Hyundai Motor Company is responding to growing demand for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) by producing HEVs at its U.S. electric vehicle factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA), which is scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2024.“We will begin to run HMGMA in October,” said L
As POSCO Holdings announced its first quarterly earnings under new Chairman Jang In-hwa, control of business development speeds by business division has become a hot topic.The company has set an investment budget of about 10.8 trillion won for this year, but the amount is likely to be reduced. The p
Doosan Enerbility announced on April 25 that Romanian President Klaus Iohannis visited the company’s headquarters in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province on April 24 as Romania is promoting the construction of the world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) power plant at the government level.The visit
A cutting-edge CXL IP startup, Panmnesia, announced its participation as the main sponsor at the inaugural CXL Consortium Developer Conference 2024 (CXL DevCon 2024), set to take place in April in Santa Clara, California, USA. Panmnesia will showcase the Compute Express Link (CXL) interoperability o
On April 25, the Presidential Advisory Council on Science & Technology held a full council meeting at the presidential office in Yongsan, Seoul, to discuss the three major technology initiatives aimed at propelling South Korea to a leading position in the global arena.The government has finalized it
The world’s largest foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturing) company, Taiwan’s TSMC, has ignited the competition in ultra-fine processes among Samsung Electronics and Intel by announcing plans for 1.6-nanometer (nm) mass production in 2026.According to industry sources and foreign media report
SK telecom announced on April 25 that it has become the first telecommunications company in South Korea to obtain the international standard certification for AI Management System under ISO/IEC 42001. The ISO/IEC 42001 standard was designed to ensure that companies and organizations can build and op
Naver’s management control over Line, which it has developed into a global messaging service over the past 13 years, could be handed over to Japan due to pressure from the Japanese government. If control is transferred, Naver could lose a market of 200 million users in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand, p
After receiving a lackluster performance report for the first quarter of this year, POSCO Holdings has signaled changes in its core businesses such as steel and secondary battery materials.POSCO Holdings announced on April 25 that its consolidated operating profit for the first quarter of this year
Lotte Group has sold “Lotte World Adventure Shenyang” in China. It marks over seven years since construction was halted at the end of 2016 due to China’s retaliation over the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. Lotte World Shenyang was envisioned as a large-scale pr
Hanwha Aerospace has signed an additional executive contract with Polish Armaments Agency for supplying 72 more Chunmoo Multiple Rocket Launcher Systems (MRLS), preceded by the framework contract and first executive contract, both signed in 2022.Worth around 2.27 trillion KRW (1.6 B USD), the contra
With South Korea’s manufacturing investments shifting from the western to the eastern United States, there’s a growing need to establish logistics infrastructure like port terminals on the U.S. East Coast to mitigate logistics risks.According to the report titled “Changes in Import-Export Logistics
The K-UAM One Team consortium, consisting of Korean Air, Hyundai Motor, and KT, has successfully validated the world’s first integrated operational system using 5G aviation networks for Urban Air Mobility (UAM).On April 24, Korean Air announced that it, along with Hyundai Motor, KT, Incheon Internat
Macrogen, a global genome analysis company, has officially started building the largest Global Genome Center in Asia.The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority announced that Macrogen held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 24 at the Advanced Industry Cluster in Songdo International City, Zone 5, for
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon held a press briefing at Seoul City Hall on April 24 to announce a comprehensive plan to develop the Han River. The plan is a sequel to the Great Han River Project launched in March last year with the goal of creating a waterfront city in Seoul.Accordingly, the city aims to cr
The Korean construction industry is on edge due to the conflict between Israel and Iran and between Israel and Hamas, which has led to a decline in orders from the Middle East and concerns about lower profitability due to rising raw material prices. The Middle East is a big overseas market for Korea
Hanwha Life Insurance has become the first domestic insurance company to venture into overseas banking.The company announced on April 24 that it will acquire a 40 percent stake in Nobu Bank held by Lippo Group, the sixth largest conglomerate in Indonesia. The process of equity investment will be fin
The operating profits of the four major domestic groups -- Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor, and LG -- last year showed a decrease of over 65 percent compared to 2022.The Korea CXO Research Institute, specializing in corporate analysis, released a report containing the findings on April 24.Specifically, t
Huawei launched its game-changing RAN Intelligent Agents. The RAN Intelligent Agents introduce a set of telecom foundation model, RAN digital twins system (RDTS), and intelligent computing power to empower 5.5G with intelligence, according to Eric Zhao, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced on April that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Philly Shipyard in Pennsylvania of the United States to provide new shipbuilding and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for US naval and government vessels for the U.S. gover