K-style strikes back to win over China’s Gen Z with Musinsa at helm

K-style strikes back to win over China’s Gen Z with Musinsa at helm

Musinsa, South Korea’s fashion unicorn backed by KKR Co., is set to bring the K-style wave to China with Anta Sports Products Ltd., China's le...

Economic strain drives millennials, Gen Z into collectible craze

Economic strain drives millennials, Gen Z into collectible craze

SHANGHAI – Standing in the rain, lines of people snake along Nanjing Dong Lu, Shanghai’s bustling shopping street, outside a Miniso shop...

Is chip winter over? Doomsayers gone as Korea’s DRAM exports surge

Is chip winter over? Doomsayers gone as Korea’s DRAM exports surge

Global memory chip markets, long weighed down by excess inventories and sagging demand, are showing early signs of a thaw.South Korea’s export...

Samsung supplies HBM3E to AMD’s new accelerators

Samsung supplies HBM3E to AMD’s new accelerators

Samsung Electronics Co. has delivered the fifth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to a major AI chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), ...

SK Hynix beats Samsung to become global No.1 DRAM maker

SK Hynix beats Samsung to become global No.1 DRAM maker

SK Hynix Inc. has snatched the crown from Samsung Electronics Co. to become the world’s largest memory chip supplier for the first time since ...

HD Hyundai, TerraPower to commercialize next-gen SMR

HD Hyundai, TerraPower to commercialize next-gen SMR

South Korea’s largest shipbuilder, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., is deepening its partnership with TerraPower LLC, the US nuclear venture f...

SK Bioscience, Sanofi to develop next-gen pneumococcal vaccines

SK Bioscience, Sanofi to develop next-gen pneumococcal vaccines

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. said on Friday it signed an expanded agreement with Sanofi to co-develop next-generation pneumococcal conjugate vacc...

LG Energy bags 8-GWh ESS deal from Terra-Gen in US

LG Energy bags 8-GWh ESS deal from Terra-Gen in US

LG Energy Solution Ltd. will supply US renewable energy power producer Terra-Gen LLC with an energy storage system (ESS) with an 8 Gigawatt-hour (GW...

SK Hynix, Samsung to cut legacy DRAM output as Chinese firms catch up

SK Hynix, Samsung to cut legacy DRAM output as Chinese firms catch up

South Korea’s two leading memory chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – are moving to significantly reduce their...

Samsung mobile chief to talk with Qualcomm on Galaxy S25 chips

Samsung mobile chief to talk with Qualcomm on Galaxy S25 chips

Global smartphone leader Samsung Electronics Co.'s mobile business chief is expected to hold talks with senior executives of Qualcomm Inc. about s...

Hankook Tire supplies tires to BMW

Hankook Tire supplies tires to BMW

South Korea's Hankook Tire & Technology said on Wednesday that it started to supply its Ventus S1 evo Z tires as original equipment for BMW's se...

Artificial intelligence creates DRAM divide between hot sellers, laggards

Artificial intelligence creates DRAM divide between hot sellers, laggards

In recent years, the big buzz across industries has been around the power of artificial intelligence, with some critics raising concerns about AI ex...

SK Hynix to participate in TSMC's OIP 2024

SK Hynix to participate in TSMC's OIP 2024

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. will participate in the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum hosted by Taiwan's TSMC, the world's lar...

Samjong KPMG reappoints CEO Kim Kyo Tae for 4th term

Samjong KPMG reappoints CEO Kim Kyo Tae for 4th term

Kim Kyo Tae on Friday was reappointed to a fourth term as chief executive of Samjong KPMG, announced the South Korean unit of the global audit and a...

Samsung, SK Hynix ramp up DRAM business on rapid AI growth

Samsung, SK Hynix ramp up DRAM business on rapid AI growth

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.,the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are expanding their dynamic random access memory business...

SK Hynix unveils industry’s 1st 10-nanometer DDR5, aims for top spot

SK Hynix unveils industry’s 1st 10-nanometer DDR5, aims for top spot

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has emerged as the dominant player in the sought-aft...

Liner ranks 9th in generative AI services selected by a16z

Liner ranks 9th in generative AI services selected by a16z

South Korea's generative AI startup Liner said on Friday that its search service ranked 9th in the web services category of the Top-100 Gen AI Consu...

Samsung, Trek Bicycle launch Ultra Riding Challenge

Samsung, Trek Bicycle launch Ultra Riding Challenge

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday that it launched the Ultra Riding Challenge in collaboration with global bicycle brand Trek Bicycle, offerin...

LIG Nex1, Palantir join forces on AI weaponry

LIG Nex1, Palantir join forces on AI weaponry

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading South Korean defense contractor, is teaming up with US artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Palantir Technologies to deve...

Samsung produces thinnest low-power DRAM for AI mobile devices

Samsung produces thinnest low-power DRAM for AI mobile devices

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, has begun mass production of the industry’s thinnest low-power double data ra...

Samsung sets sights on next-generation memory CXL DRAM

Samsung sets sights on next-generation memory CXL DRAM

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on next-generation memory technology, dubbed CXL, to lead the artificial intel...

Samsung’s fastest LPDDR5X validated on MediaTek’s Dimensity chipset

Samsung’s fastest LPDDR5X validated on MediaTek’s Dimensity chipset

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has completed the performance verification of its latest LPDDR5X chip for use in ...

POSCO E&C, KAERI to collaborate on HTGR techs

POSCO E&C, KAERI to collaborate on HTGR techs

South Korea's POSCO E&C said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI...

SK Telecom, Singtel partner for next-gen network tech

SK Telecom, Singtel partner for next-gen network tech

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) to collab...

LG Uplus launches generative AI ixi-GEN

LG Uplus launches generative AI ixi-GEN

South Korean major mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. officially launched its generative artificial intelligence model ixi-GEN on Tuesday, joining its bi...

Hyundai Rotem unveils 4th-gen unmanned military vehicle, HR-Sherpa

Hyundai Rotem unveils 4th-gen unmanned military vehicle, HR-Sherpa

South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Co. unveiled the 4th generation HR-Sherpa, a multipurpose unmanned vehicle designed for military operations.The latest H...

Affluent Gen Xers lead e-commerce shopping in South Korea

Affluent Gen Xers lead e-commerce shopping in South Korea

Affluent Generation Xers, also pioneers in the digital landscape who navigated the early days of personal computing and witnessed the advent of the ...

Hyundai E&C, KAERI partner to commercialize next-gen reactors

Hyundai E&C, KAERI partner to commercialize next-gen reactors

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Wednesday that it signed a public-private partnership agreement for the so...

SK Hynix looks to expand AI memory leadership with new NAND chip

SK Hynix looks to expand AI memory leadership with new NAND chip

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. aims to expand its memory leadership in the artificial intelligence sphere beyond the high-performance DRAM segmen...

Startups bet on affluent Gen X in Korea’s senior living market

Startups bet on affluent Gen X in Korea’s senior living market

Elder-care startups are rushing to build high-end senior homes in South Korea targeting affluent Generation Xers set to retire in five years on expe...

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