Ildong Pharma to export high blood pressure treatment to China

Ildong Pharma to export high blood pressure treatment to China

South Korea's Ildong Pharmaceutical Co. on Tuesday said it will export benidipine hydrochloride, a raw material used in the treatment of high blood ...

42dot gets vehicle cybersecurity certification

42dot gets vehicle cybersecurity certification

42Dot, a self-driving technology affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Tuesday that it received a  certification of ISO/SAE 21434 Cyber Sec...

KB, Shinhan, Woori improve rankings on Top 1,000 bank list

KB, Shinhan, Woori improve rankings on Top 1,000 bank list

South Korea’s KB Financial Group, Shinhan Financial Group and Woori Financial Group improved their rankings on the list of the global top 1,00...

CJ Olive Young, Meta sign agreement for digital marketing

CJ Olive Young, Meta sign agreement for digital marketing

South Korea's health and beauty store chain CJ Olive Young announced on Tuesday that it signed a business cooperation agreement with Meta, global so...

CJ Foodville picks Arges PE as preferred negotiator to attract investment

CJ Foodville picks Arges PE as preferred negotiator to attract investment

Arges Private Equity has been chosen as the preferred negotiator for attracting investment in CJ Foodville, the food service subsidiary of South Kor...

Young Poong, Lotte Global Logistics to form battery recycling supply chain

Young Poong, Lotte Global Logistics to form battery recycling supply chain

South Korea’s non-ferrous metal company Young Poong Co. has teamed up with Lotte Global Logistics Co. to form a supply chain system for recycl...

SK Bioscience to export $51 bn flu vaccine to Thailand

SK Bioscience to export $51 bn flu vaccine to Thailand

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with Thailand's state-owned G...

Doosan Enerbility to produce aviation gas turbine with ADD

Doosan Enerbility to produce aviation gas turbine with ADD

South Korea’s power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Monday that it signed a contract with the Agency for Defense Development ...

WeMade partners with three companies for WEMIX Play onboarding

WeMade partners with three companies for WEMIX Play onboarding

South Korea's game developer and publisher WeMade Co. announced on Friday that it has signed onboarding agreements with several domestic and interna...

CJ CheilJedang, Kakao Healthcare sign business agreement

CJ CheilJedang, Kakao Healthcare sign business agreement

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Friday that it has signed a business agreement with Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare...

JW Pharma gets OK for phase 3 clinical trials of URC102 in Taiwan

JW Pharma gets OK for phase 3 clinical trials of URC102 in Taiwan

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical has won approval from Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) to conduct phase 3 clinical trials for its gout t...

SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem

SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has joined hands with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, to expand its Web3 ecosystem.Both compa...

Baby Shark to be aired in Indonesia through RTV

Baby Shark to be aired in Indonesia through RTV

South Korea's The Pinkfong Company, popularly known for its "Baby Shark" character, recently inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with RTV, Ind...

SK Biopharm to export epilepsy drug tech to Middle Eastern firm

SK Biopharm to export epilepsy drug tech to Middle Eastern firm

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals announced on Friday a strategic tie-up with Hikma MENA FZE, marking the introduction of its new epilepsy medicat...

Aekyung AGE20's picks local model in Vietnam

Aekyung AGE20's picks local model in Vietnam

Aekyung Industrial Co. 's flagship cosmetic brand AGE20's announced on Thursday that it has selected Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien, who is active in various...

Amorepacific gets certification for memory-enhancing ingredients

Amorepacific gets certification for memory-enhancing ingredients

South Korea's Amorepacific Corp. announced on Thursday that it has received New Excellent Technology (NET) certification from the Ministry of Agricu...

HMM wins top ESG rating among global shipping companies

HMM wins top ESG rating among global shipping companies

South Korea’s No. 1 container transportation and shipping service HMM Co. has secured the premier position in global shipping for its environm...

NCSOFT gears up to take on Naver, Kakao for AI language model

NCSOFT gears up to take on Naver, Kakao for AI language model

NCSOFT Corp. has unveiled a large-scale Korean language model as the first South Korean game developer to advance into the local-language generative...

SK Telecom to host global AI hackathon in Seoul with OpenAI

SK Telecom to host global AI hackathon in Seoul with OpenAI

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will hold next month an artificial intelligence contest with OpenAI, the American information and communications techno...

Brokerages cut E-Mart’s share price target after disappointing Q2

Brokerages cut E-Mart’s share price target after disappointing Q2

South Korea’s largest hypermarket chain E-Mart Inc., a unit of domestic retail giant Shinsegae Group, on Wednesday posted disappointing second...

Samsung C&T sells 150-MW solar power project in US

Samsung C&T sells 150-MW solar power project in US

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. on Wednesday said its US-based green energy affiliate Samsung C&T Renewables sold a project for construction...

Hyundai Steel further scales back on Chinese operations

Hyundai Steel further scales back on Chinese operations

South Korea’s Hyundai Steel Co. has sold its subsidiary in Chongqing, China to further scale back Chinese operations as it loses ground to low...

Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm

Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm

South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments announced its acquisition of Stockspot, a prominent Australian robo-advisor specialist.In a statement r...

Binggrae’s overseas exports soar to record in H1 2023

Binggrae’s overseas exports soar to record in H1 2023

South Korean food and beverage company Binggrae reported a 27% year-on-year leap in overseas exports, hitting 77.5 billion won ($57.8 million) in th...

Korean C&R Research to set up US, Thai units for global biz

Korean C&R Research to set up US, Thai units for global biz

C&R Research Inc., South Korea’s top contract research organization (CRO), plans to establish units in the US and Thailand this year while...

Tokio Marine seeks to sell SE Asia units to S.Korean companies

Tokio Marine seeks to sell SE Asia units to S.Korean companies

Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. is seeking to sell its units in Southeast Asia for $1 billion to major South Korean companies looking fo...

Falling mineral prices to hit Korean battery materials makers

Falling mineral prices to hit Korean battery materials makers

South Korean battery materials makers are likely to report worsened profitability in the third quarter of this year as prices of lithium hydroxide a...

Korean game market needs new titles for breakthrough

Korean game market needs new titles for breakthrough

South Korean game developers are struggling to revive gamers’ interest without releasing new blockbuster titles to fill the big shoes left by ...

Cosmax opens Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China

Cosmax opens Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's biggest cosmetics maker using original design manufacturing (ODM), has opened Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China. ...

SK invests $100 mn in ChatGPT developer's rival Anthropic

SK invests $100 mn in ChatGPT developer's rival Anthropic

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. said on Sunday it has invested $100 million in the US startup Anthropic, a ChatGPT rival artificial intelligence ...

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