LG Energy to expand EV battery care with 7 imported car dealers

LG Energy to expand EV battery care with 7 imported car dealers

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. has teamed up with seven imported car dealers in the country to expand the company's electric vehicle (EV) b...

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...

Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs

Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaborative research in bloc...

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...

LG CNS, Honeywell collaborate on smart factory

LG CNS, Honeywell collaborate on smart factory

LG CNS Co., the information technology service arm of LG Group, is enhancing production efficiency and security in smart factories through collabora...

IONIQ 5 set for fully driverless public taxi service

IONIQ 5 set for fully driverless public taxi service

The IONIQ 5 robotaxi, based on Hyundai Motor Co.'s all-electric crossover, will launch its first fully driverless service for public passengers late...

Yanolja teams up with SE Asia's largest travel platform

Yanolja teams up with SE Asia's largest travel platform

South Korea's tourism platform unicorn Yanolja announced on Monday that it will expand its overseas travel services by linking with Traveloka, a ren...

S.Korea's Tada ride-hailing app introduces English service for foreigners

S.Korea's Tada ride-hailing app introduces English service for foreigners

South Korean ride-hailing platform TADA, operated by VCNC, announced on Thursday the introduction of an English language service to its app, in a mo...

Riiid inks deal with ALC to expand its AI-based TOEIC platform in Japan

Riiid inks deal with ALC to expand its AI-based TOEIC platform in Japan

South Korean AI-powered edtech firm, Riiid, announced on Thursday it has partnered with ALC, a premier brand in the Japanese language education indu...

GC Biopharma wins contract to build blood products plant in Indonesia

GC Biopharma wins contract to build blood products plant in Indonesia

GC Biopharma Corp., a South Korean pharmaceutical company, announced on Thursday that it has received approval from the Indonesian Ministry of Healt...

South Korea’s Hyundai Elevator applies AI to boost customer convenience

South Korea’s Hyundai Elevator applies AI to boost customer convenience

"Miri is a leading example of digital transformation in the elevator sector that raises a notch service speed and customer convenience. Let’s ...

S.Korea opens logistics center at Surabaya port, Indonesia

S.Korea opens logistics center at Surabaya port, Indonesia

South Korea said it opened a logistics center at a port in Surabaya, Indonesia, to support exports to Southeast Asia’s top economy.The Ministr...

S.Korea to bolster biotech R&D, benchmarking US' Boston

S.Korea to bolster biotech R&D, benchmarking US' Boston

South Korea is poised to boost the biotech industry by accelerating research, education and business partnerships with the biopharmaceutical sector ...

Korean AI startup ActionPower poised to outdo OpenAI, Google: CEO

 Korean AI startup ActionPower poised to outdo OpenAI, Google: CEO

ActionPower Corp. founded in 2016 is small and young compared to Big Tech companies or heavily funded startups like OpenAI but it is mighty enough t...

POSCO, LG Electronics to jointly build smart factory

POSCO, LG Electronics to jointly build smart factory

POSCO Holdings Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that they will collaborate to upgrade POSCO's smart factory technology. The initi...

Hanwha Aerospace invests in US secondary battery startup

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...

Schaeffler Korea to produce parts for hybrid cars, EVs

Schaeffler Korea to produce parts for hybrid cars, EVs

Schaeffler Korea Corp., the largest plain and roller bearing provider to automotive and industrial sectors in South Korea, is set to celebrate 70 ye...

Hyundai Glovis wins certification for lithium battery air transport

Hyundai Glovis wins certification for lithium battery air transport

South Korea's logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. has obtained international certification for specialized transportation, demonstrating its expert...

LG Electronics blocks access to generative AI in company

LG Electronics blocks access to generative AI in company

LG Electronics Inc. has decided to block access to generative AI services through its intranet. Industry sources said on Friday, LG Electroni...

Hyundai renews FIFA sponsorship; Boston Dynamics, Supernal join

Hyundai renews FIFA sponsorship; Boston Dynamics, Supernal join

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., the two automaking units of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday they have extended their FIFA partnerships through ...

CJ CheilJedang releases Buddhist temple-style vegan dumplings

CJ CheilJedang releases Buddhist temple-style vegan dumplings

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. has rolled out Buddhist temple-style dumplings without meat and the five vegetables banned in Buddhism ...

Samsung Electronics opens online pet care store

Samsung Electronics opens online pet care store

Samsung Electronics Co. has entered the expanding pet care market with the launch of its Pet Care Store on its official website, according to a stat...

Mercedes Korea executive promoted as US customer service chief

Mercedes Korea executive promoted as US customer service chief

Kim Jee-seop, former vice president of the customer service department at Mercedes-Benz Korea, has been promoted to oversee the German automaker&rsq...

Kakao Mobility uses self-driving vehicles to transport cargo

Kakao Mobility uses self-driving vehicles to transport cargo

South Korea’s transportation company Kakao Mobility has launched a project in the nation's fourth-largest city of Daegu to transport people an...

CJ dreams to build new kingdom in US with massive investment

CJ dreams to build new kingdom in US with massive investment

CJ Group, a major South Korean conglomerate with a wide range of businesses spanning everything from food to bio, livestock feed, logistics, enterta...

S.Korea's top tech school uses salmon DNA to block art counterfeiting

S.Korea's top tech school uses salmon DNA to block art counterfeiting

The screen of the latest Samsung Electronics smartphone series Galaxy 23 released this year has a fingerprint recognition window on the display th...

Cellid applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in S.Korea for COVID-19 vaccine

Cellid applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in S.Korea for COVID-19 vaccine

South Korean bio-venture Cellid Co. announced on Tuesday that it has applied for the clinical Phase 3 trial of the COVID-19 Omicron variant-specific...

Naver’s search engine dominance under siege as Google, MS advance

Naver’s search engine dominance under siege as Google, MS advance

South Korea’s online portal Naver Corp., the undisputed search engine leader in the domestic market for decades, is under siege as global Big ...

CJ Bioscience conducts paid-in capital increase of $50 mn

CJ Bioscience conducts paid-in capital increase of $50 mn

South Korea's CJ Bioscience Inc., a pharmaceutical company specializing in intestinal microorganisms called microbiomes, will conduct a paid-in capi...

SpaceX pushes back Starlink's S.Korea launch to Q4

SpaceX pushes back Starlink's S.Korea launch to Q4

Starlink, low-orbit satellite internet constellation operated by the US aerospace company SpaceX, has delayed the launch of its South Korean service...

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