LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. will boost the production of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packages, or high-density package substrates,...

Hyundai’s Chung Euisun named MotorTrend’s Person of the Year

Hyundai’s Chung Euisun named MotorTrend’s Person of the Year

Chung Euisun, chairman of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, has been named Person of the Year by MotorTrend, topping the prestigious US autom...

HK inno.N gets approval to sell K-CAB in Singapore

HK inno.N gets approval to sell K-CAB in Singapore

South Korean biohealth company HK inno.N said on Wednesday that it has received an item approval for K-CAB, a new drug for gastroesophageal reflux d...

Prestige Biopharma attains patent for solid cancer treatment antibody

Prestige Biopharma attains patent for solid cancer treatment antibody

Prestige Biopharma Korea said on Tuesday that it has obtained a domestic patent for the CTHRC1 neutralizing antibody of the drug candidate PBP1710. ...

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering company, will enter the US battery recycling business by investing in promising startups, C...

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...

Kolon signs MOU with Hanyang Univ. to develop gene therapy treatments

Kolon signs MOU with Hanyang Univ. to develop gene therapy treatments

Kolon Industries Inc.'s Future Technology Institute said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hanyang University In...

Celltrion acquires approval to sell Vegzelma in Canada

Celltrion acquires approval to sell Vegzelma in Canada

South Korea's biosimilar heavyweight Celltrion Inc. has obtained permission from the Canadian health ministry to sell anticancer biosimilar Vegzelma...

S.Korea's automotive unit Kolon Mobility Group reborn as separate entity

S.Korea's automotive unit Kolon Mobility Group reborn as separate entity

South Korea's Kolon Mobility Group has been launched with Lee Kyu-ho, the great grandson of the Kolon Group founder Lee Won-man, as co-CEO. Formerly...

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

Biopharmaceutical company NeoImmuneTech has grabbed an opportunity to supply new drug candidates in development as strategic items to the US gover...

Celltrion's Remsima receives approval in 100 countries in 10 years

Celltrion's Remsima receives approval in 100 countries in 10 years

South Korea's most valuable biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. said on Tuesday that its antibody biosimilar Remsima (ingredient: infliximab) h...

HLB confirms ophthalmic disease treatment in phase 3 clinical trials

HLB confirms ophthalmic disease treatment in phase 3 clinical trials

South Korea’s biomedicine startup HLB Therapeutics Co. said on Monday that its Neurotrophic Keratopathy (NK) treatment RGN-259 proved effectiv...

SK Chemicals introduces Tiglutik, treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease

SK Chemicals introduces Tiglutik, treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease

SK Chemicals said on Monday that it is strengthening its portfolio of neurological diseases by introducing Tiglutik (riluzole), Lou Gehrig's disease...

S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company

S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company

South Korea's bio company Alteogen Inc. on Friday said it signed its fourth technology export contract since its 2018 development of the human recom...

CJ applies to FDA for trials of immuno-anticancer drug candidate

CJ applies to FDA for trials of immuno-anticancer drug candidate

CJ Bioscience, an independent red bio (pharmaceutical and healthcare) subsidiary of CJ CheilJedang Corp., said on Monday it has submitted a phase 1 ...

CENYX Biotech, developing treatment for brain damage with ROS-scavenging, nano-sized heavy metals

CENYX Biotech, developing treatment for brain damage with ROS-scavenging, nano-sized heavy metals

When severe brain diseases such as cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage occur, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in our body no longer functions p...

LegoChem Bio, Amgen sign ADC platform deal for up to $1.2 bn

LegoChem Bio, Amgen sign ADC platform deal for up to $1.2 bn

South Korean pharmaceutical firm LegoChem Biosciences Inc. said on Dec. 23 it has transferred the antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) technology platform...

Celltrion applies for FDA approval for Remsima SC

Celltrion applies for FDA approval for Remsima SC

Celltrion Ltd. said on Friday it had applied the previous day for permission from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Remsima SC, an autoi...

ToolGen, ANLBIO to jointly develop progeria treatments

ToolGen, ANLBIO to jointly develop progeria treatments

South Korea's two biotech startups ToolGen Incorporated and ANLBIO on Tuesday signed a joint research and development agreement for developing proge...

JW Pharma applies for phase 3 trial in Taiwan for gout treatment

JW Pharma applies for phase 3 trial in Taiwan for gout treatment

JW Pharmaceutical announced through its disclosure on Monday that it had applied last Friday for a phase 3 trial for Epaminurad, a gout treatment, w...

S.Korea's e-commerce platform Plugo secures $9 million in investment

S.Korea's e-commerce platform Plugo secures $9 million in investment

South Korea's Plugo, a comprehensive e-commerce platform based in Singapore, has attracted $9 million in Series A investment, the Silicon Valley, Ca...

Samsung eyes new mobile AP chip to take on Apple's iPhone

Samsung eyes new mobile AP chip to take on Apple's iPhone

Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. have had a long rivalry in the global market for smartphones and other mobile devices. In terms of sales...

LG Chem in $95.5 million drug out-licensing deal with China’s Innovent

LG Chem in $95.5 million drug out-licensing deal with China’s Innovent

LG Chem Life Sciences, the biopharmaceutical unit of LG Chem Ltd., and China’s biotech company Innovent Biologics have entered into a strategi...

S. Korea's GI Cell, Japanese partner to study cell therapy for blood cancer

S. Korea's GI Cell, Japanese partner to study cell therapy for blood cancer

South Korea's GI Cell, the cell therapy affiliate of GI Innovation, on Tuesday said it signed an agreement with Optieum Biotechnologies of Japan on ...

LG Chem confirms diabetes drug Zemidapa's efficacy in phase 3 trials

LG Chem confirms diabetes drug Zemidapa's efficacy in phase 3 trials

LG Chem Ltd. announced in a disclosure on Monday that it had confirmed superior efficacy in phase 3 clinical trials for the combined administration ...

SK Biopharmaceuticals launches epilepsy drug in France

SK Biopharmaceuticals launches epilepsy drug in France

South Korean SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. said on Friday that its treatment of epilepsy "Cenobamate" has been approved for sale in France.The company l...

Orion to enter dental disease treatment sector

Orion to enter dental disease treatment sector

Orion Corp., the Korean company, best known for its signature product choco pie, is entering drug development. Instead of indirectly running a joint...

Korean refiners eye strong 2022 earnings as margins improve

 Korean refiners eye strong 2022 earnings as margins improve

Asia’s benchmark refining margin is staging a rebound, providing relief for South Korea’s oil companies, which now expect their full-yea...

Doosan Fuel Cell expands exports with China deal

Doosan Fuel Cell expands exports with China deal

South Korea's Doosan Fuel Cell on Monday said it has signed an export contract worth 346.9 billion won($255 million) to supply large-scale versions ...

Vertu, Motorola, Xiaomi eye Korean smartphone market as LG exits

Vertu, Motorola, Xiaomi eye Korean smartphone market as LG exits

South Korea’s smartphone market is notoriously hard for foreign mobile phone makers to crack. So hard that some people call it the “grav...

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