Korea Army Headquarters
Scope
Date
~
-
E-commerce
S.Korea's Oasis posts surplus for second straight year
South Korea's Oasis Corp., a grocery delivery platform specializing in early morning shipments, on Tuesday said it posted last year operating profit...
Mar 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Food & Beverage
Oil from S.Korea’s red ginseng alleviates prostate enlargement: study
Oil from South Korea’s famous hongsam (red ginseng) can prevent enlargement of the prostate, according to a study. A joint research team ...
Mar 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Aerospace & Defense
Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for tie-up with KT SAT for Starlink service in Korea
SpaceX, the rocket and spacecraft manufacturer founded by Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk, will likely join forces with KT Corp. to lau...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Pre-IPOs
SK Pharmteco again seeks $382 mn in pre-IPO funding
SK Pharmteco Co., a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is eyeing pre-initial public offering funding again after it dropped...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean food
Korea's Kooksoondang sees its makgeolli exports surpass $10 mn mark
Kooksoondang Co., a South Korean brewery that produces traditional rice-based wines, announced on Tuesday that its exports reached an all-time high ...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Cloud computing
Korea's LG CNS launches cloud cost optimization service
LG CNS, a South Korean company specializing in digital transformation, announced on Tuesday the launch of its new service called "FinOps" Clinic.Fin...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Fintech
Apple Pay to shake up S.Korea's digital payment market
The launch of Apple Pay in South Korea on Tuesday is poised to shake up the country’s digital payment market as the sector leader Samsung Pay ...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Bio & Pharma
Korea’s Micro Digital to supply bioreactors to major US firm
Micro Digital Co., South Korea’s only bioreactor maker, is set to ink a supply deal with a major US biopharmaceutical producer to expand its g...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Food & Beverage
S.Korea's brewery Seoul Jangsu forms marketing tie-up with fashion industry
With South Korea's traditional milky rice wine makgeolli seeing its second heyday centered on the 20- and 30-something crowds, marketing tie-ups tar...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea's KSOE lands $240 mn order for LPG carriers
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a shipbuilding intermediate holding company of South Korea's HD Hyundai Group, said on Monday ...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Artificial intelligence
NHN, KT, Naver to jointly build AI semiconductor farm
Three large cloud service providers (CSPs) in South Korea will participate as a team in the project K-Cloud pursued by the government to verify dome...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Corporate restructuring
S.Korea's STX to spin off shipping division
South Korea's general trading company STX Corporation has announced plans to divide its shipping division into a new company specializing in shippin...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s KCC develops AI-based color matching system
South Korea’s chemical and auto parts maker KCC Corp. on Monday said it developed the K-Smart system of using an artificial intelligence (AI)-...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor, Lotte chairs rank as S.Korea’s highest-paid heads
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was ranked as South Korea’s highest-paid business owner in 2022 thanks to the group's record-high pr...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Aerospace & Defense
Startup Innospace launches Korea’s first private projectile
South Korean space startup Innospace said on Monday it has launched a suborbital test projectile, the country’s first private launch vehicle, ...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Logistics
Lotte Global Logistics establishes resource recycling platform in Korea
South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics has established a resource recycling platform across ten logistics centers. The company has introduced the solu...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Waste management
Toray Advanced Materials acquires S.Korea's water treatment company
Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. announced on Monday the acquisition of Hanmee Entec Co., Ltd., the industry's longest-running water treatment fa...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Shareholder activism
Two global shareholder voting advisors oppose activist funds in S. Korea
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, the world's two biggest advisory bodies for shareholder voting rights, have recommended op...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Economy
S.Korea confirms easing inflation; BOK to hold rate
South Korea confirmed that inflation eased while Asia’s fourth-largest economy continued to slow, adding to expectations that the government m...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Elec to spend over $4 bn on capex in 2023, biggest in a decade
LG Electronics Inc. has decided to go bold to widen the technology gap with its rivals, with its biggest capital expenditure in a decade of more tha...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Regulations
Korea to ease foreign ownership limit rules; MSCI upgrade eyed
South Korea plans to ease regulations that limit foreign ownership of big companies deemed crucial to its economy as the government aims to align it...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Food & Beverage
Korea's LifeSemantics establishes health functional food subsidiary
Digital healthcare company LifeSemantics Co. has entered the health functional food business by creating a new subsidiary, NutraSemantics. The South...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK to acquire Korea’s top FCCL maker NexFlex for $407 mn
MBK Partners agreed to buy NexFlex Co., South Korea’s top flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL) producer, as the leading Northeast Asian priva...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification
South Korea’s top search portal Naver Corp. said on Friday that it had received a global certification for its compliance management system fr...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Artificial intelligence
Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service
Upstage, a South Korean AI tech startup, has unveiled a new version of its generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4, to become the first to offer Open...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Carbon neutrality
HD Hyundai forms S.Korea's first integrated carbon footprint team in shipbuilding
South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. has teamed up with domestic shipbuilders and classification societies to form the first integrated "carbon footprint" t...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Airlines
S.Korea's Air Premia to launch Incheon-New York route in May
Air Premia, a South Korean hybrid service carrier, announced on Friday the launch of a new air route between Incheon and New York from May 22. ...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Retail
Korea's BGF Retail to cut power use with smart devices
BGF Retail, the operator of South Korea’s largest convenience store chain CU, said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understandin...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Energy
Korea Eximbank teams up with US small nuclear reactor firm
The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NuScale Power, a US company that develo...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's FutureChem gets approval for phase 3 clinical trials in China
South Korean radiopharmaceutical development company FutureChem Co. announced on Thursday that China's National Medical Products Administration (NMP...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 SK Nexilis poised to sell thin film division to Affirma Capital
- 2 Cuckoo eyes $172 mn IPO of Malaysian unit in Kuala Lumpur: Bloomberg
- 3 South Korea’s Economy Picks Up But Still Disappoints
- 4 South Korea’s Viva Republica drops Korean IPO plan, seeks US debut
- 5 Korea’s POSCO, India’s JSW team up to build steel plant in Odisha