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Automobiles
Hankook Tire's iON evo tops Auto Bild's electric car tire test
Korean tire manufacturer Hankook Tire & Technology announced on Friday that its electric vehicle-dedicated high-performance tire, the iON evo, h...
Apr 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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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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Electronics
S.Korea's European patent applications surpass 10,000 in 2022
South Korean companies such as LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. surpassed a historic milestone by filing over 10,000 patent applica...
Mar 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Energy wins first place in K-BPI gas station sector in Korea
SK Energy, an energy and petrochemical unit of South Korea's SK Group, has won first place for 17 consecutive years in the gas station sector of the...
Mar 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor, Lotte chairs rank as S.Korea’s highest-paid heads
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was ranked as South Korea’s highest-paid business owner in 2022 thanks to the group's record-high pr...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
AhnLab's V3 Mobile Security gets perfect score in AV-TEST evaluation
AhnLab Inc., a computer security solutions provider in South Korea, announced on Thursday that its smartphone security solution "V3 Mobile Security"...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league
SentBe, a South Korean fintech startup operating a personal international remittance app of the same name, is readying to play in the bigger global ...
Mar 08, 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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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Elec-SM Ent JV to unveil beta home fitness app in March
Fitness Candy, a joint creation by LG Electronics Inc. and SM Entertainment Co. to rival Apple Fitness Plus, is expected to unveil its beta service ...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Apple Pay's S.Korea debut as early as third week in March
Apple Pay, the mobile payment service by iPhone maker, is set to launch in as early as two weeks in South Korea, home to the world’s largest s...
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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Automobiles
S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year
South Korea’s auto production last year ranked fifth worldwide for the third year in a row.A report on world automotive output from the Korea ...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
S.Korea’s HMM tops carbon efficiency ranking on key shipping route
South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. said on Thursday it had the lowest carbon emission intensity on East Asia–US West Coast rou...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
FADU joins ranks of unicorns as S.Korea’s first fabless chip firm
FADU Technology has become South Korea’s first fabless semiconductor unicorn after successfully raising funds from share sales before its init...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire's Ventus S1 evo3 tops braking performance in Germany
Hankook Tire & Technology's high-performance tire, the Ventus S1 Evo3, claims the top spot in the braking distance category of the 2023 Summer T...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Blind revamps job matching service to rival LinkedIn
Teamblind Inc., the developer of South Korea’s homegrown anonymous professional community app Blind, will reach out to a broader job-seeking p...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
POSCO Int'l's pharmaceutical biz in Sudan attains No. 2 market ranking
A pharmaceutical company in Sudan set up by South Korea's POSCO International to find business opportunities in and make social contributions to the...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor offers Bluelink free to new customers in US
Hyundai Motor Co. in a world first is offering lifetime membership of its connected car care service Bluelink free to new customers in the US, judgi...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom doubles capacity of its AI service's supercomputer Titan
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. on Sunday said it had doubled the processing capacity of its supercomputer Titan, the brain of its artificial intellige...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor Group ranks first in US vehicle dependability study
Hyundai Motor Group has once again topped the U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) conducted by J.D. Power, ranking first among 16 global automoti...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Samsung Electro-Mechanics achieves highest ranking in CDP evaluation
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has achieved its highest ranking in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) evaluation of climate change response. The company...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate
Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Two premium taxi apps mull tie-up to challenge Kakao
South Korea's two premium ride hailing apps TADA and i.M are considering a merger in a bid to challenge Kakao Mobility Corp., which commands about 9...
Feb 01, 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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Cloud computing
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...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia make up 11.3% of UK's new car registrations in 2022
South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Group accounted for 11.3% of the new car registrations in the UK last year, according to a report that the Socie...
Jan 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia Sportage selected Family SUV of Year by UK auto journal
Kia Corp. said on Friday that its sport utility vehicle (SUV) Sportage has been named Family SUV of the Year by the British automotive magazine What...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
KB Financial recognized as global sustainability leader
South Korea's KB Financial Group was selected as one of the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" list announced by Corporate Knig...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LG Chem completes acquisition of US biotech firm AVEO
LG Chem Ltd. is set to complete its $571 million purchase of the US biotech firm AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Friday, which would strengthen its ant...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
SK E&S moves into EV charging market
South Korea's liquefied petroleum gas supplier SK E&S said on Wednesday that its subsidiary Parking Cloud will begin electric vehicle charging s...
Jan 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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