CEO unveils plans for further production expansion; dismisses oversupply concerns, citing aging population, healthcare demand

Experts see limited impact, citing tricky production of still-nascent microLED technology

While staying in the US to attend the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo took time to visit Google Bay View Campus on Friday. According to the group, Ham intended to get some inspiration for digitalization through communicating with employees of the global IT firm. “It was a meaningful time to think about the future path of the group together with young talented people," Ham said. When meeting with the global company’s employees, Ham st

Kia's EV6 has won the North American Utility Vehicle of the Year award, Hyundai Motor Group announced Thursday. This year's winner was selected by 50 automotive journalists in the US and Canada. The South Korean automaker said over 19,000 EV6s have been sold in the US since February.

South Korea's finance ministry said Thursday owners of two homes will pay less taxes if they dispose of one of them during an extended period amid a slump in the home market. Under the plan, such homeowners will not be subject to heavier taxation if they offload one of the two homes within a three-year period, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The ministry earlier extended the period from one to two years in May 2022. While the revised policy will be officially implemented in Feb

S. Korean energy company to have 8.4-gigawatt production by 2024, enough for 1.3 million households

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lotte Biologics will invest around $3 billion by 2030 to build new CDMO plants in South Korea, Lotte Biologics CEO Richard Lee announced during the company’s presentation at the 41st JPMorgan Healthcare Conference held in San Francisco, Tuesday. The investment will go toward building three plants, with a combined manufacturing capacity of 360,000 liters, 120,000 each, according to Lee. About $1 billion will be needed per plant, Lee estimated. The company will start to buil

Piecemeal rate cuts don't seem enough to relieve borrowers' heavy burdens

SK hynix, a semiconductor manufacturer under SK Group, announced on Wednesday that it has successfully issued a Sustainability-Linked Bond worth $1 billion, making it the first global chipmaker to do so. SLB is a type of bond with interest rates that are adjusted depending on whether a company's environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) objectives are achieved. For this ESG requirement, the company aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 57 percent of its 2020 rate by 2026

SAN JOSE, California -- At the heart of Silicon Valley, home to world's largest tech giants, stands a landmark 10-story building in the shape of a three-layer stack of NAND flash memory chips. The symbolic building is the headquarters of Samsung Electronics Device Solutions America, which oversees the production of semiconductors in the United States -- a market that takes up more than half of the global chip demand. Opening the US headquarters to Korean media on Saturday, Sue Kim, the he

US chief pins high hopes on new allergy treatment as Korean drug giant’s next blockbuster drug

Hyundai Motor Group said Wednesday that the automaker has received 11 accolades from the 2022 Good Design Awards in the US. The South Korean auto giant took home three awards in robotics design with future mobility concepts that combine in-wheel motors, steering, suspension, braking system and environmental sensors into one structure.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday sent out invites to its annual unpacking event for its new flagship Galaxy devices that will take place in San Francisco at 10 a.m. on Feb. 1. Entitled “Galaxy Unpacked 2023: Share the Epic,” the event will be held in person for the first time in three years since the pandemic. It will also be livestreamed from Seoul through Samsung’s newsroom and homepage, as well as its official YouTube channel, the officials said. “A new era of Galaxy i

South Korea reported the largest job additions in more than 20 years in 2022, data showed Wednesday, as the country gradually returned to pre-pandemic normalcy. The number of employed people came to 28.08 million in 2022, up 816,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. It marked the largest number since 2000, when the nation reported an on-year increase of 882,000 jobs. Last year's reading also marked a significant rise from the 370,000 growth tallied in

South Korean sportswear brand Fila Holdings said Tuesday it has become the first Korean fashion company to be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, an accredited benchmark of a company’s commitment to environment, social and governance matters. Fila Holdings attributed its DJSI listing to its continuing efforts for sustainable management, from using recycled materials in its products to building a transparent supply chain system. The company has been expanding the proportion of