Korea’s game studios rebrand as AI tech firms, move into fashion, robotics, media

Korea’s game studios rebrand as AI tech firms, move into fashion, robotics, media

What was once a world of elves, dragons and power-ups is now giving rise to one of South Korea’s most unexpected tech revolutions, with game s...

POSCO Future M to make spherical graphite as it cuts dependence on China

POSCO Future M to make spherical graphite as it cuts dependence on China

POSCO Future M Co., South Korea’s leading battery materials maker, is set to manufacture spherical graphite – a critical material for ba...

POSCO, Hancock seek to jointly build lithium plant

POSCO, Hancock seek to jointly build lithium plant

POSCO Holdings Inc. on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Hancock Prospecting, an Australian mining company, to build a plant to annu...

POSCO Int'l starts commissioning of Senex Energy gas facility

POSCO Int'l starts commissioning of Senex Energy gas facility

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. said on Monday it has begun commissioning its first gas processing facility at Senex Energy’s Atlas ...

POSCO International eyes M&A in US natural gas market

POSCO International eyes M&A in US natural gas market

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is considering ac...

Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis

Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, is entering the liquefied natural gas transportation business wit...

POSCO, Hancock to invest $432 mn in Senex's LNG production

POSCO, Hancock to invest $432 mn in Senex's LNG production

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and resources exploration unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Tuesday that ...

Doosan Enerbility wins deal for fuel conversion project in Chile

Doosan Enerbility wins deal for fuel conversion project in Chile

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Tuesday that it has won a contract for a fuel conversion project at a t...

Korea’s POSCO Int’l to work on CCUS, hydrogen businesses

Korea’s POSCO Int’l to work on CCUS, hydrogen businesses

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and resources exploration subsidiary of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., aims to ...

POSCO Future M to import natural graphite from Africa

POSCO Future M to import natural graphite from Africa

South Korea’s only anode materials producer POSCO Future M Co. will import a maximum 60,000 tons of natural graphite products from Balama Grap...

Nature Republic opens first store at Dubai Mall

Nature Republic opens first store at Dubai Mall

South Korean beauty brand Nature Republic announced on Thursday that it opened its first store at Dubai Mall, the largest shopping mall in Dubai, ...

POSCO Int’l wins Mercury Awards for video ad

POSCO Int’l wins Mercury Awards for video ad

POSCO International Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has received the Honors Award in the Corporate Identity Video category at the prestigious Mer...

Myeong-dong cements status as super-prime real estate in Korea

Myeong-dong cements status as super-prime real estate in Korea

A 170-square-meter plot of land in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, where South Korean beauty brand Nature Republic’s flagship store is located, ha...

ADNOC awards steel pipe order contracts to Korea’s SeAH

ADNOC awards steel pipe order contracts to Korea’s SeAH

South Korea’s SeAH Steel Holdings Corp. said on Tuesday it has signed a five-year contract to provide 200,000 tons of steel pipes to Abu Dhabi...

Amorepacific's camellia-derived cosmetic ingredients get COSMOS

Amorepacific's camellia-derived cosmetic ingredients get COSMOS

South Korean cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. said on Thursday its camellia-derived cosmetic ingredients got COSMetic Organic and natural Standard...

The Nature Holdings goes after green fashion with Brompton

The Nature Holdings goes after green fashion with Brompton

Brompton Bicycle will pursue a greener world with sustainable clothing that is stylish but durable alongside its Korean partner The Nature Holdings ...

Hanwha Ocean taps middle-aged women, robots for ship welding work

Hanwha Ocean taps middle-aged women, robots for ship welding work

GEOJE, Gyeongsang Province – Hanwha Ocean, the world’s No. 2 shipbuilder, is actively embracing middle-aged female workers and robots fo...

SK E&S, Honeywell UOP to capture carbon from LNG plants

SK E&S, Honeywell UOP to capture carbon from LNG plants

SK E&S Co., a clean energy unit of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, and Honeywell UOP, a US major refining and petrochemical tec...

KT, BI Matrix to develop natural language processing AI

KT, BI Matrix to develop natural language processing AI

South Korea's KT Corp. is partnering with the intelligent solutions specialist company BI Matrix to develop technology that uses artificial intell...

Samsung to apply GenAI to all home appliances from 2024

Samsung to apply GenAI to all home appliances from 2024

BERLIN, GERMANY - Samsung Electronics Co. from next year will incorporate generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into all home appliances and de...

Fosun to cash out of K-beauty firm Nature&Nature for $38 mn

Fosun to cash out of K-beauty firm Nature&Nature for $38 mn

Fosun Group, a debt-laden Chinese conglomerate, is seeking to cash out of its entire stake in Nature&Nature Co. for up to 50 billion won ($37.8 ...

SK Telecom buys major stake in AICC developer Persona AI

SK Telecom buys major stake in AICC developer Persona AI

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will boost its artificial intelligence (AI) contact center (AICC) unit to emerge as a comprehensive provider of AICC pr...

Korea's superconductor stocks plunge on Nature report

Korea's superconductor stocks plunge on Nature report

South Korean research team’s LK-99, behind the online sensation following its claim of room-temperature superconductor over the past four week...

Affiliate of S.Korea's POSCO Int'l to supply natural gas in Australia

Affiliate of S.Korea's POSCO Int'l to supply natural gas in Australia

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. on Thursday said Senex Energy, its Australia-based natural gas subsidiary, will supply natural gas to seven ...

Seoul Semiconductor's Sunlike LED is installed in Volvo's new EV

Seoul Semiconductor's Sunlike LED is installed in Volvo's new EV

Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd., a South Korean LED light manufacturer, announced on Tuesday that Volvo's new electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) EX9...

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

South Korean anti-cancer immunotherapy company Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics announced on Friday that its natural killer (NK) cell therapy, Vax-NK/HCC, h...

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

Pulmuone, a leading South Korean producer of plant-based foods such as tofu and bean sprouts, is trying to expand the K-food territory in the global...

BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT

BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT

South Korea's BC Card on Sunday said it applied for a domestic patent for a non-fungible token (NFT) that can verify a user's asset details using bl...

South Korean tire makers raise prices despite weak sales

South Korean tire makers raise prices despite weak sales

South Korea’s three largest tire makers are raising product prices despite their weak sales in anticipation of an imminent market rebound amid...

DeepBrain AI joins CB Insights' Global 250 Generative AI Startups list

DeepBrain AI joins CB Insights' Global 250 Generative AI Startups list

DeepBrain AI, a South Korean AI startup, said on Friday it made the list of "Global 250 Generative AI Startups" by CB Insights, a New York-based mar...

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