Neowiz, SK Hynix to team up for global marketing

Neowiz, SK Hynix to team up for global marketing

South Korean game developer Neowiz announced on Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Hynix Inc. for global marketing col...

South Korea’s Dailybeer to enter into Singaporean market

South Korea’s Dailybeer to enter into Singaporean market

Dailybeer, South Korean craft beer and fried chicken chain, announced on Friday it signed a contract with Singapore-based Katrina Group for joint in...

Woori Bank opens regional headquarters in Bangladesh

Woori Bank opens regional headquarters in Bangladesh

South Korea's Woori Bank announced on Friday it opened its new regional headquarters in Bangladesh. In 1996, the bank launched its first branch...

Hillhouse to up investment in S.Korea with new hires

Hillhouse to up investment in S.Korea with new hires

Hillhouse Investment Management Ltd., one of the largest private equity firms in Asia, is set to create an investment team dedicated to the South Ko...

Shilla Duty Free partners with Line Pay to attract Asian tourists

Shilla Duty Free partners with Line Pay to attract Asian tourists

South Korea's The Shilla Duty Free announced it partnered with Line Pay Taiwan to attract South Asian tourism on Thursday. Line Pay is the top mobil...

Hanwha Ocean to target Southeast Asian defense market

Hanwha Ocean to target Southeast Asian defense market

South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co. will participate in Defense & Security (D&S) 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. The company said on Thursday it ...

DRAM contract prices rebound after 27 months on rising demand

DRAM contract prices rebound after 27 months on rising demand

DRAM contract prices rebounded for the first time in more than two years last month amid the recovery in the consumer electronics market.The price g...

Naver-invested ichrogene enters Thai market

Naver-invested ichrogene enters Thai market

South Korea's digital healthcare startup ichrogene, with investment from Naver D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), entered into Thai market. Naver Corp....

Ecopro to develop lithium mine in Nevada with Australian firm

Ecopro to develop lithium mine in Nevada with Australian firm

South Korean battery materials maker EcoPro Co. announced on Wednesday its subsidiary EcoPro Innovation signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) w...

KT to develop smart city in Indonesia's new capital

KT to develop smart city in Indonesia's new capital

South Korea's KT Corp. plans to apply smart city technologies such as quantum communication and cybersecurity to Nusantra, the new administrative ca...

Daewoong Pharma, Merck team up for AI tech for new drug

Daewoong Pharma, Merck team up for AI tech for new drug

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on Tuesday it signed with memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Merck Life Science to build an arti...

Harman’s record profits prop up Samsung's Q3 earnings

Harman’s record profits prop up Samsung's Q3 earnings

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, on Tuesday reported a triple-digit quarterly increase in third-quarter profit ...

S.Korea to put self-developed lander on moon by 2032

S.Korea to put self-developed lander on moon by 2032

South Korea plans to put its first lunar lander on the moon by 2032.  In a meeting of the National R&D Project Evaluation Advisory Commit...

Naver replaces Nvidia GPU with Intel CPU for its AI map app server

Naver replaces Nvidia GPU with Intel CPU for its AI map app server

South Korea’s web portal giant Naver Corp. has replaced the main chip supplier of its artificial intelligence server for its map service, Nave...

KT develops 5G antennas for UAM

KT develops 5G antennas for UAM

South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Monday it has developed and validated specialized antennas that can efficiently establish a fifth-generation (5G...

Hyundai unveils world’s first commercial LTE train signaling system

Hyundai unveils world’s first commercial LTE train signaling system

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean manufacturer of rolling stock, defense products and plant equipment, in a world first has commercialized a train s...

LG Uplus developing communications GenAI ixi-GEN

LG Uplus developing communications GenAI ixi-GEN

South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. on Sunday said it is developing the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ixi-GEN.The large language model (...

LG Chem, LX Hausys develop material delaying battery thermal runaway

LG Chem, LX Hausys develop material delaying battery thermal runaway

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. and its spinoff LX Hausys Ltd. have jointly developed a material that delays the thermal runaway of electric vehicl...

Hanjin opens representative office in Mongolia

Hanjin opens representative office in Mongolia

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation announced on Friday it has opened a representative office in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to expand its logistics hu...

HD Hyundai develops electric propulsion system for large ships

HD Hyundai develops electric propulsion system for large ships

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. have secured Approval in Principle (AIP) from the UK's Lloyd's ...

Samsung Biologics eyes new drugmaker acquisitions

Samsung Biologics eyes new drugmaker acquisitions

BARCELONA -- Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization by capacity, is looking for acquisitions of new drugma...

Innocean to invest $370 million in new growth drivers

Innocean to invest $370 million in new growth drivers

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, will invest 500 billion won ($370 million) for four years u...

KGC hawks red ginseng at top US expo for health functional food

KGC hawks red ginseng at top US expo for health functional food

Jung Kwan Jang, the flagship brand of Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), has been featured at North America’s leading expo for raw ingredients of heal...

Neo Chair cements No. 1 spot as office chair brand on Amazon

Neo Chair cements No. 1 spot as office chair brand on Amazon

Neo Chair, almost unheard of in its home country South Korea, is the top-selling office chair brand on Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platfo...

Hyundai’s record Q3 profit beats Samsung; no EV output cut planned

Hyundai’s record Q3 profit beats Samsung; no EV output cut planned

Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday posted its highest-ever quarterly operating profit for the July-September period, driven by robust sales of pricey car...

S.Korea’s ModaModa unveils new hair darkening shampoo

S.Korea’s ModaModa unveils new hair darkening shampoo

South Korean haircare brand ModaModa launched its second-generation hair darkening shampoo "ModaModa Zero Gray Black Shampoo" on Thursday. Prev...

LG Chem to manufacture flooring from waste PET bottles

LG Chem to manufacture flooring from waste PET bottles

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. revealed on Thursday its plan to produce an eco-friendly plasticizer derived from discarded polyethylene terephthalate (P...

SK Enmove, Hanwha Aerospace to develop ESS for vessels

SK Enmove, Hanwha Aerospace to develop ESS for vessels

South Korea’s lubricating oil maker SK Enmove Co. and defense industry company Hanwha Aerospace Co. will jointly develop energy storage syst...

S.Korean HD Hyundai inks $3.9 bn Qatar LNG tanker deal

S.Korean HD Hyundai inks $3.9 bn Qatar LNG tanker deal

DOHA -- HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world’s second-largest shipyard, has won a $3.9 billion deal to build 17 liquified natural gas ca...

POSCO DX develops AI-based roadkill prevention system

POSCO DX develops AI-based roadkill prevention system

POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc. announced on Wednesday it developed an artificial intelligen...

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