Busan International Mobility Show 2024
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Companies
CJ CheilJedang opens internal venture development space Inno Play
South Korea's food and bio giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Sunday said it opened Inno Play, an office space for commercializing innovative ideas and d...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
EastarJet to resume flights after three years of suspension
South Korean budget carrier EastarJet will resume flights on the domestic Gimpo-Jeju route on Mar. 26 after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 ...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus to show off total smart factory solutions at trade show
LG Uplus Corp., a mobile telecom service carrier in South Korea, announced on Tuesday that it would present a complete set of smart factory solution...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
S.Korea's elderly population to exceed 10 million in 2024
The number of people in South Korea aged 65 or over next year is expected to break 10 million, with the country to enter an era in which 20% of the ...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
BC Card shows one-stop payment int'l network at MWC 2023
BC Card, the only credit card company from South Korea taking part in this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, is displaying at ...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao vows to thwart HYBE scheme for SM control
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, said on Monday it would mobilize all possible countermeasures against HYBE Co. ’s a...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s SK Telecom to advance AI tech through partnerships
BARCELONA -- SK Telecom Co. plans to develop world-class artificial intelligence technology through partnerships with companies of Korean descent at...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea’s LG Uplus, Dell to develop open RAN platform tech
South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. and global IT giant Dell Technologies are set to jointly develop an open radio acces...
Feb 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung unveils new Exynos mobile chips for midrange smartphones
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled a duo of new Exynos mobile application processor (AP) chips to pow...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
OLED tech leads trends on premium TV market
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) products account for over 30% of the global premium TV market, attesting to the technology's emergence as the st...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
POSCO International, Pertamina win gas exploration rights off Indonesia
POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Thursday ...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung opens 5G pilot network to 4th largest mobile carrier in US
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it has successfully completed the opening of a 5th-generation mobile communications (5G) pilot ne...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
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...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
FuriosaAI speeds up development of next-gen AI chip with Hugging Face
FuriosaAI Inc., South Korea’s fabless chip designer, has teamed up with Hugging Face Inc., a New York-based AI company boasting a massive tran...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility promotes technology at world's largest energy exhibition
Major South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Wednesday that it has started promoting its nuclear power and gas turbine ...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle
Internal conflict is growing at South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management over the company's de facto restructuring of its fund management in the wake o...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Lexus, Volvo: Koreans' top picks among foreign brands in after-sales service
Lexus, the premium brand of Japanese carmaker Toyota Corp., offers the best after-sales service among imported cars in South Korea, followed by Swed...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
Network usage fees likely to take center of debate at MWC2023
Major participants in the mobile world congress (MWC) 2023 such as Google Inc. and Netflix Inc. are expected to discuss telecommunications network f...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
LG Uplus to participate in Drone Show Korea
On Sunday, South Korean mobile telecom carrier LG Uplus Corp. announced that it would host a joint exhibition hall with Kakao Mobility, GS Engineeri...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
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...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor unveils new Creta at Indonesia motor show
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, introduced a new version of its Creta compact SUV at the Indonesia International Motor Sho...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis ramps up patent development for future mobility tech
Hyundai Mobis, a South Korean auto parts maker and a key affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Thursday that it filed more than 3,000 patents la...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
KTO steps up Korean tourism promotion in Saudi Arabia
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, along with the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), are accelerating their efforts to promote Korean touri...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion's Truxima shows safety, efficacy in post-marketing study
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. reported on Wednesday that its biosimilar drug Truxima (rituximab), a generic version of Roche...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
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....
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials
South Korea's EcoPro Co., a leading cathode supplier for global battery makers, is expanding its plant for raw materials used in secondary battery c...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
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...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG U+, Plana jointly research data transmission tech for urban air mobility
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. and Plana, a domestic startup for urban air transportation (UAM) craft, have signed a business deal on joint research o...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
GC Biopharma's Ochang facility gets WHO PQ certification
GC Biopharma Co.'s production facility in Ochang (North Chungcheong Province) secured a pre-qualification (PQ) certification from the World Health O...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom to launch multimodal AI to match ChatGPT
South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. will adopt natural language generation and processing capabilities for its nascent artificial intelligence servic...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)