DX talent program
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Artificial intelligence
LG Group’s AI academy to foster young talent bears fruit
On April 6, at LG Inwhawon, called LG Academy in English, in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, 99 college students and twenty-somethings were wrestling wit...
Apr 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Hyundai Engineering, Trimble Solution to develop BIM
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with Trimble Solution Korea to co-develop a building information mode...
Apr 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Samsung, GS win $7.2 bn gas plant project in Saudi
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering (new name: Samsung E&A) and GS Engineering & Construction Corp. (GS E&C) won a $7.2 billion co...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
LG Electronics spins off X-UP, 4 other in-house venture firms
LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday it is spinning off five promising in-house venture firms as separate entities to strengthen South Korea’s...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG Elec expands workforce to enhance AI cyber security
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, is actively increasing its workforce to improve artificial intelligence cyber security...
Mar 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KASA, Korea’s NASA, embarks on hunt for space talent
South Korea seeking to join the global space power club is set to recruit about 120 local and foreign space experts for the country’s space ag...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai speeds up digital transformation with Naver
HD Hyundai Co. announced on Monday that it signed a business agreement with Naver Corp. for digital transformation (DX), cloud transformation, and a...
Mar 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor launches trade-in program to revive EV sales
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, said on Thursday it introduced a trade-in program in the country for electric vehicles to boos...
Mar 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Palliser Capital backs proxy fight with Samsung C&T
Palliser Capital, a London-based hedge fund, said on Sunday it will vote in favor of other activist shareholders’ proposals for Samsung C&...
Mar 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Kakao Ventures invests in AI optimization startup Omelet
Kakao Ventures Corp. has made an undisclosed amount of seed investment into Omelet, a South Korean early stage startup developing industrial operati...
Feb 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Kookmin Bank opens KB Prasac Bank in Cambodia
KB Kookmin Bank announced on Monday that it held an opening event for the integrated commercial bank KB Prasac Bank PLC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on ...
Feb 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Innotek establishes $108 mn win-win growth fund
South Korea's LG Innotek announced on Friday that it held the 2024 Win-win Growth Partnership Day on the previous day.LG Innotek signed the 2024 Fai...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Defy convention with long-run plans to upvalue Korean stocks
The South Korean stock market has been on an upward swing in recent weeks, with many partly attributing it to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s pledge...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor launches EVery care for electric cars
Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it launched EVery Care, an integrated program that will take care of customers' electric vehicle (EV) l...
Feb 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea's EcoPro to seek local talent in Hungary
South Korean battery materials manufacturer EcoPro Co. announced on Monday that it partnered with the Debrecen Vocational Training Center in Debrece...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Samsung Electronics to hire big for AI R&D careers
Samsung Electronics Co. is ramping up its recruitment of experienced professionals across its Device eXperience (DX) and Device Solution (DS) divisi...
Feb 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
Delays in court rulings raise business risks for South Korean companies
Less than five years ago, Invossa, a cell and gene therapy for osteoarthritis, was expected to hit the global market with great fanfare.Developed by...
Feb 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Naver, Com2uS slash workforce to downsize new businesses
South Korea’s leading online platforms and gaming publishers such as Naver Corp., Com2uS Corp. and Kakao Corp. have joined global Big Tech com...
Jan 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Innocean, HYBE launch Seventeen project in Bangkok
Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it has launched a K-pop boy g...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Elec opens its first overseas EV charger plant in Texas
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has opened its first overseas EV charger factory in Fort Worth, Texas. The move comes as the global home app...
Jan 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to relocate packaging unit workplace to lure talent
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is set to relocate its advanced packaging department’s workplace in South Kor...
Dec 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO DX to develop robots for steel mills
POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., will collaborate with Chosun Refractories Co. to develop ...
Dec 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech
South Korea’s Naver Z Corp., the operator of virtual world platform Zepeto, said Monday it will join forces with the United Arab Emirates&rsqu...
Dec 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Samsung launches new growth engine control tower at mobile division
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips and smartphones, has created a business control tower within its Digital eX...
Dec 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Foreign visitors to S.Korea on course to top 10 mn milestone
The number of foreign visitors to South Korea spiked 158.3% to 1.23 million in October from the month previous, the Korea Tourism Organization said ...
Nov 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea to raise unskilled foreign worker visa quota to record high
South Korea is set to increase its visa quota for non-professional foreign workers to a record high and expand the sectors in which they can work to...
Nov 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hyundai Motor Group spins off three in-house startups
Hyundai Motor Group announced on Tuesday it spun off three in-house startups Eficar, Hcharge Lab, and 3I Solution. Eficar provides a service th...
Nov 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
South Korea lags behind US, China in AI talent pool
South Korea lags far behind advanced countries in nurturing artificial intelligence (AI) talent due to the lack of proper skills development program...
Nov 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean AI startups Allganize, Neurophet raise over $35 mn
South Korea’s artificial intelligence technology startups Allganize Inc. and Neurophet Inc. raised about 47 billion won ($35 million) in total...
Nov 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
DGB partners with Vietnamese IT company
South Korea's DGB Financial Group announced on Monday it signed a business agreement with the global IT company FPT Software at the FPT Group headqu...
Nov 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)