S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared

S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared

After nearly a decade spent fighting allegations of corporate wrongdoing, Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong has been acquitted on all ch...

Lotte Biologics signs antibody drug CMO deal with UK’s Ottimo Pharma

Lotte Biologics signs antibody drug CMO deal with UK’s Ottimo Pharma

BOSTON – Lotte Biologics Co. has signed a deal to manufacture an antibody therapy for British biotech startup Ottimo Pharma as the South Korea...

S.Korea’s CDMO giant Samsung Biologics to offer CRO services

S.Korea’s CDMO giant Samsung Biologics to offer CRO services

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, will enter the contract research organization (CRO) market by leveraging its va...

Samsung Biologics drives foreign lead in Korea’s biotech supply chain

Samsung Biologics drives foreign lead in Korea’s biotech supply chain

A surge in orders from Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, has propelled South Korea to the forefront of global rev...

Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis

Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, will undergo a strategic split to separate its contract development and manufac...

BYD’s Atto 3 overtakes Tesla’s Model Y as best-selling EV in South Korea

BYD’s Atto 3 overtakes Tesla’s Model Y as best-selling EV in South Korea

China’s BYD Co. has dethroned Tesla Inc. in South Korea with its compact sport utility vehicle, the BYD Atto 3, becoming the best-selling impo...

Samsung Biologics bags $514 mn CMO contract from US pharma

Samsung Biologics bags $514 mn CMO contract from US pharma

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO), said on Monday it has secured a $5.14 million order from...

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...

Samsung Biologics shares fly high to be Korea’s third most valuable firm

Samsung Biologics shares fly high to be Korea’s third most valuable firm

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, has become South Korea’s third most valuable stock on the country’s...

Samsung Biologics posts record 2024 sales, operating profit as it goes global

Samsung Biologics posts record 2024 sales, operating profit as it goes global

South Korea's Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, on Wednesday posted its largest-ever annual sales and operating p...

Lotte Biologics eyes first ADC CDMO order in 2025

Lotte Biologics eyes first ADC CDMO order in 2025

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lotte Biologics Co., the drug consignment development and production unit of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, will seek to wi...

Samsung Biologics signs $1.4 bn CMO deal with European pharma

Samsung Biologics signs $1.4 bn CMO deal with European pharma

South Korea's Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Tuesday it signed a $1.4 billion contract manufacturing o...

Samsung Biologics signs initial deal with LigaChem Bio on ADC production

Samsung Biologics signs initial deal with LigaChem Bio on ADC production

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Thursday it has signed an initial agreement with LigaChem Biosciences I...

Seoul probes fake online accounts of Hyundai Motor advisor Sung Kim

Seoul probes fake online accounts of Hyundai Motor advisor Sung Kim

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has launched an investigation into social media accounts pretending to be Hyundai Motor Group advisor Sung Kim,...

Samsung Biologics wins $668 million CDMO deal with European pharma

Samsung Biologics wins $668 million CDMO deal with European pharma

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it has signed two drug manufacturing contracts worth a combin...

AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A round

AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A round

MarqVision Inc., a startup developing an artificial intelligence-powered intellectual property (IP) protection platform, raised 22 billion won ($16....

IMBiologics transfers autoimmune disease drug tech to Huadong Pharma

IMBiologics transfers autoimmune disease drug tech to Huadong Pharma

South Korea's antibody-based biotech company IMBiologics announced on Friday that it signed a contract to transfer the technology of its autoimmune ...

Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling

Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling

Foreigners and institutional investors in the South Korean stock market picked biotechs as their favorite shares in hopes of a biopharma stock jump ...

Samsung’s biotech duo on a roll with $1.1 bn CMO order

Samsung’s biotech duo on a roll with $1.1 bn CMO order

Samsung Group is on track to rise to the top of biosimilar companies in the world and become South Korea’s largest drug maker for contract man...

Lotte Biologics targets $1.1 billion in sales with new bio plants

Lotte Biologics targets $1.1 billion in sales with new bio plants

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Lotte Biologics Co. said on Wednesday it is aiming for 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in annual sales by 203...

Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China row

Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China row

SAN DIEGO – Samsung Biologics Co. is enjoying a stream of contract development and manufacturing order inquiries from big pharmaceutical compa...

Samsung's Jay Y. Lee visits Zeiss to reinforce EUV ties

Samsung's Jay Y. Lee visits Zeiss to reinforce EUV ties

Samsung Electronics Co. is deepening ties with Zeiss Group, the sole provider of optical systems to the world’s only extreme ultraviolet (EUV)...

Kia to enter emerging markets with its latest EV5 made in China

Kia to enter emerging markets with its latest EV5 made in China

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to enhance its presence in emerging markets with the EV5 compact SUV, the company&rsq...

Samsung Biologics signs ADC CDO deal with LegoChem Bio

Samsung Biologics signs ADC CDO deal with LegoChem Bio

Samsung Biologics Co. has agreed with South Korean biotech company LegoChem Biosciences Inc. to provide contract development organization (CDO) serv...

Jay Y. Lee heads to Middle East, Malaysia for next Samsung takeoff

Jay Y. Lee heads to Middle East, Malaysia for next Samsung takeoff

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee has embarked on a business trip to the Middle East in his first overseas trip since a South Korean court...

Daedong Gear to supply $137mn EV parts to Hyundai

Daedong Gear to supply $137mn EV parts to Hyundai

Daedong Gear Co., a powertrain subsidiary of South Korea’s Daedong Group, announced on Thursday that it has won a 183.6 billion won ($137 mill...

Lotte Biologics, NJ Bio to jointly develop ADC

Lotte Biologics, NJ Bio to jointly develop ADC

South Korea's Lotte Biologics Co. announced on Monday that it has signed a strategic business agreement with NJ Bio, a US-based preclinical and clin...

Samsung Biologics reaches record-breaking annual orders

Samsung Biologics reaches record-breaking annual orders

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization (CMO) by capacity, surpassed the annual contract manufacturing orde...

Samsung sets up future business planning unit, keeps co-CEO system

Samsung sets up future business planning unit, keeps co-CEO system

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips and smartphones, is creating a new division tasked with working out future ...

S.Korea-UK upgrade bilateral ties, sign deals on nuclear plants, chips

S.Korea-UK upgrade bilateral ties, sign deals on nuclear plants, chips

LONDON – South Korea and the UK have agreed to upgrade their bilateral relationship and closely cooperate in the defense, security and busines...

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