President Lee: Businesses at center of policy priorities for economic growth

President Lee: Businesses at center of policy priorities for economic growth

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Friday pledged strong government support for the country’s businesses, while emphasizing the need for ...

KT&G seeks $200 mn acquisition of Nordic nicotine pouch maker

KT&G seeks $200 mn acquisition of Nordic nicotine pouch maker

KT&G Corp. is in talks to acquire a leading nicotine pouch company in Northern Europe for about 300 billion won, or  $200 million, investme...

Red flags raised even before Homeplus crisis: Sales fall, credit ratings cut

Red flags raised even before Homeplus crisis: Sales fall, credit ratings cut

Even before South Korea’s second-largest hypermarket chain Homeplus Co. was put under court receivership due to its worsening financial woes, ...

KT&G to buy back shares, rejects Ginseng unit buyout offer

KT&G to buy back shares, rejects Ginseng unit buyout offer

South Korean tobacco maker KT&G Corp. on Thursday unveiled a plan to buy back shares and pay dividends totaling 3.7 trillion won ($2.7 billion) ...

Flashlight Capital offers to buy KT&G’s ginseng business for $1.4 billion

Flashlight Capital offers to buy KT&G’s ginseng business for $1.4 billion

Singapore-based investment management firm Flashlight Capital Partners Pte. (FCP) has offered to buy South Korean tobacco maker KT&G Corp.'s gin...

Doosan Bobcat RogueX2 wins Red Dot Design Award

Doosan Bobcat RogueX2 wins Red Dot Design Award

South Korea's Doosan Bobcat said on Friday that its construction equipment RogueX2 won the prize in the Design Concept category at the Red Dot Desig...

Hyundai Mobis lighting system wins triple crown of design awards

Hyundai Mobis lighting system wins triple crown of design awards

South Korea's auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis announced on Sunday that its Active Aero Lighting System (AALS) has received awards at the world's thre...

Huonslab eyes speedy anticancer drug delivery with new patent

Huonslab eyes speedy anticancer drug delivery with new patent

South Korean biotech Huons Global Co. said on Tuesday that its research and development unit Huonslab has issued a domestic patent claiming a techno...

Samsung Electronics builds Red Hat-certified CXL infrastructure

Samsung Electronics builds Red Hat-certified CXL infrastructure

Samsung Electronics Co. has set up the industry’s first Compute Express Link (CXL) infrastructure, certified by Red Hat Inc., the world’...

KGC enters Malaysian healty functional food market

KGC enters Malaysian healty functional food market

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp., announced on June 13 that it sells its red ginseng brand Jung ...

HD Hyundai's Future-X wins Red Dot Design Award

HD Hyundai's Future-X wins Red Dot Design Award

South Korea's HD Hyundai XiteSolution announced on Thursday that its futuristic unmanned construction equipment Future-X won the Best of the Best Aw...

Global quest to find modern elixirs enters new chapter

Global quest to find modern elixirs enters new chapter

NEW YORK/ BOSTON – Longevity has long been the dream of humankind. China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with finding magic e...

Hyundai, Red Sea Global agree on EV, AAM projects in Saudi luxury resorts

Hyundai, Red Sea Global agree on EV, AAM projects in Saudi luxury resorts

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Monday it has agreed with Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored developer Red Sea Globa...

LG Chem to start phase 3 for head, neck cancer drug in US

LG Chem to start phase 3 for head, neck cancer drug in US

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. announced on Wednesday that its US-based subsidiary Aveo Pharmaceuticals will start Phase 3 clinical trials for its...

Korea’s HMM among shippers benefiting from growing Red Sea crisis

Korea’s HMM among shippers benefiting from growing Red Sea crisis

The Red Sea crisis, disrupting the passage of ships through the Suez Canal, a central artery for global trade, is a bane for exporters looking for s...

MedPacto gets FDA OK for colorectal cancer drug clinical trial

MedPacto gets FDA OK for colorectal cancer drug clinical trial

South Korea's biotech company MedPacto Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has got approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its I...

Shinsegae to close whisky business to focus on profits

Shinsegae to close whisky business to focus on profits

Shinsegae Inc., South Korea’s largest department store and supermarket company, will pull out of the whisky market, bucking the trend of the r...

Samsung Elec moves a step closer to CXL commercialization

Samsung Elec moves a step closer to CXL commercialization

Samsung Electronics Co. seeking to lead the next-generation memory market has moved a step closer to commercializing computer express link (CXL)-bas...

KGC hawks red ginseng at top US expo for health functional food

KGC hawks red ginseng at top US expo for health functional food

Jung Kwan Jang, the flagship brand of Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), has been featured at North America’s leading expo for raw ingredients of heal...

Red ginseng proven to treat drug addiction: Research

Red ginseng proven to treat drug addiction: Research

It has been revealed that red ginseng significantly improves drug addiction and withdrawal symptoms caused by substance abuse. The research results ...

LG Display, LG Chem develop homegrown OLED material

LG Display, LG Chem develop homegrown OLED material

South Korea’s LG Display Co. and LG Chem Ltd. have domestically produced a core material for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) that they pre...

South Korean exporters jittery as China's slowdown raises red flag

South Korean exporters jittery as China's slowdown raises red flag

South Korea’s exporting companies are increasingly feeling the heat as its top export market China is sounding alarm bells over the world&rsqu...

S.Korea's Qurient, US National Cancer Institute to develop anti-cancer drug

S.Korea's Qurient, US National Cancer Institute to develop anti-cancer drug

South Korea's Qurient Co. announced on Monday that it signed a research and development agreement with the US government agency National Cancer Inst...

SK Biopharmaceuticals gets OK to sell epilepsy drug in Canada

SK Biopharmaceuticals gets OK to sell epilepsy drug in Canada

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals has received approval in Canada to sell its new epilepsy drug Cenobamate under the product name Xcopri. Having e...

Hyundai Transys wins Red Dot Design Award

Hyundai Transys wins Red Dot Design Award

South Korean auto powertrain and seat maker Hyundai Transys announced on Monday that it has won the Winner prize at the "2023 Red Dot Design Award."...

KGC unifies BI of red ginseng brand as JUNG KWAN JANG

KGC unifies BI of red ginseng brand as JUNG KWAN JANG

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp., will unify its red ginseng brand identity (BI) as JUNG KWAN JA...

KGC promotes S.Korean top red ginseng brand CheongKwanJang in China

KGC promotes S.Korean top red ginseng brand CheongKwanJang in China

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp. , announced on Thursday its participation in the "2023 TFWA Wor...

S.Korea’s IT parts makers reeling from sluggish smartphone, TV sales performance

S.Korea’s IT parts makers reeling from sluggish smartphone, TV sales performance

  South Korea’s major information technology parts makers like Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Innotek and LG Display Co. suffered huge dr...

Hankook Tire's iON brand wins Red Dot Design Award

Hankook Tire's iON brand wins Red Dot Design Award

South Korean tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology said on Thursday that its electric vehicle (EV) exclusive tire brand, "iON," has secured four ...

SK Biopharmaceuticals wins Red Dot award for 2 devices

SK Biopharmaceuticals wins Red Dot award for 2 devices

South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals on Tuesday said two of its self-developed wearable devices won the main prize in the health care category ...

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