Quadruped Robot Challenge
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Robotics
Samsung Welstory unveils robots for company cafeterias
South Korean food and beverage company Samsung Welstory Inc. is forming a robotic process automation (RPA) ecosystem in the food service sector. In ...
Sep 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Japan's fever for Korean homegrown brands on the rise
Shimamura Co., Japan’s second-largest apparel company that runs around 2,200 stores nationwide, has dispatched a team of four buyers to Seoul ...
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Daedong Mobility rolls out docent chair robot
South Korea’s Daedong Mobility on Monday announced its hosting of an interactive event featuring two docent chair robots with self-driving and...
Aug 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Doosan Robotics to develop GPT-based collaborative robots
Doosan Robotics, a subsidiary of South Korea's Doosan Group specializing in robot solutions, is venturing into the development of collaborative robo...
Aug 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
K-tourism video ads with Lee Jung-jae exceed 510 mn views
The four-video Challenge Korea series promoting tourism in South Korea with "Squid Game" actor Lee Jung-jae has surpassed half a billion views in ju...
Aug 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver's translation app Papago faces challenge from German competitor
A German competitor has entered South Korea's translation tool market to challenge No. 1 Naver Corp. and No. 2 Google.The Cologne, Germany-based art...
Aug 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
LG Uplus announces expansion of robot business from serving to logistics
South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, LG Uplus Corp., said on Monday that it will expand its robot business from the existing serving se...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
KT, LG Elec, Hyundai Elevator join robot-elevator project
A robot freely gets on and off an elevator and moves around a building, doing everything from coffee to parcel delivery and route guidance.This is t...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor eyes EV charger alliance in US to take on Tesla
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are planning to join BMW, General Motors, Honda Motor, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis to collectiv...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia, Toyota unveil new SUVs in head-to-head showdown
South Korea’s two largest automakers – Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. – are set to compete head-to-head with Japan’s top ca...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BOK chief says aging without assets key challenge to S.Koreans
JEJU -- South Korea’s central bank chief on Friday warned of the growing risk of aging without assets in Asia’s fourth-largest economy a...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Doosan Robotics to expand smart factory deployment using cobot
Doosan Robotics, a robot solution subsidiary of South Korea's Doosan Group, said on Tuesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with d...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
SK Shieldus to verify performance of self-driving patrol robot
South Korean security company SK Shieldus will demonstrate the performance of a self-driving patrol robot.The company on Thursday said it received r...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Doosan vice chairman visits robotics trade show Automatica
South Korea’s Doosan Group Vice Chairman Park Ji-won visited Automatica 2023 on Wednesday, a leading trade fair for smart automation held in M...
Jun 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Hancom, POSCO DX pursue robotic process automation solutions
South Korea’s office suite software maker Hancom and engineering and information and communications technology service provider POSCO DX will ...
Jun 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
S.Korean gov't unveils new K-tourism video ads
The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, along with the Korea Tourism Organization, announced on Tuesday that they have launched t...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
GS Retail sells unmanned serving robots in convenience stores
The artificial intelligence (AI) serving robot has been introduced to convenience stores for sale. The number of stores where the robot is being sol...
Jun 21, 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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Robotics
POSCO targets robotic automation solutions for new growth
SEONGNAM, Gyeonggi Province -- POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO Group, aims to enter the rob...
Jun 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hyundai invests $781 mn in startups to drive future innovation growth
Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation investment in domestic and foreign startups in fields like mobility and artificial intelligence (AI) has excee...
Jun 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
S.Korea’s mobile carriers seek future from service robots
South Korea’s mobile carriers are strengthening the service robot business as the sector, combined with their know-how in the telecommunicatio...
Jun 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
HL Klemove partners with Neubility to develop self-driving robot
South Korea's self-driving technology company HL Klemove has partnered with Neubility, a domestic autonomous driving robot service platform, to coll...
Jun 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
KT to start outdoor robot delivery in Seoul from Q4
South Korea’s KT Corp. from the fourth quarter will start outdoor robot delivery of food and daily necessities in Seoul’s upscale distri...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG
Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...
Jun 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Team from KAIST wins Quadruped Robot Challenge of UK
A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has won the Quadruped Robot Challenge of the UK, easily beating models fr...
Jun 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
TikTok embraces BTS' 10th debut anniversary hashtag campaign
Global short-form video platform TikTok announced on Friday that it will collaborate with "2023 BTS Festa" to celebrate BTS' 10th debut anniversary ...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Perspectives
Optimism and hope for South Koreans
I sometimes receive emails from Koreans asking why I don’t consider some of the more troubling social issues their country faces when I am pla...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ OliveNetworks to build pharmaceutical distribution center
South Korean digital service company CJ OliveNetworks is accelerating its logistics center operations by teaming up with Pusan National University Y...
Jun 01, 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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Korean chipmakers
Samsung takes steps toward XR device processor chips
Samsung Electronics Co. has been taking steps to develop extended reality (XR) device processor chips to challenge Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Go...
May 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)