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Bio & Pharma Celltrion unveils cancer medicine to expand new drug pipelines

South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer Celltrion Inc. on Sunday unveiled an anticancer medicine to expand new pipelines and accelerat...

Business & Politics Seoul mulls joint review of Alaska LNG project with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam

South Korea has proposed forming a consortium with Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam to jointly assess the feasibility of investing in the $45 billion Alask...

Batteries Samsung SDI, Hanwha Ocean to usher in battery-driven submarine era

Hanwha Ocean Co. and Samsung SDI Co. will start evaluating their jointly developed lithium-ion battery system for a submarine with South Korea&rsquo...

Automobiles Kumho Tire eyes Poland, Serbia, Portugal for 1st European plant

Kumho Tire Co., South Korea’s No. 2 tire maker, is evaluating Poland, Serbia and Portugal as a potential site for its first plant in Europe as...

Corporate strategy Orion behind original Choco Pie to invest $580 million in new plants

Orion Corp., a South Korean confectionery and snack manufacturer, will inject 830 billion won ($580 million) over three years to expand snack manufa...

Business & Politics Samsung, LG review strategies as Trump slaps Vietnam with steeper tariffs

South Korea’s two leading electronics makers – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. – are being forced to reassess thei...

Artificial intelligence LG takes on Big Tech AI in reasoning with Exaone Deep

LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) research and development unit of South Korea's LG Group, has unveiled Exaone Deep, an open-source A...

Korean Investors Samsung to invest $10 million in US-based C2N Diagnostics

Samsung Group companies will jointly invest $10 million in C2N Diagnostics LLC, a U.S.-based company specializing in blood-based Alzheimer’s d...

Mergers & Acquisitions MBK-led consortium to take over Japan’s FICT for $656 mn

MBK Partners, the largest private equity firm in North Asia, will acquire a controlling stake in FICT Ltd., a semiconductor printed circuit board (P...

Aerospace & Defense Hanwha Aerospace nears $276 million K9 howitzer deal with Vietnam

South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace Co. is close to signing a 400 billion won ($276 million) deal to export as many as 30 units of the K9 Thunder s...

Banking & Finance Lotte Card Card to launch loans for affiliates in Vietnam

South Korea's Lotte Card said on Monday it will launch loans for affiliates in Vietnam.Lotte Finance Vietnam, the Vietnamese corporation of Lotte Ca...

Retail E-Land sets sights on Vietnam as its next China, to open 10 outlets by 2025

South Korea’s retail giant E-Land Group has set its sights on Vietnam as its next target market after China, planning to open 10 outlets there...

Banking & Finance KB Asset parts ways with Dragon Capital in Vietnam

South Korea's KB Asset Management Co. ended its delegated management agreement for public funds with Vietnam's largest asset management company, Dra...

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...

Electronics Apple supplier LG Innotek to invest $268.4 mn in Vietnam in 2025

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co., a major contractor for Apple Inc., said on Thursday it plans to spend 375.9 billion won ($268.4 million) next ye...

Electronics LG Display to invest extra $1 bn in Vietnam OLED plant

LG Display Co. will invest an additional $1 billion in Vietnam over the next five years to ramp up organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel output,...

Banking & Finance Shinhan Securities Vietnam launches mobile trading system

South Korea's Shinhan Securities said on Thursday its overseas subsidiary Shinhan Securities Vietnam (SSV) launched a mobile trading system (MTS) "N...

Food & Beverage Lotte Wellfood showcases K-Food at Vietnam Foodexpo

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. said on Thursday it participated in Vietnam Foodexpo 2024 to promote Korean food and boost its market share in the ...

Logistics S.Korea to build cold chain logistics center in Haiphong, Vietnam

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on Wednesday that South Korean company Jeil Construction has begun building a cold chain complex logi...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG Uplus tests energy efficiency tech for 6G network

South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. said on Tuesday it tested the All-Photonic Transport Network, a key technology designed to reduce power consumpti...

Korean startups Mediaiplus aims to be the Amazon of clinical trials

Mediaiplus Inc., South Korea’s only provider of data analytics and contract research organization (CRO) matching services for clinical trials,...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HD Hyundai may nearly double shipbuilding capacity in Vietnam

HD Hyundai Co., the world’s second-largest shipbuilder, is likely to nearly double its vessel construction capacity in Vietnam to meet surging...

Banking & Finance Lotte Card launches long-term rental car card in Vietnam

South Korea's Lotte Card Co. launched a long-term car rental exclusive card in Vietnam to expand its presence in the local market.Its Vietnamese s...

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...

Batteries LG Chem develops material blocking battery thermal runaway

LG Chem Ltd. has developed a material that can prevent thermal runaway in a lithium-ion battery, one of the major hurdles to the expansion of the el...

Bio & Pharma Celltrion establishes subsidiary in Vietnam

Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s largest biosimilar maker, said on Monday that it completed the establishment of a local subsidiary in Vietnam....

Airlines Jin Air to expand SE Asia, Oceania routes

South Korea's budget carrier Jin Air said on Friday that it will resume and expand its international flights for the upcoming winter season, focus...

Banking & Finance Korea Investment to publish emerging market investment guidebook

Korea Investment Management Co. said on Friday that it will publish an Emerging Market Guidebook on September 30, which will contain investment stra...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Shieldus, Verizon form strategic partnership

South Korea's SK Shieldus Co. said on Wednesday that it entered a strategic partnership with the US-based telecom company Verizon.Under this partner...

Electronics Samsung Display to build $1.8 billion OLED plant in Vietnam

Samsung Display Co., a leading South Korean display maker, will build a $1.8 billion organic light-emitting diode (OLED) line in Vietnam for small- ...