MBK Partners announced that Moon Joo-Ho, the executive director in charge of special situations investments in Korea, was promoted to the position of partner and vice president on Jan. 1.Vice President Moon graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Business Administration and holds a
Hyundai Motor Company today presented its vision for a hydrogen-powered, software-driven transformation beyond mobility applications at CES 2024. Under the theme ‘Ease every way,’ the company held its Media Day at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas to highlight its future blueprint for
President Yoon Young-jun of Hyundai E&C expressed his intention to focus the company’s capabilities more on overseas markets than the domestic market in the new year.In his New Year’s address on Jan. 2, President Yoon stated, “Despite the dark clouds over the construction market due to the triple ch
HD Hyundai announced that it will build HD Hyundai’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform based on Google Cloud’s technologies and solutions.Through this collaboration with Google, HD Hyundai plans to accelerate its digital transformation by introducing generative AI technology to its core business
Huawei Korea held a media event on Dec. 20 to share its major business achievements of 2023 and strategic directions for 2024. Balian Wang, CEO of Huawei Korea, emphasized prioritizing cybersecurity on this day.This year, under the vision of “Building a Better Eco-Friendly Digital Life with Korea,”
Huawei Korea held a media event on Dec. 20th to share major business achievements of 2023 and strategic directions for 2024. Balian Wang, CEO of Huawei Korea, emphasized prioritizing cybersecurity on this day.This year, under the vision of 'Building a Better Eco-Friendly Digital Life with Korea,' Hu
Samsung Electronics and Naver have unveiled their jointly developed artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor, which has been in development over the past year. Known for its power efficiency being approximately eight times greater than chips from competitors like Nvidia, this product is expected t
Mirae Asset Global Investments announced on Dec. 17 that its Hong Kong subsidiary, established in December 2003, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.Launched in 2005, the Mirae Asset Asia-Pacific Star Fund marked a significant milestone as South Korea’s first domestically introduced fund managed dir
As the automotive industry shifts its focus from hardware to software, South Korean companies are accelerating their drive towards Software-defined Vehicles (SDVs). SDVs are cars controlled and managed by software. Domestic car and parts manufacturers are actively developing solutions and preparing
On Dec. 14, SK telecom unveiled the “A. Interpretation Call” service, which enables real-time interpretation during calls, and is preparing to sequentially update users’ apps.Initially targeting Apple iPhone users, the service supports four languages: Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese. Plans ar
The author is an analyist for NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at jack.baek@nhqv.com -- Ed.MaumAI is a provider of AI platform services to companies looking to implement AI. Moving ahead, we anticipate a rise in RAG chatbot orders, strengthening earnings at the new WoRV autonomous drivi
Despite the United States intensifying its export restrictions against China in the semiconductor sector, China’s self-sufficiency rate in advanced products such as domestic artificial intelligence (AI) chips is increasing faster than expected.Market research firm TrendForce reported on Dec. 12 that
Naver Cloud announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with iot squared, a Saudi Arabian IoT and smart city technology solution company, for collaboration in Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation (DX).iot squared is a joint venture co-founded by the STC Group, a leading force in Sau
SK hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics in the server DRAM market, nearing a 50% market share in the third quarter of this year. This surge is attributed to SK hynix’s leading position in the competition for module-type products, which include the latest standard server DRAM, Double Data Rate 5 (
NPCore, an AI-based cybersecurity solution specialist (hereafter referred to as NPCore), with CEO Han Seung Chul, announced today that it has successfully completed raising 8 billion won in investment through a Pre-IPO. Last month, NPCore received a TI-1 grade from NICE evaluation information's inve
Samsung Electronics has confirmed on Nov. 27 that they have completed the trademark registration for the terms “AI Smartphone” and “AI Phone” in connection with the launch of an artificial intelligence (AI) equipped smartphone next year. This registration was finalized on Nov. 24 with the European U
Samsung Electronics recently presented a number of memory strategies to prepare for the “AI Big Bang” era at the Investors Forum 2023 in Hong Kong.The company aims to dominate the automotive memory market by 2025, with plans to roll out AI-related products starting next year. The AI market is expand
The Korea Startup Forum (Chairman Jae-Wook Park, hereinafter referred to as KSF), the organizing organization of the global startup festival COMEUP, announced that COMEUP 2023, which was held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) for three days from November 8 to 10, attracted about 66,000 people. It was
Prosecutors have embarked on a search and seizure operation targeting the CEO of Hyundai AutoEver and others.The Fair Trade Investigation Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office announced that they have been conducting search and seizure operations at a total of four locations, in
“Samsung Gauss will go beyond simply understanding and generating language to maximize interactions between users and devices and provide a more intuitive and natural user experience,” said Lee Joo-hyung, vice president of Samsung Research, in a demonstration of Samsung Gauss at the Samsung Develope