META Technology 2.0
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung, LG, Sony vie for mixed-reality OLED display market
Samsung Display Co., LG Display Co. and Sony Corp. — the world’s three leading display panel makers — are ratcheting up efforts to...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
BlueOval SK secures $9.2 bn loan from US Department of Energy
BlueOval SK, the battery production joint venture between SK On Co. and Ford Motor Co., has provisionally secured up to $9.2 billion in policy suppo...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI talent shortage poses threat to Korean AI tech development
Since the advent of the AI-powered chatbot sensation ChatGPT, the battle to win AI talent across companies large and small has intensified, threaten...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LegoChem Bio receives FDA approval for phase 1,2 trials of LCB84
South Korean pharmaceutical firm LegoChem Biosciences Inc. announced on Thursday that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administrat...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Nike to open its 3rd Jordan World of Flight store in Seoul
Nike Inc. is set to open its Jordan World of Flight in Seoul, a store dedicated to Jordan brand streetwear and sports shoes, on Wednesday. It will b...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Impact develops 50% hydrogen gas turbine technology
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on Wednesday that Hanwha Impact Corporation, a South Korean petrochemical manufacturer, has dev...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korea has just 1.2% of world's corporate unicorns: study
Among 10 major economies worldwide, South Korea's global share of unicorn companies, or startups with a corporate value of over $1 billion, has shru...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO, CNGR to build $1.2 bn battery materials plants in Korea
South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group and China’s CNGR Advanced Material Co. have agreed to spend 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) on sec...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor Way: New strategy to accelerate EV push
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group on Tuesday set out its vision to become a top-tier eco-friendly auto brand by accelerating its...
Jun 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affirma Capital’s Korean MD Thomas Shim promoted to partner
Global private equity firm Affirma Capital has promoted Seoul-based Managing Director Min Hyun (Thomas) Shim to partner, investment banking sources ...
Jun 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Huons’ 2% lidocaine gets approval from FDA
South Korean pharmaceutical firm, Huons Co., announced on Monday that it has secured another significant regulatory milestone in the US with the Foo...
Jun 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan to start demonstration of high-efficiency hydrogen turbine
South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility Co. is set to develop and demonstrate a high-efficiency H-class large hydrogen turbine technology utilizing pu...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Seoul Semiconductor beats Samsung Elec in LED market
Seoul Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s hidden tech champion, beat Samsung Electronics Co., a global electronics giant, in the world’s li...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
S.Korea's Krafton establishes AI game subsidiary
South Korea's leading game developer Krafton Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has established a new independent studio called ReLU Games.Krafton ...
Jun 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung takes on TSMC with strengthened chip design IPs
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, aims to drastically expand its chip design intellectual property (IP) partnersh...
Jun 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea’s top pharmaceutical distributor buys 25% of No. 2 Baekje Pharma
South Korea’s top pharmaceutical distributor Geo-young Co. has acquired 25% of market No. 2 Baekje Pharmaceutical.Geo-young on Tuesday said th...
Jun 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung unveils 2023 model TV, home appliances in China
Samsung Electronics Co. announced that it held the 2023 China Tech Seminar in Beijing, China, on Friday, unveiling the new TV and home appliance tec...
Jun 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs
South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaborative research in bloc...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix steps up chip stacking war with 238-layer 4D NAND
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has begun mass production of the industry’s hi...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung top in world smartphone market in Q1, beating Apple
Samsung Electronics Co. regained the top spot in the smartphone market, surpassing Apple in the first quarter of 2023. This outcome was driven by th...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
CrystalGenomics to supply anti-osteoarthritis drug to Russia for $2 mn
South Korea's first-generation biopharma venture company CrystalGenomics Inc. on Wednesday said it received a $2 million (2.6 billion won) order fro...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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AgTech
SK Networks to invest $2 mn in Dutch agtech startup
SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading company, announced on Thursday that it will invest $2 million in the series A round of Source.ag, a smart fa...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS, Honeywell collaborate on smart factory
LG CNS Co., the information technology service arm of LG Group, is enhancing production efficiency and security in smart factories through collabora...
Jun 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Fifty Fifty label seeks investment from Silicon Valley
The South Korean label behind K-pop rookie sensation Fifty Fifty is looking to Silicon Valley for investment as the four-girl band, already with a l...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Riiid inks deal with ALC to expand its AI-based TOEIC platform in Japan
South Korean AI-powered edtech firm, Riiid, announced on Thursday it has partnered with ALC, a premier brand in the Japanese language education indu...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
GC Biopharma wins contract to build blood products plant in Indonesia
GC Biopharma Corp., a South Korean pharmaceutical company, announced on Thursday that it has received approval from the Indonesian Ministry of Healt...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy to expand smart factory systems to N.America JVs
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. will introduce smart manufacturing systems to all its joint venture battery plants under construction in...
Jun 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea to bolster biotech R&D, benchmarking US' Boston
South Korea is poised to boost the biotech industry by accelerating research, education and business partnerships with the biopharmaceutical sector ...
Jun 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Korea's sovereign wealth fund directly exercises voting rights for first time
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, has begun actively exercising its voting rights in invested companies.Ac...
Jun 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean AI startup ActionPower poised to outdo OpenAI, Google: CEO
ActionPower Corp. founded in 2016 is small and young compared to Big Tech companies or heavily funded startups like OpenAI but it is mighty enough t...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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- 2 GS E&C plans to sell entire stake in GS Elevator to Chinese firm
- 3 Hanwha Aerospace to spin off non-core units for defense sector
- 4 SK Telecom releases Liberation Day remastering video
- 5 LG seeks to supply tandem OLED to Bentley, Cadillac