Self-driving
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Future mobility
LG Innotek unveils plastic-glass lenses for self-driving car camera modules
LG Innotek, the electrical component unit of South Korea's LG Group, said on Wednesday that it has developed two types of high-performance hybrid le...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Gas achieves milestone of zero accidents for 28 consecutive years
SK Gas said on Monday that its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import terminal in Pyeongtaek had achieved a record of no accidents for 28 consecutive ...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea approves Daewoong Pharmaceutical's diabetes drug
DAEWOONG PHARMACEUTICAL has received domestic approval for its diabetes drug Envlo with the active ingredient enavogliflozin, the second straight ye...
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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Batteries
Hyundai Mobis rolls out self-developed hydrogen-powered forklift
Hyundai Mobis has demonstrated a forklift powered by the company's self-developed hydrogen fuel cells, heightening prospects of the hydrogen mobilit...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Korea’s top delivery app operator Woowa launches food delivery robot
The self-driving robot Dilly Tower of Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, commonly known as Bae...
Nov 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai Mobis to use self-running robots at Ulsan plant
Hyundai Mobis on Sunday said it will develop mobile robots usable at manufacturing sites and logistics hubs as well as a related logistics system ...
Nov 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung Heavy succeeds in autonomous navigation system demonstration
Samsung Heavy Industries Co. announced on Thursday that it successfully completed the demonstration of its autonomous navigation capabilities in the...
Nov 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
MZers drive Korea's indoor golf facility pandemic boom
Indoor golf facilities’ revenue in South Korea has skyrocketed amid the pandemic, thanks to millennials and Generation Zers' soaring consumpti...
Nov 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Deeping Source turns visual data into info that drives business decisions
Deeping Source Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) analytics startup, turns real-life visual data into insight that can drive business decisions.&...
Nov 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG CNS earns $2.3 billion in year's first 3 quarters
South Korea's information and communications technology (ICT) corporation LG CNS, which seeks an initial public offering (IPO), has set a company re...
Nov 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung sets sights on new chips for self-driving homes on wheels
For decades, Samsung Electronics Co. has been a household name in the semiconductor industry, making chips that work like the human brain for comput...
Nov 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai’s Trailer Drone concept wins top Red Dot design award
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Friday its Trailer Drone, a fully autonomous hydrogen mobility concept, has won the top ...
Sep 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Self-driving startup 42dot unveils driverless shuttle
South Korea's autonomous transportation startup 42dot, owned by Hyundai Motor Group, on Monday unveiled a driverless electric shuttle installed with...
Sep 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Korea unveils autonomous driving, commercial drone service roadmap
South Korea aims to launch advanced autonomous driving, commercial drone and other urban air mobility services by 2025, as the country strives to be...
Sep 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Drivers try racing Hyundai’s latest models at Asia’s largest driving center
The HMG Driving Experience Center, which is set to open on Sept. 16, will offer the general public an opportunity to try out aspects of professional...
Sep 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Hyundai Motor, KT in $540 million share swap deal for future mobility
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and telecom giant KT Corp. have agreed to expand their future mobility partnership through a 750 billion won...
Sep 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai opens Asia’s largest driving center in S.Korea
Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, on Wednesday opened the largest driving center in Asia to showcase the performance of its ve...
Sep 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai narrows Level 3 self-driving tech gap with Tesla to one year
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has narrowed its technology gap in Level 3 self-driving vehicles with Tesla Inc. to one year, mo...
Aug 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hyundai, Hanwha ink $5.8 bn defense deals with Poland
South Korea’s defense makers Hyundai Rotem Co. and Hanwha Defense signed formal contracts worth $5.8 billion to export battle tanks and self-p...
Aug 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
S.Korean firms adopt the x-to-earn model for data, community building
South Korean companies are embracing the x-to-earn (X2E) business model, by which users earn rewards by playing online games and accomplishing other...
Aug 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor to redirect its TaaS, AI functions to self-driving arm 42dot
Hyundai Motor Group will redirect the core functions of its Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) division and AIRS Company to its recently acquired se...
Aug 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
South Korean firms bullish on hiring developers from India, SE Asia
Travel startup Storicity Inc. tried for a year to find a developer in South Korea – to no avail.But when it expanded its search abroad through...
Aug 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis steps up future mobility business
Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s largest auto parts maker, is accelerating its future mobility businesses as well as intensifying open innovat...
Aug 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Korea to further lag China on self-driving cars
South Korea is expected to lag behind China further on autonomous vehicle technology as Shenzhen, the technology hub in Guangdong province, allowed ...
Aug 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai Motor to buy Korean self-driving startup 42dot
South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Group is set to purchase autonomous driving startup 42dot, intensifying the automaker’s competi...
Jul 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korea's Hyundai Mobis bolsters its own chipmaking capabilities
Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s largest auto parts maker, is aiming to produce the majority of its automotive semiconductors with its own tec...
Jul 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung develops next-generation data storage device
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled an upgraded data storage device that significantly reduces the computer processing time and energy cons...
Jul 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea defense firms poised to ink $7.7 bn in deals with Poland
South Korea’s defense makers including Hyundai Rotem Co., Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) and Hanwha Defense are poised to clinch 10 tri...
Jul 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai, Kia to launch Level 3 self-driving Genesis G90, EV9 in 2023
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group will launch its most-advanced Level 3 autonomous cars next year, starting with Hyundai Motor Co.'s flagship ...
Jul 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)