Silvia Health attracts investment through pre-Series A funding

Silvia Health Inc., an age-tech startup based in Seoul, South Korea said on Monday that it has completed a pre-Series A investment with the particip...

Document tool company Business Canvas secures Series A2 round

Business Canvas, a South Korean SaaS (software as a service) startup that services the global document tool "Typed," announced on Tuesday that it ha...

KT Investment injects $27.8 million in 20 startups this year

KT Investment said on Thursday that it invested 35 billion won ($27.8 million) in 20 startups this past year, and that six invested companies succee...

SuperBin completes plastic recycling factory in Seoul suburb

SuperBin, a South Korean startup reshaping the waste recycling ecosystem using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, on Thursday said it had co...

Nursing caregiver matching startup Bosalpim succeeds in pre-series A funding

South Korea's senior citizen care service startup Bosalpim said on Wednesday that it has raised an undisclosed amount of pre-series A funding from K...

Samsung to unveil C-Lab startups, projects at CES 2023

Samsung Electronics Co. will showcase four projects and eight startups developed through its venture program C-Lab at CES 2023, the world's largest ...

Naver D2SF makes follow-up investment in fashion startup Onthelook

Naver D2SF, Naver Corp.'s startup investment arm, made a follow-up investment in fashion content startup Onthelook.The company said on Wednesday tha...

Korea’s big bio startups to launch $39 mn investment fund

South Korea’s four leading biotech firms plan to launch an investment fund of up to 50 billion won ($39 million) to support smaller domestic b...

LG to develop smart home devices responsive to users’ sleep data

An air conditioner or a TV set equipped with a timer that automatically turns power on and off based on the user's preference has been around for ye...

SK may sell assets in Vietnam, Malaysia to raise billions of dollars

South Korean conglomerate SK Group is considering selling some of its assets in Vietnam and Malaysia owned by its investment vehicle SK South East A...

Samsung Elec to develop Vietnam as global strategic base

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, aims to nurture Vietnam as a global strategic base as it opens a ne...

Doosan Enerbility to introduce ammonia co-fired power plant in Vietnam

Doosan Enerbility Co. plans to introduce an ammonia co-fired power plant in Vietnam jointly with South Korean and Vietnamese research institutes.Sou...

Korean confectionery and snack co. Orion enjoys brisk sales in Vietnam

South Korea’s confectionery and snack maker Orion Corp. is enjoying rapid growth in Vietnam, thanks to brisk sales of the Choco-Pie, a chocola...

Lunit to export breast cancer detecting solutions to Hong Kong, Mongolia

South Korea's AI-based medical imaging equipment firm Lunit will export AI breast cancer diagnosis solutions to large hospitals in Hong Kong and Mon...

Vietnam emerges as South Korea's No. 3 trading partner

Vietnam will finish this year as South Korea's No. 3 trading partner and the country with which the latter has the largest trade surplus, a study ha...

Samsung Chairman Jay Y. Lee flies to Vietnam for global business

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee embarked on a business trip to Vietnam on Wednesday to attend an opening ceremony for a research and dev...

Naver D2SF makes investment in US sleep tech company PranaQ

Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF has newly invested in PranaQ, a US sleep tech startup. This is the 100th investment since the comp...

Hyundai Heavy develops new chemical-resistant paint for PC carriers

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group said Wednesday that it has developed a paint product for petrochemical product (PC) carriers with significantly impro...

Stayfolio receives $7.7 mn in Series A investment

South Korea's property-rental platform Stayfolio announced on Wednesday that it has won 10 billion won ($7.7 million) worth of additional investment...

LabGenomics unites with Humanscape on Asia, US genetic testing biz

LabGenomics Co., a molecular diagnostics company, said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with digital healthcare company Humanscape to deve...

KED's startup news platform Geeks launches revamped website

Geeks, The Korea Economic Daily’s startup news platform launched in May, launched an upgraded website in Korean on Monday. The new conten...

Lunit exports AI imaging analysis solution to Brazil

South Korea's medical imaging startup Lunit said on Monday it has signed a software licensing agreement with Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in...

S.Korean startup enters UK market for wireless charging of EVs

A South Korean startup will enter the British market for wireless charging facilities for electric vehicles (EV), as Korean firms speed up their adv...

AI medical startup Arpi wins Pre D.Day X SNU Medicine event

South Korean startup accelerator D.Camp hosted this year’s last demo day on Saturday in collaboration with Seoul National University’s C...

KT to commercialize self-driving robots with startup Neubility

KT said on Friday that it has signed a partnership agreement with Neubility, an outdoor self-driving robot developer, to expand its robot service bu...

Korean startup Epikar succeeds in attracting series A investment

Epikar, a car retail digital conversion solution company, said on Thursday that it has succeeded in attracting Series A investment from a number of ...

Vuno's fundus-reading AI obtains medical device certification in Thailand

South Korea's medical device startup company Vuno announced on Thursday that its fundus reading artificial intelligence (AI) solution Vuno Med-Fundu...

S.Korea's Bespin Global, Daewoo E&C sign smart city deal with Aussie company

South Korea's cloud management company Bespin Global on Wednesday said its subsidiary Bespin Global Vietnam formed a strategic partnership with Daew...

Korean startup Mathpresso completes $59 mn Series C investment

Mathpresso, the company that operates the artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning platform Qanda, said on Tuesday that it has completed Series C...

S.Korea's startup Bunker Kids raises $1.5 million in Series A funding

South Korea's tech start-up Bunker Kids announced on Tuesday that it raised 2 billion won ($1.5 million) through Series A investment from Korean ven...