Patty-cooking robotics startup Aniai completes seed funding

Patty-cooking robotics startup Aniai completes seed funding

Aniai Inc., a foodservice robotics developer founded by a South Korean, said on Feb. 21 it has attracted $3 million via a seed funding round to boos...

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...

SK Enmove joins GRC's ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program

SK Enmove joins GRC's ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program

South Korea's SK Enmove Co. said on Monday it will participate in the ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program run by US-based specialist company GRC, whic...

Brazil approves Celltrion Pharm’s syringe facility

Brazil approves Celltrion Pharm’s syringe facility

Celltrion Pharm Inc., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, said on Monday it received certification from Brazil’s health regulator for it...

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...

Samsung’s TV business launches customer marketing team

Samsung’s TV business launches customer marketing team

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is putting into action an age-old mantra that reflects the importance of customers in its bus...

Korean PE firm STIC to buy stake in copper foil maker Iljin

Korean PE firm STIC to buy stake in copper foil maker Iljin

South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments is poised to become the second-largest shareholder of Iljin Materials Co., a Kosdaq-listed battery...

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

James Kim, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM), is joining South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co....

NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

South Korea's NHN Cloud announced on Wednesday that it had become a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP), which is a partner program created...

Plain sailing for LS with record earnings under Chairman Koo’s leadership

Plain sailing for LS with record earnings under Chairman Koo’s leadership

LS Group’s plan to groom new growth engines from batteries to electric vehicles and semiconductors is set to gain impetus after South Korea&rs...

Bespin Global, STEG partner to develop cloud management platform

Bespin Global, STEG partner to develop cloud management platform

South Korea's two IT firms, Bespin Global and STEG, have teamed up to jointly develop a cloud operation management platform. Bespin Global said on T...

Samsung Electronics, KAIST join forces to train robotics experts

Samsung Electronics, KAIST join forces to train robotics experts

Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to cultivate specialists in robotics. On M...

Korean builders to ramp up overseas business in 2023

Korean builders to ramp up overseas business in 2023

Major South Korean construction firms are set to expand their overseas business while reducing domestic projects this year to boost profitability. T...

S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia

S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia

South Korea's heating systems manufacturer Kyung Dong Navien Co. held a conference for 100 local dealers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Feb. 10.The con...

S.Korea's Hoban Group signs agreement with Aramco for cooperation

S.Korea's Hoban Group signs agreement with Aramco for cooperation

Hoban Group, South Korea's construction, property development, and manufacturing conglomerate, said Monday that it has signed a memorandum of unders...

Why SM emerged as hot battlefield between HYBE, Kakao

Why SM emerged as hot battlefield between HYBE, Kakao

SM Entertainment Co., a South Korean music label widely credited as the pioneer of K-pop, has emerged as a new battlefield between HYBE Co., the age...

S.Korea doubles undocumented overseas remittance limit to $100,000

S.Korea doubles undocumented overseas remittance limit to $100,000

South Korea as early as June will double its annual limit on overseas remittance without evidential documents from $50,000 to $100,000.The Ministry ...

Doosan joins forces with S.Australian gov't to expand hydrogen business

Doosan joins forces with S.Australian gov't to expand hydrogen business

Doosan Fuel Cell plans to expand its hydrogen business overseas. The company on Thursday said it had signed an agreement with the state of Sout...

KT DS secures global standard certification for Smart-X

KT DS secures global standard certification for Smart-X

KT DS, an IT service arm of South Korea's KT Group, said on Thursday that its Internet-of-Things (IoT) solution Smart-X has passed the oneM2M certif...

CJ Olive Young faces discipline for abuse of power with suppliers

CJ Olive Young faces discipline for abuse of power with suppliers

CJ Olive Young Co., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, will face punishment by the country’s antitrust regulator for abuse of power o...

FKI to be more open, future-minded and international as part of reform

FKI to be more open, future-minded and international as part of reform

South Korea’s major business lobby group the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) will become a more open and future-oriented business group ...

Lotte Group to directly control global real estate unit

Lotte Group to directly control global real estate unit

Lotte Corp., the fifth-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is poised to strengthen its real estate development unit under the direct control of the...

Hyundai Rotem releases data on eco-friendly railway businesses

Hyundai Rotem releases data on eco-friendly railway businesses

Hyundai Rotem, the railway system subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Monday it has published information about its sales and research a...

SKC eyes M&As in semiconductor, rechargeable battery materials

SKC eyes M&As in semiconductor, rechargeable battery materials

SKC Inc., a South Korean chemical materials company under SK Group, is seeking to buy semiconductor and rechargeable battery materials companies in ...

Citibank Korea provides $412 mn to POSCO for Argentine business

Citibank Korea provides $412 mn to POSCO for Argentine business

Citibank Korea signed on Jan. 25 a financial contract with POSCO Argentina, a subsidiary of South Korea's steel and secondary battery raw material g...

LG Uplus, LS Electric partner to support S.Korea's small businesses

LG Uplus, LS Electric partner to support S.Korea's small businesses

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said on Friday that it has entered into a partnership with LS Electric Co. to expa...

Samsung Heavy Industries adopts integrated monitoring system

Samsung Heavy Industries adopts integrated monitoring system

In a first for shipbuilding, South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a system to confirm all data generated in the process of shipbuild...

UK's Croda to buy Korean bio materials maker for $286 mn

UK's Croda to buy Korean bio materials maker for $286 mn

Croda International Plc., a British specialty chemicals company, is set to acquire South Korean bio materials producer Solus Biotech Co. for some 35...

NYLIM taps Sungyun Hong as head of Seoul office

NYLIM taps Sungyun Hong as head of Seoul office

New York Life Investments (NYLIM) has appointed Sungyun Hong as head of its Seoul office, the US asset management firm said on Wednesday. Hong ...

DB HiTek to expand high value-added specialized image sensor business

DB HiTek to expand high value-added specialized image sensor business

South Korea's chip foundry DB HiTek Co. attained foundry process technology and is set to expand its high-value-added specialized image sensor busin...

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