Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics

Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics

Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, will accelerate its inroads into developing markets grappling with inadequate cancer diagn...

Korea’s edtech startups defend against global giants with AI

Korea’s edtech startups defend against global giants with AI

South Korea’s major online adult education platforms improved their earnings powered by classes on artificial intelligence, defying concerns o...

Hanwha, KT to cooperate on smart mining

Hanwha, KT to cooperate on smart mining

South Korea's Hanwha Global, the global division of Hanwha Corp. and KT Corp. announced on Monday that they signed a memorandum of understanding (...

HBM chip war intensifies as SK Hynix hunts for Samsung talent

HBM chip war intensifies as SK Hynix hunts for Samsung talent

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc., just like its global peers, has largely designed and produced semiconductors in-house, including high-bandwidt...

Samsung, SK, LG vie for glass substrate market in AI era

Samsung, SK, LG vie for glass substrate market in AI era

South Korea’s household names Samsung, SK and LG have entered a new race to win the glass substrate market set to surge in the artificial inte...

SK Telecom, Singtel partner for next-gen network tech

SK Telecom, Singtel partner for next-gen network tech

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) to collab...

Samsung’s Q2 profit soars on AI chips; second-half outlook rosy

Samsung’s Q2 profit soars on AI chips; second-half outlook rosy

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday flagged a more than 15-fold increase in its second-quarter operating profit as the artific...

Liner launches beta service for Academic Mode AI Search

Liner launches beta service for Academic Mode AI Search

South Korea's generative AI startup Liner announced on Thursday that it launched a beta service of Academic Mode AI Search, which provides answers b...

AI to drive Mirae Asset's next-phase growth: chairman

AI to drive Mirae Asset's next-phase growth: chairman

Mirae Asset Group is a pioneer in South Korea’s mutual fund industry. It launched the country’s first equity mutual fund in the wake of ...

LG Electronics acquires Athom to facilitate AI smart home push

LG Electronics acquires Athom to facilitate AI smart home push

South Korea’s home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. said on Wednesday it has acquired Athom B.V., a Netherlands-based home automation compa...

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...

Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028

Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028

South Korea’s leading mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp., which is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence chip by the end of this year, ai...

Solus to supply copper foil for AI accelerators to Nvidia

Solus to supply copper foil for AI accelerators to Nvidia

Solus Advanced Materials, a South Korean copper foil supplier, will provide copper foil for AI accelerators to Nvidia, a leading company in artifici...

SK Group, led by SK Hynix, to invest $77 billion in AI, chips

SK Group, led by SK Hynix, to invest $77 billion in AI, chips

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, is investing 106.4 trillion won ($77 billion) in artificial intelligence an...

Naver Whale features in Renault Korea vehicles

Naver Whale features in Renault Korea vehicles

South Korea’s homegrown web browser Whale, developed by Naver Corp., will be installed in Renault Korea cars. Naver Cloud announced on Friday...

SK Hynix develops SSD for AI PCs to be mass-produced this year

SK Hynix develops SSD for AI PCs to be mass-produced this year

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. introduced a solid-state drive (SSD) for on-device artificial intelligence PCs for mass production this year, to e...

Upstage, Amazon to cooperate on AI solutions

Upstage, Amazon to cooperate on AI solutions

Upstage, South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup, announced on Thursday that it signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (S...

LG unveils Google’s generative AI-powered robot CLOi

LG unveils Google’s generative AI-powered robot CLOi

LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday unveiled its service robot CLOi GuideBot powered by Google’s multimodal AI model Gemini to foray into the gene...

Naver's webtoon unit to raise $315 mn via Nasdaq IPO

Naver's webtoon unit to raise $315 mn via Nasdaq IPO

Webtoon Entertainment Inc., South Korean tech giant Naver Corp.'s online comics platform, said on Thursday that it will raise $315 million by issuin...

SK Inc. in talks to sell Pharmteco’s US CDMO plant to Novo Nordisk

SK Inc. in talks to sell Pharmteco’s US CDMO plant to Novo Nordisk

SK Inc., the holding and investment company of SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, is negotiating to sell a major asset of it...

LG Uplus launches generative AI ixi-GEN

LG Uplus launches generative AI ixi-GEN

South Korean major mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. officially launched its generative artificial intelligence model ixi-GEN on Tuesday, joining its bi...

JLK gets FDA OK for prostate cancer diagnosis AI solution

JLK gets FDA OK for prostate cancer diagnosis AI solution

South Korea’s JLK Inc., an AI-based diagnosis solution and platform maker, announced on Monday that it got approval from the US Food and Drug ...

Booming AI industry boosts chip packaging equipment makers

Booming AI industry boosts chip packaging equipment makers

Global chip packaging equipment manufacturers are enjoying surging demand and skyrocketing share prices thanks to the rapid growth of the artificial...

LG Display bets big on Tandem OLED in AI computing era

LG Display bets big on Tandem OLED in AI computing era

LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV panel maker, is raising the stakes in Tandem OLED technology to stay ah...

KT to make AI, media-focused reshuffle in July

KT to make AI, media-focused reshuffle in July

KT Corp., South Korea’s largest telecom service provider, is slated for an organizational reshuffle next month to reinforce its business-to-bu...

Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket

Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket

Shinsegae Group, South Korea’s retail giant, on Wednesday launched sweeping top-level management overhauls for Gmarket Inc. and SSG.COM. to ti...

LG CNS gets AWS Generative AI Competency

LG CNS gets AWS Generative AI Competency

LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of South Korea's LG Corp., announced on Wednesday that it achieved the AWS Generative AI Competency from ...

Hyundai Rotem unveils 4th-gen unmanned military vehicle, HR-Sherpa

Hyundai Rotem unveils 4th-gen unmanned military vehicle, HR-Sherpa

South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Co. unveiled the 4th generation HR-Sherpa, a multipurpose unmanned vehicle designed for military operations.The latest H...

Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO

Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO

TOKYO – Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, plans to sever technological and system tie...

Kolmar Korea develops AI tech for diagnosing alopecia

Kolmar Korea develops AI tech for diagnosing alopecia

Kolmar Korea, a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, announced on Tuesday that it developed artificial intelligence (AI) techno...

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