Hyundai IONIQ 6 named best EV by Kelley Blue Book

Hyundai Motor Co.'s electric sedan IONIQ 6 has been named the best electric vehicle (EV) by Kelley Blue Book, the US vehicle valuation and automotiv...

Bespin Global supplies AI chatbot to Gimpo Int’l Airport

South Korea's cloud solution provider Bespin Global announced on Friday that it has supplied its interactive artificial intelligence (AI) platform H...

China’s Temu challenges homegrown e-commerce platforms in Korea

Temu, a popular Chinese discount e-commerce platform that landed in South Korea just a few months ago, has apparently cracked homegrown players&rsqu...

Korea’s LG telecom unit to launch logistics platform service

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, is poised to launch a platform service that will digitally transform the local logistics s...

Kia EV9 boasts 336-mile target range in digital world premiere

Kia Corp.’s second all-electric sport utility vehicle EV9 made its global premiere virtually on Tuesday, boasting a target driving range of 54...

Smart transportation solution provider Alt-A enlists pre-Series A funding

Alt-A, which provides a transportation system specialized in last-mile roads, said Monday that it has received pre-series A funding from Shinh...

Hyundai Mobis unveils gesture-based display control tech

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest automotive supplier, has developed technology for the first time in the industry to allow drivers...

Chanel’s first VIP boutique to open in Asia – will it be in Seoul?

A couple of months ago, media outlets reported Chanel plans to open stores solely for VIP shopping in Asia.The French label is widely expected to op...

Hyundai mulls robot dog Spot for facility inspector job

South Korea's largest carmaker Hyundai Motor Group is considering employing Spot, the four-legged robot developed by Boston Dynamics Inc., in its ...

Woowa Brothers launches last-mile indoor food delivery robot in Seoul

Woowa Brothers Corp., South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, has launched a last-mile indoor robot food delivery service, as people inc...

Hyundai, Woowa Brothers tie up to develop last-mile delivery robot

Hyundai Motor Group and Woowa Brothers Corp., the country’s top food delivery app operator, have agreed to jointly develop delivery robots cap...

Korean last-mile delivery apps’ valuations out of sync with demand surge

South Korea’s leading last-mile delivery startups have put their shares or management rights up for sale, riding on the surging demand for deliv...

Nuveen Real Estate buys Korea’s last-mile logistics facility

Nuveen Real Estate, the investment arm of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, has acquired a last-mile logistics center near Se...

POBA to commit $200 mn to Square Mile’s $825 mn debt fund

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will commit $200 million to a real estate debt fund of Square Mile Capital, a US investment company, w...