KT Healthcare Academy
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Healthcare
Hyundai Department to triple healthcare sales by 2030 with Nestle
Hyundai Department Store Group, a South Korean conglomerate controlling retail, fashion, healthcare and lifestyle businesses, aims to triple its hea...
Sep 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
KT&G to sell Korean office tower to Pebblestone for $90 mn
KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is set to sell an office tower in South Korea to a local asset manager for an estimat...
Aug 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao to merge dk techin and Kakao Brain
South Korea's Kakao Corp. said on August 23 that its mobile solution development subsidiary dK Techin Corp. will merge with its AI technology affili...
Aug 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Volpara to supply cancer diagnostics SW to Intermountain Health
Lunit, a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, announced on Wednesday that its subsidiary Volpara Health, a New Zealand-based AI software deve...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
CHA Healthcare incorporates Singapore's SMG as subsidiary
South Korea's CHA Healthcare Co., CHA Biotech's overseas medical business affiliate incorporated Singapore's SMG as a subsidiary. CHA Healthcare an...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver Cloud takes the lead in Korea’s public AI business
South Korean online giant Naver Corp.'s cloud subsidiary is expanding its presence in the country’s public artificial intelligence market by w...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korean Telco giant KT’s Midas touch with hotel business
KT Corp., one of South Korea’s top three mobile carriers, is on a roll in the hotel business despite its late foray into the hospitality indus...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korea’s job growth rises in July led by elderly workers
South Korea’s job numbers grew in July, led by new hires among those in their 60s and older in one of the world's fastest-aging countries. The...
Aug 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
KT posts Q2 profit drops on pay raises, bonus payments
KT Corp., South Korea’s No. 1 telecom service provider, on Friday reported a 14.3% drop in second-quarter operating profit despite steady reve...
Aug 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Spear Korea to acquire AI medical firm Life Semantics
South Korea's aerospace materials company Spear Korea will acquire artificial intelligence (AI) medical firm Life Semantics Co. Life Semantics ...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT introduces 10 GB Combo Internet
South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it introduced Combo Internet technology to its network, enabling the provision of 10-gigabit Inte...
Jul 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung to invest $52 mn in US biotech VC Flagship Pioneering
Samsung C&T Corp., its bio units Samsung Biologics Co. and Samsung Bioepis Co. and Samsung Venture Investment Corp. have committed a combined 72...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Hanwha, KT to cooperate on smart mining
South Korea's Hanwha Global, the global division of Hanwha Corp. and KT Corp. announced on Monday that they signed a memorandum of understanding (...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT launches Genie TV Tab 3
South Korea's KT Corp. launched the tablet-type Internet TV device Genie TV Tab 3 on Thursday.The Genie TV Tab 3 can be used to watch live channels ...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
AI to drive Mirae Asset's next-phase growth: chairman
Mirae Asset Group is a pioneer in South Korea’s mutual fund industry. It launched the country’s first equity mutual fund in the wake of ...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
KT, EV Parking Services to cooperate on electric bus charging
South Korea's KT Corp., South Korea’s largest telecom service provider, announced on Friday that it partnered with EV Parking Services (EVPS) ...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to make AI, media-focused reshuffle in July
KT Corp., South Korea’s largest telecom service provider, is slated for an organizational reshuffle next month to reinforce its business-to-bu...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea’s KT, Microsoft form strategic alliance on AI, cloud sectors
South Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider KT Corp. has formed a strategic alliance with US tech giant Microsoft Corp. to colla...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KT offers reverse pitches to pick startup partners
KT Corp. has offered reverse pitches for South Korean artificial intelligence and technology startups to cooperate in the areas where it lacks in te...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT, Nokia to collaborate on global 6G research
South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it signed a business agreement with global mobile communications equipment manufacturer Nokia Cor...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s KT to innovate media, content businesses with AI
South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is set to innovate its media and content businesses with artificial intelligence as it seeks new growth d...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
KT&G faces $2 bn damages suit over heated tobacco invention
KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is facing a $2 billion damages suit from a former employee who claimed the South Kore...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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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Tech, Media & Telecom
NPS sells shares in KT, making Hyundai the top shareholder
Hyundai Motor Group has become the top shareholder of South Korea’s leading mobile carrier KT Corp., after the country’s National Pensio...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
NPS to vote in favor of KT&G CEO candidate Bang
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is slated to vote in favor of the KT&G Corp. b...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
ISS urges KT&G shareholders to vote against CEO candidate Bang
Global leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that stakeholders of South Korean tobacco maker KT&G ...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
KT, Novatek to collaborate on logistics robot platform
South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the domestic company Novatek which specializes...
Mar 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
KT&G’s No. 1 shareholder IBK vetoes naming Bang as CEO
South Korea’s KT&G Corp., the world’s leading tobacco maker, is facing challenges in its chief executive appointment as the firm&rsq...
Mar 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Foreign venture funding for Korean startups picks up
South Korean startups raising funds from overseas venture capital firms nearly doubled in the first two months of this year from a year ago, heighte...
Mar 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT teams up with Amazon to bolster B2B generative AI
BARCELONA -- KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecom services provider, said on Thursday it has signed a strategic partnership with Amazon Web...
Feb 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)