Korean biodiesel firm Dansuk sets sights on battery recycling business

Korean biodiesel firm Dansuk sets sights on battery recycling business

KUNSAN, North Jeolla Province – Dansuk Industrial Co., a South Korean fine chemical company, has for decades produced polyvinyl chloride (PVC)...

KT to open medical checkup center in Hanoi, Vietnam

KT to open medical checkup center in Hanoi, Vietnam

South Korea's KT Corp. next year will launch a medical checkup center in Hanoi, Vietnam, under a strategy to advance its digital healthcare business...

Lotte Chemical projects recovery in Q2 after 4th consecutive loss in Q1

Lotte Chemical projects recovery in Q2 after 4th consecutive loss in Q1

Lotte Chemical Corp. suffered its fourth consecutive operating loss in the first quarter due to a prolonged petrochemical slowdown amid the global e...

Samsung Electronics to open flagship store in Seoul's Gangnam district

Samsung Electronics to open flagship store in Seoul's Gangnam district

Samsung Electronics Co. in late June will open its new flagship store Samsung Gangnam near Gangnam Station, a posh area of Seoul.Sources from the in...

Hyundai’s quantum leap: how it shines through in crisis

Hyundai’s quantum leap: how it shines through in crisis

Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. are slated to log a combined 150 million units of car sales this month. The carmakers of Hyundai Motor...

Hyosung’s sibling feud continues with second son in court on trial

Hyosung’s sibling feud continues with second son in court on trial

It all began in July 2014 when Cho Hyun-joon, currently the Hyosung Group chairman, was sued by his younger brother Cho Hyun-moon on charges of embe...

Celltrion applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in Europe for biosimilar

Celltrion applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in Europe for biosimilar

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. is speeding up global clinical trials of its biosimilar of the multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment Ocrevus (active ...

CJ CheilJedang launches Cuisine.K project

 CJ CheilJedang launches Cuisine.K project

South Korea's largest food company CJ CheilJedang Corp., announced on Tuesday the launch of "Cuisine.K," a project aimed at discovering and nurturin...

Kakao Healthcare teams up with US digital, biohealth firms

Kakao Healthcare teams up with US digital, biohealth firms

Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Group, has teamed up with US digital and health companies such as DexCom...

Samsung bets on H2 recovery with heavy spending after record chip losses

Samsung bets on H2 recovery with heavy spending after record chip losses

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday reported its worst quarterly loss for its semiconductor business, but echoed the widely held industry view that ...

CG Bio establishes US corporation to develop tissue products

CG Bio establishes US corporation to develop tissue products

South Korean bio-regenerative medical firm CG Bio has launched a new US corporation CG MedTech, to focus on the development and marketing of tissue ...

Samsung faces $303 mn jury verdict in memory patent lawsuit in US

Samsung faces $303 mn jury verdict in memory patent lawsuit in US

Samsung Electronics Co. lost a semiconductor patent infringement lawsuit filed in the US. The South Korean company received a jury verdict to pay ab...

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

South Korean anti-cancer immunotherapy company Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics announced on Friday that its natural killer (NK) cell therapy, Vax-NK/HCC, h...

S.Korea’s Musinsa sees sales grow 54% in 2022 to $537 mn

S.Korea’s Musinsa sees sales grow 54% in 2022 to $537 mn

South Korea’s online fashion platform Musinsa saw sales last year surge over 50% to break the 700 billion won ($537.7 million) mark, though op...

Shinsegae supports int'l expansion of S.Korea's promising fashion brands

Shinsegae supports int'l expansion of S.Korea's promising fashion brands

South Korea's Shinsegae Department Store has launched activities to support the overseas expansion of up-and-coming domestic fashion brands. The com...

HLB starts Phase 3 clinical trials for ophthalmic disease treatment in US

HLB starts Phase 3 clinical trials for ophthalmic disease treatment in US

South Korea's pharmaceutical company HLB Therapeutics Co. announced on Thursday that it has started patient administration of "RGN-259," a treatment...

Famed S.Korean pedometer app Cashwalk attracts first investment of $22 million

Famed S.Korean pedometer app Cashwalk attracts first investment of $22 million

Nudge Healthcare, a startup that runs the South Korean health management app Cashwork, on Wednesday said it secured its first investment of 30 billi...

S.Korea fines Google $32 mn for squashing local rival

S.Korea fines Google $32 mn for squashing local rival

South Korea’s antitrust body on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC and its regional arms 42.1 billion won ($32 million) for allege...

JW Pharma to use zebrafish in new drug development

JW Pharma to use zebrafish in new drug development

South Korean drug developer JW Pharmaceutical has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Zefit, a domestic non-clinical trial institu...

Hanwha inks largest supply deal for US community solar biz

Hanwha inks largest supply deal for US community solar biz

South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions Corp. is set to sell 2.5 million modules to US community solar programs through the largest-ever supply deal fo...

LG Energy to build $5.6 billion battery complex in Arizona

LG Energy to build $5.6 billion battery complex in Arizona

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, said on Friday it is investing 7.2 trillion won ($5.6 billion) to build a b...

Kakao Mobility buys UK ride-hailing startup Splyt for global biz

Kakao Mobility buys UK ride-hailing startup Splyt for global biz

South Korea’s Kakao Mobility Corp. said on Wednesday it has acquired the British ride-hailing startup Splyt, marking the first overseas takeov...

Boryung, Axiom Space to set up JV to explore space healthcare options

Boryung, Axiom Space to set up JV to explore space healthcare options

South Korea's Boryung Corp., just decades ago a mom-and-pop pharmacy, will bring its healthcare expertise to space with Axiom Space Inc., a US comme...

S.Korea's FutureChem gets approval for phase 3 clinical trials in China

S.Korea's FutureChem gets approval for phase 3 clinical trials in China

South Korean radiopharmaceutical development company FutureChem Co. announced on Thursday that China's National Medical Products Administration (NMP...

S.Korea's budget carriers seek expansion via more overseas flights

S.Korea's budget carriers seek expansion via more overseas flights

South Korea's budget carrier Jeju Air Co. on Thursday announced the resumption of flights connecting Incheon to the Vietnamese cities of Ho Chi Minh...

Kakao, HYBE shares rally on reconciliation but SM shares tank

Kakao, HYBE shares rally on reconciliation but SM shares tank

Investors welcomed the end of a fierce month-long battle between HYBE Co. and Kakao Corp. over control of South Korea’s K-pop pioneer SM Enter...

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality, a hospitality tech company that provides digital solutions for the hotel and tourism industry, said on Tuesday that it has rebrande...

OliX's hair loss treatment candidate approved for clinical trial in Australia

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...

GC Biopharma to develop mRNA flu vaccine with Canadian pharma

GC Biopharma to develop mRNA flu vaccine with Canadian pharma

South Korea's GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Thursday that it will start developing a flu vaccine based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA).The dr...

Korea's SK Telecom jointly develops AI patrol robots

Korea's SK Telecom jointly develops AI patrol robots

SK Telecom Co., along with its partner firms, will develop artificial intelligence (AI) robots that will replace security guards patrolling around s...

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