SK Bioscience to export $51 bn flu vaccine to Thailand

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with Thailand's state-owned G...

Doosan Enerbility to produce aviation gas turbine with ADD

South Korea’s power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Monday that it signed a contract with the Agency for Defense Development ...

WeMade partners with three companies for WEMIX Play onboarding

South Korea's game developer and publisher WeMade Co. announced on Friday that it has signed onboarding agreements with several domestic and interna...

CJ CheilJedang, Kakao Healthcare sign business agreement

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Friday that it has signed a business agreement with Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare...

JW Pharma gets OK for phase 3 clinical trials of URC102 in Taiwan

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical has won approval from Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) to conduct phase 3 clinical trials for its gout t...

SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has joined hands with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, to expand its Web3 ecosystem.Both compa...

Baby Shark to be aired in Indonesia through RTV

South Korea's The Pinkfong Company, popularly known for its "Baby Shark" character, recently inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with RTV, Ind...

SK Biopharm to export epilepsy drug tech to Middle Eastern firm

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals announced on Friday a strategic tie-up with Hikma MENA FZE, marking the introduction of its new epilepsy medicat...

Aekyung AGE20's picks local model in Vietnam

Aekyung Industrial Co. 's flagship cosmetic brand AGE20's announced on Thursday that it has selected Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien, who is active in various...

Amorepacific gets certification for memory-enhancing ingredients

South Korea's Amorepacific Corp. announced on Thursday that it has received New Excellent Technology (NET) certification from the Ministry of Agricu...

HMM wins top ESG rating among global shipping companies

South Korea’s No. 1 container transportation and shipping service HMM Co. has secured the premier position in global shipping for its environm...

NCSOFT gears up to take on Naver, Kakao for AI language model

NCSOFT Corp. has unveiled a large-scale Korean language model as the first South Korean game developer to advance into the local-language generative...

SK Telecom to host global AI hackathon in Seoul with OpenAI

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will hold next month an artificial intelligence contest with OpenAI, the American information and communications techno...

Brokerages cut E-Mart’s share price target after disappointing Q2

South Korea’s largest hypermarket chain E-Mart Inc., a unit of domestic retail giant Shinsegae Group, on Wednesday posted disappointing second...

Samsung C&T sells 150-MW solar power project in US

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. on Wednesday said its US-based green energy affiliate Samsung C&T Renewables sold a project for construction...

Hyundai Steel further scales back on Chinese operations

South Korea’s Hyundai Steel Co. has sold its subsidiary in Chongqing, China to further scale back Chinese operations as it loses ground to low...

Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm

South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments announced its acquisition of Stockspot, a prominent Australian robo-advisor specialist.In a statement r...

Binggrae’s overseas exports soar to record in H1 2023

South Korean food and beverage company Binggrae reported a 27% year-on-year leap in overseas exports, hitting 77.5 billion won ($57.8 million) in th...

Korean C&R Research to set up US, Thai units for global biz

C&R Research Inc., South Korea’s top contract research organization (CRO), plans to establish units in the US and Thailand this year while...

Tokio Marine seeks to sell SE Asia units to S.Korean companies

Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. is seeking to sell its units in Southeast Asia for $1 billion to major South Korean companies looking fo...

Falling mineral prices to hit Korean battery materials makers

South Korean battery materials makers are likely to report worsened profitability in the third quarter of this year as prices of lithium hydroxide a...

Korean game market needs new titles for breakthrough

South Korean game developers are struggling to revive gamers’ interest without releasing new blockbuster titles to fill the big shoes left by ...

Cosmax opens Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's biggest cosmetics maker using original design manufacturing (ODM), has opened Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China. ...

SK invests $100 mn in ChatGPT developer's rival Anthropic

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. said on Sunday it has invested $100 million in the US startup Anthropic, a ChatGPT rival artificial intelligence ...

Taihan Cable posts highest first-half operating profit in 20 years

South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Friday that its consolidated operating profit for the first half of this year reached 41....

S.Korea's Nongshim earns H1 operating profit of $89 million

South Korean food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. saw operating profit in the first half of the year more than double thanks to strong instant noodl...

S.Korea's Twelve Labs ranks among world's top 50 generative AI startups

South Korea’s Twelve Labs was included as the only Korean company in CB Insights’ first annual GenAI 50 ranking, a list of the world&rsq...

Samsung’s latest Galaxy smartphones, watches hit global markets

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest models of its flagship Galaxy series of smartphones, watches and tablets have begun hitting the shelves of the comp...

S.Korea's Hanon Systems hits 'home run' with heat pump for EVs

Hanon Systems, a leading South Korean maker of automotive thermal management systems, posted surprising results in the second quarter in blowing awa...

Hyundai Steel develops industrial neutron analyzer jointly with startup

Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's second-largest steelmaker, announced on Thursday that it has successfully collaborated with the in-house startup 3I...