KT pursues digitalization of health care with ezCaretech
South Korea's KT Corp. on Friday said it will jointly enter the health care sector with electronics health records company ezCaretech.Both companies...
S.Korea to see 240K drop in number of manufacturing workers by 2032
The number of workers in South Korea's manufacturing sector is expected to drop by 240,000 over the next 10 years, a report says, caused by the decl...
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...
POSCO, three telcos to build communication systems against disasters
South Korean steel giant POSCO said on Friday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with three domestic telecommunications companie...
Kolmar BNH gets approval for health functional food ingredient in US
Kolmar BNH Co. has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a domestically developed health functional food ingredient.K...
Samsung unveils HealthStack at US healthcare tech exhibition
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that it will showcase Samsung HealthStack ver. 1.0 at the "2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Ex...
KT launches AI-based email security solution to combat APT attacks
KT Corp. said on Tuesday that it has unveiled an email security solution based on artificial intelligence (AI) advanced persistent threat (APT) anal...
S.Korea sees release of generic diabetes drugs after Forxiga patent expires
South Korea's pharmaceutical companies are competing to sell generic drugs to raise their presence on the domestic market for diabetes treatment wit...
S. Korean food company Ottogi opens new research center
South Korean food company Ottogi Co. has announced on Friday the opening of the food safety science research institute at its Ottogi Research Center...
S.Korea to allow actual construction of hydrogen-powered ship
South Korea's the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on Wednesday that it has established "tentative standards for ship hydrogen fuel cell e...
Drug instructions to be provided via QR codes, URLs in S.Korea
South Korea's the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on Friday that it had revised the "Risk Management Plan (RMP) Guidelines" to allow for ...
Hugel names ex-CEO of LG Household & Health Care as chairman
South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Hugel Inc. on Friday said it appointed Cha Suk-yong, former CEO and vice chairman of LG Household & Heal...
KT, Amano Korea join hands to develop smart parking solutions
South Korean telecom operator KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a business agreement with parking control system specialist Amano K...
Samsung’s new Exynos chipset enables short-range wireless connectivity
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled a new chipset under its Exynos line that enables much shorter-range wireless con...
LS E-Link partners with Logen to boost EV charging
LS E-Link, a new corporation of South Korea's LS Group that specializes in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and operation, has signed a...
Korea's LifeSemantics establishes health functional food subsidiary
Digital healthcare company LifeSemantics Co. has entered the health functional food business by creating a new subsidiary, NutraSemantics. The South...
OliX's hair loss treatment candidate approved for clinical trial in Australia
South Korea's OliX Pharmaceuticals has received approval from Australia's Human Research Ethics Committees (HREC) to plan a phase 1 clinical trial o...
Kumho Petrochem wins BB rating from MSCI's ESG ratings
Kumho Petrochemical Co. announced on Wednesday that it had received a "BB rating" in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) evaluation by Mo...
Lunit receives $1 mn in tech fees from Guardant Health of US
The US operations of South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) medical company Lunit have received a major boost after the company got the green li...
Korea clears environmental hurdle for new Jeju airport
South Korea’s environment ministry conditionally approved the construction of a new airport on Jeju Island with a 6.7 trillion won ($5.2 billi...
S.Korea's Taekwang Industrial acquires ISO 45001 certification
Taekwang Industrial Co., a textile and petrochemical subsidiary of Taekwang Group, announced on Sunday that it has achieved ISO 45001 certification ...
Lotte Chairman to return to beverage unit's boardroom
Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin is slated to return as an inside director of Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co., the group’s subsidiary and one of...
Hyundai's Namyang R&D Center acquires safety management certification
Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday that the polymer materials analysis lab and the metal component analysis lab in the Basic Materials Research...
Samsung leader eyes solid-state batteries as future growth engine
Samsung Group appears set to up its investment in solid-state batteries, a game changer in the electric vehicle sector, as South Korea’s top c...
SillaJen starts US trial of anti-cancer drug from Basilea
SillaJen Inc. said on Monday it has enrolled the first patient in a US phase 1 trial of an anti-cancer drug BAL0891 licensed from Swiss drugmaker Ba...
Four Hyundai, Kia models win US IIHS top safety awards
Hyundai Motor Group’s four models earned the safest vehicle awards even with a tougher crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safet...
LG Electronics plans sales blitz on US market for induction ranges
LG Electronics Inc. this year has launched an all-out sales offensive for induction ranges and cooktops in the US, the world's leading market for pr...
LG Uplus, Ecorbit to build smart safety solution at waste disposal site
LG Uplus Corp., a South Korean mobile telecom service carrier, announced on Monday that it is deploying a smart safety solution at waste disposal co...
Celltrion's Truxima shows safety, efficacy in post-marketing study
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. reported on Wednesday that its biosimilar drug Truxima (rituximab), a generic version of Roche...
Daesang Wellife signs contract with RexSoft for healthcare platform
South Korea's Daesang Wellife Corp. has inked a 2 billion won ($1.5 million) investment contract with local healthcare data science company RexSoft ...
