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Arts Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

On an unremarkable evening in November 2024, inside the opulent Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, something quietly historic was taking place.A delicate...

Automobiles Kia EV3 named 2025 World Car of the Year; Hyundai Inster wins EV award

NEW YORK – Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, snagged top trophies for its low-cost electric vehicles at the 2025...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HD KSOE wins $2.6 bn order for 12 container ships

South Korea’s largest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said on Thursday it got 3.716 trillion won ...

Bio & Pharma SK Pharmteco bags obesity treatment deal worth up to $1.4 bn

SK Pharmteco Co., a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has secured an obesity treatment order worth up to 2 trillion won ($...

Business & Politics Latvian President Rinkēvičs seeks closer ties with S.Korea in bio, defense

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, who is on a four-day working trip to South Korea, said on Friday he hopes for deeper cooperation between the two...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor, Kia win US ALG Residual Value Awards

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. said on Wednesday that Hyundai's electric compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) Kona EV and Kia's mid-size SUV Telluri...

Machinery HD Hyundai Infracore wins diesel engine award in Italy

South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co.'s new diesel engines were selected as the best diesel engines of the year in Italy.This marks the first time ...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor Group wins Cars.com's 2025 Top Pick EV Awards

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday Hyundai Motor Co. ‘s IONIQ electric vehicles (EVs) and Kia Corp. ‘s EV9 have each been awarded 202...

Artificial intelligence Superb AI, Cisco to strengthen AI network cooperation

South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Superb AI said on Tuesday it was awarded Select Developer from the global network giant Cisco Syst...

Companies POSCO International wins top award at 2024 Korea IR Awards

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. won the top prize at the 2024 Korea IR Awards, organized by the Korea Investor Relations Service (KIRS), the...

Future mobility South Korea to designate Jeju as flying taxi pilot service zone

South Korea will designate its resort island Jeju a test operation zone for flying taxis as part of the country’s national urban air mobility ...

Machinery 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...

Asset management KIS hosts 2024 Stifel Research Forum in Seoul

Korea Investment & Securities announced on Tuesday that it hosted analysts from Stifel Financial Corp. at its headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, fo...

K-pop Stray Kids to perform at 50th American Music Awards

K-Pop boy band Stray Kids will perform at the American Music Awards, a major music awards show in the United States.The American Music Awards announ...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Telecom, KT win at Leading Lights Awards

SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. received the Leading Lights Awards 2024. SK Telecom and KT were named winners of Outstanding Use Case: AI/Machine L...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor, Kia win 12 awards at IDEA Design Awards

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Friday that they won a total of 12 awards, including three Gold Awards, at the 2024 International Desig...

Electronics LG's transparent OLED TV named best product in US

LG Electronics Inc.'s transparent OLED TV, the LG Signature OLED T, received the Best Designer Display award at the CEDIA Expo 2024, held in Denver,...

KOREA Investment Week Korea's investment forum KIW 2024 kicks off September 9

South Korea’s largest investment forum Korea Investment Week 2024 (KIW 2024) will kick off next month in Seoul, drawing around 150 leaders fro...

Energy Korea seeks to curb China's offshore wind farm dominance

South Korea will prioritize non-price factors such as economic security and contributions to the domestic supply chain over bidding prices when sele...

Korean chipmakers US to award SK Hynix up to $450 mn for Indiana chip complex

The US government said on Tuesday it plans to provide SK Hynix Inc., the world’s leading high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chipmaker, up to $450 mil...

Construction SGC E&C secures $92 mn chemical plant project in Malaysia

South Korea's SGC eTEC E&C Co. announced on Monday that it secured an additional chemical plant construction project in Malaysia worth 127.3 bil...

Automobiles 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...

Batteries SK Innovation to host Global Forum in US

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. announced on Wednesday that it will host the “SK Innovation Global Forum” on July 13 in San Jose, Califo...

Automobiles LG Elec selected as Volkswagen's top supplier

LG Electronics Inc. was named the top supplier by Germany's Volkswagen Group. According to industry sources on Thursday, LG Electronics received the...

Leadership & Management Kyobo Life CEO’s ethical management earns global recognition

Kyobo Life Insurance Co.'s Chairman Shin Chang-jae is internationally recognized for setting the global standard for ethical management after two de...

Airlines Korean Air named Skytrax world's top 100 airlines

Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. have been selected for the 2024 World Airline Awards by UK-based aviation consultancy Skytrax on June ...

Machinery 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...

Electronics Samsung gets new tech certification for air purifier filter

Samsung Electronics Co.'s air purifier filter technology obtained the New Excellent Technology (NeT) certification from the Korea Agency for Technol...

Electronics LG named UK’s best home entertainment brand for five years

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has been named Home Entertainment Brand of the Year at the "Which? Awards," hosted by the UK non-...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG Innotek, SK On win Edison Awards for second consecutive year

South Korea's LG Innotek and SK On have won the Edison Awards in the US for the second consecutive year. LG Innotek announced on April 21 that it r...