Hyundai E&C to commercialize CCS for the first time in S.Korea

Hyundai E&C to commercialize CCS for the first time in S.Korea

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced that it has won the contract for the preliminary front-end engineering and design (Pr...

EV9 SUV to be Kia’s 1st EV assembled in US

EV9 SUV to be Kia’s 1st EV assembled in US

Kia Corp. will spend over $200 million to transform part of its assembly plant in the US state of Georgia to manufacture its second all-electric SUV...

LG Electronics aims to transform into platform-based tech firm by 2030

LG Electronics aims to transform into platform-based tech firm by 2030

When LG Electronics Inc. made a surprise move to ungracefully exit the mobile phone business, one of its mainstay businesses, two years ago, investo...

SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups

SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups

SK Telecom Co. and Hana Financial Group are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). They are jointly fosteri...

Hanwha Solutions, SK D&D team up for hydrogen fuel cell, solar power

Hanwha Solutions, SK D&D team up for hydrogen fuel cell, solar power

South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp. and SK D&D have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly pursue hydrogen fuel cell...

Korea revives nuclear power for its 2024-2038 energy plan

Korea revives nuclear power for its 2024-2038 energy plan

South Korea is slated to bring forward action steps on its power supply plan for the 2024-2038 period, with a possibility to review building more nu...

CJ Logistics revamps itself into tech-based company

CJ Logistics revamps itself into tech-based company

South Korea’s CJ Logistics on Monday said it has revamped its internal organization that it had maintained since its foundation in 1930. ...

S.Korea’s SKC seeks to sell fine ceramic business for $307 mn

S.Korea’s SKC seeks to sell fine ceramic business for $307 mn

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemicals maker, is seeking to sell its fine ceramic business for an estimated 400 billion won ($307 million) as the unit o...

Hyundai Motor chairman visits Intel, seeking stable supply of chips

Hyundai Motor chairman visits Intel, seeking stable supply of chips

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun toured Intel Corp.’s Leixlip Campus in County Kildare, Ireland last week to check out the latest tec...

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

All construction work at a battery joint venture in Canada between South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and multinational automaker Stellanti...

SK Bioscience, Thai’s GPO to jointly boost vaccine infrastructure

SK Bioscience, Thai’s GPO to jointly boost vaccine infrastructure

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MO...

Kia’s Gwangju auto plant gears up for 2nd heyday with EVs

Kia’s Gwangju auto plant gears up for 2nd heyday with EVs

GWANGJU, South Jeolla Province -- Kia Corp.'s plant in Gwangju, about 270 kilometers south of Seoul, bustled with workers and cars, including its be...

Lotte Energy Materials aspires to become copper foil leader: CEO

Lotte Energy Materials aspires to become copper foil leader: CEO

South Korea’s Lotte Energy Materials Corp. said on Tuesday that growing demand for reasonably priced electric vehicles will expand the market ...

S.Korea's Wrtn integrates Google's latest LLM PaLM 2

S.Korea's Wrtn integrates Google's latest LLM PaLM 2

South Korean generative AI startup Wrtn Technologies announced on Tuesday that it has integrated Google's latest PaLM 2 non-English language model i...

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International on Sunday said it officially declared its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 to b...

S.Korea’s mattress maker Zinus launches premium product line

S.Korea’s mattress maker Zinus launches premium product line

South Korean furniture and mattress maker Zinus Inc., an affiliate of Hyundai Department Store Group, has started a premium mattress line.The compan...

SK Telecom adds ChatGPT-based services to A Dot

SK Telecom adds ChatGPT-based services to A Dot

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Friday that it has completely revamped the user experience (UX) and added ChatT, based on ChatGPT, to allo...

Genie Music launches AI-based arrangement service

Genie Music launches AI-based arrangement service

Genie Music, the music production and distribution affiliate of South Korea’s KT Corp., has launched an arrangement service for digital music ...

Hanwha TotalEnergies completes building POE pilot plant

Hanwha TotalEnergies completes building POE pilot plant

Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., a South Korean joint venture between Hanwha Group and TotalEnergies, announced on Thursday that it has compl...

Doosan inks $214 mn deal for Korea combined cycle power plant

Doosan inks $214 mn deal for Korea combined cycle power plant

Major South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. won a 280 billion won ($214.5 million) deal to supply key components such as a gas tu...

Hancom, POSCO DX pursue robotic process automation solutions

Hancom, POSCO DX pursue robotic process automation solutions

South Korea’s office suite software maker Hancom and engineering and information and communications technology service provider POSCO DX will ...

LG CNS develops AI coding solution based on ChatGPT

LG CNS develops AI coding solution based on ChatGPT

LG CNS, the information technology service arm of LG Group, announced on Wednesday that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based code ...

Korea’s KHNP wins project for tritium removal plant in Romania

Korea’s KHNP wins project for tritium removal plant in Romania

State-backed Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has won a €200 million order to build a tritium removal facility (TRF) at a nuclear pow...

S.Korea's Naver Webtoon to expand IP-based operations

S.Korea's Naver Webtoon to expand IP-based operations

South Korea's Naver Webtoon is selling its online intellectual property (IP)-based webtoon products on the offline market to expand its webtoon IP o...

Hyundai Engineering's petrochemical plant in Poland starts pilot output

Hyundai Engineering's petrochemical plant in Poland starts pilot output

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering has started pilot small-scale output ahead of mass production at its petrochemical plant in Poland.  ...

LG Innotek to spend $1 bn to double Vietnam output capacity

LG Innotek to spend $1 bn to double Vietnam output capacity

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co., a major camera module supplier for Apple iPhones, is set to invest $1 billion in Vietnam to more than double its...

Vestas to relocate Asia-Pacific HQ to Seoul in September

Vestas to relocate Asia-Pacific HQ to Seoul in September

Denmark-based Vestas, the world's top wind turbine manufacturer, is set to move its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters from Singapore to South Korea...

Hyundai Motor, Kia surpass 10mn global connected car subscribers

Hyundai Motor, Kia surpass 10mn global connected car subscribers

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Monday that the global number of subscribers to the connected car services of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp, first...

HD KSOE breaks ground on marine engine plant in Saudi Arabia

HD KSOE breaks ground on marine engine plant in Saudi Arabia

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) said on Sunday its joint venture Makeen has broken ground on a marine engine plant in Saudi ...

SK Pharmteco opens 2nd biomanufacturing plant in France

SK Pharmteco opens 2nd biomanufacturing plant in France

SK Pharmteco Co., South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has secured a second plant ...

S.Korea’s leading ERP player Douzone Bizon up for sale; EQT Partners in talks MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field required GEPS taps former KB Asset chief risk officer as new CIO Affinity Equity nets $220 mn from block sale of Shinhan Financial F&F’s bid for TaylorMade complicates Centroid's exit