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Beauty & Cosmetics Packaging rides K-beauty wave: Shares of cosmetics container makers soar

As South Korea’s independent beauty brands continue to take the global stage by storm, investors are now looking beyond the creams and serums ...

Business & Politics S.Korea's Han, Trump discuss transactional diplomacy in 1st direct talks

South Korea’s Acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo spoke with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday to discuss various issues of mu...

K-pop K-pop exports boom as end of Chinese K-wave ban looms large

Exports of Korean popular music, or K-pop, have seen a significant surge in recent months, driven by increasing demand from China and Japan, accordi...

Korean chipmakers SK Hynix to exit image sensor market to focus on AI chips

SK Hynix Inc. will shutter its image sensor business as the South Korean memory giant doubles down on the development of premium artificial intellig...

Business & Politics China likely to lift ban on South Korea’s K-wave as early as May

BEIJING – China will likely lift its ban on Hallyu, or Korean popular culture in the country, as early as May, moving away from its “wol...

IPOs Korean entertainment powerhouse K Wave Media to debut on Nasdaq in Feb

K Wave Media Ltd., an umbrella entity of South Korean entertainment companies, is set to go public on the Nasdaq next month in a bid to raise money ...

Companies Samsung develops health software development kit

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced the Samsung Health Software Development Kit (SDK) Suite, aimed at helping developers and researchers ...

Korean chipmakers Doosan Tesna to invest $160 mn in chip testing plant in Korea

South Korea’s Doosan Tesna Inc. will build a semiconductor testing factory in the country with an investment of 220.6 billion won ($159.7 mill...

Electronics Samsung Electronics unveils new smartphone image sensors

Samsung Electronics Co. has developed new image sensors -- ISOCELL HP9, ISOCELL JN5 and ISOCELL GNJ -- expected to enable smartphones to take cleare...

Electronics LG Innotek eyes $1.4 bn in automotive sensor sales by 2030

LG Innotek Co., South Korea’s leading mobile camera module maker, is upping the ante to lead the automotive sensing market with high-performan...

Machinery POSCO DX to develop self-driving unmanned facilities

POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of unde...

Economy S.Korea, Thailand launch negotiations for EPA

South Korean and Thai governments declared the launch of negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on Thursday. South Korea’s ...

Future mobility Hyundai, Kia team up with KAIST on self-driving car sensor

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, have joined hands with the nation's top national research university to...

Tech, Media & Telecom S.Korean government seeks to lower streaming service rates

The South Korean government is seeking to lower the country’s video streaming service, or over-the-top (OTT) media service, rates as part of i...

Korean startups Korea’s next tech wave in music to mushroom culture  

Investors on the hunt for the next big thing in South Korea explored the country’s next wave of technology at this year’s first demo day...

Tech, Media & Telecom Samsung Elec unveils new image sensors for robotics, XR

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday introduced new image sensors tailored for advanced content platforms...

Korean food, retail firms cut jobs as spending drops

South Korea’s food, cosmetics and retail companies, heavily reliant on domestic sales, are slimming down their workforce to survive a prolonge...

Korean startups SeeDevice named Semiconductor Review’s Company of the Year

SILICON VALLEY -- SeeDevice Inc., a fabless image sensor developer famous for its quantum-effect CMOS (QMOS) sensors capable of expanding vision bey...

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...

Automobiles Hyundai Mobis develops one-touch automatic parking tech

South Korea's leading automotive parts maker Hyundai Mobis on Tuesday announced its Mobis Parking System (MPS) 1.0P (Premium), a performance-improve...

Automobiles Hyundai, Kia unveil automatic cleaning method for camera sensors

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. on Wednesday announced their development of rotator cam technology using a small wiper and rotation of the cover gla...

Bio & Pharma Kakao Healthcare signs agreement with Novo Nordisk for digital service

Kakao Healthcare Corp., a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced that it has signed on Tuesday a business agreemen...

Electronics LG Electronics launches sleep management solution brid.zzz

LG Electronics Inc. on Friday launched a sleep management solution called "brid.zzz" aimed at individuals grappling with stress and insomnia. The na...

Travel & Leisure KTO releases 49 Korean Wave tourism products

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said on Friday that it has selected 49 tourism routes developed by 19 different travel agencies, centered aroun...

Robotics S.Korean kitchen robot startup Wave attracts $3 mn investment

South Korea's kitchen robot startup Wave Lifestyle Technologies announced on Tuesday that it has raised a Series A1 investment of 4 billion won ($3 ...

Robotics S.Korean convenience store chain CU pilots delivery robot

BGF Retail, a franchiser that operates convenience store chain CU, is currently testing delivery robots developed by Mobinn, a startup that spun off...

Retail Lotte Shopping: Resurrected in Indonesia after death in China

JAKARTA – On a hot spring day in March, Lotte Mart’s Gandaria City Mall hypermarket was as bustling with shopping Indonesians as usual.I...

Robotics S.Korean robot startup aims to ramp up supply by 9 times

A South Korean autonomous-driving robot startup Neubility aims to increase supply by almost nine times this year as demand for such machines in the ...

Korean startups Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business

Wave Lifestyle Tech, a South Korean foodtech robot company, said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’...

Healthcare Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app

South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...