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...

UK chip testing device maker TeraView seeks Kosdaq debut

UK chip testing device maker TeraView seeks Kosdaq debut

TeraView Ltd., a UK semiconductor inspection device maker, is aiming to list on South Korea’s Kosdaq market in the second half of this year, i...

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...

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...

Asia’s defense stocks climb on hopes of more European arms spending

Asia’s defense stocks climb on hopes of more European arms spending

Defense stocks in key Asian markets jumped on Tuesday, buoyed by expectations that European nations will boost security spending amid fears that the...

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...

Boryung, Lotus Pharma signs CDMO deal on anticancer injection

Boryung, Lotus Pharma signs CDMO deal on anticancer injection

South Korea's Boryung Corp. said on Thursday it signed a contract with Lotus Pharmaceutical, a Taiwanese oncology firm, for contract development and...

Hanwha Ocean, Babcock to team up for submarine exports

Hanwha Ocean, Babcock to team up for submarine exports

South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co. said on Friday it signed a strategic partnership with the UK-based global defense industry giant Babcock Internationa...

SM's UK K-pop group Dear Alice to debut with Gamma

SM's UK K-pop group Dear Alice to debut with Gamma

South Korea's SM Entertainment Co. partnered with the US-based music label "Gamma." to globally debut its first British K-Pop boy group Dear Alice.A...

Hanmi Pharma to move up launch of anti-obesity drug

Hanmi Pharma to move up launch of anti-obesity drug

South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Thursday the launch of its anti-obesity drug candidate efpeglenatide has been rescheduled ...

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...

Korea’s Lunit in AI-powered lung cancer diagnostics deal with AstraZeneca

Korea’s Lunit in AI-powered lung cancer diagnostics deal with AstraZeneca

Lunit Inc., a South Korean AI-powered cancer diagnostics company, has partnered with global biopharma giant AstraZeneca plc. to jointly enter the AI...

LIG Nex1, UK’s Babcock sign MOU to develop global MRO market

LIG Nex1, UK’s Babcock sign MOU to develop global MRO market

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading defense systems developer in South Korea, announced on Wednesday that it had signed a comprehensive memorandum of understand...

S.Korea's Daesang holds kimchi contest in US

S.Korea's Daesang holds kimchi contest in US

South Korea's Daesang Corp. said on Monday it hosted the "Jongga Kimchi Blast" event in the US to promote kimchi and elevate Korean food culture.&...

Korea’s Hyundai E&C likely to join UK SMR race with Holtec

Korea’s Hyundai E&C likely to join UK SMR race with Holtec

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C), in partnership with US-based Holtec International Corp. is likely ...

APR enters UK cosmetics market

APR enters UK cosmetics market

South Korea's cosmetic and clothing company APR said on Monday that it entered PureSeoul, a UK-based distributor specializing in K-beauty.PureSeoul ...

HiteJinro to boost soju marketing in UK

HiteJinro to boost soju marketing in UK

South Korea’s leading soju maker HiteJinro Co. said on Friday that it's boosting soju marketing in the UK. From August 16 to 25, HiteJinr...

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 ...

LG Elec OLED evo TV tops in 14 countries

LG Elec OLED evo TV tops in 14 countries

LG Electronics Inc. announced that its premium lineup LG OLED evo TVs achieved first place in performance evaluations by consumer media outlets in...

Samsung buys UK deep tech startup to boost AI business

Samsung buys UK deep tech startup to boost AI business

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top mobile phone maker, will acquire Oxford Semantic Technologies, a British deep tech startup, to enhanc...

Daewoong wins permission for Nabota in Argentina

Daewoong wins permission for Nabota in Argentina

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Monday that its botulinum toxin Nabota received product approval from Argentina's National Ad...

Kwangdong Pharma acquires stake in Precision Bio

Kwangdong Pharma acquires stake in Precision Bio

South Korea's Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Tuesday that it signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire Precision Biosensor Inc., a company...

Daewoong, Indonesia's IPB to co-research on primate

Daewoong, Indonesia's IPB to co-research on primate

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Thursday that it signed a contract with Indonesia's Bogor Agricultural University (Institut P...

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...

Korea’s HD Hyundai Electric wins $60 mn transformer deal in UK

Korea’s HD Hyundai Electric wins $60 mn transformer deal in UK

South Korea’s electric equipment maker HD Hyundai Electric Co. said on Wednesday it has won a power transformer supply deal worth 47.1 million...

LG named UK’s best home entertainment brand for five years

LG named UK’s best home entertainment brand for five years

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has been named Home Entertainment Brand of the Year at the "Which? Awards," hosted by the UK non-...

Doosan Robotics opens Europe office in Germany

Doosan Robotics opens Europe office in Germany

South Korea's Doosan Robotics Inc. announced on Monday that it opened the Doosan Robotics Europe office in Düsseldorf, Germany.The Doosan Robot...

HK inno.N to release K-CAB in MENA market

HK inno.N to release K-CAB in MENA market

South Korean bio-health company HK inno.N announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract with Saudi Arabian local pharmaceutical company Tabuk Pharm...

Hanmi’s planned merger with OCI scrapped as sons win family feud

Hanmi’s planned merger with OCI scrapped as sons win family feud

Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group’s proposed merger with OCI Holdings Co. has collapsed after two sons of the group’s founding family, who oppo...

IL Science enters UK silicon lens market

IL Science enters UK silicon lens market

South Korea's IL Science Co. said on Monday that it signed a contract with the US-based automotive electronics company Polymer Optics to supply an i...

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