Organic food chain Chorocmaeul up for sale amid liquidity woes

Organic food chain Chorocmaeul up for sale amid liquidity woes

Financial investors in Chorocmaeul Co., a South Korean organic food store chain, are seeking to sell the management control of the company, which re...

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 ...

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...

World Vision becomes 1st Korean corporate entity to trade crypto

World Vision becomes 1st Korean corporate entity to trade crypto

Non-government organization World Vision Korea has sold its Ethereum holdings, becoming the first Korean legal entity to trade crypto after the Sout...

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...

Hyundai Motor sets up AI research arm CoMo China

Hyundai Motor sets up AI research arm CoMo China

Hyundai Motor Co. in December established CoMo China in Shanghai to spearhead artificial intelligence research and development in its push for softw...

Korean exports snap 15 months of gains in Jan despite higher chip sales

Korean exports snap 15 months of gains in Jan despite higher chip sales

South Korea’s exports dropped in January on-year for the first time in 16 months due to more holiday days in the month, although overseas sale...

LIG Nex1, Electroninks to team up for component materials

LIG Nex1, Electroninks to team up for component materials

South Korea's LIG Nex1 Co. said Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the US-based Electroninks Inc. to research and develop ne...

President of Latvia visits S.Korea's Daan Cancer Lab

President of Latvia visits S.Korea's Daan Cancer Lab

Daan Cancer Laboratory under Severance Hospital said on Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Latvian government to streng...

PharmaResearch hosts 5th global symposium on 'Rejuran'

PharmaResearch hosts 5th global symposium on 'Rejuran'

PharmaResearch Co. announced that it successfully held the 5th PharmaResearch Global Symposium (PGS) at the Lakai Sandpine Resort on Oct. ...

Mediaiplus aims to be the Amazon of clinical trials

Mediaiplus aims to be the Amazon of clinical trials

Mediaiplus Inc., South Korea’s only provider of data analytics and contract research organization (CRO) matching services for clinical trials,...

Mastern Investment reshuffles organizations

Mastern Investment reshuffles organizations

Mastern Investment Management Co., South Korea's real estate investment firm, said an organizational restructuring on Friday.The firm streamlined it...

Cosmax, Fudan Univ. to team up for microbiome research

Cosmax, Fudan Univ. to team up for microbiome research

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics original development and design manufacturer (ODM), said on Friday it signed a memorandum of understand...

SK Hynix chief says no delay in 12-layer HBM3E supply as demand soars

SK Hynix chief says no delay in 12-layer HBM3E supply as demand soars

Kwak Noh-jung, chief executive of SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, has said there will be no delay in the company&r...

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...

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics, Toyota team up for humanoid robots

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics, Toyota team up for humanoid robots

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s No. 3 and No. 1 automakers, respectively, are teaming ...

Cosmax China to build new headquarters in Shanghai

Cosmax China to build new headquarters in Shanghai

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's cosmetics original development and design manufacturer (ODM), will build a new headquarters in Shanghai's Xinzhuang Indus...

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...

KIS hosts 2024 Stifel Research Forum in Seoul

KIS hosts 2024 Stifel Research Forum in Seoul

Korea Investment & Securities announced on Tuesday that it hosted analysts from Stifel Financial Corp. at its headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, fo...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to boost partnership with RISD

Hyundai Motor, Kia to boost partnership with RISD

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. said on Friday they strengthened their partnership with the renowned US art school, Rhode Island School of Design (R...

Samsung develops health software development kit

Samsung develops health software development kit

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced the Samsung Health Software Development Kit (SDK) Suite, aimed at helping developers and researchers ...

LG Electronics launches Global Heat Pump Consortium

LG Electronics launches Global Heat Pump Consortium

LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday it launched a Global Heat Pump Consortium to strengthen cooperation on heating, ventilation, and air condition...

Hanwha Galleria acquires beverage manufacturer Pure Plus

Hanwha Galleria acquires beverage manufacturer Pure Plus

South Korea's Hanwha Galleria Corp. said on Monday its acquisition of domestic beverage manufacturer Pure Plus.Pure Plus has focused on non-alcoholi...

After 37 years of use, Kim returns trusty microwave to Samsung with love

After 37 years of use, Kim returns trusty microwave to Samsung with love

For 37 years, a simple microwave made by Samsung Electronics Co. sat in the kitchen of Kim Kyu-won, providing much more than convenience.It was ther...

Hanjin to provide logistics services for S.Korean SMEs in Vietnam

Hanjin to provide logistics services for S.Korean SMEs in Vietnam

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Small Enterprise and Mark...

Cosmax, China's Jiangnan Univ. to cooperate joint research

Cosmax, China's Jiangnan Univ. to cooperate joint research

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics original development and design manufacturer (ODM), said on Thursday that it signed a strategic memoran...

Celltrion gets FDA nod for Keytruda copy's phase 3 clinical trials

Celltrion gets FDA nod for Keytruda copy's phase 3 clinical trials

Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s biosimilar giant, will proceed with phase 3 trials for global blockbuster drug Keytruda’s copycat CT-P51, ...

LG Electronics’ new HVAC center in Europe to fight extreme temperatures

LG Electronics’ new HVAC center in Europe to fight extreme temperatures

LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean home appliance maker, said on Monday it has set up a research center in Germany to help develop advanced...

Hyundai Motor Group, Oxford Univ. establish Foresight Center

Hyundai Motor Group, Oxford Univ. establish Foresight Center

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Tuesday that it partnered with the University of Oxford and established the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Ce...

Lotte to halve basic chemicals in portfolio for profitability

Lotte to halve basic chemicals in portfolio for profitability

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals manufacturer Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to more than halve its basic chemicals business by 2030 in its por...

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