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Samsung to invest $52 mn in US biotech VC Flagship Pioneering

Samsung C&T Executive Vice President Kim Jay-woo (left) and Flagship Pioneering Managing Partner Stephen Berenson at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference…
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LG Chem promises extra $14.4 million in aid over Indian gas leak

LG Chem Vice Chair Shin Hak-cheol (left) shakes hands with Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, after announcing humanitarian…
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PharmaResearch acquires TuringBio for digital therapeutics

PharmaResearch Co., a South Korean company specializing in regenerative medicine, announced on Wednesday that it acquired TuringBio, an AI-based digital…
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Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics

Lunit CEO Brandon Suh Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, will expedite its inroads into developing markets…
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Liner launches beta service for Academic Mode AI Search

South Korea’s generative AI startup Liner announced on Thursday that it launched a beta service of Academic Mode AI Search,…
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LG Chem launches Synovian in China

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. announced on Wednesday that it launched its homegrown new drug for osteoarthritis Synovian (marketed in…
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PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance

PhyxUp dashboard (Courtesy of PhyxUp) PhyxUp Health Inc., an early stage South Korean digital healthcare startup, will soon close a…
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Kyobo Life CEO’s ethical management earns global recognition

Kyobo Life Insurance’s CEO & Chairman Shin Chang-jae delivers the acceptance speech of the Global Ethics & Stakeholder Commitment Award…
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Daewoong, Indonesia’s IPB to co-research on primate

South Korea’s Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Thursday that it signed a contract with Indonesia’s Bogor Agricultural University (Institut Pertanian…
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SK Inc. in talks to sell Pharmteco’s US CDMO plant to Novo Nordisk

SK Pharmteco’s headquarters in Sacramento, California SK Inc., the holding and investment company of SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate,…
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Noul, CDC to start Malaria diagnosis project in Kenya

South Korea’s Noul Co., an in-vitro diagnostics maker and artificial intelligence (AI)-based blood and cancer diagnostic platforms company, said on…
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Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University (SNU) to…
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L’Oréal to nurture K-Beauty startups

L’Oréal, the world’s largest cosmetics group, announced on Wednesday that it is recruiting digital and innovative technology companies to participate…
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Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China rows

Samsung Biologics’ booth at the BIO International Convention 2024 held in San Francisco (Courtesy of Yonhap) SAN FRANCISCO – Samsung…
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Samsung’s new chip head instills a sense of crisis, hope amid HBM gaffe

Samsung’s chip business head and Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun Samsung Electronics Co.’s new semiconductor chief Jun Young-hyun knows more than anyone…
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Kim Jong Un’s Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South

A balloon carrying what appeared to be trash and excrement in a rice field in South Korea. YONHAP NEWS AGENCY/REUTERS SEOUL—An…
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Korean biotech Bertis to join BIO 2024 for global reach

Bertis Chief Executive Han Seung-man South Korean biotech Bertis Inc. will deliver presentations at the BIO International Convention, one of…
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SK Telecom launches AI pet diagnostic solution in Australia

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. announced on Wednesday that it launched its AI-based pet diagnostic assistance service X Caliber in…
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Samsung Bioepis tops in Soliris biosimilar market in Europe

Samsung Bioepis booth at ERA 2024, the leading European nephrology conference held in Stockholm between May 23-26, 2024. (Courtesy of…
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Celltrion eyes M&A in Europe, $3.3 bn Zymfentra sales: Chairman

Celltrion Group founder and Chairman Seo Jung-jin (on left) visiting the Celltrion booth at DDW 2024 WASHINGTON DC – Celltrion…
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Lunit buys breast cancer detection AI firm Volpara Health

Teri Thomas, chief executive of Volpara Health (left), Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics…
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Investors dump Korean biotech HLB stocks on FDA rejection

HLB Chairman Jin Yang-gon announces the FDA’s notification of a CRL for its combination therapy of Rivoceranib and Camrelizumab on…
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Korea’s Koh Young to launch brain surgery robot in US in 2025

The Kymero, Koh Young’ neurosurgical robot (Courtesy of Koh Young) Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D…
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Samsung Medison buys AI medical startup Sonio for $93 mn

(Captured from Samsung Medison website) South Korea’s Samsung Medison, a medical equipment subsidiary of the leading global memory chipmaker Samsung…
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Osstem to buy Brazil’s No. 3 dental implant maker Implacil

Implacil De Bortoli’s headquarters in São Paulo (Screen captured from Implacil’s YouTube) South Korea’s Osstem Implant Co., the world’s fourth-largest…
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Lunit, Radiobotics team up to enter EMEA markets

South Korean medical AI company Lunit announced on Thursday that it partnered with the Danish musculoskeletal AI diagnostics company Radiobotics…
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JLK to supply medical AI solutions in Indonesia

South Korea’s JLK Inc., an AI-based stroke care platform maker, announced on Tuesday that it signed a business agreement with…
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NGeneBio to transfer NGS tech to UAE company

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract with the United Arab Emirates…
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Vuno, Canon to target AI diagnostic market in Japan

South Korea’s medical device startup Vuno announced on Monday that its Japanese partner M3AI signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)…
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Machine tool maker DN Solutions kicks off IPO process

DN Solutions products (Screenshot captured from the company website).png DN Solutions Co., the world’s third-largest machine tool maker, has kicked…
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Exploring the Joseon Dynasty: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
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Introduction to the Joseon Dynasty The Joseon Dynasty, also known as the Joseon Dynasty, represents a pivotal era in Korean…
































