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 ...

Korea's credit card approval volume hit all-time high last year

The annual card approval amount in South Korea exceeded 1,000 trillion won ($811.4 billion) for the first time ever. This is largely because of "ret...

Tmap, Shinsegae I&C sign agreement for EV charging collaboration

Tmap Mobility said on Monday that it has signed an agreement for the electric vehicle charging business with Shinsegae I&C, an IT service affili...

Kakao Mobility to pursue joint development with 4 major delivery services

South Korea's transportation company Kakao Mobility on Monday said it concluded a "delivery service business agreement for joint development of the ...

Korea boosts energy cooperation with natural resource-rich W.Australia

South Korea has boosted its energy cooperation with Western Australia, the biggest of Australia's six states and packed with natural resources.Minis...

Samsung Electronics' life cycle assessment gauges CO2 emission impact from chips

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday said it set up a life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for semiconductors to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.T...

Korea's venture capital investment falls 12% last year amid downturn

South Korea's venture capital investment last year fell more than 10% from a year ago due to the economic downturn caused by a series of global rate...

Hyundai Dept. Store introduces AI chatbot service Jellppo

Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Sunday that it would introduce the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Jellppo." Jellppo is an AI-based one-o...

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...

S.Korea's Bespin Global launches all-in-one AIoT

South Korea's cloud solution provider Bespin Global said on Thursday that it would launch "IoTOps," a software as a service (SaaS)-based artificial ...

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...

S.Korea's waste recycler ReCo lands $11.8 million in investment

South Korea's startup ReCo, which runs the comprehensive waste collection and transportation service UpBox, on Wednesday said it attracted Series B ...

Korean Air to resume flight services on four European routes

Korean Air Lines Co. will resume operations on four European routes, including Prague, the Czech Republic, sequentially from March for the first tim...

Hyundai E&C wins record $28.4 billion in new orders last year

South Korean builder Hyundai Engineering & Construction last year earned sales of 21 trillion won ($17 billion) thanks to growth in the domestic...

KAI signs agreement with Northrop Grumman to develop UAVs

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) said on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) in relation to "technical cooperation on verti...

KT Skylife offers Disney Plus service via its channel

KT Skylife Co.,the satellite TV service subsidiary of South Korea's telecommunications-oriented KT Group, said on Wednesday that it is offering Disn...

Epikar inks MOU with Singapore's NTU Research Center

South Korea's auto distribution digital solutions company Epikar said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for R&...

Woori Financial to acquire VC firm Daol Investment

South Korea’s Woori Financial Group is set to acquire Daol Investment Co., a venture capital arm of the liquidity-strapped Daol Financial Grou...

Modetour signs agreement with mobility platform Danida

South Korea's travel agency network Modetour Network Inc. said Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with mobility platform Dan...

Naver Cloud to partner with Singapore's StarHub

Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., signed a strategic alliance deal with Singapore's telecommunications company StarHub to provide...

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...

Kookmin Bank launches foreign currency trading platform KB Star FX

South Korea's largest lender Kookmin Bank on Monday launched its new contactless platform for foreign exchange transactions dubbed KB Star FX.The on...

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...

Woori Bank Launches 3D-based metaverse pilot service

Woori Bank launched a 3D-based metaverse pilot service, the bank said on Friday.The bank will provide two services, one for interaction with small b...

Samsung SDS calls attacks on cloud biggest threat to cyber security

Cloud protection is the top cyber security concern for companies this year, a study says.Samsung SDS Co. on Thursday said this in its report "Top Fi...

SK Hynix gets Intel certification for DDR5 server DRAM

South Korea's major memory chip producer SK Hynix Inc. said on Thursday that it has received certification that its 10-nm class fourth-generation (1...

Hancom Frontis to develop AI digital human, 3D scanning project

Hancom Frontis, a Hancom Group company specializing in the metaverse, said on Tuesday that it has signed a three-way agreement with the Tech Univers...

Korean apparel retailer F&F to produce global K-pop stars

South Korean outdoor clothing retailer F&F Co. made a foray into the entertainment sector to create a synergy of K-content and fashion, competin...

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...

Korean steelmakers accuse Japanese rivals of product dumping

As Japanese hot-rolled steel plates have flooded into South Korea at even lower prices than those from China, Korean steel manufacturers are consi...