AI developers
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Korean startups
AI human developer MINDs Lab aims for November IPO
South Korea’s top artificial intelligence (AI) developer MINDs Lab Inc. is aiming to list on the Kosdaq market within this month. While the ...
Nov 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Supergene looks well beyond smash hit instant game OMG
Commanding more than 100 million users for a South Korean Internet social service or a mobile game is uncommon even among industry leaders.Naver Cor...
Nov 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
POSCO International, Petronas sign PSC for Malaysian gas development
POSCO International Co., the trading unit of South Korean steelmaker POSCO, has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) for the development of an...
Nov 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai, Kia invest in US solid-state battery startup Factorial
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. invested in US solid-state battery startup Factorial Energy in a move to secure various technologies for the next-ge...
Oct 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK E&S in talks to sell ESS, solar energy projects
SK E&S Co. is in talks with a number of private equity firms and financial investors to sell energy storage systems (ESS) and solar energy devel...
Oct 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Race heats up in solid-state battery development
Global automakers and battery producers are accelerating the development of a next-generation electric vehicle battery, called an all-solid-state ba...
Oct 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
Samsung Biologics-made Moderna vaccine available to Koreans this week
Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine first produced by Samsung Biologics Co. under a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) service will be avai...
Oct 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis develops wheels that turn 90 degrees
Hyundai Mobis Co., an auto parts unit of Hyundai Motor Group, has developed technology to allow wheels to turn by 90 degrees, aiding in sharper vehi...
Oct 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Industrial real estate
Ares Management sees rental demand-led growth in US properties
Industrial properties in the US will likely continue to outperform other types of real estate, driven by significant rental growth in the e-commerce...
Oct 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics brings gardening indoors with plant cultivator Tiiun
LG Electronics Inc. is bringing gardening indoors by unveiling a plant growing appliance, which allows consumers to grow flowers, vegetables and her...
Oct 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Autodesk CEO
Digital transformation, a matter of life and death: Autodesk CEO
SILICON VALLEY – One of the things that have drastically changed the business environment in the pandemic era is the prevalence of companies t...
Oct 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Portrai to revolutionize biopsy quality through AI technology
Biopsy is one of the most used methods to examine a person’s illness, taking a tissue sample of a patient for analysis. Usually, the samples a...
Oct 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK may develop LFP batteries for low-priced EVs
SK On, the recently-launched battery company of South Korea's SK Group, is considering manufacturing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries to suppl...
Oct 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai to develop alternatives to automotive chips
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, plans to develop alternative elements to automotive chips in preparation for a prolonged suppl...
Sep 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Batteries, chips strengthen US-Korea economic ties
Battery and chip industries are reinforcing economic cooperation between the United States and South Korea, expanding their ties focused on security...
Sep 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai Steel, Samsung develop tech to recycle chip waste for steelmaking
Hyundai Steel Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday they have developed technology that can recycle the chipmaker’s wastewater sludge...
Sep 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Executives
Korean military fund targets medium-risk global assets
The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), a South Korean retirement fund, is chasing medium-risk, medium-return assets in developed markets with a...
Sep 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy develops safer, long-lasting solid-state battery technology
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Friday the company and the University of California San Diego have jointly developed a next-gene...
Sep 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Cookie Run developer enjoys 1126% year-to-date growth in stock price
Devsisters Corporation, the developer of the globally popular mobile game Cookie Run, has become a “ten bagger” stock with its price ris...
Sep 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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EV Batteries
SK Innovation to supply batteries to Hyundai IONIQ 7
SK Innovation Co. is set to supply batteries for the IONIQ 7, Hyundai Motor Co.’s large electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) to be unveiled in...
Sep 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
KB Fin, Shinhan invest in Sweden's wind farm via joint fund
South Korea's two banking giants -- KB Financial Group and Shinhan Financial Group -- have invested a combined 80 billion won ($68 million) in a win...
Sep 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud providers
Naver Cloud looks to join AWS, Microsoft as Asia's top cloud service provider
South Korea-based Naver Cloud Corp. is determined to become one of the key cloud service providers in Japan and Southeast Asian markets, following o...
Sep 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK, Asia Pulp to develop eco-friendly packaging paper
SK Geo Centric Co., South Korea’s leading petrochemical company, will develop eco-friendly paper coating materials to enter the recyclable pac...
Sep 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech crackdown bites Korea Inc.
Investors are selling technology stocks in a major Asian economy on regulatory worries just as one of the country’s biggest online payment com...
Sep 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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App Developers’ Payments Dilemma: Easier With or Without Apple and Google?
SEOUL—South Korea’s app developers can soon sidestep the digital tollway mandated by Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Goog...
Sep 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea kicks off AI strategy talks with Naver, Kakao, Samsung, telcos
South Korean government has hosted the first top-level artificial intelligence (AI) roundtable meeting with representatives from the country’s...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT to commercialize hyperscale AI model by H1 2022
South Korea’s major mobile carrier KT Corp. and the AI One Team coalition announced plans last week to develop a hyperscale artificial intelli...
Sep 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Hyundai Motor develops Roblox virtual mobility experience game
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has developed an interactive metaverse game to be played on its online entertainment platform Ro...
Sep 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Game firms seeking strong IP extend ties with content makers
South Korean game developers and publishers are increasingly building business alliances with players in the content industry through equity investm...
Aug 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
S.Korean govt to spend $5.4 bn to develop sensors, improve EV repair
South Korean government will spend 6.3 trillion won ($5.4 billion) next year in supporting the state-designated Big 3 industries: future vehicles, n...
Aug 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 SK Hynix’s turnaround gains traction from US, China
- 2 Samsung's financial arms beat No.1 banking group KB in profit
- 3 Korea’s airlines plagued by elevated fuel costs, strong dollar
- 4 LG Uplus offers Korean Air gift cards to 5G subscribers
- 5 SK Bioscience sells stake in US vaccine developer Novavax