Kakao unveils index on user contributions to environment

South Korea's mobile platform company Kakao Corp. on the occasion of World Environment Day on Monday unveiled on its website figures from the Kaka...

SKIET signs deal to supply secondary battery separators to N.America

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), an SK Innovation-affiliated manufacturer of secondary battery separators, is set to move into the North American marke...

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...

LG Energy to expand smart factory systems to N.America JVs

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. will introduce smart manufacturing systems to all its joint venture battery plants under construction in...

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...

Hyundai revs up US advance with $4.3 billion battery JV with LG

Hyundai Motor Co. has taken another step closer to receiving US tax credits for its electric cars sold in the country by signing a 5.7 trillion won ...

GoodGang Labs attracts $2 mn from Kakao Investment

South Korea's GoodGang Labs, a startup focused on developing a 3D avatar-based communication platform, announced on Thursday that it has secured an ...

Samsung Electronics' smart factory project targets SMEs

Sales of Cookia, a small maker of tofu snacks in South Korea based in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, have jumped eight-fold in six years from 300 mil...

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...

S.Korea’s popular MMORPGs go abroad for profitability

South Korean game developers target overseas markets for their locally hit massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) to increase pro...

KT Cloud to adopt liquid immersion cooling system for data centers

South Korea’s KT Cloud on Tuesday said it signed a deal with Immersion 4, a Swiss provider of liquid cooling solutions, to install next-gene...

Korea’s Kakao targets mobile infrastructure biz for Saudi tourism

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant, targets the mobile infrastructure industry for Saudi Arabian tourism to expand its business ...

KAI secures deal to export 18 FA-50 light fighters to Malaysia

South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., (KAI) has finalized a contract to supply Malaysia with eigh...

S.Korea's UAM group to develop tourism transportation on southern coast

Urban air transportation (UAM) in South Korea will open a tourism road on the country's southern coast, which is dubbed "the nation's Mediterranean ...

US antitrust body blocks $1.4 bn Korean Air-Asiana deal

Korean Air Lines Co. ’s acquisition of smaller domestic rival Asiana Airlines Inc. is poised to collapse after the US antitrust agency raised ...

SKC to buy controlling stake in chip test maker ISC for about $300 mn

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemical materials company, is slated to buy a controlling stake in semiconductor chip test maker ISC Co., in a deal estima...

Kakao migrates global webtoon service environment to Google Cloud

South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. is joining forces with Google Cloud to glob...

Samsung SDS bolsters Cello Square with tech upgrades, global push

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit under Samsung Group, has upgraded its digital forwarding freight service platform to bring ...

LG Chem secures exclusive deal for Israeli desalination project

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. revealed on Thursday that it has been awarded the exclusive contract as the sole supplier of reverse osmosis (RO) membran...

Canada’s Trudeau to visit Seoul as LG-Stellantis battery JV suspended

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and multinational automaker Stellantis N.V. have stopped construction at a $ 4 billion electric vehicle ...

Cuchen links rice cookers to Samsung Electronics’ IoT

South Korea’s kitchen appliance maker Cuchen on Monday said it will link two rice cookers possessing Internet of Things (IoT) technology to Sa...

POSCO DX to team up with PwC Consulting for smart factory business

POSCO DX Co., formerly POSCO ICT Co.,  the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Monday that it h...

LS Electric to unveil eco-friendly smart energy techs in Vietnam

South Korea's LS Electric Co. announced on Monday its participation in the highly anticipated "Electric Energy Show 2023" to be held in Hanoi, Vietn...

HL Holdings, Veluga Brewery to digitalize Korean liquor market

HL Holdings Corp., a major South Korean automotive parts logistics specialist with a three-decade history, has joined hands with Veluga Brewery Inc....

Daewoong Pharmaceutical’s cumulative tech exports exceed $870 mn

South Korea’s Daewoong Pharmaceutical said on Friday that it had concluded three technology export agreements for new drugs and new drug candi...

KT pursues digitalization of health care with ezCaretech

South Korea's KT Corp. on Friday said it will jointly enter the health care sector with electronics health records company ezCaretech.Both companies...

Does Google Bard in Korean pose any risk to Naver, Kakao?

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – Global tech giant Google on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded version of Bard, its generative artificial intelligence...

LG Electronics' German affiliate gets partner for vehicle front development

ZKW Group of Germany, an automotive lighting and headlight affiliate of LG Electronics Inc., on Thursday said it signed a memorandum of understandin...

Kia, Kakao Mobility to jointly develop PBV for ride-hailing

Kia Corp. and Kakao Mobility announced on Friday that they have signed the previous day a memorandum of understanding for the development of a purpo...

Hyundai, IGIS sign deal to develop robot-friendly buildings

Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday that it has signed a business agreement with IGIS Asset Management Co., the largest real estate investment firm ...