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Corporate investment LG Electronics breaks ground on $600 mn home appliance plant in India

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has broken ground on its third home appliance manufacturing plant in India with a $600 million investment to...

Energy LS Cable breaks ground on $681 mn underwater cable plant in Chesapeake

WASHINGTON, D.C. – LS Cable & System Ltd., South Korea’s leading wire and cable manufacturer, has broken ground on its first underwa...

Steel Hyundai mulls building 1st overseas steel mill in Louisiana

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hyundai Motor Group is considering building its first overseas steel mill in New Orleans, Louisiana, according to industry ...

Electronics Hanmi Semiconductor to build new TC Bonder plant in Incheon

Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, held a ground-breaking ceremony for its seventh plant of...

Bio & Pharma Hanmi breaks ground pharmaceuticals complex in Beijing

South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. said on Friday that Beijing Hanmi Pharm, its subsidiary in China, held the groundbreaking ceremony for a proj...

Bio & Pharma Celltrion to break ground on CDMO plant in 2025: Chairman Seo

South Korea’s leading biosimilar developer Celltrion Inc. will break ground on its first contract development and manufacturing organization (...

Aerospace & Defense Hyundai Rotem to supply ground weapons to Peru

South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Co. said on Monday it signed an agreement with the Peruvian Army to supply K2 main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and o...

Korean chipmakers Samsung Apologizes for Falling Behind in AI Chips Race

SEOUL—For a major maker of semiconductors such as Samsung Electronics Co. , the artificial-intelligence boom should be a time of great promise...

Tech, Media & Telecom KT succeeds 5G NTN satellite communication

South Korea's KT Corp. and its satellite subsidiary KT SAT said on Monday their integration of KOREASAT 6 with a terrestrial 5G network, utilizing...

Korean chipmakers SK Hynix’s CXL optimization software tool installed on Linux

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Monday the key features of its computer expr...

Travel & Leisure Seoul breaks ground on Mt. Namsan gondola facility

The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony for gondola facilities that will shuttle passengers from the base of Mt...

Artificial intelligence Naver’s HyperCLOVA X Vision proves a picture is worth a thousand words

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the adage goes, stressing the power of vision over text.People also say eyes are windows to the soul, emphas...

Construction Korea’s top landscaping firm Dawon to expand in SE Asia

South Korea’s Dawon Corporation aims to expand its business in Southeast Asia as it beat out major domestic builders such as Samsung C&T C...

Electric vehicles LS Cable breaks ground for bus ducts plant in Mexico

South Korea's LS Cable & System Ltd. broke ground for two factories in Mexico on August 2: one for bus ducts, or a large-scale power distributio...

Aerospace & Defense KAI to supply firefighting helicopter to Gangwon Province

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) announced on Friday that it signed a 33 billion won ($24 million) contract with Gangwon Special Self-Governing...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Telecom identifies illegal drones using AI

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it developed a communication and AI-integrated module to catch illegal drones using artifici...

Construction Doosan Bobcat to produce construction loaders in Mexico from 2026

Doosan Bobcat Inc., a construction machinery and equipment maker under South Korean conglomerate Doosan Group, aims to boost its sales in North Amer...

Electric vehicles POSCO Int'l breaks ground on traction motor core plant in Poland

South Korea's POSCO International Corp., broke ground on the new electric vehicle (EV) traction motor core plant in Brzeg, Opole Voivodeship, Poland...

Energy SK-backed TerraPower breaks ground on nuclear power plant in US

Bill Gates’ nuclear energy firm TerraPower LLC, backed by South Korean conglomerates SK Inc. and HD Hyundai Co., has broken ground on its firs...

K-pop ADOR CEO behind NewJeans stays with HYBE after court win

A legal battle between South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse HYBE Co. and the chief of its sublabel ADOR will likely drag on as the internati...

Bio & Pharma Global quest to find modern elixirs enters new chapter

NEW YORK/ BOSTON – Longevity has long been the dream of humankind. China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with finding magic e...

Electronics Samsung tops global soundbar market for 10th consecutive year

Samsung Electronics Co. has held its ground as the leader in the global soundbar market for ten consecutive years, from 2014 through 2023, according...

Automobiles Hankook Tire-sponsored Formula E São Paulo Round 4 to be held

The 2024 São Paulo E-PRIX, the fourth round of the 10th season of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, the world's premier electric vehi...

Airlines Korean Air breaks ground on Asia’s largest aircraft engine MRO cluster

Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s No. 1 full-service carrier, said on Thursday it has begun construction of a $439 million aircraft engine m...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor, Toyota compete to take upper hand in Brazil

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and Japan’s No. 1 carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. have been competing for decades to take the ...

Aerospace & Defense Hanwha, Saudi gov't to cooperate in defense industry

Hanwha Aerospace Co. and Hanwha Systems Co. announced on Tuesday that they signed a three-party memorandum of understanding (MOU) for defense cooper...

Electric vehicles Hyundai, BAIC join hands to develop China-only EV brand

BEIJING – Hyundai Motor Co. has joined hands with Beijing Motor Corp. (BAIC) to debut a new electric vehicle brand specifically tailored to Ch...

Automobiles Mojave Proving Ground: Backbone of Hyundai, Kia’s success in US

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. – The Mojave Desert, known by locals as the "high desert," lies some 170 km northeast of Los Angeles, California. In t...

Automobiles Kia EV9 named NACTOY 2024

Kia EV9, the signature large all-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) of South Korea’s No. 2 automaker Kia Corp., was named “2024 Nort...

Batteries LG Chem breaks ground on its 1st US cathode plant

CLARKSVILLE, TN – South Korea’s No. 1 chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. striving to become a leading global battery materials player broke gro...