S.Korea's KT CS reports record sales in 2022

On Friday, KT Corp.'s customer service unit, KT CS, announced that its sales revenue for the previous year reached a record high of 591.6 billion wo...

S.Korea's Hwajin Medical gets FDA sales approval for syringes

HLB Therapeutics Co. announced Thursday that Sofjec, a syringe produced by its subsidiary Hwajin Medical, has been approved for sale by the US Food ...

AI medical software company Lunit to open subsidiary in Europe

South Korea's Lunit, an artificial intelligence (AI) medical software company, on Friday said its board meeting held on the previous day decided to ...

LG Chem invests $75 million in Piedmont Lithium, signs supply deal

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemicals maker, said on Friday it is acquiring a 6% stake in Piedmont Lithium Inc., a US mining company, ...

SK Shieldus introduces EDR-specialized control, analysis services

South Korea's IT security service firm SK Shieldus made an announcement on Thursday that they will be providing control and operation, investigation...

Igaworks partners with Vietnam’s Clever Group to supply data platform

South Korean big data platform company Igaworks said on Thursday it has signed a contract and strategic alliance deal with Vietnam’s largest m...

S.Korea's battery industry looks for staff fluent in European languages

South Korea's battery companies are seeking human resources fluent in the languages and familiar with the cultures of countries where plants are loc...

POSCO affiliates mull name changes to represent green push

South Korean steel giant POSCO Group is considering changing the name of some of its affiliates in a move to rebrand them as sustainable materials a...

LG Elec places GuideBot in museums to improve viewing accessibility

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Thursday that the LG CLOi GuideBot "Qi" will be deployed as a curator at both the Gongju National Museum and Nation...

Samsung C&T to cancel $2.3 bn worth of treasury shares, stocks up

Samsung C&T Corp.’s share price zoomed on Thursday on news that the company will cancel its entire treasury stock holdings worth about 2.9...

LG Energy Solution joins global climate disclosure initiative

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Wednesday that it has become the first domestic battery maker to endorse the Task Force o...

POSCO Int'l's pharmaceutical biz in Sudan attains No. 2 market ranking

A pharmaceutical company in Sudan set up by South Korea's POSCO International to find business opportunities in and make social contributions to the...

Hyundai Motor units mull dropping 'Hyundai' from company names

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group is considering dropping the word “Hyundai” from the names of its subsidiaries such as auto parts...

SK Ecoplant enters bioenergy sector with waste-to-fuel tech

South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. will supply fuel made from the conversion of food waste.The company on Thursday said it entered the bioenergy market a...

SK Biopharm holds sales meeting for marketing Cenobamate in US

On Wednesday, SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. announced that its US subsidiary, SK Life Sciences Inc., held a "National Sales Meeting" in San Diego. The p...

KAI expects 2023 sales to grow by a third, driven by fighter jets

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, said on Wednesday it aims to achieve 3.83 trillion w...

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

James Kim, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM), is joining South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co....

Vaxcell-Bio, Cellid sign MOU to build cancer immunotherapy platform

Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics, a South Korean company specializing in anti-cancer immunotherapy, announced on Wednesday its partnership with Cellid Co. t...

NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

South Korea's NHN Cloud announced on Wednesday that it had become a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP), which is a partner program created...

Hyundai Transys bolsters ESG fair trade compliance program

Hyundai Transys, an auto parts unit of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it is enhancing its voluntary fair trade compliance program ...

Hyundai Steel co-hosts symposium on low-carbon construction materials

Hyundai Steel has joined hands with the construction industry to increase the recycling of steel byproducts.On Tuesday, the steel maker organized a ...

EOFlow's insulin injection pump starts to be sold in UAE

South Korea's medical device maker EOFlow Co. started selling the wearable insulin pump EOPatch in the United Arab Emirates.The company said on Tues...

Hyundai Green Food breaks $1.5 billion in sales for first time in 2022

Hyundai Green Food Co., an affiliate of Hyundai Department Store Group, saw its main business unit of food surpass 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in ...

Kakao Mobility fined $20 million over unfair taxi-hailing service

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, has been fined 25.7 billion won ($20.3 million) for discriminating agai...

LG Energy Solution tops global EV battery market excluding China

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. for the second straight year was No. 1 on the global market for electric vehicle (EV) batteries excluding Chin...

Hanjin converts Indonesian representative office to corporation

Hanjin Transportation said Tuesday that it had converted its representative office in Jakarta, Indonesia, into a corporation last month to strengthe...

Hyundai Capital wins IAAI Award for pioneering AI application

Hyundai Capital, the financial services arm of the Hyundai Motor Group, was honored with the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Awar...

Zigbang signs agreement with Saudi's National Housing Company

On Monday, South Korean proptech company Zigbang announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia's National Housing Company with the goal of digitalizing ...

S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia

South Korea's heating systems manufacturer Kyung Dong Navien Co. held a conference for 100 local dealers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Feb. 10.The con...

Responsible mineral sourcing key to Korean battery materials makers

South Korea’s battery materials makers are stepping up their efforts to conform to environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards throug...