SK Bioscience to produce MSD’s new Ebola vaccine candidate

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with MSD, a global pharma...

Hyundai’s quantum leap: how it shines through in crisis

Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. are slated to log a combined 150 million units of car sales this month. The carmakers of Hyundai Motor...

Samsung to unveil new foldables in July to boost Q3 profit

Samsung Electronics Co. is set to unveil fifth-generation of its foldable smartphones at the end of July, about two weeks earlier than it had showca...

NuScale to build Korea’s first SMR in Uljin, home to native Korean reactors

NuScale Power Corp. is expected to build its first small modular reactor (SMR) plant in South Korea in Uljin, already home to Korean native nuclear ...

Samsung unveils new Galaxy Watch OS with enhanced sleep management

Samsung Electronics Co. revealed on Thursday its new operating system, One UI Watch 5, for its Galaxy Watch series. The updated OS includes improved...

LG Chem in talks with Glenwood to sell off diagnostics unit

LG Chem Ltd. is slated for exclusive talks with Seoul-based Glenwood Private Equity to sell off its in vitro diagnostics business, according to biop...

KT launches two new AI serving robots

South Korea's KT Corp., said on Tuesday that it has unveiled two new AI service robots with upgraded features for enhanced driving stability and w...

Simple, retro: Korean game sector’s new target for growth

Once-popular games for feature phones in the 2000s are seeing a revival in South Korea on the growing demand for simple and easy titles for smartpho...

Samsung Heavy Industries develops next-generation FLNG

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a new model for its floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production facility, aimed...

KKR to buy Namsan Green Building in Seoul for $186.7 million

KKR & Co. Inc. has agreed to buy Namsan Green Building in a central office district in Seoul for an estimated 250 billion won ($186.7 million).T...

Hyundai Mobis to lead mobility platform innovation: CEO Cho

Hyundai Mobis Co. will take another leap forward to become a mobility platform provider for future mobility technologies and bolster its new growth ...

Will Night Crows be Korean game developer WeMade’s savior?

WeMade Co. on Thursday officially launched Night Crows, a new massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), in South Korea as the major do...

Seoul City’s new slogan, Seoul My Soul

Seoul's new brand slogan to replace "I·SEOUL·YOU" has been confirmed as "Seoul, my soul." The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced ...

S.Korea's IBS develops floatable photocatalytic platform

The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea has developed a new  floatable  photocatalytic platform that can produce green hydrog...

PwC’s S.Korean member to focus on SE Asia acquisition deals

Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, the South Korean member firm of global accounting industry leader PwC, aims to focus on overseas acquisition deals of ...

LG Elec’s home appliance unit hits record-high profit in Q1

The home appliance division of LG Electronics Inc. posted its largest ever quarterly profit in the January-March period, exceeding the 1 trillion wo...

Samsung unveils 89-inch Micro LED display in China

Samsung Electronics Co. will launch its 89-inch Micro LED display in China for the first time at the "Appliance & Electronics World Expo 2023" (...

Samsung, MS open Gaming Hubs in London, New York

Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with Microsoft to launch gaming hubs in the heart of London and New York. The two companies have installed Sam...

LGES to build pouch-type long-cell battery mother factory at $449 mn

LG Energy Solution Ltd. will add a new mother factory to its Ochang manufacturing complex, as part of its plan to turn the home manufacturing site i...

Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  US streaming giant Netflix is slated to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to boost its cont...

S.Korea launches foreign worker quota exclusively for shipbuilding sector

South Korea will set a separate quota of 5,000 foreign workers to solve the labor shortage in domestic shipbuilding and accept 120,000 such workers ...

POSCO Future M to inject $461 mn to bulk up cathode production

POSCO Future M Co., a unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Monday it has decided to invest 614.8 billion won ($460.5 millio...

LG Electronics to bolster B2B to transform into software company

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s home appliance giant, will expedite its push to transform from a white goods manufacturer into a digital so...

Dongwon Group to establishe new corporation for auto parts logistics

South Korea's Dongwon Group announced on Monday that it will launch a new corporation called "Next Lo Co." on May 1 to strengthen the competitivenes...

HD Hyundai Infracore releases first S.Korean made bulldozer in 24 years

HD Hyundai Infracore Co. a construction equipment affiliate of South Korea’s HD Hyundai Group, on Sunday said it launched its new bulldozer br...

Samsung Display to use waste glass in cement to erect new HQ

South Korea's Samsung Display will use recycled cement using waste glass from the display production process to build a new headquarters.The company...

Ransomware attacks targeting S.Korean companies on sharp rise

Global hacker groups' ransomware attacks against domestic companies and organizations in the first quarter of this year have been revealed to total ...

S.Korea's Kainos Medicine exports AIDS treatment technology to China

South Korean new drug developer Kainos Medicine Inc. announced on Friday that it had signed a technology transfer agreement with Chinese pharmaceuti...

Samsung Heavy forms int'l consortium to make nuclear plants at sea

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Denmark's Seaborg Technologies on Friday announced their...

S.Korean firms applies for record-high 76,592 patents abroad in 2022

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) on Thursday said the number of patents filed overseas by domestic companies last year set a record-hi...