Korea’s aesthetic medicine enjoys golden era with surge in foreign spending

Korea’s aesthetic medicine enjoys golden era with surge in foreign spending

As beauty-conscious tourists continue to flock to Seoul’s clinics, South Korea’s aesthetic medicine sector may be entering a golden era,...

Celltrion unveils cancer medicine to expand new drug pipelines

Celltrion unveils cancer medicine to expand new drug pipelines

South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer Celltrion Inc. on Sunday unveiled an anticancer medicine to expand new pipelines and accelerat...

Genesis premieres premium electric off-road SUV X Gran Equator Concept

Genesis premieres premium electric off-road SUV X Gran Equator Concept

NEW YORK – Genesis, the luxury brand of South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co., has premiered its first electric off-roader conce...

Chong Kun Dang to build new plant for foray into biologics market

Chong Kun Dang to build new plant for foray into biologics market

Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp. is discussing building a research center and a plant in Siheung, about 30 kilometers southwest of Seoul, with th...

S.Korea’s default risk dips below pre-martial law levels

S.Korea’s default risk dips below pre-martial law levels

South Korea’s financial market has stabilized with a sharp fall in the country’s default risk and some recovery of its currency value ag...

LG, SNU team up to develop AI modeling for protein structure predictions

LG, SNU team up to develop AI modeling for protein structure predictions

LG AI Research Institute, the artificial intelligence think-tank of LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Thursday signed a ...

Kia starts to produce Syros SUV in India

Kia starts to produce Syros SUV in India

Kia Corp. started mass production of the Syros, a versatile sports utility vehicle (SUV) specifically designed to meet the needs of customers in I...

Ruthless Politics of South Korea Is Rooted in Cold-War History

Ruthless Politics of South Korea Is Rooted in Cold-War History

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Hyundai Motor, Kia unveil wearable robot X-ble Shoulder

Hyundai Motor, Kia unveil wearable robot X-ble Shoulder

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. unveiled the wearable robot X-ble Shoulder at Wearable Robot Tech Day held at the Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang, Gyeong...

LS Group’s US magnet wire unit to go public with $1.4 bn value

LS Group’s US magnet wire unit to go public with $1.4 bn value

The US magnet wire unit of South Korea’s leading electric power, materials and energy conglomerate LS Group is seeking an initial public offer...

DS Dansuk wins $750 mn SAF material order from Phillips 66

DS Dansuk wins $750 mn SAF material order from Phillips 66

South Korea's DS Dansuk Co., which operates bioenergy, battery, and plastic recycling businesses, said on Monday it signed a 1 trillion won ($750 mi...

Hyundai, SNU, POSTECH, KIST build joint robotics lab

Hyundai, SNU, POSTECH, KIST build joint robotics lab

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that it established a joint robotics research lab in collaboration with South Korea's top research institution...

CJ Logistics, Baropharm to cooperate on pharmaceutical logistics

CJ Logistics, Baropharm to cooperate on pharmaceutical logistics

South Korea's CJ Logistics said on Monday it signed a strategic partnership and exclusive pharmaceutical logistics contract with Baropharm, an integ...

Management dispute brewing at leggings brand Xexymix operator Brand X?

Management dispute brewing at leggings brand Xexymix operator Brand X?

A leadership change in Brand X Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top leggings brand Xexymix, is spawning speculation that a management cont...

Naver’s HyperCLOVA X Vision proves a picture is worth a thousand words

Naver’s HyperCLOVA X Vision proves a picture is worth a thousand words

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the adage goes, stressing the power of vision over text.People also say eyes are windows to the soul, emphas...

Yuhan’s lung cancer drug clears FDA hurdle for global debut

Yuhan’s lung cancer drug clears FDA hurdle for global debut

A new lung cancer treatment developed by South Korea’s Yuhan Corp. has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a co...

Acquisition loan rates dip to pre-pandemic levels in S.Korea

Acquisition loan rates dip to pre-pandemic levels in S.Korea

Interest rates on acquisition financing in South Korea are set to stabilize at the 5% level, rates last seen before COVID-19 swept the world, height...

Lunit participates in Singapore's AI diagnostic solution project

Lunit participates in Singapore's AI diagnostic solution project

Lunit, a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, announced on Wednesday that it solely participates in a chest X-ray reading workflow improvemen...

SK Telecom's X Caliber to enter SE Asian pet market

SK Telecom's X Caliber to enter SE Asian pet market

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract to supply X Caliber, an AI-based pet diagnosis assistance solution, to t...

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest foldable phones showed strong sales potential in India, the world's most populous country, with pre-sales for the G...

SK Telecom's X Caliber enters N.American pet market

SK Telecom's X Caliber enters N.American pet market

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Monday that it signed a distribution agreement with Canadian pet medical equipment company Nuon & Nikk...

PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance

PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance

PhyxUp Health Inc., an early stage South Korean digital healthcare startup, will soon close a pre-seed funding round, said its founder and chief, wh...

S.Korea sees foreign visitors 95% of pre-pandemic

S.Korea sees foreign visitors 95% of pre-pandemic

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Friday that the number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea in May was 1.42 million, an increa...

Duty-free stores: Golden goose gone for Korean retailers

Duty-free stores: Golden goose gone for Korean retailers

South Korea welcomed a record-high number of post-pandemic foreign tourist arrivals for a single quarter in the first three months of this year, but...

Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center

Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University (SNU) to establish an ...

HD Hyundai's Future-X wins Red Dot Design Award

HD Hyundai's Future-X wins Red Dot Design Award

South Korea's HD Hyundai XiteSolution announced on Thursday that its futuristic unmanned construction equipment Future-X won the Best of the Best Aw...

SK Telecom launches AI pet diagnostic solution in Australia

SK Telecom launches AI pet diagnostic solution in Australia

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Wednesday that it launched its AI-based pet diagnostic assistance service X Caliber in Australia and has b...

World’s No.1 magnet wire maker SPSX mulls Korean IPO

World’s No.1 magnet wire maker SPSX mulls Korean IPO

Superior Essex Inc. (SPSX), the world’s top magnet wire provider under South Korea’s LS Group, is mulling an initial public offering in ...

Samsung’s new AI PC to hit global market in mid-June

Samsung’s new AI PC to hit global market in mid-June

Samsung Electronics Co. will start offering the Galaxy Book4 Edge, a new addition to its latest flagship Galaxy Book4 laptop series and powered by b...

NPS corp governance committee taps SNU professor as member

NPS corp governance committee taps SNU professor as member

A corporate governance committee of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, has named a Seoul Na...

Kakao Pay backs out of acquisition deal for SSG Pay, Smile Pay Hanwha in talks to buy five-star hotel Paraspara Seoul Kia's Lego-like PV5 with 16 variants to hit market in July Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared