SK Siltron gets 20% of electricity from renewable energy

SK Siltron gets 20% of electricity from renewable energy

South Korea’s SK Siltron on Sunday said it procured 19.5% of the electricity it used last year from renewable energy. “In 2020, we were...

Samsung Elec launches foundry package turnkey service

Samsung Elec launches foundry package turnkey service

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 2 foundry player, has begun package turnkey service for contract chip manufacturing as it aims to tak...

S.Korean GS, Daebo invest in domestic AI semiconductor firm

S.Korean GS, Daebo invest in domestic AI semiconductor firm

South Korea's Sapeon, artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor subsidiary of SK Telecom Co., said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of ...

S.Korea's online voting service company exports its techs to Kyrgyzstan

S.Korea's online voting service company exports its techs to Kyrgyzstan

South Korea's online voting service company Kevoting announced on Wednesday that its mobile voting platform service was adopted for the local counci...

Korean game sector looks to cute girls to lure new users

Korean game sector looks to cute girls to lure new users

South Korea’s game makers rushed to launch games with cute girl characters to allure fans of Japanese animation as cartoons for the subculture...

LG CNS, Microsoft to jointly develop new ChatGPT-based services

LG CNS, Microsoft to jointly develop new ChatGPT-based services

South Korea’s largest cloud computing service provider LG CNS Co. announced on Tuesday that it will strengthen its strategic partnership with ...

Korea's InnoGrid to collaborate with Hyosung for cloud business

Korea's InnoGrid to collaborate with Hyosung for cloud business

InnoGrid Co., South Korea's cloud computing and digital transformation (DT) specialist, announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with dat...

FarmHannong's new herbicide enters the Pakistani market

FarmHannong's new herbicide enters the Pakistani market

South Korea's agricultural chemical company FarmHannong Co. announced on Thursday that its new herbicide Terrad'or will enter the Pakistani market. ...

SK C&C partners with Storm Ventures to discover promising B2B startups

SK C&C partners with Storm Ventures to discover promising B2B startups

South Korean IT services company SK C&C announced on Wednesday a partnership with American venture capital firm Storm Ventures to discover and c...

Samsung unveils full 2023 new smart monitor lineup

Samsung unveils full 2023 new smart monitor lineup

Samsung Electronics Co. will release a new lineup of smart monitors with significantly enhanced home office and personalized features.According to S...

S.Korean AI startup Liner Launches multilingual AI chatbot

S.Korean AI startup Liner Launches multilingual AI chatbot

South Korean AI search platform Liner announced on Wednesday the launch of a groundbreaking interactive search chatbot called "Liner Chat," designed...

Saramin launches AI interview coaching service for job seekers

Saramin launches AI interview coaching service for job seekers

South Korean career matching platform Saramin (formerly SaraminHR Co.)  said on Tuesday that it has unveiled an AI interview coaching service t...

KT launches cloud-based engineering platform

KT launches cloud-based engineering platform

KT Corp., South Korea's largest telecommunications company, announced the launch of its cloud-based high-performance engineering platform service on...

CJ undertakes educational programs for ethnic minorities in Vietnam

CJ undertakes educational programs for ethnic minorities in Vietnam

South Korea's CJ Group announced on Wednesday that it will undertake a "Second Girls Education Project" for the Vietnamese ethnic minority.The proje...

Clearstream acquires QFI status from S.Korea's National Tax Service

Clearstream acquires QFI status from S.Korea's National Tax Service

Korea Securities Depository announced on Wednesday that Clearstream, the operator of the International Central Securities Depository (ICSD), had obt...

Korea's Cafe24 launches customized enterprise service

Korea's Cafe24 launches customized enterprise service

South Korea's global e-commerce platform Cafe24 Corp. announced on Tuesday the launch of a new page called "Cafe24 Enterprise Service," which is des...

Hanjin launches global C2C purchase platform Hoot Town

Hanjin launches global C2C purchase platform Hoot Town

Hanjin Transportation, a logistics and B2B/B2C delivery business subsidiary of South Korea’s Hanjin Group, has launched Hoot Town, a global co...

S.Korea's E-Mart24 provides VAT refund service for foreign visitors

S.Korea's E-Mart24 provides VAT refund service for foreign visitors

E-Mart24 Inc., the convenience store chain unit of Shinsegae Inc. Group, announced on Tuesday that it will resume the value-added tax (VAT) refund s...

Hyundai Glovis, GS Energy jointly pursue clean hydrogen biz

Hyundai Glovis, GS Energy jointly pursue clean hydrogen biz

South Korea's logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. on Monday said it signed a memorandum of understanding on the clean hydrogen and ammonia business...

S.Korea's Riiid launches learning platform to prep for US SAT, ACT tests

S.Korea's Riiid launches learning platform to prep for US SAT, ACT tests

South Korea's Riiid, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based provider of educational solutions, on Monday said it has launched R.test, an AI diagnosti...

S.Korea to benefit from rising global defense spending

S.Korea to benefit from rising global defense spending

South Korea is expected to log another year of record defense exports in 2023 thanks to growing military budgets across the world as local major arm...

Hyundai Motor, Kia partner with DeepX to develop robotics services

Hyundai Motor, Kia partner with DeepX to develop robotics services

South Korean carmakers Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have partnered with DeepX, a domestic startup that specializes in designing AI semiconductors...

Samsung Pay adds Visa to overseas payment service

Samsung Pay adds Visa to overseas payment service

South Korea's mobile payment and digital wallet service Samsung Pay will allow its Visa-affiliated credit cards issued in the country to make overse...

S.Korea's Oasis posts surplus for second straight year

S.Korea's Oasis posts surplus for second straight year

South Korea's Oasis Corp., a grocery delivery platform specializing in early morning shipments, on Tuesday said it posted last year operating profit...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for tie-up with KT SAT for Starlink service in Korea

Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for tie-up with KT SAT for Starlink service in Korea

  SpaceX, the rocket and spacecraft manufacturer founded by Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk, will likely join forces with KT Corp. to lau...

S.Korean LPs name 41 best alternative asset managers

S.Korean LPs name 41 best alternative asset managers

Blackstone, Hamilton Lane, HarbourVest Partners and Audax Private Equity were jointly named the most preferred PE firms by South Korean institutional ...

Korea's LG CNS launches cloud cost optimization service

Korea's LG CNS launches cloud cost optimization service

LG CNS, a South Korean company specializing in digital transformation, announced on Tuesday the launch of its new service called "FinOps" Clinic.Fin...

SK C&C, Naver Cloud team up to boost AI services for Korean companies

SK C&C, Naver Cloud team up to boost AI services for Korean companies

SK C&C, a leading information technology service provider in South Korea, has announced a partnership with Naver Cloud to develop ultra-large ar...

NHN, KT, Naver to jointly build AI semiconductor farm

NHN, KT, Naver to jointly build AI semiconductor farm

Three large cloud service providers (CSPs) in South Korea will participate as a team in the project K-Cloud pursued by the government to verify dome...

Kakao halts its own AI chatbot beta service a day after release

Kakao halts its own AI chatbot beta service a day after release

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s platform giant operating the country’s No. 1 chat app KakaoTalk, has introduced its first artificial intell...

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