Paris Baguette expands to Canada with first store in Toronto

Paris Baguette expands to Canada with first store in Toronto

SPC, the South Korean food and beverage conglomerate, announced the opening of the first Paris Baguette store in Toronto, Canada, on March 23. The m...

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...

Ssangyong Motor changes name to KG Mobility

Ssangyong Motor changes name to KG Mobility

South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Co., whose new owner is KG Group, has renamed itself KG Mobility, its first name change in 35 years.With its new...

Kyobo Life chief Shin Chang-jae inducted into insurance hall of fame

Kyobo Life chief Shin Chang-jae inducted into insurance hall of fame

Shin Chang-jae, chief executive and chairman of South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co., has been honored with a prestigious award from the I...

Hyundai Heavy tops global 2-stroke engine production

Hyundai Heavy tops global 2-stroke engine production

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. became the world’s first shipbuilder to have marked 200 million brake horsepower (bhp) in cum...

Korea's Kolon Group takes first step successfully in space launch vehicle biz

Korea's Kolon Group takes first step successfully in space launch vehicle biz

South Korea's Kolon Group announced on Wednesday that Kolon DACC Composite participated in the launch of the first private test launch vehicle in Ko...

Samsung Electronics gets highest-level certification from AWS

Samsung Electronics gets highest-level certification from AWS

South Korea's electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. has achieved the highest level of "Platinum" certification from the Alliance for Water Stewa...

Korea Western Power lands nation's first solar power order in Oman

Korea Western Power lands nation's first solar power order in Oman

Korea Western Power Co. (KOWEPO) has won its country's first project in solar power generation in Oman.The company on Tuesday announced its successf...

Hyundai Doosan Infracore wins Italian innovation award

Hyundai Doosan Infracore wins Italian innovation award

Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., a construction machinery subsidiary of HD Hyundai Group, announced on Tuesday that its 14-ton hybrid electric wheel ex...

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...

POSCO Future M to spend $300 million on NCA cathode plant in Pohang

POSCO Future M to spend $300 million on NCA cathode plant in Pohang

South Korea's battery component maker POSCO Future M, formerly POSCO Chemical, on Tuesday said it will build its first plant solely for cathode mate...

Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business

Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business

Wave Lifestyle Tech, a South Korean foodtech robot company, said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’...

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...

Startup Innospace launches Korea’s first private projectile

Startup Innospace launches Korea’s first private projectile

South Korean space startup Innospace said on Monday it has launched a suborbital test projectile, the country’s first private launch vehicle, ...

S.Korean startup Jobis&Villains expands to UK with tax return service

S.Korean startup Jobis&Villains expands to UK with tax return service

Jobis&Villains Corp., a South Korean startup that offers a tax return service called “3o3,” said on Friday that it had set up a loca...

Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area

Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area

Tmap Mobility Co., a Korean navigation app company, announced on Friday a business agreement to promote cooperation in autonomous driving technology...

S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification

S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification

South Korea’s top search portal Naver Corp. said on Friday that it had received a global certification for its compliance management system fr...

Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service

Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service

Upstage, a South Korean AI tech startup, has unveiled a new version of its generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4, to become the first to offer Open...

HD Hyundai forms S.Korea's first integrated carbon footprint team in shipbuilding

HD Hyundai forms S.Korea's first integrated carbon footprint team in shipbuilding

South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. has teamed up with domestic shipbuilders and classification societies to form the first integrated "carbon footprint" t...

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

The digital security market is rapidly growing in South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries and amid its soaring labor costs.&nb...

Samsung raises Rainbow Robotics stake, eyes management control

Samsung raises Rainbow Robotics stake, eyes management control

Samsung Electronics Co. is looking to own a controlling stake in Rainbow Robotics Co., a South Korean collaborative robot maker, as the tech giant h...

Wrtn Technologies joins latest AI fad, looking for prompt engineers

Wrtn Technologies joins latest AI fad, looking for prompt engineers

Wrtn Technologies Inc. has joined the latest generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom with its high-paying official job post for a prompt engine...

Hyundai Elevator to compete in Indonesian smart city projects

Hyundai Elevator to compete in Indonesian smart city projects

Hyundai Elevator Co. said on Wednesday that it will join a South Korean government-led team to bid for smart city projects in Indonesia, where the c...

LG Electronics showcases new products in Dubai

LG Electronics showcases new products in Dubai

LG Electronics Inc. held a two-day event in Dubai to unveil its latest products and solutions for the Middle East and African markets.The South Kore...

Curexo unveils artificial joint surgery robot TMAX at AAOS 2023

Curexo unveils artificial joint surgery robot TMAX at AAOS 2023

Curexo, a South Korean medical robot company, said on Tuesday that it had unveiled its artificial joint surgery robot "TMAX" at AAOS 2023, the world...

Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee walks on tightrope in US, China investments

Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee walks on tightrope in US, China investments

BEIJING – Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee plans to attend the China Development Forum later this month for the first time as the South Korean ...

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