Mission Impossible

Robotics Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics’ Spot embarks on public safety missions

Spot, a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics Inc., will aid defense and safety agencies in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia to assist in...

Airlines Korean Air to showcase UAVs at ADEX 2023

Korean Air Lines Co. will participate in the "Seoul Aerospace & Defense Exhibition 2023" (ADEX 2023) taking place at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam,...

Central bank BOK chief’s top mission: Soft landing for household debt

South Korea’s central bank chief on Thursday vowed to reduce household debt without causing a severe economic downturn as the Bank of Korea he...

Aerospace & Defense Hanwha Systems, Leonardo collaborate on developing AESA radar

Hanwha Systems Co., a South Korean defense contractor, has joined forces with Leonardo SpA, a leading European defense company, to jointly develop a...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG Chairman Koo on the hunt for talent to win future technology war  

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo is spearheading South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate’s search for top R&D talent in science and ...

Aerospace & Defense Korea’s 1st moon probe Danuri enters lunar orbit; world’s 7th mission

South Korea on Wednesday became the world’s seventh country to send a lunar orbiter to the moon, joining other advanced countries in a heated ...

Tech, Media & Telecom Naver Band celebrates 10-year anniversary, over 6.1 billion posts

South Korea’s tech juggernaut Naver Corp. announced Monday that its Naver Band celebrates 10 years in service with more than 156 million app d...

Aerospace & Defense S.Korea’s first mission to the Moon, Danuri, enters transfer orbit

South Korea’s first lunar orbiter, Danuri, has been launched onto a ballistic lunar transfer orbit as planned, the country’s science min...

Central bank BOK’s mission impossible: To lower both inflation and govt bond yields

South Korea’s central bank is caught in a dilemma as it needs to raise interest rates to curb rising inflationary pressure in Asia’s fou...

Mergers & Acquisitions Daewoo Shipbuilding to look for domestic buyer: KDB

The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB), the main creditor of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., said on Thursday it will look for a...

Artificial intelligence Ex-quant developer on a mission to save traders' microseconds

A Korean startup about a year old has succeeded in creating a microchip that speeds up trading by a few microseconds -- a huge difference in the w...

Aerospace & Defense Korea’s Nuri: Mission unaccomplished, but one step closer to space

South Korea has launched its first domestically designed and developed space rocket Nuri, but failed to put a satellite into orbit, thwarting its bid ...