S.Korea’s Lee, Japan’s Ishiba agree to deepen ties, resume shuttle diplomacy

S.Korea’s Lee, Japan’s Ishiba agree to deepen ties, resume shuttle diplomacy

KANANASKIS, Canada – South Korea’s newly elected President Lee Jae-myung held his first summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishi...

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...

Hyundai Motor sells over 1,000 Elec City FCEV

Hyundai Motor sells over 1,000 Elec City FCEV

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Sunday it has sold more than 1,000 units of its hydrogen fuel cell bus Elec City Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) with cu...

LS Cable breaks ground for bus ducts plant in Mexico

LS Cable breaks ground for bus ducts plant in Mexico

South Korea's LS Cable & System Ltd. broke ground for two factories in Mexico on August 2: one for bus ducts, or a large-scale power distributio...

Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki

Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki

South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it is supplying its all-electric Elec City Town buses to Iwasaki Group, effectively ent...

Hyundai Motor speeds up hydrogen bus charging business in Korea

Hyundai Motor speeds up hydrogen bus charging business in Korea

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. is set to become the largest shareholder of a local hydrogen-powered-vehicle charging station operator to boos...

KT, EV Parking Services to cooperate on electric bus charging

KT, EV Parking Services to cooperate on electric bus charging

South Korea's KT Corp., South Korea’s largest telecom service provider, announced on Friday that it partnered with EV Parking Services (EVPS) ...

Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators

Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators

Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...

Commercial vehicle guru Andersson leads MAN’s Korea, Australia businesses

Commercial vehicle guru Andersson leads MAN’s Korea, Australia businesses

Commercial vehicle veteran Peter Andersson is now managing MAN Truck & Bus SE’s businesses in South Korea and a cluster of Asia-Pacific co...

Hana Bank, Fount to co-work for robo-advisor service

Hana Bank, Fount to co-work for robo-advisor service

South Korea's Hana Bank announced on Tuesday that it has signed a business agreement with robo-advisor company Fount Investment Co. to launch a reti...

Hyundai, Iveco solidify partnership with E-WAY H2 hydrogen fuel cell bus

Hyundai, Iveco solidify partnership with E-WAY H2 hydrogen fuel cell bus

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and Italian truck maker Iveco Group N.V. have consolidated their business partnership through th...

Seoul envisions its own Hudson Yards in the city's east end

Seoul envisions its own Hudson Yards in the city's east end

Seoul, the capital of South Korea for more than six centuries since the Joseon dynasty, is poised to revamp its city planning for the next century w...

Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm

Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm

South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments announced its acquisition of Stockspot, a prominent Australian robo-advisor specialist.In a statement r...

42dot launches its first B2B self-driving shuttle service

42dot launches its first B2B self-driving shuttle service

42Dot, a self-driving technology affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, on Tuesday said it launched a self-driving shuttle at Samsung Mobility Museum in ...

Hyundai unveils driverless shuttle at Korean National Assembly

Hyundai unveils driverless shuttle at Korean National Assembly

Hyundai Motor Co. has launched a pilot service of the RoboShuttle, a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous driving technology, ...

Seoul preps to launch ferry service for tourists, commuters

Seoul preps to launch ferry service for tourists, commuters

The city of Seoul plans to launch a ferry service in 2024 as authorities in the South Korean capital vie to draw more foreign tourists and ease comm...

Hyundai to supply 1,300 hydrogen buses in Seoul by 2026

Hyundai to supply 1,300 hydrogen buses in Seoul by 2026

Hyundai Motor Co., along with South Korean Ministry of Environment, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, SK E&S and Tmap Mobility, signed a memora...

Hyundai doubles down on green bus push against Chinese ascent

Hyundai doubles down on green bus push against Chinese ascent

Hyundai Motor Co. is expected to start remodeling its conventional bus production facility at home this fall to ramp up zero-emission and low-floor ...

Samsung, Hyundai, others to use hydrogen buses for commute

Samsung, Hyundai, others to use hydrogen buses for commute

Samsung Electronics Co., Hyundai Motor Co., SK Hynix Inc., POSCO Holdings Inc., SK E&S, POSCO E&C and SK Siltron have agreed to replace thei...

Self-driving bus running on main roads launched for first time in S.Korea

Self-driving bus running on main roads launched for first time in S.Korea

South Korea in a first for the country has launched self-driving buses running on bus rapid transit (BRT) routes.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructur...

Hyundai Motor transforms buses into mobile office spaces

Hyundai Motor transforms buses into mobile office spaces

South Korea's automaking giant Hyundai Motor Co. said on Monday it had launched the country's first mass-produced mobile office bus: the "Universe M...

Delivery startup VtoV raises $7.2 million from Series A round 

Delivery startup VtoV raises $7.2 million from Series A round 

South Korean logistics startup VtoV, the operator of optimized delivery service To-Day, raised 9.5 billion won ($7.2 million) from a Series A round....

Self-driving startup 42dot unveils driverless shuttle

Self-driving startup 42dot unveils driverless shuttle

South Korea's autonomous transportation startup 42dot, owned by Hyundai Motor Group, on Monday unveiled a driverless electric shuttle installed with...

Hyundai CEO says on track for hydrogen-fueled NEXO’s new model

Hyundai CEO says on track for hydrogen-fueled NEXO’s new model

Hyundai Motor Co. is on track to develop a revamped model of its hydrogen fuel car NEXO, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as the South Korean ...

Chicken startup shakes up crowded market with robotic arms

Chicken startup shakes up crowded market with robotic arms

Preparing fried chicken requires a simple, but laborious process: Placing pieces of chicken on dough and frying powder; putting them into an iron ba...

Edison CEO aspires to be Korea’s Elon Musk with Ssangyong takeover

Edison CEO aspires to be Korea’s Elon Musk with Ssangyong takeover

Kang Young-kwon, chairman and chief executive of South Korea’s Edison Motors Co., was virtually unheard of in the country’s automobile i...

Ssangyong draws HAAH and electric bus, scooter makers

Ssangyong draws HAAH and electric bus, scooter makers

Ssangyong Motor Co., a troubled South Korean sports utility vehicle maker, has drawn nine preliminary bidders, including a US automobile distributor...

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