Google Maps, Blackpink fans’ must-have item for Deadline World Tour

Google Maps, Blackpink fans’ must-have item for Deadline World Tour

Blinks, the official name of Blackpink's global fandom, is set to enjoy the South Korean girl group’s concerts in the US more conveniently wit...

Allianz-backed Koh Young’s brain surgery robot set for US debut by end-August

Allianz-backed Koh Young’s brain surgery robot set for US debut by end-August

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is set to install its brain ...

POSCO E&C wins $1.1 bn LNG terminal deal in Thailand

POSCO E&C wins $1.1 bn LNG terminal deal in Thailand

POSCO E&C Co., a South Korean engineering and construction company, said on Tuesday that it has secured a 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) contra...

SK Hynix bets on 3D HBM as next game-changer in AI chip race

SK Hynix bets on 3D HBM as next game-changer in AI chip race

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s top DRAM memory chipmaker, aims to redefine the competitive landscape in artificial intelligence memory chips with ...

Trump says Korea interested in Alaska gas project; Korean firms skeptical

Trump says Korea interested in Alaska gas project; Korean firms skeptical

South Korea, Japan and other countries want to partner with the US in a $44 billion natural gas pipeline project in Alaska, President Donald Trump s...

Bank of Korea cuts rates, growth forecast on Trump tariff policy

Bank of Korea cuts rates, growth forecast on Trump tariff policy

South Korea’s central bank on Tuesday cut interest rates while sharply reducing its economic growth forecast as lingering political turmoil fo...

CLO Virtual Fashion raises $35 mn

CLO Virtual Fashion raises $35 mn

South Korea's 3D digital fashion solution startup CLO Virtual Fashion said on Monday it raised 50 billion won ($35 million).Atinum Investment Co. an...

Koreans' yen savings fall on profit-taking despite BOJ rate hike views

Koreans'  yen savings fall on profit-taking despite BOJ rate hike views

Yen-denominated deposits in South Korea fell in November, dragging down overall foreign-currency savings, as investors took profits from the Japanes...

Korea’s export growth at 14-month low, adds to BOK rate cut views

Korea’s export growth at 14-month low, adds to BOK rate cut views

South Korea’s export growth fell to a 14-month low in November with shipments to the world’s two biggest markets the US and China down, ...

Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube

 Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube

The music video for “APT.”, featuring girl group Blackpink's Rose in a duet with pop star Bruno Mars, has surpassed 300 million views on...

Hyundai Motor Group expands R&D partnership with Singapore

Hyundai Motor Group expands R&D partnership with Singapore

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, has expanded its research partnership with Singapore into energy, artificial intelli...

Naver Labs tops in spatial intelligence tech at ECCV

Naver Labs tops in spatial intelligence tech at ECCV

Naver Labs' spatial intelligence technology was recognized as superior to that of Google, Apple, and Meta at the world's leading computer vision con...

Two out of 5 CEOs hold negative views on Korean startup scene

Two out of 5 CEOs hold negative views on Korean startup scene

Nearly half of South Korean startups hold negative views on the country’s startup ecosystem, citing the prolonged startup funding winter and t...

Naver to upgrade Korean map service for foreigners

Naver to upgrade Korean map service for foreigners

South Korean online giant Naver Corp. is set to upgrade its digital map service for foreigners to attract more global users as the domestic market g...

Chip winter looming? Micron, Samsung give opposite views

Chip winter looming? Micron, Samsung give opposite views

Micron Technology Inc. on Wednesday delivered stronger-than-expected quarterly results and gave a bullish outlook for the current quarter, shrugging...

Osstem Implant to boost digital dentistry business

Osstem Implant to boost digital dentistry business

South Korea's Osstem Implant Co., the world’s fourth-largest dental implant maker, will enhance its software system of digital dentistry. ...

Blackpink’s dance performance video surpasses 1.7 billion views

Blackpink’s dance performance video surpasses 1.7 billion views

K-pop girl group Blackpink's “How You Like That” dance performance video has garnered more than 1.7 billion YouTube views, the group's a...

Analysts rebut Morgan Stanley’s chip winter view; oversupply unlikely

Analysts rebut Morgan Stanley’s chip winter view; oversupply unlikely

Morgan Stanley’s recent view that the global chip industry faces an imminent winter and companies like SK Hynix Inc. will suffer is exaggerate...

SK Hynix shares nosedive after Morgan Stanley downgrade

SK Hynix shares nosedive after Morgan Stanley downgrade

The share price of SK Hynix Inc. plummeted as much as 11% at one point on Thursday after Morgan Stanley sharply cut its target price in an about-tur...

Naver D2SF invests in two N.American AI startups

Naver D2SF invests in two N.American AI startups

South Korea's online giant Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) invested in two North American AI startups founded...

Naver Map sees 30% increase in foreign user base

Naver Map sees 30% increase in foreign user base

The foreign users of Naver Map, the map service of South Korea's online platform giant Naver Corp., have a 30% increase from last year.  Naver...

Samsung, Ottogi unveil exclusive lifestyle TV goods

Samsung, Ottogi unveil exclusive lifestyle TV goods

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that it collaborated with the domestic food company Ottogi to release limited edition goods called Samsu...

Korean shipbuilding shares surge on supercycle hope, Trump Trade

Korean shipbuilding shares surge on supercycle hope, Trump Trade

South Korea’s Big Three shipbuilders, also the world’s three largest, stand to benefit from the emerging industry supercycle and the so-...

Bibigo releases 3D ad in New York Times Square

Bibigo releases 3D ad in New York Times Square

CJ CheilJedang Corp.'s Korean food brand Bibigo announced on Thursday that it launched a large-scale outdoor 3D advertisement for the Bibigo brand i...

Samsung to launch 3D HBM chip packaging service in 2024

Samsung to launch 3D HBM chip packaging service in 2024

SAN JOSE -- Samsung Electronics Co. will launch three-dimensional (3D) packaging services for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) within the year, a te...

Nara Space selected as IPEF's top-100 climate startups

Nara Space selected as IPEF's top-100 climate startups

South Korea's micro-satellite startup Nara Space Technology Inc. announced on Friday that it was selected as one of the top-100 climate tech startup...

Hyundai ties up with AWS, Meta, Microsoft for open map

Hyundai ties up with AWS, Meta, Microsoft for open map

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, teamed up with Big Tech companies such as Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Meta Platf...

SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...

Kia unveils teaser images for The New EV6

Kia unveils teaser images for The New EV6

Kia Corp., the second-largest automaker in South Korea, is introducing an improved model of its first-ever all-electric sports utility vehicle (SUV)...

Korean won at 17-month low on Middle East woes, Fed rate view

Korean won at 17-month low on Middle East woes, Fed rate view

The South Korean won currency on Tuesday fell to its weakest level in 17 months, briefly touching the psychologically important 1,400 per dollar lev...

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