Naver integrates points program with Samsung Pay

The online money and points of South Korea's Naver Pay, an affiliate of the country's largest web portal Naver Corp., can now be used at offline sto...

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...

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...

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...

Hyundai E&C, Naver Cloud to develop futuristic healthy housing model

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) on Thursday announced its signing of a deal with Naver Cloud on cooperation in the de...

Naver’s 'Cue:' throws down the gauntlet to MS Bing Chat

Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant web portal operator, on Wednesday launched a beta service of its new generative artificial intelligence te...

Naver Smart Store's 100 mn won club reaches 45,000 members

Around 45,000 sellers on South Korea's Naver Smart Store as of June raked in annual sales of 100 million won ($72,250) or more, or 7.9% of the overa...

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...

Naver Pay to be available at all Alipay merchants in China

Naver Pay, the simple payment service of South Korea's Naver Financial, announced on Tuesday that it will start offering Naver Pay Money and Point Q...

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...

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 ...

Naver, Hotel Shilla to collaborate for AI and cloud

South Korean leading luxury hotel and retail operator Hotel Shilla has entered into a strategic partnership with internet giant Naver Corp. The coll...

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...

SK E&S signs PPA agreement with Iljin Group affiliates

South Korea's SK E&S announced on Friday that it has entered into a direct power purchase agreement (PPA) with Iljin Global and Bearing Art, bot...

SK Ecoplant to build data center linked to landing station in Pohang

South Korea's SK Ecoplant is set to establish, for the first time in South Korea, a global data center linked to a landing station in Pohang, North ...

SK Rent-a-Car to replace internal combustion engine cars with EVs

SK Rent-a-Car plans to overhaul its existing fleet of internal combustion engine vehicles in favor of electric cars. The company aims to capitalize ...

SK C&C, Yonsei Univ. to develop digital manufacturing experts

South Korea's digital solutions provider SK C&C will open a master’s degree program at Yonsei University in Seoul to develop experts in di...

SK Group, NPS may exercise put option on Masan without gain

South Korean institutional investors, including SK Group and National Pension Service (NPS), are likely to only recover their principal without prof...

SK Broadband launches hybrid quantum security service

South Korean internet service provider SK Broadband on Tuesday said it launched the country’s first dedicated line service that supports the o...

SK Nexilis inks $1.5 bn copper foil deal with Envision AESC

SK Nexilis Co. has signed a 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) contract to supply copper foil, a core material in electric vehicle cells, to Chinese seco...

SK Enmove CEO sees future of lubricants in electric cars

South Korea’s lubricating oil maker SK Enmove Co. is setting its sights on electric vehicle lubricants and liquid coolants for thermal managem...

Naver raises S.Korean market lead thanks to LLM HyperCLOVA X

South Korea’s leading web portal Naver Corp. has raised its domestic market share, which plummeted to the mid-50% range in May, thanks to Hype...