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South Korean consumers most worried in world over COVID-19: survey

Oct 22, 2020

South Korean consumers are more worried about COVID-19 than consumers anywhere else in the world, and are also the biggest users of online food services, according to a survey by customer data analys...
Posco International stands at fore on Korea’s food security amid pandemic

Oct 22, 2020

Posco’s trading affiliate brings feed wheat via Ukrainian grain terminal after years of investment to secure supply channel
‘Remote patient monitoring should become nationwide agenda’

Oct 22, 2020

GE Healthcare on Thursday hosted a seminar on how remote patient monitoring will become a new normal in the post-COVID-19 era. The seminar was part of the annual K-Hospital Fair 2020, which was held...
Merck wins Korea Bioprocessing Excellence Award

Oct 22, 2020

Merck has been recognized with the Korea Bioprocessing Excellence Award at the Biologics Manufacturing Korea 2020 event, the company announced Thursday. The event, in its ninth year, annually invite...
[Monitor] Samsung, Hyundai see global brand value soar

Oct 22, 2020

Top 100 global brands for 2020
European sales of Samsung Bioepis' 3 biosimilars up 13% in Q3

Oct 22, 2020

South Korean drugmaker Samsung Bioepis Co. said Thursday sales of its three biosimilar products in Europe jumped 13 percent on-year during the third quarter of this year. Combined sales of the three...
LG Chem breaks records in Q3 ahead of split-off

Oct 21, 2020

LG Chem enjoyed the greatest quarterly revenue and operating profit in its history in the July-September period ahead of its controversial battery business split-off, according to a regulatory filing...
[News Analysis] LG Chem to reignite bio biz after battery separation

Oct 21, 2020

Samsung, SK’s strides bring LG’s old life sciences biz back in focus
Samsung Biologics' Jan.-Sept. margin surpasses profit for whole of 2019

Oct 21, 2020

Samsung Biologics marked an operating profit in the first three quarters of 2020 of more than double its entire yearly performance of 2019, proving it has been undamaged and even buoyed by the COVID-...
[From the Scene] Korea’s biggest battery expo invites LG Chem, Samsung SDI, SK Innovation

Oct 21, 2020

South Korea’s biggest battery expo, “Inter Battery,” opened Wednesday, the first and the largest expo to be held in Coex, Seoul, since Oct. 12, when the social distancing measures were lowered to Lev...
Disney picks LG Display for OLED

Oct 21, 2020

LG Display signed a three-year strategic partnership with Walt Disney Studios’ StudioLAB to provide it with organic light-emitting diode TV panels, the company said Wednesday. The deal will add tran...
Shin Dong-bin’s son joins Lotte Japan

Oct 21, 2020

Shin Yu-yeol, the only son of Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin, joined Lotte Japan earlier this year, the group confirmed on Wednesday. His educational and career path resembles his father’s corpo...
Samsung Biologics Q3 net income up 27% to 56.1b won

Oct 21, 2020

Samsung Biologics Co. on Wednesday reported its third-quarter net profit of 56.1 billion won ($49.5 million), up 27 percent from a year earlier. The company said in a regulatory filing that operatin...
SPC Group to open Shake Shack in Daejeon

Oct 21, 2020

SPC Group said Wednesday it will open a Shake Shack location in Galleria Timeworld in Daejeon in November. The Shake Shack store planned to launch in Daejeon is the third outlet for the burger chain...
SK E&C joins hands with Veea for Smart Safety Platform

Oct 21, 2020

SK Engineering & Construction said Wednesday it has teamed up with US platform-as-a-service company Veea to develop and operate a Smart Safety Platform, a service designed to protect staff on constru...