talent war
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Artificial intelligence
LG Group’s AI academy to foster young talent bears fruit
On April 6, at LG Inwhawon, called LG Academy in English, in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, 99 college students and twenty-somethings were wrestling wit...
Apr 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
HD Hyundai to supply 60 excavators to Sudan
South Korea's HD Hyundai Construction Equipment Co. announced on Wednesday that it recently signed a contract to supply 60 construction equipment un...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG Elec expands workforce to enhance AI cyber security
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, is actively increasing its workforce to improve artificial intelligence cyber security...
Mar 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KASA, Korea’s NASA, embarks on hunt for space talent
South Korea seeking to join the global space power club is set to recruit about 120 local and foreign space experts for the country’s space ag...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
ISS backs Kumho Petrochem in family feud-triggered proxy war
Proxy advisory firm International Shareholder Services (ISS) has expressed its support for all of Kumho Petrochemical Co.'s proposals up for vote ...
Mar 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
LG invests $60 million in Bear Robotics as robot OS war intensifies
South Korea’s high-tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday it has invested $60 million in Bear Robotics Inc., a Silicon Valley-based se...
Mar 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai Steel to resume steel production in Russia
South Korea’s Hyundai Steel Co. is expected to resume steel production in Russia two years after it took its plant offline in the country amid...
Mar 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Kookmin Bank opens KB Prasac Bank in Cambodia
KB Kookmin Bank announced on Monday that it held an opening event for the integrated commercial bank KB Prasac Bank PLC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on ...
Feb 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea's EcoPro to seek local talent in Hungary
South Korean battery materials manufacturer EcoPro Co. announced on Monday that it partnered with the Debrecen Vocational Training Center in Debrece...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
Delays in court rulings raise business risks for South Korean companies
Less than five years ago, Invossa, a cell and gene therapy for osteoarthritis, was expected to hit the global market with great fanfare.Developed by...
Feb 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Naver, Com2uS slash workforce to downsize new businesses
South Korea’s leading online platforms and gaming publishers such as Naver Corp., Com2uS Corp. and Kakao Corp. have joined global Big Tech com...
Jan 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai, Kia offer up to $7,500 discounts for EVs in US
Hyundai Motor Group., the No. 2 electric vehicle brand in the US, is offering discounts of up to $7,500 for their EVs in the country — the max...
Jan 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix join forces with foreign rivals to win AI chip war
South Korea’s two chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are expected to further deepen ties with rivals and customers from aro...
Dec 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to relocate packaging unit workplace to lure talent
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is set to relocate its advanced packaging department’s workplace in South Kor...
Dec 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech
South Korea’s Naver Z Corp., the operator of virtual world platform Zepeto, said Monday it will join forces with the United Arab Emirates&rsqu...
Dec 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai Elevator, ERBUD forge partnership for Ukraine's rebuilding efforts
South Korea's Hyundai Elevator Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ERBUD, a leading Polish construction company, on November 28, in ...
Nov 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
South Korea lags behind US, China in AI talent pool
South Korea lags far behind advanced countries in nurturing artificial intelligence (AI) talent due to the lack of proper skills development program...
Nov 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
DGB partners with Vietnamese IT company
South Korea's DGB Financial Group announced on Monday it signed a business agreement with the global IT company FPT Software at the FPT Group headqu...
Nov 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung showcases HBM3E DRAM, automotive chips
SILICON VALLEY -- Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday showcased a number of new-concept, next-generation DRAM chips, including the industry’s mo...
Oct 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG waging fierce war in OLED screen panels
South Korea’s Samsung Display and LG Display Co. are locked in a fierce war for supremacy in manufacturing OLED panels for monitors amid boomi...
Oct 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Israel-Hamas war takes toll on S.Korean pilgrims
The war in Israel and Gaza, which has paralyzed some parts of the Middle East, is also set to put a complete stop to South Koreans’ tours of t...
Oct 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean startups join push to champion satellite data analytics market
Artificial intelligence is making big changes everywhere, even in space. Joining an AI-controlled space war, South Korean startups armed with AI tec...
Oct 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Elec to launch HBM4 in 2025 to win war in AI sector
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, aims to introduce sixth-generation top-performance High Bandwidth Memory4 (HBM4) DR...
Oct 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Lotte's chemical units look for talent from US universities
Lotte Group's two chemical units in South Korea searched for talent in US universities.Lotte Chemical Corp. and Lotte Fine Chemical Co. organized ...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
CJ CheilJedang searches for global bio talent in Boston
South Korean food and bio giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Monday said its Chief Technology Officer Hwang Yun-il, CJ CheilJedang BIO executive Yoon Seo...
Sep 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, Georgia Tech partner for future mobility tech
Hyundai Motor Group has chosen Georgia Tech as its new academic partner in the US to work together on developing sustainable mobility technologies a...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor set to exit Russia with St. Petersburg plant sale to AGR
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is reportedly exiting Russia by selling its car manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg to AGR Aut...
Sep 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
S.Korea's airline industry waging fierce price war in fall
South Korea's airline sector is meeting high travel demand during the extended Chuseok (Thanksgiving) holidays late this month by aggressively offer...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s smaller firms embrace older, experienced workforce
South Korea’s liquid filtration system developer Neos Corp. has seven employees, all seasoned mechanical and electrical engineers in their 60s...
Aug 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics cuts H1 costs by $1.6 billion on stable supply chain
LG Electronics Inc. has slashed raw material and transportation costs by 2.12 trillion won ($1.6 billion) in the first half thanks to a stable sup...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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- 3 Trump Jr. meets Korean business chiefs in back-to-back sessions
- 4 Samsung in talks to supply customized HBM4 to Nvidia, Broadcom, Google
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