Woori Financial wins approval for Tongyang, ABL Life acquisition

Woori Financial wins approval for Tongyang, ABL Life acquisition

Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services provider, has received conditional approval from the country&rsquo...

ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK

ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK

ABL Bio Inc., a South Korean biotech company, will license out its proprietary blood-brain barrier shuttle platform, called the Grabody-B, to UK-bas...

Hyundai E&C wins $725 mn Saudi Arabia HVDC line order

Hyundai E&C wins $725 mn Saudi Arabia HVDC line order

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) said on Tuesday it has bagged a $725 million order to build a power transmission line i...

Woori signs $1.16 bn deal to acquire Tongyang, ABL Life from China’s Dajia

Woori signs $1.16 bn deal to acquire Tongyang, ABL Life from China’s Dajia

Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services provider, said on Wednesday it has signed a deal to acquire Tongya...

Woori to buy Dajia’s insurers in Korea for up to $2.2 bn

Woori to buy Dajia’s insurers in Korea for up to $2.2 bn

Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services holding company, is set to acquire China’s Dajia Insurance G...

Samsung to offer AI features in Galaxy Z6 foldable series

Samsung to offer AI features in Galaxy Z6 foldable series

Samsung Electronics Co. will power its Galaxy Z6 series due to be unveiled next month with mobile AI technology, including a live translation featur...

Reversing age possible in a decade: Harvard Prof. David Sinclair

Reversing age possible in a decade: Harvard Prof. David Sinclair

Humans will be able to control biological age and reverse their age in 10 years with advancements in medical science and live up to around 120, abou...

DeepBrain AI launches deepfake detection solution

DeepBrain AI launches deepfake detection solution

South Korean AI startup DeepBrain AI announced on Friday that it released the country's first service-as-a-software (SaaS)-based deepfake detection ...

AI, cloud to rule video surveillance market in 2024: Hanwha Vision

AI, cloud to rule video surveillance market in 2024: Hanwha Vision

Hanwha Vision Co., formerly Hanwha Techwin, expects the global video surveillance market to undergo a major upgrade with the development of artifici...

'World-class bispecific antibody technology of ABL Bio'

'World-class bispecific antibody technology of ABL Bio'

MADRID - "The clinical Phase 1 results of the immune-oncology candidate ABL111, developed in collaboration with ABL Bio, have been selected as the b...

ABL Bio gets OK for phase 1 clinical trials for immune-oncology drug

ABL Bio gets OK for phase 1 clinical trials for immune-oncology drug

New drug development company ABL Bio Inc. announced on Thursday that it has received approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of South Kor...

Korea's IMM to invest $23 mn in battery parts supplier Choil Aluminum

Korea's IMM to invest $23 mn in battery parts supplier Choil Aluminum

South Korean private credit firm IMM Credit & Solutions Inc. will invest 30 billion won ($23.4 million) in Choil Aluminum Co., an EV battery com...

Korean cosmetics maker Able C&C rejuvenated by sales in Japan, US

Korean cosmetics maker Able C&C rejuvenated by sales in Japan, US

Able C&C, the parent of South Korea’s first-generation low-priced cosmetics brand Missha, has swung to the black after years of net losses...

Woori, ABL Life commit to Rubicon’s infrastructure debt fund

Woori, ABL Life commit to Rubicon’s infrastructure debt fund

South Korea’s Woori Global Asset Management Co. and ABL Life Insurance Co. have committed a sizeable amount of capital to a first closing of a...

S.Korea to develop supercomputer for industrial use

S.Korea to develop supercomputer for industrial use

South Korea is set to develop a supercomputer for industrial use as Asia’s fourth-largest economy lags far behind on the performance of such d...

LG Chem secures exclusive deal for Israeli desalination project

LG Chem secures exclusive deal for Israeli desalination project

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. revealed on Thursday that it has been awarded the exclusive contract as the sole supplier of reverse osmosis (RO) membran...

Samsung develops 128GB DRAM for data intensive applications

Samsung develops 128GB DRAM for data intensive applications

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Friday it has developed the industry’s first 128-gigabyte DRAM based on the compute express link (CXL) 2.0 mem...

S.Korea, US agree on simplified EV charger export procedure

S.Korea, US agree on simplified EV charger export procedure

South Korean companies looking to export electric vehicle chargers to the United States can now receive local certification more conveniently within...

Daesang Wellife signs contract with RexSoft for healthcare platform

Daesang Wellife signs contract with RexSoft for healthcare platform

South Korea's Daesang Wellife Corp. has inked a 2 billion won ($1.5 million) investment contract with local healthcare data science company RexSoft ...

S.Korea to allow offshore investors to directly trade won

S.Korea to allow offshore investors to directly trade won

South Korea is set to allow offshore investors to directly trade the won and extend the operating hours of the local currency market from July next ...

Lotte showcases metaverse shopping pavilion at CES 2023

Lotte showcases metaverse shopping pavilion at CES 2023

Sitting on a chair, people with head-mounted displays enter a virtual world where they can choose their preferred avatars.Through these avatars, the...

Dajia Insurance likely to put Korea's ABL Life up for sale again

Dajia Insurance likely to put Korea's ABL Life up for sale again

China’s Dajia Insurance Group Co. seeks to divest of a full stake in its South Korean subsidiary ABL Life Insurance Co. with an estimated valu...

SK Chair Chey advises startups to address social issues for viability

SK Chair Chey advises startups to address social issues for viability

In an event that marked the 10-year anniversary of startup accelerator SparkLabs, South Korean business magnate Chey Tae-won said now is the time fo...

LG Uplus’ Uplus Drive to be installed in Lexus New Generation NX series

LG Uplus’ Uplus Drive to be installed in Lexus New Generation NX series

The in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system by LG Uplus will be equipped in the new line of vehicles by Toyota Motor Corp. and its luxury division Lexu...

UK satellite firm OneWeb to provide services in Korea

UK satellite firm OneWeb to provide services in Korea

UK’s satellite company OneWeb plans to provide services for airlines and ships in South Korea where its geographic conditions kept the existin...

Korea to open temporary settlement lines for trade with Russia

Korea to open temporary settlement lines for trade with Russia

South Korea plans to open temporary settlement lines between domestic banks and their units in Russia in order to help companies hit by multinationa...

SK E&S to start business of carbon storage in depleted gas fields

SK E&S to start business of carbon storage in depleted gas fields

South Korea’s SK E&S Co. is set to enter the business of carbon storage in depleted gas fields.The natural gas business unit of SK Group s...

ABL Life co-invests in Everbright’s infra fund with 13% return

ABL Life co-invests in Everbright’s infra fund with 13% return

Korea’s ABL Life Insurance Co. has participated in Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP, a $460 million fund managed by Hon...

ABL Bio in $1.06 bn deal with Sanofi for Parkinson's disease treatment

ABL Bio in $1.06 bn deal with Sanofi for Parkinson's disease treatment

South Korea’s ABL Bio Inc. has signed a $1.06 billion contract to license out its technology for a Parkinson's disease treatment candidate t...

Korea’s Nuri: Mission unaccomplished, but one step closer to space

Korea’s Nuri: Mission unaccomplished, but one step closer to space

South Korea has launched its first domestically designed and developed space rocket Nuri, but failed to put a satellite into orbit, thwarting its bid ...

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