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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...

Travel & Leisure Paradise targets Taiwanese MICE market

Paradise Co., a South Korean casino operator, said on Tuesday it held the 2024 Paradise Taipei MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibiti...

Bio & Pharma PharmaResearch hosts 5th global symposium on 'Rejuran'

PharmaResearch Co. announced that it successfully held the 5th PharmaResearch Global Symposium (PGS) at the Lakai Sandpine Resort on Oct. ...

Business & Politics AmCham launches young professionals program

The American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AmCham) announced on Wednesday the official launch of its Young Professionals Program (YPP), aimed at nur...

Leadership & Management Catering firm Ourhome taps founding family’s eldest daughter as CEO

The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the ...

Electronics Samsung Display records 1 mn cumulative shipments of QD-OLED monitors

Samsung Display Co., South Korea’s top display producer, has developed the world's first QD-OLED, a self-emissive technology where light from ...

E-commerce Coupang, HUFS to partner for industry-academic cooperation

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s No. 1 e-commerce platform, announced on Monday that it signed an industry-academia cooperation agreement (MOU) las...

Electronics Samsung holds Odyssey event with T1 in Chengdu

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it held an Odyssey gaming monitor experience event with the T1, the top-tier League of Legends team...

Real estate Australian real estate debt, capitalizing on growth: Savills IM

The commercial real estate (CRE) debt market in Australia has grown rapidly over the last decade. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

Tech, Media & Telecom Samsung’s Harman to buy French audio software firm FLUX::

Harman Professional Solutions, a professional sound system unit under Samsung Electronics Co.'s wholly owned Harman International, has agreed to acq...

Electronics Samsung to hire experienced foreign staff in R&D

Three affiliates of Samsung Group are looking to hire outstanding foreign researchers.Samsung Electronics Co., Samsung Display and Samsung SDI Co. o...

Economy Korea’s smaller firms embrace older, experienced workforce

South Korea’s liquid filtration system developer Neos Corp. has seven employees, all seasoned mechanical and electrical engineers in their 60s...

Korean startups English tutoring startup Ringle accelerates service diversification

SILICON VALLEY – Ringle English Education Service, a South Korean startup operating a one-on-one English tutoring platform, is actively seekin...

Food & Beverage South Korea's whisky imports surge 50% to record high

South Korea's whisky imports surged by 50% in the first half of 2023, reaching an unprecedented peak, according to trade data the Korea Customs Serv...

Healthcare KT expands healthcare business in Vietnam

South Korea’s telecom service provider KT Corp. has recently organized a collaborative seminar on digital health alongside Hanoi Medical Unive...

Business & Politics Airplane hangar built in Heart of S.America by KOICA

The South Korean government's support for Paraguay, dubbed the "Heart of South America," to become an aviation maintenance hub is gaining momentum.K...

Tech, Media & Telecom Blind recognized as one of Time100 Most Influential Companies 2023

Blind, the renowned online forum for verified but anonymous professionals, has been included on the esteemed Time100 Most Influential Companies list...

Artificial intelligence S.Korea's Shift Up scouts former OpenAI engineer

South Korea's game develop and design studio Shift Up has hired AI developer Kim Tae-hoon, who hails from Silicon Valley, to enhance its game artifi...

Korean startups Blind revamps job matching service to rival LinkedIn

Teamblind Inc., the developer of South Korea’s homegrown anonymous professional community app Blind, will reach out to a broader job-seeking p...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor Group ranks first in US vehicle dependability study

Hyundai Motor Group has once again topped the U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) conducted by J.D. Power, ranking first among 16 global automoti...

Food & Beverage S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate

Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...

Research & Development LG Group seeks future growth engines with new R&D units

LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, set up new research and development units at key affiliates to seek future growth engines...

Batteries S.Korean battery sector scrambles for talented manpower

South Korea’s battery industry has suffered from a talent shortage, especially in the research and development, design as well as process sect...

Business & Politics South Korea needs to attract more foreign professionals: FKI

In order to address the chronic shortage of industrial engineering manpower, a research report proposed that South Korea put more effort into attracti...

Korean startups Danggeun Market launches professional advertising solution

South Korean startup Danggeun Market, the operator of the country’s largest neighborhood marketplace app Karrot, is ramping up efforts to incr...

Robotics Korea lags peer nations in robot industry

South Korea’s competitiveness in the robot industry is among the world’s lowest even though the country is one of the largest buyers of ...

Pension funds More LPs tap ex-Samsung Life professionals as CIOs

A number of financial experts who built their careers at Samsung Life Insurance Co. are in the spotlight as more South Korean pension funds and mutu...

Electronics LG Elec CEO pledges cross-industry design innovation

MILAN, Italy – South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. will focus on upgrading its home appliance designs to reflect the latest design trends ...

Pension funds GEPS taps Samsung Life's alternative investment head as CIO

Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea has named Baek Joo-hyun, former alternative investment head at Samsung Life Insurance Co....

Hydrogen economy POSCO to transfer hydrogen steel tech to industry peers for shared growth

The Hydrogen Iron & Steel Making (HyIS) Forum led by the steelmaker POSCO officially opened Oct. 6 in Seoul with more than 1,200 industry partic...