Korean banks raise mortgage rates despite looming rate cut

Korean banks raise mortgage rates despite looming rate cut

South Korean banks are raising mortgage rates again as the government strives to curb household debt growth that grew at its sharpest pace in three ...

Korea’s Lotte Card sees 1st profit in Vietnam since launch

Korea’s Lotte Card sees 1st profit in Vietnam since launch

Lotte Card Co., South Korea’s No. 5 credit card issuer, is enjoying its first monthly profit in Vietnam after offering various financial produ...

LG Electronics’ new HVAC center in Europe to fight extreme temperatures

LG Electronics’ new HVAC center in Europe to fight extreme temperatures

LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean home appliance maker, said on Monday it has set up a research center in Germany to help develop advanced...

Samsung Elec invests in US bio startup Element Biosciences

Samsung Elec invests in US bio startup Element Biosciences

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, said on Friday it has invested in US biotech startup Element Biosciences Inc. to ex...

North Face supplier Youngone to build R&D center in Bangladesh

North Face supplier Youngone to build R&D center in Bangladesh

Youngone Corp., a South Korean original design manufacturer (ODM) for foreign outdoor brands such as The North Face and Nike, will build an R&D ...

PharmaResearch acquires TuringBio for digital therapeutics

PharmaResearch acquires TuringBio for digital therapeutics

PharmaResearch Co., a South Korean company specializing in regenerative medicine, announced on Wednesday that it acquired TuringBio, an AI-based dig...

Hyundai Motor Group, Oxford Univ. establish Foresight Center

Hyundai Motor Group, Oxford Univ. establish Foresight Center

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Tuesday that it partnered with the University of Oxford and established the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Ce...

AI plagiarism detection startup Muhayu eyes IPO in 2026

AI plagiarism detection startup Muhayu eyes IPO in 2026

South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Muhayu hired Mirae Asset Securities as the lead manager for its initial public offering (IPO) targ...

DN Solutions to build plant, R&D center in India

DN Solutions to build plant, R&D center in India

DN Solutions, the world's third-largest and South Korea's top machine tool manufacturer, said on Tuesday that it will establish a new plant and rese...

LG Uplus builds 1,000 kW solar power facility in Daejeon

LG Uplus builds 1,000 kW solar power facility in Daejeon

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. established a solar power facility to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. LG Uplus announced on Sunday that it installe...

Hyundai Motor to set up software R&D center in Silicon Valley

Hyundai Motor to set up software R&D center in Silicon Valley

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest carmaker, is set to establish a software research center in Silicon Valley as software is becom...

Daewoong, Indonesia's IPB to co-research on primate

Daewoong, Indonesia's IPB to co-research on primate

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Thursday that it signed a contract with Indonesia's Bogor Agricultural University (Institut P...

Macquarie eyes its 1st Korean data center valued around $722 mn

Macquarie eyes its 1st Korean data center valued around $722 mn

Macquarie Group’s South Korean infrastructure investment arm is set to buy its first domestic data center, valued at up to 1 trillion won ($72...

Noul, CDC to start Malaria diagnosis project in Kenya

Noul, CDC to start Malaria diagnosis project in Kenya

South Korea's Noul Co., an in-vitro diagnostics maker and artificial intelligence (AI)-based blood and cancer diagnostic platforms company, said o...

SK's Chey rebuts court's SK unit value estimate for divorce

SK's Chey rebuts court's SK unit value estimate for divorce

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won on Monday said the Seoul High Court has innacurately inflated his contribution to the growth of SK C&C, a busines...

Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center

Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University (SNU) to establish an ...

LG Chairman Koo to embark on US trip to oversee battery, AI projects

LG Chairman Koo to embark on US trip to oversee battery, AI projects

Koo Kwang-mo, chair of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, will embark on a weeklong business trip to the US next week to seek new g...

POBA favors data centers, senior housing in Europe: CIO

POBA favors data centers, senior housing in Europe: CIO

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a retirement fund with assets under management (AUM) of 26 trillion won ($19.1 bill...

HD Hyundai Marine Solution builds ship smartcare center in Busan

HD Hyundai Marine Solution builds ship smartcare center in Busan

South Korea's HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. established an HD SmartCare Busan Center for ship lifecycle management services and begun full-scale op...

Hanwha Foodtech opens R&D center in Seongnam

Hanwha Foodtech opens R&D center in Seongnam

Hanwha Foodtech, a subsidiary of Hanwha Hotels & Resorts specializing in food and beverages, announced on Wednesday that it opened a research an...

Korean Air, Amazon to build AI customer center

Korean Air, Amazon to build AI customer center

South Korea's Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Monday that it will build an artificial intelligence (AI) contact center (AICC) platform in collabor...

MedInTech attracts $14.6 mn series B investment

MedInTech attracts $14.6 mn  series B investment

MedInTech Inc., South Korea's medical smart endoscopes startup, announced on Monday that it attracted a series B investment of 20 billion won ($14.6...

Korea’s Koh Young to launch brain surgery robot in US in 2025

Korea’s Koh Young to launch brain surgery robot in US in 2025

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, aims to launch a brain surge...

Samsung Welstory completes new Vietnam logistics center

Samsung Welstory completes new Vietnam logistics center

South Korean food and beverage company Samsung Welstory announced on Thursday that it completed a new logistics center with a cold chain system in B...

Perigee, SSC to cooperate on space launch vehicle

Perigee, SSC to cooperate on space launch vehicle

South Korea's small space launch vehicle startup Perigee Aerospace Inc. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with the Swedish Space Corporation ...

Samsung Medison buys AI medical startup Sonio

Samsung Medison buys AI medical startup Sonio

South Korea’s Samsung Medison, a medical equipment subsidiary of the global memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co., is taking over France&rs...

POSCO Future M publishes responsible minerals report

POSCO Future M publishes responsible minerals report

South Korea's POSCO Future M Co. announced on Tuesday that it released a responsible minerals report detailing establishing a sustainable supply cha...

Hanwha Systems to build Jeju Hanwha Space Center

Hanwha Systems to build Jeju Hanwha Space Center

South Korea's Hanwha Systems Co. announced plans on Monday that it plans to establish the Jeju Hanwha Space Center in Jeju Special Self-Governing Pr...

JLK to supply medical AI solutions in Indonesia

JLK to supply medical AI solutions in Indonesia

South Korea’s JLK Inc., an AI-based stroke care platform maker, announced on Tuesday that it signed a business agreement with medical consulti...

NGeneBio to transfer NGS tech to UAE company

NGeneBio to transfer NGS tech to UAE company

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based medica...

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