Prestige Biopharma attains patent for solid cancer treatment antibody

Prestige Biopharma attains patent for solid cancer treatment antibody

Prestige Biopharma Korea said on Tuesday that it has obtained a domestic patent for the CTHRC1 neutralizing antibody of the drug candidate PBP1710. ...

SK Telecom, Nokia demonstrate Korea's first open RAN base station

SK Telecom, Nokia demonstrate Korea's first open RAN base station

SK Telecom Co. said on Tuesday that it verified jointly with Nokia the stable 5G speed and coverage performance in a field test by installing a clou...

Osstem Implant to supply 490,000 sets to Chinese government

Osstem Implant to supply 490,000 sets to Chinese government

Osstem Implant Co. said on Wednesday that it has won more than 490,000 sets of implants in a bid for dental implants put up by the Chinese governmen...

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering company, will enter the US battery recycling business by investing in promising startups, C...

Dong Yang Steel Pipe signs contract with Japanese EPC company

Dong Yang Steel Pipe signs contract with Japanese EPC company

DongYangSteelPipe, a steel pipe unit of KBI Group, said on Tuesday that it had signed on the previous day an agreement with a Japanese EPC (engineer...

Hancom Frontis to develop AI digital human, 3D scanning project

Hancom Frontis to develop AI digital human, 3D scanning project

Hancom Frontis, a Hancom Group company specializing in the metaverse, said on Tuesday that it has signed a three-way agreement with the Tech Univers...

Nexon teams up with 'Parasite' film production company Barunson E&A

Nexon teams up with 'Parasite' film production company Barunson E&A

Nexon, one of South Korea's top three game giants, on Tuesday said it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Barunson Entertainment &am...

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...

Korean steelmakers accuse Japanese rivals of product dumping

Korean steelmakers accuse Japanese rivals of product dumping

As Japanese hot-rolled steel plates have flooded into South Korea at even lower prices than those from China, Korean steel manufacturers are consi...

Profitable Korean startups attract funds despite downturn

Profitable Korean startups attract funds despite downturn

Profitable South Korean startups succeeded in fundraising despite an economic downturn as investors sought stable earnings from companies with clear...

Cosmax shows off advanced beauty tech at CES with Seoul Nat'l Univ.

Cosmax shows off advanced beauty tech at CES with Seoul Nat'l Univ.

Cosmax, a cosmetics original design manufacturer (ODM) of South Korea, said on Tuesday that it unveiled the beauty technology developed jointly ...

South Korea develops 1,000 super gap startups

South Korea develops 1,000 super gap startups

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups on Monday said it would release the next day its plan for the so-called 2023 Super-gap Startup 1,000+ Project in w...

LG Energy posts largest-ever profit led by US JV with GM

LG Energy posts largest-ever profit led by US JV with GM

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. posted its largest-ever profit in 2022, driven by strong sales after its US joint venture with Ge...

SK Geo Centric signs MOU with Plastic Energy for plastic recycling plant

SK Geo Centric signs MOU with Plastic Energy for plastic recycling plant

SK Geo Centric, a subsidiary of South Korea's top refiner SK Innovation Co., will join hands with a global company to build a super-large waste plas...

Korean startup Lemonbase attracts $5.6 mn Series A funding

Korean startup Lemonbase attracts $5.6 mn Series A funding

Lemonbase, a South Korean developer and operator of performance management software as a service (Saas), raised 7 billion won ($5.6 million) in Seri...

Broadcom to give Samsung warranties to avoid Korea penalties

Broadcom to give Samsung warranties to avoid Korea penalties

US chipmaker Broadcom Inc. agreed to provide three-year warranties and technical support for components equipped in products such as smart devices o...

Celltrion develops oral antibody drug with US bio company

Celltrion develops oral antibody drug with US bio company

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. on Monday said it signed an R&D contract with US-based Rani Therapeutics on RT-111, an or...

Global VCs urge S.Korea to train lawyers on int'l contracts

Global VCs urge S.Korea to train lawyers on int'l contracts

Brad McManus, investment director of the Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) fund Applied Ventures LLC, said his company will discuss investme...

Samsung, Harman unveil in-vehicle driver alert system

Samsung, Harman unveil in-vehicle driver alert system

When a driver feels drowsy and his eyelids start slipping, a red light flickers on his dashboard with a warning sound.That’s the key feature o...

Point2 Technology to supply network cable solutions to Amazon

Point2 Technology to supply network cable solutions to Amazon

Point2 Technology, which specializes in high-speed communications solutions, said on Wednesday that it has signed a network cable solution supply co...

SK Ecoplant to jointly develop renewable energy sources with CSCEC

SK Ecoplant to jointly develop renewable energy sources with CSCEC

South Korea's construction engineering company SK Ecoplant Co., Ltd. is going to jointly develop overseas renewable energy sources with China State ...

S.Korea's Smilegate RPG named in 3 categories of Steam game awards

S.Korea's Smilegate RPG named in 3 categories of Steam game awards

South Korea's video game developer Smilegate RPG (Role-playing Games) on Thursday said its leading massively multiplayer online role-playing game (M...

Daewoong, Onchorus to undertake research on mRNA anticancer drugs

Daewoong, Onchorus to undertake research on mRNA anticancer drugs

Daewoong Pharmaceutical said on Thursday that it has signed a joint R&D and commercialization agreement with America's biopharmaceutical venture...

Samsung's OLED smartphone screen gets Ultra Dynamic Range mark

Samsung's OLED smartphone screen gets Ultra Dynamic Range mark

In an industry first, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) smartphone screen made by Samsung Display has received global certification for its ult...

Hyundai Motor Group to make debuts of innovative startups at CES

Hyundai Motor Group to make debuts of innovative startups at CES

Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation platform Zero1ne will showcase innovative technologies from ten South Korean startups at CES 2023, the world's...

WeMade signs partnership with Chinese digital asset exchange

WeMade signs partnership with Chinese digital asset exchange

WeMade said on Wednesday that it would sign a non-fungible token (NFT) partnership with Zhongchuanyuezhong Cultural Development Co. which operates a...

SK Shieldus acquires environmental management standard certification

SK Shieldus acquires environmental management standard certification

South Korea's cybersecurity service provider SK Shieldus said on Wednesday that it had obtained ISO 14001, an international standard for environment...

Samjin Pharm to undertake joint ADC R&D with Novelty Nobility

Samjin Pharm to undertake joint ADC R&D with Novelty Nobility

SamjinPharmaceutical announced Wednesday that it has signed a joint research agreement with Novelty Nobility Inc., a company specializing in antibod...

Samsung Heavy certified for CMSR power barge design

Samsung Heavy certified for CMSR power barge design

South Korea's main shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said on Wednesday that it has completed the conceptual design for the compact molten salt re...

Korean startups win 4 out of 23 Best of Innovations at CES 2023

Korean startups win 4 out of 23 Best of Innovations at CES 2023

LAS VEGAS – South Korean startups have won four out of the 23 Best of Innovation awards from Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which host...

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