future technologies office
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Asset management
NYLIM taps Sungyun Hong as head of Seoul office
New York Life Investments (NYLIM) has appointed Sungyun Hong as head of its Seoul office, the US asset management firm said on Wednesday. Hong ...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate
Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Hanwha Hotels & Resorts to work with Vietnam's Lodgis to expand overseas network
South Korea's Hanwha Hotels & Resorts Co., Ltd. said on Wednesday that it has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Lodgis H...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea's InCerebro to leverage AI to identify drug candidates
South Korean AI-based drug developer InCerebro aims to identify potential drug candidates using molecular modeling technology, according to its CEO ...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea's top sci-tech school creates cutting-edge anti-drone technology
A research team at South Korea's top science and technology university has developed an anti-drone technology that can remotely neutralize a city-in...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS underperforms global peers by returns for Q1-Q3 2022
South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, ranked 10th out of the global 42 state-owned investors by rate...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept
A self-driving vehicle taking a passenger home and then docking into the building so that they can enter the house without being exposed to the outs...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung hires two ex-Ericsson executives to lead network business
South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has hired two former executives of Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson to boost its ne...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ECM/DCM
South Korea fines US brokerage $9.6 million for high-frequency trading
South Korea has fined Citadel Securities over 10 billion won ($8.1 million) for disrupting market order through high-frequency trading in the countr...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte's virtual human Lucy makes successful debut on live commerce
Lotte Home Shopping said on Thursday that its virtual model Lucy will appear in monthly live commerce broadcasts on its official YouTube channel.Luc...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO gets nod for battery technology transfer to overseas plants
POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Co., on Thursday won government approval to transfer technology to its overseas...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy partners with Seoul Nat'l Univ. for battery technology
South Korea's No. 1 secondary battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Seoul National University on Friday signed an agreement to establish an indu...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Metaverse-based virtual offices: New breadwinner for LG CNS
LAS VEGAS – While buzzwords such as avatar and the metaverse are on everyone’s lips these days, waking up in the morning and going to a ...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Samsung Heavy, MISC to jointly develop floating CO2 storage units
South Korea's major shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said on Thursday that it has signed an agreement with MISC Berhad, a Malaysian offshore ene...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kakao Mobility launches future mobility hardware think tank
South Korea's Kakao Mobility has launched a think tank to study next-generation mobility hardware under the company's bid to lead overall innovation...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Kolon Global secures patent for Kankan Smart Space technology
South Korea's construction engineering company Kolon Global Corp. said on Monday that it has obtained a technology patent for the multi-purpose syst...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pre-IPOs
PIF, GIC to invest $964 mn in Korea's Kakao Entertainment
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have agreed to invest a combined $964 million in K...
Jan 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
POSCO opens first overseas venture incubating office in Silicon Valley
POSCO Group said on Wednesday that it has opened the first overseas office of ChangeUp Ground in Silicon Valley in the US.ChangeUp Ground is a start...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Katech signs self-driving R&D agreement with SwRI in US
The Korea Automotive Technology Institute (Katech) said on Tuesday that it will join hands with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of the Unite...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Cosmax shows off advanced beauty tech at CES with Seoul Nat'l Univ.
Cosmax, a cosmetics original design manufacturer (ODM) of South Korea, said on Tuesday that it unveiled the beauty technology developed jointly ...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
SK Geo Centric signs MOU with Plastic Energy for plastic recycling plant
SK Geo Centric, a subsidiary of South Korea's top refiner SK Innovation Co., will join hands with a global company to build a super-large waste plas...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Kyobo Life chief says data can overcome uncertain future
Shin Chang-jae, chairman and CEO of South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance, has urged the overcoming of the economic crisis based on leadership of VUCA,...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Innovators at CES 2023
Samsung to launch its first robot to assist with elderly care
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is set to launch its first robot later this year to care for the elde...
Jan 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Point2 Technology to supply network cable solutions to Amazon
Point2 Technology, which specializes in high-speed communications solutions, said on Wednesday that it has signed a network cable solution supply co...
Jan 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Innovators at CES 2023
HD Hyundai to boost offshore wind power, future ships, CEO says
LAS VEGAS – HD Hyundai Co., the largest shipbuilding conglomerate in South Korea, is set to diversify its future growth engines, focusing on s...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kolon signs MOU with Hanyang Univ. to develop gene therapy treatments
Kolon Industries Inc.'s Future Technology Institute said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hanyang University In...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus announces official start of original content production
LG Uplus Corp. announced on Thursday that it would officially kickstart producing original content, following its pilot program about desserts relea...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Innovators at CES 2023
Golfzon to showcase portable golf simulator at CES 2023
Golfzon Co., a global indoor golf equipment maker, will participate in CES 2023 in Las Vegas to showcase its "Wave Play" product line, which targets...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Innovators at CES 2023
Hyundai Motor Group to make debuts of innovative startups at CES
Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation platform Zero1ne will showcase innovative technologies from ten South Korean startups at CES 2023, the world's...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai's Nexo keeps 1st place in hydrogen car market beating Toyota
Hyundai Motor Co.'s hydrogen fuel cell car model Nexo far surpassed Toyota in the world's market share. According to SNE Research, a market research...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)