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Retail
Top Korean food delivery app posts record profits
Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery app, posted a record profit in 2022, which also marked its first profit ...
Mar 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Drug instructions to be provided via QR codes, URLs in S.Korea
South Korea's the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on Friday that it had revised the "Risk Management Plan (RMP) Guidelines" to allow for ...
Mar 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ Haechandle Gochujang acquires Europe's V-Label
CJ CheilJedang Corp.'s flagship fermented food brand Haechandle Gochujang (hot pepper paste) is set to expand into the global market, backed by its ...
Mar 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Shopping: Resurrected in Indonesia after death in China
JAKARTA – On a hot spring day in March, Lotte Mart’s Gandaria City Mall hypermarket was as bustling with shopping Indonesians as usual.I...
Mar 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Confectionery to rebrand as Lotte Well Food
South Korea's Lotte Confectionery Co. will change its name to Lotte Well Food, effective April 1, according to an announcement made on Thursday. The...
Mar 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
LG Elec, Bayada strengthen cooperation on home care medical devices
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Tuesday that it had signed a business agreement with Bayada Home Healthcare, a US-based company specializing in hom...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Doosan Robotics signs medical robot MOU with Chinese company
Doosan Robotics Inc., a South Korean company affiliated with the Doosan Group, announced on Tuesday that it had signed an MOU with Guangxi Pinge, a ...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Lunit's Insight DBT gets certification from EU for medical device
South Korean medical AI company Lunit said on Monday that its 3D breast tomosynthesis artificial intelligence (AI) image analysis solution, "Lunit I...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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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)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Harim launches street food brand Melting Piece
South Korea's leading poultry processing firm, Harim Co., announced on Thursday the launch of its new street food brand, Melting Piece, in response ...
Mar 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Mart unveils integrated private brand Good Today
South Korea's hypermarket Lotte Mart on Wednesday announced the debut of its integrated private brand (PB) Good Today under its plan to conduct focu...
Mar 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Korean 3D tech firm Koh Young looks to US medical robot market
Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is slated to enter the US me...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech
CGBio, a South Korean bio-renewable medical company, announced on Monday that it opened a medical esthetic clinic, called Nulook, in Bali, Indonesia...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Nongshim lands deal to export smart farms to Saudi Arabia
South Korea's food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. will export smart farms to Saudi Arabia, following a similar deal with the United Arab Emirates (...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market
Pulmuone, a leading South Korean producer of plant-based foods such as tofu and bean sprouts, is trying to expand the K-food territory in the global...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Lunit to supply AI image analysis solutions to Singapore
South Korea's Lunit Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) medical company, announced on Wednesday that it has secured a contract to provide Lunit In...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025
CHA Healthcare Co. operating nearly 90 hospitals and infertility treatment centers across the world, is set to pave the way for South Koreans' inves...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medical IP's X-ray image analysis software certified as medical device
Medical IP, a South Korean medical AI company, has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) medical image analysis software "TiSepX Lung Volu...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Dongsuh Foods applies green certification package to products
South Korea's food processing company Dongsuh Foods Corporation announced on Monday the launch of new green technology-certified packaging.This gree...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
CJ CheilJedang opens internal venture development space Inno Play
South Korea's food and bio giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Sunday said it opened Inno Play, an office space for commercializing innovative ideas and d...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app
South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
CJ CheilJedang invests in Australian bio startup
South Korea's food and bio company CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Wednesday said it will invest in the Australian bio startup Provectus Algae.The former se...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea’s stent maker Taewoong Medical acquired by Olympus for $370 million
Japanese medical device company Olympus on Saturday said it will wholly acquire South Korea’s Taewoong Medical, a maker of gastrointestinal (G...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
POSCO Int'l, Daesang sign MOU to cooperate in food business
POSCO International, South Korea's largest general trading company, announced on Friday that teams up with Daesang Corp. in the food business area.P...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine
South Korean companies with a large proportion of sales to emerging Asia are expected to shine in the stock market this year as their revenue from t...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Patty-cooking robotics startup Aniai completes seed funding
Aniai Inc., a foodservice robotics developer founded by a South Korean, said on Feb. 21 it has attracted $3 million via a seed funding round to boos...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Hwajin Medical gets FDA sales approval for syringes
HLB Therapeutics Co. announced Thursday that Sofjec, a syringe produced by its subsidiary Hwajin Medical, has been approved for sale by the US Food ...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea's Engel coefficient rises sharply amid COVID-19 pandemic
South Korea’s low-income households are feeling the pinch of rising food prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by a local t...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI medical software company Lunit to open subsidiary in Europe
South Korea's Lunit, an artificial intelligence (AI) medical software company, on Friday said its board meeting held on the previous day decided to ...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharm holds sales meeting for marketing Cenobamate in US
On Wednesday, SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. announced that its US subsidiary, SK Life Sciences Inc., held a "National Sales Meeting" in San Diego. The p...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)