GS Retail sells unmanned serving robots in convenience stores

The artificial intelligence (AI) serving robot has been introduced to convenience stores for sale. The number of stores where the robot is being sol...

KT to invest $5.4 bn by 2027 to develop AI platforms

South Korea’s telecom service provider KT Corp. will spend about 7 trillion won ($5.4 billion) by 2027 to become the country’s largest a...

Tmap Mobility to launch EV charging delivery service

South Korean navigation app company Tmap Mobility announced on Tuesday that it will launch a mobile electric vehicle (EV) charging delivery service ...

Generative AI startup Wrtn attracts nearly $12 mn in investment

South Korea's advanced tech startup Wrtn Technologies, a major player in generative artificial intelligence (AI), has attracted investment of 15 bil...

Hyundai invests $781 mn in startups to drive future innovation growth

Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation investment in domestic and foreign startups in fields like mobility and artificial intelligence (AI) has excee...

Daesang to produce new eco-friendly material Cadaverine

Daesang Corp., South Korean manufacturer of food and pharmaceutical ingredients, announced on Wednesday that it has developed a new eco-friendly mat...

S.Korea's SK Bioscience to resume domestic flu vaccine output

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. will resume making domestic flu vaccines by year's end, two years after it stopped production to supply a vaccine fo...

POSCO breaks ground on lithium hydroxide plant in S.Korea

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of the world’s sixth-largest steel maker,held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday to mark the commen...

Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has slashed the target prices of South Korean top cathode stocks, namely EcoPro BM Co. and POSCO Future M Co., by nearly ha...

SKC mulls investment in materials in Haiphong, Vietnam

South Korea's SKC has teamed up with Haiphong, a key industrial city in northeastern Vietnam, to reinforce the company's basis for global expansion ...

S.Korean gov’t to showcase domestic fresh eggs in Hong Kong

South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT) announced on Friday that it ...

Hanjin to participate in operation of logistics center in Thailand

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Friday that it will open a 9,000-square-meter container freight ...

Hyundai Mobis exceeds $770 bn in R&D investment in 2023

South Korea's car parts maker Hyundai Mobis is turning into a software-oriented mobility company by investing over 1 trillion won ($772.3 million)...

S.Korea to ease regulations for foreign investor in domestic market

South Korea is set to raise the annual cap for individuals' overseas fund transfers without prior notice from $50,000 to $100,000, thereby easing th...

SK Networks to invest $2 mn in Dutch agtech startup

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading company, announced on Thursday that it will invest $2 million in the series A round of Source.ag, a smart fa...

Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...

Investment in battery raw materials raises sodium hydroxide prices

The price of sodium hydroxide or caustic soda, an essential component in the smelting of raw materials for producing batteries, is rising because So...

Doosan Bobcat invests in US-based agtech company

Doosan Bobcat, the construction and agricultural machine making affiliate of South Korea’s Doosan Group, has announced on Wednesday a str...

KT, Naver chosen as suppliers of S.Korea’s hyperscale AI project

South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency (NIA) have enlisted four tech enterprises — KT Corp., Nav...

Samsung Electronics makes 17-fold gains from investment in ASML

Slightly more than a decade ago, ASML Holding N.V. had to reach out to its customers such as Samsung Electronics Co., Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semicon...

Fifty Fifty label seeks investment from Silicon Valley

The South Korean label behind K-pop rookie sensation Fifty Fifty is looking to Silicon Valley for investment as the four-girl band, already with a l...

Teachers' Pension to up global alternatives to 19% of AUM by 2027

Teachers’ Pension (TP), South Korea’s major pension fund for private school employees, will accelerate investment in domestic bonds whil...

NPS vows to raise alternative investment ratio, cut bond purchases

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest public pension fund, plans to raise the ratio of its alternative...

SK Networks eyes partnership with US-based Bow Capital

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading company, is seeking to form a partnership with Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Bow Capital to dive...

Korea’s NPS likely to post 6.4% return for Q1 2023

National Pension Service (NPS) in South Korea achieved a 6.4% return on investment during the first quarter of this year, recovering some 73% of the...

S.Korean overseas card spending near pre-COVID-19 levels

South Korean residents’ overseas card use jumped in the first quarter to nearly recover levesl before the outbreak of COVID-19 on rising inter...

Hanwha Aerospace invests in US secondary battery startup

South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace Co. on Tuesday said it invested in Forge Nano, an American startup with precision nano-coating technology that exte...

POSCO Future M-GM JV to receive investment from Canadian gov’t

POSCO Future M Co., a unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., revealed on Monday that Ultium CAM, its joint venture with General Motor...

Moody’s cuts credit view on KEPCO to lowest investment grade

Moody’s on Friday cut its view on KEPCO’s credit to the lowest investment grade, a move that could lead the rating agency to downgrade t...

MBK co-founder meets with Korean CIOs to finance 6th buyout fund

Asia’s private equity giant MBK Partners Ltd. is set to accelerate fundraising for its new fund, which is expected to become the firm’s ...