group (PAG), a Hong Kong-based alternative investment firm, joined the bidding on Jan. 10 to acquire a 100% stake in South Korean h...

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering company, will enter the US battery recycling business by investing in promising startups, C...

Dong Yang Steel Pipe signs contract with Japanese EPC company

DongYangSteelPipe, a steel pipe unit of KBI Group, said on Tuesday that it had signed on the previous day an agreement with a Japanese EPC (engineer...

S.Korea resumes egg imports in 13 months due to soaring prices

As egg prices soared due to the spread of bird flu or avian influenza, the South Korean government resumed imports of eggs to ease price pressure.It...

Ford in talks with LG Energy for Turkey EV battery plant

Ford Motor Co. is in talks with LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, to build a cell factory in...

LG Energy posts largest-ever profit led by US JV with GM

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. posted its largest-ever profit in 2022, driven by strong sales after its US joint venture with Ge...

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...

Samsung, Harman unveil in-vehicle driver alert system

When a driver feels drowsy and his eyelids start slipping, a red light flickers on his dashboard with a warning sound.That’s the key feature o...

Point2 Technology to supply network cable solutions to Amazon

Point2 Technology, which specializes in high-speed communications solutions, said on Wednesday that it has signed a network cable solution supply co...

Diverging lithium, nickel prices unnerve Korean battery makers

The prices of lithium and nickel, key minerals for electric vehicle batteries, have been diverging since late last year, which is set to further wid...

Lotte Chemical to take part in CES for first time

South Korea's Lotte Chemical Corp. for the first time will take part this month in CES, the world's largest information technology and home applianc...

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

Biopharmaceutical company NeoImmuneTech has grabbed an opportunity to supply new drug candidates in development as strategic items to the US gover...

S.Korea's top 2 LPG importers E1 and SK Gas cut supply price

South Korea's two major importers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), E1 Corp. and SK Gas Corp., have both cut their supply price of LPG in the first ...

Hyundai Motor to boost EV leasing in US for tax credits from 2023

South Korean electric vehicles for lease are forecast to receive US tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as new guidelines of the law...

Hankook Tire supplies tires to Nissan's new X-Trail SUV

Hankook Tire & Technology said on Tuesday it would supply its ultra-high-performance sports tire Ventus S1 evo3 SUV to Nissan's fourth-generatio...

BASF, ADM join race to buy Korean ceramide maker Solus Biotech

BASF SE, the world’s largest chemical producer, US food processing giant ADM Co. and two other global companies have joined the race to acquir...

KOICA donates Celltrion's Herzuma to Ukraine

Celltrion Healthcare Co. said on Monday that Herzuma (ingredient name: Trastuzumab) was dispatched to patients in Ukraine by the Korea International...