automation

Mergers & Acquisitions Daol PE buys Youngil Glass to ride Korean cosmetics boom

Daol Private Equity has acquired Youngil Glass Industry Co., a South Korean manufacturer of glass containers, in a 65 billion won ($44.5 million) de...

Robotics POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group will invest in the leading domestic robotics company to boost its ailing ste...

Tech, Media & Telecom CJ OliveNetworks to build HiteJinro smart factory in Vietnam

South Korea's CJ OliveNetworks said on Thursday it secured a contract to build a smart factory of the nation's leading soju maker HiteJinro Co. in V...

Chemical Industry KCC develops automated painting robot

South Korean chemical and auto parts maker KCC Corp. said on Monday that it developed the country's first autonomous painting robot Smart Canvas.T...

Robotics POSCO DX to focus on AI-led intelligent factory systems

POSCO DX Co., an IT service arm of South Korea’s POSCO Group, will transform into an AI-enabled intelligent factory system developer to automa...

Tech, Media & Telecom Hanwha, KT to cooperate on smart mining

South Korea's Hanwha Global, the global division of Hanwha Corp. and KT Corp. announced on Monday that they signed a memorandum of understanding (...

Robotics Sampyo Group enters automated robotic parking business

South Korea's SP&Mobility, a robotics unit of Sampyo Group, unveiled its MPSystem on Monday, an automated robotic parking system designed to rep...

Batteries Hyundai Glovis, EcoPro team up for EV battery recycling business

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, and EcoPro Co., the country’s leading electric vehicle batt...

Batteries SK On invests in Yuilrobotics for its US battery plants

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery producer, is slated to invest in South Korean robot automation system developer ...

Food & Beverage Hanwha Foodtech opens R&D center in Seongnam

Hanwha Foodtech, a subsidiary of Hanwha Hotels & Resorts specializing in food and beverages, announced on Wednesday that it opened a research an...

Artificial intelligence SK C&C unveils enterprise-tailored sLLM

SK Inc C&C (SK C&C), the information technology service unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Monday that it launched Solur LLM...

Logistics Hyundai Glovis to supply $29 mn logistics automation systems

South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Wednesday that it signed a contract with Korea Superfreeze Inc. and EcoPro CnG to supply logistics aut...

Electric vehicles Doosan, LG unveil automated EV charger served by robot

Doosan Robotics Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. have jointly developed an automated electric vehicle charger served by a robot and launched its pilot o...

Logistics Hyundai Movex to supply smart logistics for EcoPro BM Canada plant

South Korea’s Hyundai Movex Co., the logistics automation solutions affiliate of Hyundai Group, announced on Wednesday that it signed a 20 bil...

Food & Beverage Hanwha acquires US robot-made pizza brand Stellar

Hanwha Foodtech, a food & beverage subsidiary of South Korea's Hanwha Group, announced on Monday that it acquired the US robot-made pizza brand ...

Electric vehicles EVSIS completes new smart factory in Cheongju

EVSIS, Lotte Data Communication Co. 's electric vehicle (EV) charging subsidiary, announced on Thursday that it held the completion ceremony for i...

Tech, Media & Telecom Doosan to form $75 mn fund for new techs

Doosan Investment, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of South Korea's Doosan Group, has formed a 100 billion won ($75 million) fund, focusin...

Steel POSCO DX to develop robots for steel mills

POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., will collaborate with Chosun Refractories Co. to develop ...

Automobiles Hyundai Movex to supply smart logistics for Hankook Tire US plant

South Korea’s Hyundai Movex Co., the logistics automation solutions affiliate of Hyundai Group, secured a $82 million contract to equip Hank...

Artificial intelligence Hancom to unveil document creator like Mircrosoft's Copilot

Hancom Inc., a homegrown office suite developer in South Korea, is set to speed up its artificial intelligence business with a beta service of AI-po...

Korean startups Naver invests in AI operations automation startup

Naver D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), a tech startup investment and support project, announced Thursday that it invested in a startup with AI operations ...

Logistics Hyundai Glovis opens smart logistics R&D center G-Lab

South Korean shipping and logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Wednesday it has opened a research and development (R&D) space for s...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HD Hyundai, Siemens to jointly build smart shipyard

South Korean HD Hyundai Co. and Siemens, a Germany-based global smart engineering company, will jointly develop a data platform for building a smart...

Bio & Pharma Noul to export $1.4 mn in malaria diagnostic kits to Angola

South Korean in-vitro diagnostics maker Noul Co. has signed an exclusive sales deal in Angola on the company’s malaria diagnostic platform wor...

Robotics Hanwha Robotics produces kitchen automation robots

South Korea’s Hanwha Robotics on Sunday announced its signing of an agreement on the development and commercial use of a robotics system for k...

Logistics Lotte Global Logistics, CoEvolution to develop automatic solutions

South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a strategic partnership with ...

Logistics Doosan to provide logistics automation solutions to Nike Korea

Doosan Logistics Solutions Co. (DLS), a South Korean system integrator that provides turnkey solutions, announced on Tuesday that it has won Nike ...

Shipping & Shipbuilding A ship with AI engineers, deckhands?: HD KSOE makes it a reality

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now on everyone’s lips, and the shipping and shipbuilding industries are no exception to this global phenome...

Tech, Media & Telecom Hancom, POSCO DX pursue robotic process automation solutions

South Korea’s office suite software maker Hancom and engineering and information and communications technology service provider POSCO DX will ...

Logistics Hyundai Glovis acquires logistics automation SW company Altiall

South Korea's leading logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Monday that it has signed a stock purchase agreement related to the acquisit...