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Toyota chairman to visit Seoul, discuss hydrogen cars with Hyundai’s Chung
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda at the 2020 CES in Las Vegas (Courtesy of Yonhap) Akio Toyoda, chairman of Japan’s top…
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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…
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LG Uplus, SM Entertainment to launch AI Idols
South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. said on Sunday that it will team up with SM Entertainment Co. to develop content…
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Samsung Galaxy S25 to run on Qualcomm chips amid AI phone war
Galaxy S24 Ultra is embedded with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips Galaxy S25, a new iteration of Samsung Electronics…
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Will Samsung take over Nokia’s mobile network assets?
Samsung Electronics office in Seoul (File photo by Dae-chul Lim) Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, showed initial…
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Track records matter over name value for junior bankers
(Courtesy of Getty Images) Junior bankers at the Korean offices of major global investment banks such as Morgan Stanely and…
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Korea’s airlines to use SAF starting from routes to Japan
A Korean Air cargo aircraft refueled with SAF (File photo by Korean Air) South Korea’s airlines are set to use…
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High-performance 4680 battery war is on; LG Energy takes lead over rivals
LG’s EV battery system on display at Interbattery 2024 With stagnating electric vehicle sales or an EV chasm set to…
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Samsung, LG take off gloves in high-end OLED display fight
A gaming monitor equipped with LG Display’s 27-inch 480Hz QHD Gaming OLED panel (Courtesy of LG Display) Samsung Display Co.…
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SK Hynix unveils industry’s first 10-nanometer DDR5, aims for top spot
SK Hynix develops the industry’s first 1c DDR5, a 16-gigabyte DRRAM chip using 1c or the sixth generation of the…
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BGF Retail, Deeping Source to co-work on smart convenience stores
BGF Retail Co., the operator of South Korea’s leading convenience store chain CU, said on Thursday that it signed a…
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Hyundai Mobis 42 new techs utilizing AI, VR
South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co. said on Thursday that it held the M-Sphere 2024 exhibition at its Uiwang Research Center…
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Gencurix, Hitachi to cooperate on molecular diagnostics
South Korean biotech company Gencurix Inc. said on Tuesday that it will cooperate with Japan’s Hitachi High-Tech Corporation to enter…
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Hyundai zeroes in on hybrid cars, longer-range EVs
Hyundai Motor executives, including CEO Chang Jae-hoon (fourth from right), speak at the 2024 CEO Investor Day forum Hyundai Motor…
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One Store vows to crack Apple, Google-led app market with localization
One Store CEO Jeon Dong-jin introduces Taiwan-targetted One Store app market on Aug. 28, 2024 (Courtesy of One Store) One…
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LG Innotek ups automotive electronics patents for future mobility
(Courtesy of LG Innotek) South Korea’s electronics parts maker LG Innotek Co. actively increased patents on its new growth drive…
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4by4, SGO to cooperate on video solution development
4by4 Inc., a South Korean content AI solution company, said on Wednesday that t it signed a basic agreement with…
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IGIS, Naver Labs to develop tech convergence space platform
South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. said on Wednesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with six companies,…
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Samsung unveils new AI-enhanced side by side refrigerator
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday that it launched a new side-by-side refrigerator, featuring enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology and…
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NCSOFT to seek recovery momentum with open-world game
(File photo by NCSOFT) South Korea’s gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. is set to develop an open-world massively multiplayer online role-playing…
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S.Korea’s Asicland establishes Taiwan subsidiary
Asicland Co., South Korea’s only design house contracted by TSMC, said on Monday that it launched a local subsidiary in…
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Samsung supplies LPDDR4X auto chip to Qualcomm, set for LPDDR5 deal
Samsung agrees to supply its LPDDR4X automotive chip to Qualcomm South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday…
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HD KSOE buys Finnish fuel cell maker Convion for $81 mn
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ dockyard in Ulsan HD Hydrogen, a unit of HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD…
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Korean IT giants drop fandom platforms, help HYBE dominate
BTS concert in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 15, 2022 (File photo by Big Hit Music, HYBE’s wholly-owned subsidiary) South…
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Kakao to merge dk techin and Kakao Brain
South Korea’s Kakao Corp. said on August 23 that its mobile solution development subsidiary dK Techin Corp. will merge with…
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SK Telecom provides SaaS-based passkey solution for biz
South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. said on Monday it offers a passkey system, enabling password-free login and user authentication, via…
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From War to Miracles: The Evolution of South Korea Amidst Global Struggles
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The End of the Korean War: A Historical Overview The Korean War, which began in 1950, was a significant conflict…
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Korea’s Tmax Group takes back software developer at $612 mn
Tmax Group Chair Park Dae-yeon (File photo by Tmax) South Korea’s Tmax Group took back its software developing unit sold…
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Samsung to offer 7 years of free Tizen OS upgrade for AI TVs
Yong Seok-woo, president and head of Samsung’s visual display business division Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smart TV maker,…
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Korea tightens rules on Netflix, Spotify subscription billing
South Korean drama series and films on Netflix (File photo, courtesy of Netflix) South Korea’s antitrust body is slated to…
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Naver’s CLOVA X Vision proves a picture is worth a thousand words
Naver unveils its hyperscale AI platform HyperCLOVA X on Aug. 24, 2023 A picture is worth a thousand words, as…
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Hanwha Systems, Airbus to jointly develop space solar cells
Flexell Space, South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co.’s in-house venture, said on Thursday that it signed a letter of intent (LOI)…
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Samsung’s new 2 nm foundry process to cut chip size by 17%
Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2024 was held in San Jose, California in June A new contract chipmaking technology, dubbed the…
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AI-driven shifts will unlock opportunities: SK Chairman
SK Chairman Chey Tae-won speaks at the 2024 Icheon Forum on Aug. 21, 2024 (Courtesy of SK Group) Bumpy roads…
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Enormous market ahead for Hopae, S.Korean DID pioneer
Hopae develops a DID-based identity system for esports players in South Korea (Screenshot captured from Hopae website) To Hopae Inc.,…
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SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol
PIP Labs CEO and Story Protocol Co-founder SY Lee Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his…
