With Samsung’s connected gadgets, it’s ‘home, smart home’

With Samsung’s connected gadgets, it’s ‘home, smart home’

SILICON VALLEY – When you come back home after an extended period away from it, you can’t help but express relief and happiness. It&rsqu...

Microsoft ties up with Korean startup Wrtn on AI solutions

Microsoft ties up with Korean startup Wrtn on AI solutions

Microsoft Corp. and a South Korean artificial intelligence portal startup Wrtn Technologies Inc. joined hands for the generative AI service based on...

S.Korea to spur startup investments with eased rules

S.Korea to spur startup investments with eased rules

South Korea will deploy at least 10% of a state-backed fund of funds (FoF) to venture capital investment dedicated to small startups every year, the...

LIG Nex1 signs agreement with Megazone Cloud, AWS

LIG Nex1 signs agreement with Megazone Cloud, AWS

South Korea's LIG Nex1 Co. announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding for the future space, defense cloud transition wit...

SK C&C invests in US startup Glassdome

SK C&C invests in US startup Glassdome

South Korea's SK C&C announced on Thursday that it has made a new investment in Glassdome, a US carbon emission management solution startup.&nbs...

Pulmuone, BlueNalu team up for cell-cultured seafood

Pulmuone, BlueNalu team up for cell-cultured seafood

South Korean food company Pulmuone revealed plans on Thursday to boost its strategic partnership with US-based seafood startup BlueNalu, focusing on...

Doosan Robotics looks for M&A targets post-IPO: CEO

Doosan Robotics looks for M&A targets post-IPO: CEO

When Ryu Junghoon was tapped as chief executive of Doosan Robotics Inc. two years ago, he vowed to turn the young robot-making company into an indus...

CJ CheilJedang, T&R Biofab team up for alternative meat

CJ CheilJedang, T&R Biofab team up for alternative meat

South Korean food and bio giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. is harnessing advanced innovative technology to secure sustainable future food resources. The c...

S.Korea's ModaModa partners with Poland's MBF Group

S.Korea's ModaModa partners with Poland's MBF Group

South Korean haircare brand ModaModa has partnered with Poland's MBF Group S.A. for distribution, signifying its entry into the expanding European b...

Samsung Electronics bags AI chiplet foundry order from Tenstorrent

Samsung Electronics bags AI chiplet foundry order from Tenstorrent

Canadian chip-designing unicorn Tenstorrent Inc. has become a new foundry customer of Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-biggest foun...

Korean language demand creates new overseas markets for startups

Korean language demand creates new overseas markets for startups

South Korean language startups are expanding their business in overseas markets with their local tongue through generative artificial intelligence, ...

Samsung, Japan's KDDI co-work for 5G network slicing tech

Samsung, Japan's KDDI co-work for 5G network slicing tech

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a business agreement with Japanese mobile communications company KDDI to jointly d...

LG Uplus invests $7.4 mn in S.Korean edu-tech startup

LG Uplus invests $7.4 mn in S.Korean edu-tech startup

South Korea’s No. 3 wireless carrier LG Uplus Corp. on Tuesday said it will make an equity investment of some 10 billion won ($7.4 million) in...

Shinsegae Int’l to be exclusive distributor of D&G Beauty in S.Korea

Shinsegae Int’l to be exclusive distributor of D&G Beauty in S.Korea

South Korea's Shinsegae International said on Tuesday that it has signed an exclusive distribution contract with the Italian cosmetic brand Dolce &a...

S.Korean startups, VC seek money, business opportunities in Japan

S.Korean startups, VC seek money, business opportunities in Japan

South Korean startups and venture capitalists battered by chilled investor sentiment amid rising interest rates and slowing economic growth at home ...

Korea logs surplus in IP trade in H1 on surge of culture, art

Korea logs surplus in IP trade in H1 on surge of culture, art

South Korea posted a surplus in its intellectual property (IP) rights trade in the first half of this year, thanks to profits on culture, art and so...

SK Ecoplant to supply AI-based incinerator tech to Malaysia

SK Ecoplant to supply AI-based incinerator tech to Malaysia

South Korea's energy, construction and engineering corporation SK Ecoplant on Friday said it signed a contract with Cenviro, Malaysia's largest publ...

Cultivated meat, carbon capture on center stage at D.Day

Cultivated meat, carbon capture on center stage at D.Day

Simple Planet, a South Korean biotech startup developing sustainable food technologies, has won this month’s startup pitch day held jointly by...

Hyundai Engineering develops cutting-edge sewage treatment tech

Hyundai Engineering develops cutting-edge sewage treatment tech

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co., an engineering solutions provider for plants, architecture, infrastructure and asset management, on Wednesday...

Lotte Global Logistics, CoEvolution to develop automatic solutions

Lotte Global Logistics, CoEvolution to develop automatic solutions

South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a strategic partnership with ...

Pharmgen Science exports neomcell products directly to Vietnam

Pharmgen Science exports neomcell products directly to Vietnam

South Korea's Pharmgen Science announced on Wednesday that it has initiated shipments for its healthcare brand "neomcell" for the first direct expor...

Naver Smart Store's 100 mn won club reaches 45,000 members

Naver Smart Store's 100 mn won club reaches 45,000 members

Around 45,000 sellers on South Korea's Naver Smart Store as of June raked in annual sales of 100 million won ($72,250) or more, or 7.9% of the overa...

Hyundai Mobis develops one-touch automatic parking tech

Hyundai Mobis develops one-touch automatic parking tech

South Korea's leading automotive parts maker Hyundai Mobis on Tuesday announced its Mobis Parking System (MPS) 1.0P (Premium), a performance-improve...

Hyundai Motor, Georgia Tech partner for future mobility tech

Hyundai Motor, Georgia Tech partner for future mobility tech

Hyundai Motor Group has chosen Georgia Tech as its new academic partner in the US to work together on developing sustainable mobility technologies a...

Doosan Enerbility, KWP to advance power generation tech

Doosan Enerbility, KWP to advance power generation tech

South Korea's heavy industrial company Doosan Enerbility Co. and the government-owned Korea Western Power Co. (KWP) will jointly streamline domestic...

SW based on Hancom's tech released in Taiwan

SW based on Hancom's tech released in Taiwan

South Korea's office suite software maker Hancom Inc. on Monday said it has released Kdan Office, the Taiwanese office software co-developed with gl...

Kolmar Global launches hangover reliever Condition in Singapore

Kolmar Global launches hangover reliever Condition in Singapore

South Korea's Kolmar Global, a subsidiary of Kolmar Korea Holdings, on Monday said it exported the domestic hangover reliever brand Condition to Sin...

Ready for an AI pastor? Not too distant future in South Korea

Ready for an AI pastor? Not too distant future in South Korea

Some Christians in South Korea are actively embracing the hottest technology of ChatGPT in their spiritual life, sparking controversy over the role ...

NGeneBio applies for US patent of early diagnosis tech of dementia

NGeneBio applies for US patent of early diagnosis tech of dementia

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Thursday that it has completed the US patent application for its technology relate...

SK Ecoplant, S.Korean startup to recycle waste fishing nets in SE Asia

SK Ecoplant, S.Korean startup to recycle waste fishing nets in SE Asia

South Korea’s top waste management company SK Ecoplant has joined forces with Netspa, a Busan-based startup for recycling waste fishing nets, ...

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