SillaJen, a local biotech company that was given a one-year grace period and avoided delisting in November 2020 over embezzlement accusations involving its key executives, will be put on another six-month grace period, the Korea Exchange said Friday. A 22-month trading halt that began in May 2020 will remain in place. The KRX, which decided to take the firm off from the junior Kosdaq board a mon...

But these actions and pledges might fall short of global sustainability standards, as Samsung Electronics has yet to either join RE100 renewable energy initiative or announce its carbon neutral commitment, as opposed to its tech rival Apple. The APG‘s letter sent to chips-to-gadgets giant Samsung implied that carbon emissions-to-revenue intensity came to 8.7 percent in 2020, showing a comparison...

QINGDAO, China , Feb. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Hisense officially released the first self-developed 8K AI Perceptual Processor (Hi-View HV8107), further sharpening the competitive edge in image quality in the global competition of display technology. This marks a great breakthrough in the development and industrialization of 8K technology in Hisense's Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) ...

Jeongyeon of Twice posted selfies with Nayeon on the band’s Instagram account Thursday. The pair struck cute and playful poses for the camera saying: “Nayeon and Jeongyeon’s selfies we’ve all been waiting for! It’s a present. Take these!” This was reassuring for fans who expressed concerns that Jeongyeon looked grim in the photographs from the band’s concert in Los Angeles on the previous...

In less than a year since their official debut, Blitzers have definitely come far but the group hopes to go even further in 2022. “It’s been a hectic year. And thankfully, we spent a happy one, making a debut and even receiving a prize. I want to say a word of thanks to Blee who have been with us since the beginning,” Sya said. “Although we’ve worked hard, I personally feel we spent a short tim...

“The ordinance violates the operator’s freedom of occupation as well as users’ right to self-determination,” the top court said in the ruling. It also questioned the underlying notion that the possibility of sex crimes would increase if males and females are seated together, adding it is hard to find convincing scientific evidence supportive of that. Lee Mi-jeong, a senior official at the state...

The presidential office and main opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol are once again wrangling over words, this time over Yoon’s comparison of the current administration to past fascist regimes. Speaking at a canvassing event on Thursday, Yoon of the People Power Party hit out at the incumbent Moon Jae-in government for “blaming others for their faults, and making up sins” of other pe...

Alert credit card companies in Korea. Biometric technology using facial, iris, voice, fingerprint and finger vein recognition could halve the current money transfer costs through credit card and mobile transactions totaling at 2.7 trillion won ($2.2 billion) annually, Boston Consulting Group said Friday in a report. “The 2.7 trillion won is an approximation of the sum of 290 million hours and 11...

The idea of building a large shopping mall in the liberal stronghold of Gwangju has become a political hot potato, after presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition People Power Party made it his election pledge this week. Yoon revealed the idea of building Gwangju’s first mega shopping mall on Wednesday, emphasizing how Gwangju is the “only” city without such a facility and blam...

The pandemic, in particular, had made him realize who he is without the physical stage and that the things he found essential in his music have changed over time. “My life as a person is rather dull, so I present a different side of myself through music. And since there’s no reward (of live concerts), I needed the vivacity and at some point felt that my life isn’t colorful,” he said. Han said r...

SEJONG – Economic policymakers are moving to tame consumer prices under their assessment that inflationary pressures would continue this month, Vice Finance Minister Lee Eog-weon said Friday. Several policy measures set to be taken include making price tags of food products at large-scale dining franchises publicized and extending fuel tax redemption. “Prices of dining out increased by 5.5 perc...

South Korean stocks edged up on Friday after choppy trading amid expectations of a US-Russia meeting next week about the standoff over Ukraine. The Korean won rose against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) added 0.43 point, or 0.02 percent, to close at 2,744.52 points. Trading volume was moderate at about 506 million shares worth some 8.4 trillion won ($7 bi...

Shinsegae International will launch a limited-edition electric bike in collaboration with Super73, US-based electric motorbike manufacturer. By limited edition, they mean only two in the world. The company‘s signature gorilla character JRilla, designed after Shinsegae heir Vice Chairman Chung Yong-jin, is the bike‘s mascot. The product even has its own narrative: JRilla, originally from Mars, o...

South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases surpassed the 100,000 mark for the first time since the country reported the first COVID-19 infection in January 2020. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, the country added 109,831 new COVID-19 infections during the 24 hours of Thursday. The total caseload came to 1,755,806. Daily infection numbers have been surging due to the omicron...

Zackdang, operator of beauty video platform Zamface, said Wednesday it raised 4.5 billion won ($3.76 million) from Hi Investment Partners and Daesung Private Equity in January. With the fresh investment, the company’s cumulative investment has reached 11 billion won. Zamface saw its number of cumulative subscribers surpass 1.8 million in only 2 1/2 years since its launch in January 2019. Millenn...