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Steel Dongkuk buys Aju Steel to create No.1 color coated steel maker

Dongkuk Coated Metal Co. (Dongkuk CM), the cold-rolled steel unit of South Korea's Dongkuk Holdings Co., has agreed to buy Aju Steel Co. specializin...

Artificial intelligence DeepX attracts $80 mn new investment

DeepX, South Korea's homegrown neural network and AI chip developer, announced on Friday that it finalized attracting an investment of 110 billion w...

Korean startups Medical data platform operator JNPMEDI raises $10 mn in Series A funding

Medical data platform operator JNPMEDI Inc. announced on Tuesday that it raised 14 billion won ($10.3 million) in a Series A round. Pavilion Ca...

Corporate governance Korea’s Aju to spin off key building material business

South Korea’s Aju Group is set to split its parent company into a construction material firm and an investment corporation to enhance its prof...

Korean SMEs Smart factories drive Korea SMEs to reshore overseas plants

South Korea’s small and medium-sized enterprises adopted smart factories for survival as the digitalized facilities improve productivity and q...

Alternative investments Aju sells San Jose-based hotel at $63 mn after five years

Aju Hotels & Resorts Co., a hospitality firm under Korean conglomerate Aju Group, has sold its San Jose-based hotel to an affiliate of US hosp...