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South Korean battery materials maker EcoPro said Sunday it would invest 1.2 trillion won ($910 million) in its Pohang campus in North Gyeongsang Province this year to expand its comprehensive secondary battery supply chain, which covers everything from producing key components to recycling. The co...
Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest carmaker, is getting closer to testing the production of electric vehicles equipped with solid-state batteries in collaboration with Factorial Energy, a US-based solid-state battery developer. Factorial Energy announced in October last year that it d...
Hanwha Ocean, a South Korean manufacturer specializing in ships and LNG plants, has recently registered two trademarks for new entities, hinting at its expansion into maritime energy development, according to industry sources, Friday. The registration of these two trademarks -- Hanwha Drilling and...
South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group said Friday that it has promoted Chung Yong-jin, the 55-year-old son of the conglomerate’s Chair Lee Myung-hee, to chair with a mission to address the challenges in the country’s retail sector. "The increasingly competitive retail market is facing a wide...
South Korean pharmaceutical company Handok announced Friday that GX-H9, a long-acting recombinant human growth hormone it co-developed with Genexine, has won orphan drug designation from the country's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. Handok said the designation for GX-H9, which it received on Mon...
South Korean retail giant Lotte Group Chair Shin Dong-bin is stepping up efforts to increase the group’s artificial intelligence capability. Lotte Group, on Friday, announced that the company held a conference on AI technology at Lotte World Tower on Thursday. Around 110 officials from the group ...
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard on Friday held a christening ceremony for a container ship in this southeastern port, which is slated to undergo a test for autonomous navigation. The 1,800 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) vessel, christened the Pos Singapore, will be delivered to P...
Close competition is predicted among the four domestic low-cost carriers vying for the acquisition of Asiana Airlines' cargo division, with Air Premia and Air Incheon emerging as the prime contenders, according to industry sources on Thursday. Financial services firm UBS, which is overseeing the s...
Korean petrochemicals firms are downsizing their businesses as they are grappling with lower demand and higher supply of products from China, according to industry sources Thursday. Lotte Chemical, South Korea’s leading petrochemicals company, has reportedly embarked on the process of selling its...
Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced Wednesday that the company signed business agreements with US energy equipment supplier Holtec International, and with UK construction firms Balfour Beatty and Mott MacDonald, in a bid to join the UK government’s small modular reactor project. The UK g...
South Korean shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai Heavy Industries said Thursday it has opened an office in the Philippines in an effort to tap deeper into Southeast Asia's growing warship market. HD Hyundai Heavy, a unit of HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, said it held an opening ceremony f...
South Korean semiconductor powerhouse SK hynix has won a non-compete injunction against a former researcher who left to work for its US chipmaking rival Micron Technology, sources said Thursday, amid an intensifying race for cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) chips. Last month, a Seoul cour...
Kim indicated a phased approach to collaboration with Chinese entities and stressed the necessity to promptly finalize agreements concerning the IRA and the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit. Kim echoed the sentiments of chairman-nominee Chang In-hwa regarding the company's unwavering commi...
The global transition to net zero will be a boon for companies in renewable energy and secondary batteries, while supply chain restructuring will challenge Korean chipmakers, according to data analysis released Wednesday by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The business group released a ...
KT&G, South Korea's dominant cigarette maker, is expected to face a fierce battle to appoint its new chief executive at an upcoming shareholder meeting, as an activist fund is seen lining up with the company's largest shareholder, observers said Wednesday. Appointing a new chief executive, which w...
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