LG to drive future growth in emerging markets with battery prowess
LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate by assets, should step up its efforts to foster future growth with promising technologies,...
Seoul mulls joint review of Alaska LNG project with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam
South Korea has proposed forming a consortium with Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam to jointly assess the feasibility of investing in the $45 billion Alask...
Samsung, LG review strategies as Trump slaps Vietnam with steeper tariffs
South Korea’s two leading electronics makers – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. – are being forced to reassess thei...
Samsung’s system chip, foundry business under close scrutiny for overhaul
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has put its system chip and foundry businesses under tight scrutiny for a possi...
LG Uplus unveils content review platform 1Row
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday it launched 1Row, a content review platform for movies and dramasUsers can access cast and director i...
MSCI Korea Index adds LS Electric
South Korea's LS Electric Co. will be added to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Korea Index, MSCI announced on Tuesday.MSCI Inc. reba...
S.Korea fines AliExpress $1.4 mn for alleged privacy breach
South Korea’s privacy authority is punishing AliExpress with measures including a $1.4 million fine for allegedly not providing measures to pr...
Doosan Enerbility to introduce carbon reduction tech at Thai power plant
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. plans to introduce carbon reduction technologies, including ammonia co-firing and carbon capture, utilization an...
LG Energy Solution to discover startups in battery sector
South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced on Monday that it will host Battery Challenge 2024, an open innovation program to discover startup...
Celebrity-run food chain operator TheBorn Korea files for IPO review
TheBorn Korea Inc., a leading South Korean food and beverage group operated by TV celebrity and chef Paik Jong-won, has filed for a preliminary revi...
OCI eyes acquisition of US biopharmaceutical company
OCI Holdings Co., South Korea’s largest polysilicon maker, is looking abroad to acquire a biopharmaceutical company in the US in a consortium,...
F&B chain operator TheBorn Korea eyes IPO in 2024
South Korea’s leading food and beverage group TheBorn Korea Inc., which operates 25 restaurant and café chains in domestic and global m...
LG Electronics puts focus on customers to drive growth
LG Electronics Inc., transitioning into a smart life solution platform company from a simple white goods manufacturer, will enhance its customer-cen...
Korea’s Kia to set up sales unit in Thailand; EV plant an option
South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. plans to establish a sales subsidiary in Thailand as part of its electric vehicle push in the...
Hyundai's Kona included on French EV subsidy eligibility list
Hyundai Motor Co.'s sports utility vehicle Kona is the only Korean EV included on a list of 78 electric vehicle models eligible for French subsidies...
Kakao in emergency mode under regulatory, antitrust probes
Kim Beom-soo, founder and chairman of South Korea’s largest mobile platform Kakao Corp., convened an emergency meeting with some 20 chief exec...
SeeDevice named Semiconductor Review’s Company of the Year
SILICON VALLEY -- SeeDevice Inc., a fabless image sensor developer famous for its quantum-effect CMOS (QMOS) sensors capable of expanding vision bey...
Toray Advanced Materials reviews film line expansion in S.Korea
Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. (TAK) is reviewing its film line expansion in South Korea as part of its 300 billion won ($229 million) capital ...
Samsung’s new gaming monitor gets rave reviews overseas
Samsung Electronics Co.'s new premium gaming monitor "Odyssey OLED G9" has recently received consecutive praise from major global tech media outlets...
Samsung Electronics opens gaming-focused shopping platform
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it has opened the Samsung Gaming Portal on its domestic website Samsung.com to streng...
UAE to find $2 bn investment opportunities in S.Korea
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reviewing $2 billion worth of investment project in South Korea, such energy and information communications techno...
LG Chairman to refine strategy for EV battery production
Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, visited a cathode plant on Monday to review supply chains for the batt...
Samsung's Neo QLED 8K wins critical acclaim in US, UK
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Sunday that its recently released the 2023 Neo QLED TV has received high praise from major professional media...
Galaxy S23 Ultra beats iPhone in European reviews
Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S23 Ultra, has earned outstanding reviews from consumer groups throughout Europe, s...
Prestige Bio's pancreatic cancer treatment gets US FDA fast-track designation
Prestige Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company in South Korea, announced on Thursday that their pancreatic cancer antibody drug, PBP1510 (Ulenistam...
Korea's Indent Corp. raises $8 mn for AI-based video review marketing
Indent Corporation, a South Korean startup that operates an AI-based video review marketing solution called VReview, announced on Tuesday that it ha...
S.Korea's Boryung receives EU GMP certification
South Korean pharmaceutical company Boryung announced that its production facility for anti-cancer injections in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, ...
GC Biopharma's Sanfilippo treatment eligible for FDA priority review
GC Biopharma Corp. said on Wednesday that its Sanfilippo type A treatment, which is under joint development with Novel Pharma, a bio-venture special...
Webtoon company YLAB files preliminary listing review for Kosdaq
YLAB, a South Korean content company specializing in the production, distribution, and translation of webtoons, is moving to go public this year.Acc...
Morning food delivery firm Oasis passes Kosdaq listing eligibility review
Oasis Corp., which operates the early morning food delivery platform "Oasis Market," said it passed the eligibility review for listing at Kosdaq mar...
