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Venture capital South Korean VCs back US humanoid robot developer Apptronik

South Korean venture capital firms invested undisclosed tens of billions of won, equivalent to tens of millions of dollars, in US humanoid-developin...

Bio & Pharma SillaJen: First to use lab-grown human tissue to find best cancer drug dose

South Korean biotechnology firm SillaJen Inc. is pioneering a new approach to determine the best dose for a cancer drug combination in clinical tria...

Electronics LG Electronics deepens ties with US startup Apex.AI

LG Electronics Inc. has invested in Apex.AI, a US-based startup developing safety-certified software designed to accelerate the transition of softwa...

Shareholder activism Korean activist investors to routinize campaigns throughout year

South Korea’s activist investors are set to routinize campaigns all year long rather than launch fresh moves only before annual general meetin...

Artificial intelligence SK Telecom invests $3 mn in AI-powered video analysis startup Twelve Labs

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said on Friday it will invest $3 million in Twelve Labs Inc., a Korean AI-powered video analys...

Korean startups NXN Labs aims to be Adobe of image generation AI

South Korean tech giant Naver Corp.-backed NXN Labs Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered image generation program, aspires to b...

Korean startups Language learning app Speakeasy joins ranks of unicorn startups

Speakeasy Labs Inc., a South Korea-focused language learning app operator, has joined the ranks of unicorn startups after raising $78 million at a v...

Corporate investment Samsung invests in AI security platform Axiado

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it invested in the Series C funding round of Axiado, a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) security platf...

Bio & Pharma President of Latvia visits S.Korea's Daan Cancer Lab

Daan Cancer Laboratory under Severance Hospital said on Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Latvian government to streng...

Korean startups Bering Lab eyes 7-fold jump in revenue in 5 years

Bering Lab Inc., a South Korea-based artificial intelligence technology-powered translation startup with specialties in legal, financial and intelle...

Retail GS Retail selects six startups to innovate retail biz

South Korea's GS Retail said on Friday it selected six startups—Studio Lab, Tilda, Oasis Business, YesPlzAI, Vessl AI, and Raondata—th...

Automobiles Hyundai, SNU, POSTECH, KIST build joint robotics lab

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that it established a joint robotics research lab in collaboration with South Korea's top research institution...

Artificial intelligence S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users

South Korean generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scatter Lab said on Monday its interactive AI content platform Zeta has surpassed 1 mil...

Artificial intelligence Naver Labs tops in spatial intelligence tech at ECCV

Naver Labs' spatial intelligence technology was recognized as superior to that of Google, Apple, and Meta at the world's leading computer vision con...

Electric vehicles Hyundai, Kia’s H1 vehicle sales in Singapore double

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Sunday its vehicle sales in Singapore, a high-tech innovation hub, more than doubled i...

Artificial intelligence AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A round

MarqVision Inc., a startup developing an artificial intelligence-powered intellectual property (IP) protection platform, raised 22 billion won ($16....

Robotics CJ Logistics, Aidin Robotics to co-develop logistics robots

South Korea’s CJ Logistics and Aidin Robotics recently signed a memorandum of understanding to co-develop and commercialize logistics robots.U...

Automobiles Chabot Mobility raises $900,000 in Series C round

South Korea's automotive management platform startup Chabot Mobility said on Wednesday that it raised 1.2 billion won ($900,000) in a Series C inv...

Artificial intelligence OpenResearch gets $7.5 mn seed round

OpenResearch, an AI search service founded by former Kakao Brain CEO Kim Il-Doo, said on Thursday that it got a seed round 10 billion won ($7.5 mill...

Korean games Krafton diversifies its business by investing in Spoon Labs

South Korea's gaming giant Krafton Inc. said on Wednesday that it invested in SpoonLabs, a domestic short-form drama platform companySpoonLabs is th...

Artificial intelligence Korea’s AI, robot startups shine despite funding drought

South Korea’s artificial intelligence and robotics startups raised more money through seed rounds than other sectors in August although invest...

Banking & Finance IGIS, Naver Labs to develop tech convergence space platform

South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. said on Wednesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with six companies, including Nav...

Electric vehicles EV firefighting startup Lee Mobility gets seed round

South Korean startup Lee Mobility announced on Tuesday that it got a seed round investment from Bluepoint Partners, a domestic early-stage venture c...

Venture capital Korea Investment, most generous venture capitalist in H1

Korea Investment Partners Co. spent the most on local startups among venture capitalists in the first half, while South Korean game developer Smileg...

Corporate investment Samsung invests in US AI security startup Protect AI

Samsung Venture Investment Corp., Samsung Electronics Co.'s venture capital firm, has invested in Protect AI Inc., a US startup offering a security ...

Electronics LG Elec opens LG Labs experience pop-up zone

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it will operate the "Wow Life's Good Lab" pop-up zone at Ground 220 in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, until...

Tech, Media & Telecom Samsung Elec calls for C-Lab Outside applications

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it will enlist startups to participate in its external startup incubation program C-Lab Outside unt...

Automobiles Kia reveals teaser of Tasman development process

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, released One More Round, a teaser video series of its first pickup truck The Kia Tasman.&nb...

Korean startups PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance

PhyxUp Health Inc., an early stage South Korean digital healthcare startup, will soon close a pre-seed funding round, said its founder and chief, wh...

Korean startups Dentlink, virtual lab for dentists around the world

It's been just over two years since Innovaid Co. launched Dentlink but the South Korean startup has already pivoted from its earlier local market-ce...