National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation
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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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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, Kia regain top spot in Vietnam's auto market
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are solidifying their dominance in the Vietnamese car market through the launch of new models and competitive lineup...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Yanolja looks to triple foreign visitors to Korea with K-culture tours
South Korea’s top travel and accommodation platform Yanolja Co. aims to nearly treble the number of foreign tourists to the country through it...
Jun 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Syntekabio expands to US with local CRO
South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) drugmaker Syntekabio Inc. has partnered up with a US clinical research organization (CRO) to enter the wor...
Jun 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Chemicals, AZ mark first commercial production of diabetes drugs
South Korea's SK Chemicals has joined forces with global pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca to initiate commercial production of a chemical drug for di...
Jun 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Daesang acquires US food company Lucky Foods
Daesang Corporation, a South Korean manufacturer of food and pharmaceutical ingredients, announced on Monday that it has acquired the US food compan...
Jun 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
LG Chem to sell $1.6 bn stake in LG Energy to foreign investors
South Korea’s leading chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. is slated to secure about 2 trillion won ($1.6 billion) by selling a minority stake in it...
Jun 19, 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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Robotics
POSCO to raise steel plant safety with robots
POSCO Research Institute, a think tank under South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO Group, on Sunday said it signed an agreement with Withrobot an...
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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Banking & Finance
S.Korea's KakaoBank to launch internet bank in Thailand
South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. has begun its advance into Southeast Asia through a tie-up with a financial company in Thailand. KakaoBank on Friday ...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Seoul tightens safety oversight for BTS 10th anniversary fireworks
The South Korean government is stepping up safety oversight ahead of the BTS Festa fireworks show. This is in response to last year's massive crowd ...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT's dietary management solution passes AI quality test
A South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) solution that analyzes and presents information on the type and nutritional content of food after a us...
Jun 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung C&T to participate in SMR project in Romania
South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. is working with NuScale Power, a leading American nuclear power company, to promote the construction of a small ...
Jun 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Hanmi Pharm's Efinopegdutide gets Fast Track Designation from FDA
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced on Monday that Efinopegdutide, a technology transferred from the South Korean ph...
Jun 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Polestar 3 to light up roads with headlamps of LG’s ZKW
The Polestar 3, an all-electric mid-sized sport utility vehicle, will be equipped with high-definition light-emitting diode (HD LED) headlights deve...
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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Artificial intelligence
LG, FuriosaAI to jointly develop next-generation AI chip
LG AI Research Institute announced on Wednesday its strategic alliance with FuriosaAI, South Korea’s fabless chip designer. The partnership ...
Jun 07, 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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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion unveils phase 1 clinical data of Actemra biosimilar in Europe
South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Inc. revealed on Wednesday the highly anticipated clinical phase 1 data for its Actemra biosimilar, CT-P47, ...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE to participate in EU's largest hydrogen transportation project
South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE), the shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co. , is participatin...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
POSCO, LG Electronics to jointly build smart factory
POSCO Holdings Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that they will collaborate to upgrade POSCO's smart factory technology. The initi...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea mulls adding national pension benefits to raise birth rate
South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering adding national pension benefits for married couples to raise the ever-declining birth r...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
S.Korean chips’ heavy reliance on China, US poses risk to national economy
South Korea’s semiconductor industry is more vulnerable to economic and industrial shifts in its key export markets than those of its rivals T...
May 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang releases Buddhist temple-style vegan dumplings
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. has rolled out Buddhist temple-style dumplings without meat and the five vegetables banned in Buddhism ...
May 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
HanAll, Daewoong to develop Parkinson's treatment with US partner
South Korea's HanAll Biopharma Co. and Daewoong Pharmaceutical on Thursday said they concluded a contract with NurrOn Pharmaceuticals of the US on...
May 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
CJ dreams to build new kingdom in US with massive investment
CJ Group, a major South Korean conglomerate with a wide range of businesses spanning everything from food to bio, livestock feed, logistics, enterta...
May 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion gets FDA approval for Humira biosimilar CT-P17
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has obtained product approval from the US Food and Drug Adminis...
May 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
S.Korea's top tech school uses salmon DNA to block art counterfeiting
The screen of the latest Samsung Electronics smartphone series Galaxy 23 released this year has a fingerprint recognition window on the display th...
May 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Cellid applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in S.Korea for COVID-19 vaccine
South Korean bio-venture Cellid Co. announced on Tuesday that it has applied for the clinical Phase 3 trial of the COVID-19 Omicron variant-specific...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)