S.Korea's DuChemBio localizes core materials of radiopharmaceuticals

S.Korea's DuChemBio localizes core materials of radiopharmaceuticals

South Korea's DuChemBio Co. announced on Thursday that it has obtained final approval for a recovery and purification facility for oxygen-18 concent...

Dongwon F&B to accelerate global push with StarKist

Dongwon F&B to accelerate global push with StarKist

COLOGNE, Germany – Dongwon F&B Co., South Korea’s largest canned tuna manufacturer, will break away from its domestic sales-focused ...

Netmarble's Marblex listed on Zaif in Japan

Netmarble's Marblex listed on Zaif in Japan

Marblex, a blockchain subsidiary of the South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp., announced on Thursday that it has listed its cryptocurrency Mar...

SGC eTEC E&C completes chip packaging plant in Vietnam

SGC eTEC E&C completes chip packaging plant in Vietnam

South Korea's SGC eTEC E&C Co. on Thursday announced the completion of a cutting-edge semiconductor packaging facility in Vietnam's Yen Phong 2C...

POSCO International, GS Caltex to build palm oil refinery in Indonesia

POSCO International, GS Caltex to build palm oil refinery in Indonesia

South Korea’s POSCO International Corp. and GS Caltex Corp. on Thursday signed a $210 million deal to build a bio feedstock refinery facility ...

Shinsegae targets global luxury cosmetics market with own brand

Shinsegae targets global luxury cosmetics market with own brand

South Korea’s Shinsegae International Inc. targets the global luxury cosmetics market with its own house brand as it aims to transform into a ...

Samsung beats Apple, Google to earn title as world’s best employer

Samsung beats Apple, Google to earn title as world’s best employer

Samsung Electronics Co. has retained the world’s best employer title this year for the fourth consecutive year, according to US business magaz...

Korean startups join push to champion satellite data analytics market

Korean startups join push to champion satellite data analytics market

Artificial intelligence is making big changes everywhere, even in space. Joining an AI-controlled space war, South Korean startups armed with AI tec...

Noul releases AI-based diagnostic gizmo for cervical cancer

Noul releases AI-based diagnostic gizmo for cervical cancer

Noul Co., a South Korean company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI)-based blood and cancer diagnostic platforms, has entered the cancer di...

KT&G faces another legal battle with Korean activist fund

KT&G faces another legal battle with Korean activist fund

Singapore-based private equity firm Flashlight Capital Partners Pte. said Monday that it has filed court injunctions against KT&G Corp., beginni...

POSCO fully recoups initial investment in Roy Hill mine

POSCO fully recoups initial investment in Roy Hill mine

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, has fully recovered its initial investment of 1.3 trillion won...

NGeneBio joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project

NGeneBio joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Tuesday it joins US President Joe Biden's cancer-conquering project "Cancer Moonsh...

LG Elec beats earnings estimates on healthy automotive biz

LG Elec beats earnings estimates on healthy automotive biz

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings thanks to the strong automotive busin...

SK Plasma gets investment from Indonesian fund

SK Plasma gets investment from Indonesian fund

South Korea’s SK Plasma on Tuesday said it signed a term sheet, or a nonbinding agreement on the basic terms and conditions of an investment, ...

Overseas trips top pre-pandemic levels during Chuseok holiday

Overseas trips top pre-pandemic levels during Chuseok holiday

The number of South Koreans who spent this year’s six-day holiday of Chuseok abroad exceeded pre-pandemic levels, indicating a recovery in the...

BMW premieres new 5 Series in Korea, the model’s top market

BMW premieres new 5 Series in Korea, the model’s top market

German carmaker BMW Group on Thursday premiered its latest 5 Series premium sedan in South Korea, an indication of the growing importance of the Asi...

S.Korea’s corporate R&D spending lags global rivals

S.Korea’s corporate R&D spending lags global rivals

Major South Korean companies’ spending on research and development lags investments made by their global competitors due to lower government t...

LIG Nex1 signs agreement with Megazone Cloud, AWS

LIG Nex1 signs agreement with Megazone Cloud, AWS

South Korea's LIG Nex1 Co. announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding for the future space, defense cloud transition wit...

Creator of Baby Shark, Pinkfong to launch music variety show

Creator of Baby Shark, Pinkfong to launch music variety show

The lovable children’s characters Pinkfong and Baby Shark will soon star in a music variety show for their legions of global fans.The Pinkfong...

Samsung Engineering partners with global firms for CCUS

Samsung Engineering partners with global firms for CCUS

South Korea's Samsung Engineering is ramping up its strategies in the carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) arena by securing partnerships...

LG Energy Solution to supply EV batteries to Toyota for 10 years

LG Energy Solution to supply EV batteries to Toyota for 10 years

LG Energy Solution Ltd. will supply 20 gigawatt hours (GWh) worth of batteries for electric vehicles of the world’s No. 1 car seller Toyota Mo...

NKMax's US subsidiary listed on Nasdaq

NKMax's US subsidiary listed on Nasdaq

South Korean natural killer (NK) cell drugmaker NKMax Co. on Wednesday said its US subsidiary NKGen Biotech on Monday was listed on the Nasdaq Globa...

Naver's Kream integrates with Japan's Soda

Naver's Kream integrates with Japan's Soda

Naver Corp.'s subsidiary Kream, the South Korean limited-edition goods trading platform has decided to merge its operations with Japan's Soda Inc., ...

SK Telecom enters Japan's pet care market

SK Telecom enters Japan's pet care market

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. has entered the Japanese pet market using its innovative artificial intelligence (AI) under a tie-up with Japan&r...

SK On named to Fortune’s Change the World list

SK On named to Fortune’s Change the World list

South Korea’s electric vehicle (EV) battery maker SK On is among innovative companies that have changed the world according to Fortune, a le...

Samsung to launch cloud gaming service for Galaxy users

Samsung to launch cloud gaming service for Galaxy users

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, is set to unveil a cloud gaming service for mobile devices as it seeks new profit s...

Korean language demand creates new overseas markets for startups

Korean language demand creates new overseas markets for startups

South Korean language startups are expanding their business in overseas markets with their local tongue through generative artificial intelligence, ...

Lotte's chemical units look for talent from US universities

Lotte's chemical units look for talent from US universities

Lotte Group's two chemical units in South Korea searched for talent in US universities.Lotte Chemical Corp. and Lotte Fine Chemical Co. organized ...

NeoCannBio completes $7.4 mn series B funding

NeoCannBio completes $7.4 mn series B funding

South Korea's NeoCannBio, a medical cannabis startup backed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), announced on Tuesday that it ha...

Samsung set to keep supremacy in low power DRAM with game changer

Samsung set to keep supremacy in low power DRAM with game changer

South Korea’s No. 1 memory chip maker Samsung Electronics Co., also the world’s top player, is set to further break away from the pack w...

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