Kolon Plastics to make eco-friendly products from marine waste

Kolon Plastics to make eco-friendly products from marine waste

Kolon Plastics Inc. said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with Netspa, a South Korean recycling social venture, to jointly develop enginee...

Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology

Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology

Kakao Impact, a corporate foundation of Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform company, said on Tuesday it has agreed to work with the...

Daewoong Pharma's Fexuclue safe to use with aspirin: Clinical trials

Daewoong Pharma's Fexuclue safe to use with aspirin: Clinical trials

Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., a leading South Korean pharmaceutical company, has announced the successful completion of phase 1 clinical trials for...

SK Ecoplant's Singaporean affiliate, Thailand's No. 2 conglomerate to develop green power

SK Ecoplant's Singaporean affiliate, Thailand's No. 2 conglomerate to develop green power

Singapore's TES, an electronic waste management specialist and subsidiary of South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co., will jointly pursue the development of e...

Korea's Kumho Tire sponsors Touring Car Championship

Korea's Kumho Tire sponsors Touring Car Championship

Kumho Tire Co. announced on Monday its title sponsorship of the Touring Car Championship (TCR), a global touring car competition, with the organizer...

Hyundai Department Store uses AI to write advertising copy

Hyundai Department Store uses AI to write advertising copy

South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Co. on Sunday said it will officially introduce on Thursday an artificial intelligence (AI) copywriting syste...

Hyundai, Kia to join global small EV war with new models

Hyundai, Kia to join global small EV war with new models

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, will aim at the world’s affordable small electric vehicle segments with new models as ...

LG Electronics plans sales blitz on US market for induction ranges

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...

Hanwha Aerospace secures tech to catch illegal drones using nets

Hanwha Aerospace secures tech to catch illegal drones using nets

South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace Co. has secured technology to respond to threats from unmanned aerial vehicles such as drones.The company seeks the a...

Car-sharing platform Humax Mobility begins IPO process

Car-sharing platform Humax Mobility begins IPO process

Humax Mobility, a South Korean car-sharing and parking platform operator, is aiming to become the second mobility service firm to go public in the c...

POSCO Steeleon’s eco-friendly steel plate gets US certification

POSCO Steeleon’s eco-friendly steel plate gets US certification

POSCO Steeleon Co., a South Korean steelmaker and a unit of POSCO Group, said on Wednesday that its biomass color steel plate has been certified as ...

S.Korea's ETRI creates software for faster 5G using small cells

S.Korea's ETRI creates software for faster 5G using small cells

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a non-profit government-funded research institute in South Korea, said on Tuesday ...

Samsung, LG ditch BOE in likely Apple deal for iPad Pro OLED panels

Samsung, LG ditch BOE in likely Apple deal for iPad Pro OLED panels

Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. will likely win orders from Apple Inc. to build organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for the US tech ...

LG Uplus to provide infotainment service for Toyota's RAV4 PHEV

LG Uplus to provide infotainment service for Toyota's RAV4 PHEV

South Korean mobile telecom carrier LG Uplus Corp. has announced on Tuesday its plans to install its integrated infotainment (IVI) platform, the Upl...

Kia participates in IDEX 2023, largest defense exhibition in MENA

Kia participates in IDEX 2023, largest defense exhibition in MENA

On Monday, Kia Corp. announced its participation in IDEX 2023, a defense industry trade show being held at the National Exhibition Center in Abu Dha...

Avikus unveils self-sailing leisure vessel tech NeuBoat at US ship event

Avikus unveils self-sailing leisure vessel tech NeuBoat at US ship event

Avikus, an autonomous ship navigation affiliate of South Korea's shipbuilding, heavy equipment, machine and petroleum giant HD Hyundai Co., on Sunda...

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

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...

LG CNS launches Quinoa crowd research platform

LG CNS launches Quinoa crowd research platform

South Korea's LG CNS, the information technology service subsidiary of LG Group, launched a crowd research platform Quinoa and initiated its service...

Hyundai Elevator's open API sees rapid expansion of participants

Hyundai Elevator's open API sees rapid expansion of participants

Hyundai Elevator Group announced on Tuesday that its open API (application programming interface), which was launched in March last year, has seen r...

Survey reveals consumer preference for hybrid cars over pure EVs

Survey reveals consumer preference for hybrid cars over pure EVs

Although global automakers are ramping up efforts to increase sales of pure electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid models remain the preferred choice among...

Electric vehicles in S.Korea beat diesel cars in sales

Electric vehicles in S.Korea beat diesel cars in sales

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in South Korea last year including hybrids surpassed those of diesel cars for the first time due to the price of di...

LG Electronics, Qualcomm forge ahead in autonomous driving

LG Electronics, Qualcomm forge ahead in autonomous driving

LG Electronics Inc. has joined forces with Qualcomm Technology to enhance collaboration in the fields of autonomous driving and advanced driver assi...

S.Korea to fine German carmakers for alleged R&D collusion

S.Korea to fine German carmakers for alleged R&D collusion

South Korea’s antitrust body has preliminarily decided to impose a combined fine of 42.3 billion won ($33.5 million) on four German automakers...

SK Telecom develops reconfigurable surface tech for 6G transmission

SK Telecom develops reconfigurable surface tech for 6G transmission

SK Telecom Co. on Thursday said it developed the world's first reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology that transmits 6G candidate frequ...

Hyundai's IONIQ 5 named Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 in US

Hyundai's IONIQ 5 named Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 in US

Cars.com, a US automobile evaluation website, named the Hyundai Motor Co.'s IONIQ 5 as the Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 on Tuesday. According to Hy...

SK Ecoplant changes North American corporation name

SK Ecoplant changes North American corporation name

SK Ecoplant Co., a construction company of S.Korea's SK Group, said on Monday that it would change the name of its North American corporation BETEK,...

SeAH begins construction on stainless steel pipe plant in Saudi Arabia

SeAH begins construction on stainless steel pipe plant in Saudi Arabia

SeAH Gulf Special Steel Industries (SGSI), a joint venture between South Korea's SeAH CSS and Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco, has broken ground on a...

S.Korea's top sci-tech school creates cutting-edge anti-drone technology

S.Korea's top sci-tech school creates cutting-edge anti-drone technology

A research team at South Korea's top science and technology university has developed an anti-drone technology that can remotely neutralize a city-in...

Kakao Mobility enters Laos under biz strategy for Southeast Asia

Kakao Mobility enters Laos under biz strategy for Southeast Asia

South Korea's Kakao Mobility has entered Laos under a plan to use the country as a base for the transportation company's operations in Southeast Asi...

LG Elec eyes profit from EV powertrain, car lighting biz

LG Elec eyes profit from EV powertrain, car lighting biz

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s leading home appliance maker, aims to take profit from the electric vehicle powertrain and car lighting units...

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