SK Ecoplant, Ascend Elements in $66 mn US battery recycling JV deal

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management firm, and its two overseas affiliates are launching a $65.8 million ba...

NeoCannBio completes $7.4 mn series B funding

South Korea's NeoCannBio, a medical cannabis startup backed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), announced on Tuesday that it ha...

SK E&S, Honeywell UOP to capture carbon from LNG plants

SK E&S Co., a clean energy unit of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, and Honeywell UOP, a US major refining and petrochemical tec...

HD Hyundai, POSCO to team up for unmanned technology

South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a business agreement with POSCO Group for the development of unmanned technolog...

POSCO, Bartlett to set up grain procurement joint venture

South Korea’s POSCO International Corp. plans to invest in Bartlett and Company’s soybean processing company within the year and set up ...

Samsung C&T invests $11 mn in construction robot venture

South Korean construction and engineering company Samsung C&T Corp. has invested 15 billion won ($11.2 million) in the construction robot startu...

S.Korea’s SK Earthon starts oil production in South China

SK Earthon Co., the resources development subsidiary of South Korea’s top energy company SK Innovation Co., began crude production at an oil f...

SK Telecom to commercialize UAM with American partner

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will launch domestic commercial operations in urban air mobility (UAM) with Joby Aviation, a Santa Cruz, California-b...

S.Korean startups, VC seek money, business opportunities in Japan

South Korean startups and venture capitalists battered by chilled investor sentiment amid rising interest rates and slowing economic growth at home ...

Samsung Welstory to develop corporate healthcare menu

South Korean food and beverage (F&B) company Samsung Welstory has teamed up with Kangbuk Samsung Hospital to develop business-to-business (B2B) ...

SK Ecoplant to supply AI-based incinerator tech to Malaysia

South Korea's energy, construction and engineering corporation SK Ecoplant on Friday said it signed a contract with Cenviro, Malaysia's largest publ...

Cultivated meat, carbon capture on center stage at D.Day

Simple Planet, a South Korean biotech startup developing sustainable food technologies, has won this month’s startup pitch day held jointly by...

SK Chemicals to sell pharmaceutical unit to Glenwood PE

SK Chemicals Co., a South Korean plastic materials producer, is in exclusive talks with Seoul-based Glenwood Private Equity to sell its pharmaceutic...

Upstage to create interactive chatbot for virtual idols

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with M...

SK becomes top shareholder of US contract drug maker CBM

SK Pharmteco Co., a South Korean contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), said on Wednesday it has secured management rights of t...

SK Chemicals, Lovere to recycle waste plastic in China

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Lovere, a leading recycling business...

SW based on Hancom's tech released in Taiwan

South Korea's office suite software maker Hancom Inc. on Monday said it has released Kdan Office, the Taiwanese office software co-developed with gl...

Netflix, S.Korea’s SK Broadband to settle longstanding legal dispute

Netflix Inc., the world’s top streaming service, and SK Broadband Co., South Korea’s No. 2 internet service provider, said on Monday tha...

SK Hynix tests new AI hardware on Meta’s generative AI model

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has unveiled a new memory chip-based device that boo...

SK Chairman Chey vows to turn Ulsan into green energy, AI hub

Chey Tae-won, chairman of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, has vowed to turn the industrial city of Ulsan, where SK’s...

Krafton, Naver eye Overdare as S.Korea's answer to Roblox

South Korea's game company Krafton Inc. and Naver Z, a metaverse unit of the country’s portal giant Naver Corp. on Thursday said they will u...

SK Ecoplant, S.Korean startup to recycle waste fishing nets in SE Asia

South Korea’s top waste management company SK Ecoplant has joined forces with Netspa, a Busan-based startup for recycling waste fishing nets, ...

SK Enpulse to sell off chip processing units in China

SK Enpulse Co., a South Korean semiconductor part and equipment maker, said on Wednesday it will sell off its chip pre-manufacturing processing unit...

SK C&C to provide corporate employee healthcare

South Korea’s SK C&C on Tuesday signed an agreement to offer employee healthcare management programs to companies with digital healthcare ...

Korea’s fertility startups gain traction with advanced technologies

South Korea’s fertility startups are garnering attention from investors with innovative technologies such as self-testing of ovarian health, s...

Celltrion builds clinical data bank for new biosimilars

The use of data and computing is a new paradigm in the biopharmaceutical industry, reducing the new drug development time and cost, Celltrion Inc. C...

SK Telecom's solution slashes cloud operating costs up to 40%

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. on Monday said it launched an optimization solution based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that slashes cloud operating cos...

SK Forest, NH Securities to cut CO2 emissions in East Timor

South Korea’s SK Forest Co. and NH Investment & Securities on Friday held a launching ceremony for their joint supply of high-efficiency c...

POSCO Holdings to strengthen collaboration with SNU

South Korea's POSCO Holdings Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for comprehensive industry-academia collaboration with Seoul National U...

Hanwha sees higher odds of winning Poland submarine deal

South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean Co. appears to be a step closer to winning a 3.2 trillion won ($2.4 billion) Polish order for submarines, after a s...