Innocean names former Apple Korea exec as D.Plan360 CEO

Innocean said Monday it has appointed Lee Il-seop, former director of Apple Korea, as the new CEO of its digital marketing subsidiary D.Plan360. Lee brings more than 25 years of experience in marketing and advertising across major domestic and global companies, with expertise spanning brand strategy, performance marketing and advertising technology. At Apple Korea, Lee led the company's Search Ads business, overseeing the launch and growth of its advertising business in the Korean market. He als

2026-07-06 15:12:21:00

LG Chem expands chip materials business with Amkor deal

LG Chem said Sunday it will begin mass supplying semiconductor strippers to Amkor Technology, a leading US-based outsourced semiconductor assembly and test company. Amkor provides semiconductor packaging and testing services for major chipmakers worldwide. A stripper is a key process chemical used to remove photoresist and residue from semiconductor wafers after circuit patterning. As chip circuits become smaller and more complex, stripping performance has become increasingly important for manuf

2026-07-05 14:25:04:00

HD Construction Equipment partners with Korean Army on autonomous machinery

HD Construction Equipment said Sunday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Army Headquarters at Gyeryongdae in South Chungcheong Province to cooperate on autonomous construction equipment technologies and maintenance training. The partnership aims to help the military adapt to declining troop numbers by applying and validating autonomous construction equipment in military operations. Under the agreement, the two sides will collaborate on technologies for missions such as restor

2026-07-05 14:07:48:00

Hana's SMART ambassadors to pitch future finance ideas

Hana Financial Group said Sunday it launched the 20th class of its SMART student ambassador program, with 50 university students beginning two months of activities following an inauguration ceremony held Thursday at the group's headquarters in Myeong-dong, Seoul. Launched in 2012 as the financial industry's first university student ambassador program, SMART has become one of Hana Financial's flagship youth engagement initiatives. Under the theme "Ha.Ha.Ha.," the students will act as a bridge bet

2026-07-05 14:02:09:00

Shinhan deploys AI 'red team' to test strategy

Shinhan Financial Group held its management forum for the second half of 2026 from Friday to Saturday at Shinhan Bank Blue Campus in Yongin, bringing together about 300 executives from across the group to discuss competitiveness and accelerate its artificial intelligence transformation. The forum opened with a video depicting a hypothetical scenario in which Shinhan Financial had disappeared from the market by 2030, followed by a session assessing the group's competitive position from an externa

2026-07-05 11:11:46:00

Classiq, QAI team up to launch Korea's first local quantum cloud service

Classiq Technologies said Thursday it has signed a definitive agreement with Korean quantum AI data center specialist QAI to launch South Korea's first locally operated Quantum-as-a-Service, or QaaS, business. The partnership aims to make quantum computing more accessible to companies, government agencies, research institutes and universities by allowing them to develop, test and run applications across multiple quantum hardware environments. Classiq is a global quantum software company that has

2026-07-02 15:11:34:00

SK Bioscience to lead Gates-backed AI vaccine project

SK Bioscience said Thursday it will lead a Gates Foundation-funded project to develop an AI-powered platform designed to support clinical development decisions in vaccine research. The project, called Research Optimization & Trial Outcome Recommender, or ROTOR, will bring together a global consortium that includes a technical collaboration with global health nonprofit PATH and technology consulting firm Slalom. ROTOR is designed to analyze clinical, immunogenicity and scientific datasets generat

2026-07-02 14:10:41:00

HD Hyundai Electric lands W1.12tr Big Tech data center deal

HD Hyundai Electric said Thursday it has signed a framework agreement worth up to 1.12 trillion won ($721 million) to supply power and distribution equipment to a global Big Tech company. The agreement covers 553.9 billion won in distribution equipment and 567.3 billion won in power equipment for large-scale data centers. HD Hyundai Electric did not disclose further details, including the customer's identity, citing confidentiality. HD Hyundai Electric said the deal allows it to provide core dat

2026-07-02 13:48:59:00

Daewoong inks W145.2b Envlo export deal for MENA

Daewoong Pharmaceutical said Thursday it has signed a 145.2 billion won ($93.4 million) export and supply agreement with Switzerland-based Acino Pharma AG to launch its diabetes drug Envlo in eight major markets across the Middle East and North Africa. The company said the deal is Envlo's largest export agreement to date and marks the first entry of a Korean-developed sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor into the MENA market. Under the agreement, Daewoong plans to secure marketing a

2026-07-02 13:48:52:00

Samsung C&T, Japan's Infroneer join forces on global infrastructure development

Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction said Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's infrastructure services company Infroneer Holdings to cooperate on global infrastructure development, concession and public-private partnership projects. Infroneer Holdings is one of Japan's leading infrastructure operators, with businesses spanning airports, roads, water facilities and stadiums through concession and public-private partnership models. Under the agreement, Samsung C&T will

2026-07-01 14:03:49:00