Samsung unveils 2023 model TV, home appliances in China

Samsung unveils 2023 model TV, home appliances in China

Samsung Electronics Co. announced that it held the 2023 China Tech Seminar in Beijing, China, on Friday, unveiling the new TV and home appliance tec...

HD KSOE gauges carbon emitted over LNG ship's lifespan

HD KSOE gauges carbon emitted over LNG ship's lifespan

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediate shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., is calculating the carb...

Hanwha Q Cells sweeps global solar energy industry awards

Hanwha Q Cells sweeps global solar energy industry awards

Hanwha Q Cells Co.'s winning of major global solar energy industry prizes is expected to help the unit of South Korean Hanwha Solutions Corp. cement...

Samsung's Bespoke life: Beyond customized to stylish

Samsung's Bespoke life: Beyond customized to stylish

Samsung Electronics Co. has expanded the concept of Bespoke home appliances from creating customized products to creating "a stylish life" to better...

S.Korea’s Handsome releases brand book with Assouline

S.Korea’s Handsome releases brand book with Assouline

South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp., a division of Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Thursday that it has partnered with Assouline, on...

Korean battery maker SK On attracts $400 mn from Hillhouse

Korean battery maker SK On attracts $400 mn from Hillhouse

South Korean battery maker SK On Co. has secured $400 million from Hillhouse, a Singapore-headquartered asset management firm, investment banking so...

POSCO Int'l to supply nearly 7 mn motor cores to Hyundai Motor

POSCO Int'l to supply nearly 7 mn motor cores to Hyundai Motor

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International on Thursday said its affiliate POSCO Mobility Solution will supply motor cores to Hyundai ...

Samsung Biologics, Pfizer sign $411.3 mn agreement for long-term CDMO

Samsung Biologics, Pfizer sign $411.3 mn agreement for long-term CDMO

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s No. 1 contract drugmaker, announced a groundbreaking strategic partnership with Pfizer on Thursday, marking...

CrystalGenomics to supply anti-osteoarthritis drug to Russia for $2 mn

CrystalGenomics to supply anti-osteoarthritis drug to Russia for $2 mn

South Korea's first-generation biopharma venture company CrystalGenomics Inc. on Wednesday said it received a $2 million (2.6 billion won) order fro...

SK Networks to invest $2 mn in Dutch agtech startup

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...

KT to start outdoor robot delivery in Seoul from Q4

KT to start outdoor robot delivery in Seoul from Q4

South Korea’s KT Corp. from the fourth quarter will start outdoor robot delivery of food and daily necessities in Seoul’s upscale distri...

Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

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...

Affinity Equity Partners’ Korea head Sam Lee resigns

Affinity Equity Partners’ Korea head Sam Lee resigns

Affinity Equity Partners’ Seoul office head Sam Lee has left the global investment firm, sources familiar with the matter told The Korea Econo...

Samsung to supply new Exynos auto chip to Hyundai in close tie-up

Samsung to supply new Exynos auto chip to Hyundai in close tie-up

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it will supply one of its latest automotive chips to Hyundai ...

SK Telecom displays cutting-edge network tech for smart battleships

SK Telecom displays cutting-edge network tech for smart battleships

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. is taking part in this year's International Maritime Defense Industry Exhibition (MADEX), which ends Friday, at Busan...

LG Energy, Novonix join hands for US EV battery material

LG Energy, Novonix join hands for US EV battery material

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest electric vehicle battery maker, has teamed up with Novonix Ltd., an Australian cell ingredi...

Investment in battery raw materials raises sodium hydroxide prices

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 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...

SK set to produce faster EV chargers than Tesla in US

SK set to produce faster EV chargers than Tesla in US

DALLAS, TEXAS - South Korea’s SK Signet Inc. is poised to produce electric vehicle chargers with the fastest charging speed in the US, targeti...

Hyundai Mobis to expand vehicle module facility in S.Korea

Hyundai Mobis to expand vehicle module facility in S.Korea

South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co. will build its third automotive module plant in Ulsan, South Korea, where its parent Hyundai Motor Group opera...

S.Korean beauty brands lean toward social media stars

S.Korean beauty brands lean toward social media stars

AmorePacific Corp.'s new brand launch in February with top South Korean social media influencer Lee Sa-bae created a sensation in the domestic cosme...

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

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...

SK Hynix launches portable SSD Beetle X31

 SK Hynix launches portable SSD Beetle X31

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, unveiled its latest product, the Beetle X31, a portable Solid State Drive (SSD) ...

Kakao unveils index on user contributions to environment

Kakao unveils index on user contributions to environment

South Korea's mobile platform company Kakao Corp. on the occasion of World Environment Day on Monday unveiled on its website figures from the Kaka...

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries unveils homegrown sea vessels

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries unveils homegrown sea vessels

South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (HHI), the shipbuilding affiliate of HD Hyundai Co., on Sunday said it will unveil its next-generati...

Celltrion to develop Humira biosimilar oral medication with US firm

Celltrion to develop Humira biosimilar oral medication with US firm

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with the US biotech firm Rani Therapeutics ...

POSCO-GM JV to double cathode output, build precursor plant

POSCO-GM JV to double cathode output, build precursor plant

South Korean battery materials producer POSCO Future M Co. said on Friday it will inject 1 trillion won ($765 million) into its joint venture with G...

SKIET signs deal to supply secondary battery separators to N.America

SKIET signs deal to supply secondary battery separators to N.America

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), an SK Innovation-affiliated manufacturer of secondary battery separators, is set to move into the North American marke...

LG Chem’s CEO searches for talent in Japan to lead new growth engines

LG Chem’s CEO searches for talent in Japan to lead new growth engines

Vice Chairman and CEO Shin Hak-cheol of South Korea's largest chemical company LG Chem Ltd. is looking for talent in Japan to lead his company's thr...

South Korea hosts first Universo Ferrari exhibition in Asia

South Korea hosts first Universo Ferrari exhibition in Asia

For the first time in Asia, South Korea is hosting an event featuring the history of the Italian sports car brand Ferrari.Ferrari on Thursday opened...

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