Aekyung Chemical develops first fertilizer coating resin with vegetable oil

Aekyung Chemical develops first fertilizer coating resin with vegetable oil

Aekyung Chemical on Friday said it has developed South Korea's first eco-friendly fertilizer coating resin using vegetable oil.Aekyung Chemical, a s...

KT&G refuses activist funds' call for ginseng biz spinoff

KT&G refuses activist funds' call for ginseng biz spinoff

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, on Thursday refused activist funds' requests to spin off and list its ginseng unit wh...

DongKoo Bio signs MOU to move into SE Asian healthcare market

DongKoo Bio signs MOU to move into SE Asian healthcare market

DongKoo Bio & Pharma Co. has built a bridgehead for expansion toward the world, including Southeast Asia by joining hands with LVMC Holdings, th...

Samkang M&T to supply offshore wind power substructure to Japan's NSE

Samkang M&T to supply offshore wind power substructure to Japan's NSE

Samkang M&T, a subsidiary of SK Ecoplant Co., has signed a contract to supply jacket foundations for offshore wind generators to a Japanese comp...

NHN Cloud joins ranks of unicorns with $120 mn funding

NHN Cloud joins ranks of unicorns with $120 mn funding

NHN Cloud Co., a computer clouding service provider, has raised 150 billion won ($120 million) from South Korea-based IMM Investment, joining the ra...

Air Busan to offer 4 daily flights on Busan-Osaka route

Air Busan to offer 4 daily flights on  Busan-Osaka route

Starting Feb. 1, South Korea's budget carrier Air Busan Co. will add a daily flight to its route linking the nation's biggest port city of Busan to ...

Take QR code instead of long password when connecting to Wi-Fi

Take QR code instead of long password when connecting to Wi-Fi

LG Uplus Corp. introduced a functionality that allows access to Wi-Fi through an Internet TV screen. This is intended to make it possible to connect...

SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T

SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it has developed the world’s fastest mobile DRAM chip and ...

Samsung Display unveils touch-enabled OLED laptop PC screen

Samsung Display unveils touch-enabled OLED laptop PC screen

A South Korean company has developed an OLED laptop PC display with a touch function like a smartphone screen without needing a separate film attach...

HSD Engine's order volume exceeds $162.1 million in one month

HSD Engine's order volume exceeds $162.1 million in one month

Growth in shipbuilding orders has greatly boosted the sales of manufacturers of related equipment such as ship engines. South Korea's HSD Engine, wh...

Hyundai Motor sells 1 mn electric vehicles worldwide

Hyundai Motor sells 1 mn electric vehicles worldwide

In 11 years since Hyundai Motor Group started selling electric vehicles (EVs), the cumulative sales volume of EVs in the global market has finally s...

LG Energy partners with Seoul Nat'l Univ. for battery technology

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...

Hyundai Movex wins order for Sydney subway screen doors

Hyundai Movex wins order for Sydney subway screen doors

Hyundai Movex, a Hyundai Group affiliate of South Korea, is moving to expand its overseas business in earnest with the opportunity to win an order t...

S.Korea's Paris Baguette opens first outlet in Malaysia

S.Korea's Paris Baguette opens first outlet in Malaysia

To SPC Group, which hopes to tide over difficulties in the domestic market facing sagging growth potential and troubles caused by a series of safety...

Doosan Enerbility acquires US design approval for metal nuclear cask

Doosan Enerbility acquires US design approval for metal nuclear cask

South Korea's energy equipment maker Doosan Enerbility Co. has obtained the green light in participating in the domestic nuclear storage cask market...

NGeneBio's diagnostic products start to be used in clinical tests in Vietnam

NGeneBio's diagnostic products start to be used in clinical tests in Vietnam

South Korea's medical diagnostics company NGeneBio Co. said on Wednesday that it is expanding its business in the Southeast Asian precision diagnost...

Ssangyong Motor swings to first quarterly profit in six years

Ssangyong Motor swings to first quarterly profit in six years

South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Co. posted its first quarterly operating profit in six years, powered by brisk sales of the Torres SUV launched ...

SK Innovation-invested Amogy tests ammonia-powered heavy truck

SK Innovation-invested Amogy tests ammonia-powered heavy truck

Amogy Inc. has successfully tested its ammonia-hydrogen power system for large-size semi trucks – the first time that ammonia has been used as...

Global shipments of foldable smartphones to jump 44% this year: Report

Global shipments of foldable smartphones to jump 44% this year: Report

Amid forecasts of a dull global market for smartphones due to the economic downturn, a report says foldable models alone will maintain growth in the...

S.Korean fighter jet KF-21 makes first supersonic flight

S.Korean fighter jet KF-21 makes first supersonic flight

The first prototype of the South Korean fighter jet KF-21 Boramae on Tuesday made its first supersonic flight six months since its inaugural trip to...

KSOE wins this year's first LNG carrier order worth $783 million

KSOE wins this year's first LNG carrier order worth $783 million

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), an intermediate shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., said on Tuesday that it recent...

Medytox to build plant for finished toxin products in Dubai

Medytox  to build plant for finished toxin products in Dubai

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Medytox Inc. will build a plant for finished products containing botulinum toxin in the United Arab Emirates...

Medipost completes first dose of Cartistem in phase 3 clinical trials in Japan

Medipost completes first dose of Cartistem in phase 3 clinical trials in Japan

South Korea's stem cell research company Medipost Co. said on Monday that it has completed the administration of Cartistem, a stem cell treatment fo...

Ssangyong Motor takes part in Brussels Motor Show

Ssangyong Motor takes part in Brussels Motor Show

Ssangyong Motor Co. said on Monday that it would participate in the 2023 European Motor Show Brussels and begin to move into the European market in ...

Lotte Chem to sell Pakistan unit for $156 mn to finance other projects

Lotte Chem to sell Pakistan unit for $156 mn to finance other projects

Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to sell its Pakistan unit for 192.4 billion won ($155.8 million won) to a chemical company in the country as the South K...

K-pop label SM to increase number of outside directors

K-pop label SM to increase number of outside directors

South Korea’s SM Entertainment Co. will increase the number of outside directors and ban its chief executive from chairing the board as part o...

Kia's Carens selected as Car of Year in India

Kia's Carens selected as Car of Year in India

Kia Corp. won the "Car of the Year in India" for the first time in three years and five months after entering the Indian auto market.Kia said Sunday...

LG Chem CEO named to head industrial body of World Economic Forum

LG Chem CEO named to head industrial body of World Economic Forum

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. on Sunday said its CEO and Vice Chairman Shin Hak-cheol on Thursday will be named chair of the Chemical and Advanced Mate...

Samsung may cut spending as foundry players brace for downturn

Samsung may cut spending as foundry players brace for downturn

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, may slash its investment for contract chipmaking known as foundry, as its peers...

Aespa's first VR concert unveiles at the US music festival

Aespa's first VR concert unveiles at the US music festival

AmazeVR, a virtual reality (VR) concert production and distribution platform company, said on Friday that "Aespa VR Concert at Kwangya" was official...

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