Una Stella secures $4.4 mn pre-Series A funding

Una Stella secures $4.4 mn pre-Series A funding

South Korean start-up Una Stella announced on Monday that it has secured 5.5 billion won ($4.4 million) in pre-Series A funding, led by Strong Ventu...

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 ele...

POSCO gets nod for battery technology transfer to overseas plants

POSCO gets nod for battery technology transfer to overseas plants

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Co., on Thursday won government approval to transfer technology to its overseas...

Silicon Valley, Korean startups’ choice for global business

Silicon Valley, Korean startups’ choice for global business

Silicon Valley was the favorite place for South Korean startups for their global business as more of them were established in other countries for th...

POSCO turns to red in Q4 on typhoon, weak steel demand

POSCO turns to red in Q4 on typhoon, weak steel demand

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s top steelmaker, turned to the red in the fourth quarter of 2022 hit by a typhoon and...

POSCO’s Pohang steel mill fully recovers from typhoon damage

POSCO’s Pohang steel mill fully recovers from typhoon damage

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, said on Thursday all its steelmaking facilities hit by Typhoon H...

Kia to break ground on new Korean EV plant in March

Kia to break ground on new Korean EV plant in March

Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is set to break ground in March on a domestic factory to produce electric purpose-built vehicles (PB...

LG Energy, Honda to build $4.4 billion battery plant in Ohio

LG Energy, Honda to build $4.4 billion battery plant in Ohio

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. have launched their first US joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio, LG said o...

POSCO Chemical moves into activated carbon business

POSCO Chemical moves into activated carbon business

POSCO Chemical Co. will join hands with Dong-Suh Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. to move into the activated carbon business, an eco-friendly material f...

POSCO opens first overseas venture incubating office in Silicon Valley

POSCO opens first overseas venture incubating office in Silicon Valley

POSCO Group said on Wednesday that it has opened the first overseas office of ChangeUp Ground in Silicon Valley in the US.ChangeUp Ground is a start...

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO International Co., a trading arm of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Co., will build a palm oil refining plant in Indonesia to foray into...

POSCO to issue up to $553 million in unsecured bonds

POSCO to issue up to $553 million in unsecured bonds

South Korea's top steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc. is expected to issue won-denominated unsecured bonds worth up to 700 billion won ($553.9 million) t...

S.Korea Inc. ramps up cash reserves amid economic woes

S.Korea Inc. ramps up cash reserves amid economic woes

South Korean companies are rushing to raise cash from the beginning of the new year amid growing concerns over a global economic downturn and market...

POSCO Int’l completes merger with energy affiliate

POSCO Int’l completes merger with energy affiliate

South Korea’s POSCO International Co. completed a merger with its affiliate POSCO Energy Co. on Jan. 1, which the trading company said would f...

Digital wallet Klip sees its subscriber number surpass 2 million

Digital wallet Klip sees its subscriber number surpass 2 million

Ground X, Kakao Corp.'s blockchain technology subsidiary, said on Monday that the number of cumulative subscribers to its digital asset wallet "Klip...

POSCO Gwangyang Works obtains green data center certificiation

POSCO Gwangyang Works obtains green data center certificiation

POSCO Gwangyang Works, one of the two pillar steel mills of POSCO Holdings Inc. together with Pohang Works, obtained a Green Data Center Bronze Grad...

Hanwha takes over satellite technology from gov't institute

Hanwha takes over satellite technology from gov't institute

The state-run Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) said on Monday it had transferred to Hanwha Systems Co. the technology for satellit...

POSCO restarts key hot rolling mill at typhoon-hit plant

POSCO restarts key hot rolling mill at typhoon-hit plant

POSCO, the world’s sixth-largest steelmaker, resumed operations of a key hot rolling mill at a typhoon-hit plant in South Korea earlier than e...

S.Korea's e-commerce platform Plugo secures $9 million in investment

S.Korea's e-commerce platform Plugo secures $9 million in investment

South Korea's Plugo, a comprehensive e-commerce platform based in Singapore, has attracted $9 million in Series A investment, the Silicon Valley, Ca...

Daewoo Shipbuilding, POSCO jointly develop new materials

Daewoo Shipbuilding, POSCO jointly develop new materials

South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) and steelmaker POSCO have joined forces to develop new materials.DSME on Wedne...

POSCO, Malaysia’s Petros to join forces on carbon capture business

POSCO, Malaysia’s Petros to join forces on carbon capture business

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, said on Monday it has joined forces with Malaysia’s ener...

SK On-Ford Motor EV battery joint venture breaks ground in Kentucky

SK On-Ford Motor EV battery joint venture breaks ground in Kentucky

NEW YORK – SK On Co., a leading South Korean battery maker, and Ford Motor Co. have begun building their multi-billion-dollar joint venture in...

POSCO wins $689 mn battery material deal with GM-LG joint venture

POSCO wins $689 mn battery material deal with GM-LG joint venture

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Dec. 5 that it has signed a $688.6 million deal to provide a key...

Hanwha Systems completes training center for Philippine Navy

Hanwha Systems completes training center for Philippine Navy

Hanwha Systems Co. on Friday said it held a ceremony the day before to mark its completion of a combat system training center for the Philippine Nav...

Industrial Bank of Korea provides Silicon Valley-style financing for startups

Industrial Bank of Korea provides Silicon Valley-style financing for startups

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) on Friday launched the IBK Venture Loan, which provides bridge loans to promising startups struggling to borrow funds...

POSCO’s Pohang workers to leave umbrella steel union group

POSCO’s Pohang workers to leave umbrella steel union group

One of two labor unions at Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO will leave its umbrella group, the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU), follo...

KDB reaches out to Hyundai, POSCO, CJ, LX on HMM stake sale

KDB reaches out to Hyundai, POSCO, CJ, LX on HMM stake sale

State-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has contacted major conglomerates including Hyundai Motor Group about the sale of its stake in HMM Co., the c...

POSCO Chemical completes world's largest cathode materials plant

POSCO Chemical completes world's largest cathode materials plant

POSCO Chemical will soon launch operations at its newly completed factory for cathode materials, the biggest of its kind in the world with an annual...

POSCO International to invest $2.6 billion in energy operations

POSCO International to invest $2.6 billion in energy operations

Korea's POSCO International, the trading arm of POSCO Group, on Friday formally merged with POSCO Energy, which handles liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...

North Korea Barrages south with missiles; South Korea swiftly responds

North Korea Barrages south with missiles; South Korea swiftly responds

SEOUL—North Korea unleashed its biggest barrage in years, firing nearly two dozen missiles, including one that flew south of its disputed mari...

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