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[Photo News] Smilegate to release MMORPG 'Lost Ark' on Nov. 7

SMILEGATE SHOWCASES ‘LOST ARK’ -- Smilegate RPG CEO Jee Won-gil introduces the company’s latest massively multiplayer online role-playing game, “Lost Ark,” during a media event in Seoul on Monday. Sm...

Sept 17, 2018
Industry
GS Retail unveils 'smart convenience store'

GS Retail Co., a major South Korean retailer, said it opened a "smart convenience store" using a face recognition system and other technologies Monday amid local retail firms' race to automation. Th...

Sept 17, 2018
Industry
[Newsmaker] Three chaebol chiefs join Moon’s Pyongyang trip

Delegation highly symbolic, as businesses unable to contemplate immediate projects

Sept 16, 2018
Industry
[News Focus] With freer rein, Hyundai Motor heir expected to seek radical changes

Chung Eui-sun, now officially the second in command at South Korea’s biggest automaker and second-largest conglomerate, will be able to wield greater power across 55 affiliates, operating in business...

Sept 16, 2018
Industry
Some big biz still asking SMEs to provide know-how ahead of contracts: report

Some South Korean big businesses are still asking smaller partners wanting to secure deals to submit technical know-how before the signing of a contract, a report by a local trade federation said Sun...

Sept 16, 2018
Industry
Samsung, Hyundai, SK, LG leaders to join President Moon's Pyongyang visit

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit Pyongyang this week, along with several conglomerate leaders, his office announced Sunday. Cheong Wa Dae said Moon's entourage will be composed of 52 go...

Sept 16, 2018
Industry
9 Japanese firms fined over price collusion

South Korea's corporate watchdog said Sunday that it has decided to slap a total of 36 billion won ($32 million) in fines on nine Japanese firms for allegedly colluding to maintain or raise prices of...

Sept 16, 2018
Industry
20 Samsung Group affiliates moving to hire new workers in H2

Samsung Group's many affiliates are moving to hire a large number of new workers in the second half, amid a sharp drop in employment numbers in recent months, industry sources said Sunday. Data by I...

Sept 16, 2018
Industry
Remaining 119 sacked workers to return to SsangYong Motors

The labor and management of SsangYong Motors agreed to reinstate 119 dismissed workers by the first half of next year, ending the prolonged dispute over the firm’s mass dismissal of them, according t...

Sept 14, 2018
Industry
Samsung, Google partner for messaging service

Samsung Electronics is partnering with Google to unveil a next-generation messaging service based on rich communication services for smartphone users, according to sources on Friday. Rich communicat...

Sept 14, 2018
Industry
Second round of Ausbildung to kick off with BMW, Benz, Daimler

The Korean-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry welcomed 117 new trainees for the Ausbildung program this year with participating German automotive companies, BMW Group Korea, Daimler Trucks Korea...

Sept 14, 2018
Industry
Hanwha Total CEO appointed as new Hanwha Q Cells chief

Hanwha appointed the CEO of Hanwha Total Petrochemicals as the new chief of Hanwha Q Cells, the photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing arm of Hanwha Group, according to the group on Friday. The new p...

Sept 14, 2018
Industry
Hyundai unveils rendered image of hydrogen truck

Hyundai Motor unveiled Friday a rendered image of its upcoming hydrogen-powered truck slated to be launched next year. The Korean automaker said it would announce more details, including data, devel...

Sept 14, 2018
Industry
Naver opens third Partner Square for small businesses

GWANGJU, South Jeolla Province -- Naver, South Korea’s dominant internet portal, has opened its third Naver Partner Square venue for small businesses and creators in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, w...

Sept 13, 2018
Industry
Korea’s exports to reach $600 billion this year: KOTRA chief

Korea’s exports will reach a record high of $600 billion this year, driven by favorable market conditions of global tech companies and the rise of oil prices, said the chief of the state-funded trade...

Sept 13, 2018
Industry

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