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Airlines
Jeju Air teams up with startup Plana to explore urban air mobility
Jeju Air Co., South Korea’s largest budget airline, said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with Plana, a domestic startup...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Mirae Asset, music profit-sharing startup take on security token offerings
South Korea's Fingo Company, which runs the music revenue sharing platform Fingo, on Friday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology
Kakao Impact, a corporate foundation of Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform company, said on Tuesday it has agreed to work with the...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug
South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will develop an anti-cancer drug that combines oncolytic virus technology with biosimilars un...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
AmCham pledges to make S.Korea Asia's top biz hub
The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in South Korea on Thursday said it seeks to make the nation Asia's top business hub on the 70th anniversar...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Materials joins forces with ExxonMobil in blue ammonia sector
South Korea's SK Materials will enter the blue ammonia market in partnership with global energy giant ExxonMobil.SK Materials on Wednesday said it s...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Samsung’s TV business launches customer marketing team
South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is putting into action an age-old mantra that reflects the importance of customers in its bus...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Energy Solution joins global climate disclosure initiative
South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Wednesday that it has become the first domestic battery maker to endorse the Task Force o...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Samsung Electronics, KAIST join forces to train robotics experts
Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to cultivate specialists in robotics. On M...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire to supply exclusive tires for Formula E in India
Hankook Tire & Technology said on Friday that it will serve as the exclusive supplier and official partner of Formula E's 2023 Greenco Hyderabad...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Doosan joins forces with S.Australian gov't to expand hydrogen business
Doosan Fuel Cell plans to expand its hydrogen business overseas. The company on Thursday said it had signed an agreement with the state of Sout...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility, Siemens Gamesa join forces for offshore wind power
Major South Korean power plant builder, Doosan Enerbility Co., has entered into a strategic partnership with the world's No. 1 offshore wind power c...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
South Korea's SK Ecoplant localizes core tech to make ultrapure water
South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. is expanding its portfolio in the water industry through localizing core technology to produce ultrapure water (UPW), ...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Dooray, HandySoft join forces to develop advanced collaboration tools
NHN Dooray, a provider of online collaboration tools, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with HandySoft, Inc., South Korea's leading gro...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Ybrain, Chong Kun Dang join forces for digital medicine distribution
South Korean electroceutical platform company Ybrain Inc. said on Tuesday it has entered into a joint promotion agreement with Chong Kun Dang Pharma...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI tech of Samsung Research recognized via machine translation award
Samsung Research, the research and development (R&D) hub of Samsung Electronics Co., has proven its excellence in artificial intelligence-based ...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Doosan advances domestic development of green hydrogen turbine
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. on Sunday said it signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday with 10 domestic companies and universities at ...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
A-Team Ventures succeeds in attracting $4.1 mn investment from LX
A-Team Ventures, which runs an online manufacturing platform "Capa," said on Friday that it has raised a Series B funding of 5 billion won ($4.1 mil...
Jan 27, 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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Artificial intelligence
LIG Nex1 opens AI research lab jointly with Korea Robot Institute
LIG Nex1 Co. said on Wednesday that it held an "AI Co-Lab" opening ceremony at the Seoul office of the Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence (KIR...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea’s top probiotic drink maker hy to expand global biz
South Korea’s leading probiotic drink maker hy Co. is seeking to expand its health functional food business into the global market as demand f...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hanwha, LG Energy team up for US battery production
South Korea’s Hanwha Group will invest in LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s battery production lines for energy storage systems (ESS) in the US, some ...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
SK Energy teams up with state-run power supplier for EV charging station
SK Energy, a major South Korean oil refiner, teamed up with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) to install electric vehicle (EV) and hydrogen...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Nexon teams up with 'Parasite' film production company Barunson E&A
Nexon, one of South Korea's top three game giants, on Tuesday said it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Barunson Entertainment &am...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Earthon teams up with British company Azuli in CO2 capture
SK Earthon has joined hands with Azuli, a British company that specializes in carbon capture and storage (CCS), to search for business opportunities...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
POSCO, Malaysia’s Petros to join forces on carbon capture business
POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, said on Monday it has joined forces with Malaysia’s ener...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus holds in-house hackathon to secure platform technology
LG Uplus Corps. said on Sunday that it held a hackathon called "Hackstival" to compete for development skills of in-house software developers.The co...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LabGenomics, NGeneBio join forces for US market
Korea's two diagnostics companies, NGeneBio Co. and LabGenomics Co., signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Thursday to cooperate in the fiel...
Dec 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Foundry: Driving force behind digital transformation
As the contract chip manufacturing, or foundry, business is quickly emerging as the next battlefield for the world’s major chipmakers, The Korea...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
SK Telecom to team up with Singapore's Singtel for metaverse venture
SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Singapore's top telecom provider Singtel Group on joint business o...
Nov 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)