MBK Partners to buy Belgian chocolate brand Pierre Marcolini

MBK Partners to buy Belgian chocolate brand Pierre Marcolini

Private equity firm MBK Partners is set to acquire Pierre Marcolini, a Belgian chocolate brand called "Hermes of Chocolate."MBK bought the South Kor...

S.Korea's Com2verse releases metaverse virtual office

S.Korea's Com2verse releases metaverse virtual office

South Korean game company Com2uS Corp. announced on Wednesday that its metaverse subsidiary, Com2Verse, has released a YouTube video showcasing the ...

Hyundai donates medical wearable robot to support rehabilitation

Hyundai donates medical wearable robot to support rehabilitation

Hyundai Motor Co. donated on Wednesday two medical wearable robots to Asan Medical Center in the south of Seoul for "gait rehabilitation robot thera...

S.Korea’s five major companies form data network alliance

S.Korea’s five major companies form data network alliance

South Korea's five major companies have joined forces to make a combined data product that consolidates their respective information, ranging from c...

Innocean to cooperate domestic EV charging company for marketing

Innocean to cooperate domestic EV charging company for marketing

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EV...

HD Hyundai develops S.Korea's first offshore supply base for ammonia

HD Hyundai develops S.Korea's first offshore supply base for ammonia

HD Hyundai Co., the largest shipbuilding conglomerate in South Korea on Wednesday said it developed for the first time in the country a vessel for s...

AbClon shows promising results in clinical tests of leukemia treatment

AbClon shows promising results in clinical tests of leukemia treatment

South Korean companies are standing out in the global competition to develop chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatments, dubbed "dream" a...

GeneOne Life Science gets patent for coated microneedle tech in China

GeneOne Life Science gets patent for coated microneedle tech in China

South Korea’s biopharmaceutical company GeneOne Life Science Inc. on Tuesday said it received a patent from the China National Intellectual Pr...

North Korea's first spy satellite launch imminent

North Korea's first spy satellite launch imminent

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un instructed officials to make preparations to launch its first military reconnaissance satellite as planned, the Nort...

Samsung SDI unveils super-gap battery tech aimed at Chinese market

Samsung SDI unveils super-gap battery tech aimed at Chinese market

South Korea's leading secondary battery maker Samsung SDI Co. is setting its sights on China's battery market with its super-gap solid-state battery...

Seoul Semiconductor's Sunlike LED is installed in Volvo's new EV

Seoul Semiconductor's Sunlike LED is installed in Volvo's new EV

Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd., a South Korean LED light manufacturer, announced on Tuesday that Volvo's new electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) EX9...

Daewoong Pharma, UK firm to jointly develop autoimmune disease drug

Daewoong Pharma, UK firm to jointly develop autoimmune disease drug

South Korean drugmaker Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. said on Tuesday that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Sygnature Discovery, a British ne...

SK Telecom enters next-generation broadcasting platform market in US

SK Telecom enters next-generation broadcasting platform market in US

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said on Tuesday that it will sell a next-generation broadcast platform, utilizing mobile edge computing (MEC) technolog...

LG Electronics supports ESG certification for overseas suppliers

LG Electronics supports ESG certification for overseas suppliers

LG Electronics Inc. is accelerating its support for enhancing the environmental, social and governance (ESG) capabilities of domestic and overseas p...

S.Korean fashion company LF relaunches 1990s-popular line Tipicosi

S.Korean fashion company LF relaunches 1990s-popular line Tipicosi

Tipicosi, a South Korean fashion brand popular in the 1990s, has seen a resurrection thanks to the domestic craze for "newtro," a trend combining th...

S.Korea’s character Baby Shark stars with Sesame Street’s Elmo

S.Korea’s character Baby Shark stars with Sesame Street’s Elmo

Baby Shark, the popular children’s character from South Korea’s family entertainment company Pinkfong, and Elmo, the famous red monster ...

Orion’s Turtle Chips launches in Vietnam, India

Orion’s Turtle Chips launches in Vietnam, India

South Korea's confectionary giant Orion Corp. is launching its popular snack "Kkobuk Chip" in Vietnam and India. Orion announced on Monday that it h...

Krafton, Naver Z to establish metaverse joint company

Krafton, Naver Z to establish metaverse joint company

Krafton Inc., a leading game developer in South Korea, is establishing a joint company for a metaverse platform business with Naver Z Corp., a metav...

Korail wins $13 million consulting project for Philippines' railway

Korail wins $13 million consulting project for Philippines' railway

South Korea's state-run railway company Korea Railroad Corporation (Korail), announced on Monday that it has secured a consulting contract to manage...

SK Telecom, Singaporean company collaborate on virtual production

SK Telecom, Singaporean company collaborate on virtual production

SK Telecom Co. announced on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Xon Studios and Singapore's virtual production specia...

Chairman of Polish defense company PGZ visits S.Korea

Chairman of Polish defense company PGZ visits S.Korea

Sebastian Chwalek, the chairman of Poland's state-owned defense industry company PGZ, is reportedly meeting with domestic Korean companies regarding...

POSTECH hits jackpot with stakes in POSCO companies on battery boom

POSTECH hits jackpot with stakes in POSCO companies on battery boom

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), set up by South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group in 1986 as a research university in the...

Hyundai Mobis develops world’s first rollable vehicle display

Hyundai Mobis develops world’s first rollable vehicle display

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth largest automotive components supplier, has developed a rollable vehicle display, the first of its kind i...

S.Korea's Celltrion Healthcare launches Vegzelma in US

S.Korea's Celltrion Healthcare launches Vegzelma in US

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Monday said it launched on the US market Vegzelma, a biosimilar of Bevacizumab, a medication for colorecta...

S.Korea to dispatch key minerals investigation teams to Chile, Argentina

S.Korea to dispatch key minerals investigation teams to Chile, Argentina

South Korean government will dispatch a public-private partnership key minerals business survey team to Chile and Argentina to revitalize overseas r...

LS Electric to display smart energy solutions in Germany

LS Electric to display smart energy solutions in Germany

LS Electric Co., South Korean manufacturer of power and industrial automation equipment, announced on Monday that it will participate in the Hannove...

Hyundai, Kia surpass 100,000 global EV sales in Q1

Hyundai, Kia surpass 100,000 global EV sales in Q1

Hyundai Motor Group's electric vehicle (EV) sales have exceeded 100,000 units in the first quarter of this year, driven by the strong sales of its f...

Samsung's Bespoke Infinite appliance wins iF Design Awards

Samsung's Bespoke Infinite appliance wins iF Design Awards

Samsung Electronics co. has received a total of 80 awards, including one gold award, in 2023 iF Design Awards, an international design competition h...

Hyundai, Kia to provide official ceremonial vehicles for ADB Annual Meeting

Hyundai, Kia to provide official ceremonial vehicles for ADB Annual Meeting

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Friday that they will support the official ceremonial vehicles for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ann...

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

South Korean anti-cancer immunotherapy company Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics announced on Friday that its natural killer (NK) cell therapy, Vax-NK/HCC, h...

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