When will social distancing end? Is there light at the end of this tunnel of “stay-at-home and postpone-your-weddings” while listening to news about rising mortality? As this prolonged period of COVID-19 outbreak chips away at our morale, global neighbors from hard-hit regions of Iran, Italy, Germany, the UK, the US and Mexico came together to share how they are getting through this time. (Yoga ...

지난 1월 20일 최초 신종 코로나바이러스 국내 확진자가 나온 이후 두 달 넘게 지속 되어온 사회적 거리두기에 국가적 피로도가 누적되고 있다. 부푼 마음으로 세웠던 여러가지 신년계획이 무색하게 2020년의 1분기가 속수무책으로 지나가고 있는 요즘, 코로나19의 타격을 가장 많이 받고 있는 나라들 미국, 이란, 이탈리아, 독일, 영국, 멕시코에 사는 지구촌 이웃들이 코리아헤럴드에 응원의 메세지를 보내왔다. 전세계가 함께 하는 사회적 거리두기. 영상편집: 임정요 기자 멕시코의 아나는 명상과 단식으로 몸도 마음도 비워내고 있다고 한다. 사업을 운영하던 중 뜻밖의 휴식기를 가지게 된 셈. 이 기회에 인생의 목표를 재정립하겠다고 한다. 미국의 케이시는 새로 출시된 동물의 숲 게임에 푹 빠져 산...

South Korean biologics company GemVax & Kael said Tuesday it will expand its antiviral pipeline’s treatment scope to cover COVID-19. GemVax’s GV1001 is a telomerase-derived peptide that helps maintain the length of telomere, which is located at the end of human chromosome. Telomere acts as anti-inflammation, antioxidant, anti-aging and stem cell activation agent, effectively preventing cytokine ...

Samsung Display is planning to pull the plug on its liquid-crystal display business, which has been reeling from Chinese manufacturers’ low-priced large-volume cargo, according to industry sources Tuesday. The display unit of Samsung Group will reportedly close its seventh-generation and eighth-generation LCD manufacturing lines in South Korea and Xuzhou, China, in the first half of 2021. Curre...

While the company cannot disclose how it chooses which countries to export to, it signed an emergency deal with Ukraine on Friday to deliver 1,000 kits for 100,000 people. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky promised to facilitate quick shipping with presidential aircraft, Solgent said. By Lim Jeong-yeo ( kaylalim@heraldcorp.com )

A human life is not only determined by the genomic structure, but also by what types of viruses and microbiomes the body interacts with. CEO Yang Gap-seok of Macrogen, a company that has recently been touted as an essential cogwheel in the research to understand the novel coronavirus, says that what COVID-19 is doing will affect our short-term evolution. The company Yang represents has been lea...

Since end-January, Korea has exercised heightened communications between government, industry, academia and research in bringing forth results in a fast-track manner. This does not mean the disease control center and Drug Ministry indiscriminately grant approval to just any eager company. The bulwarks against this mutating virus say they are vigorously testing the Korean COVID-19 test kits, and t...

Celltrion Chairman Seo Jung-jin said Monday that the company will be ready to produce COVID-19 neutralizing antibodies by the end of July at the latest, at a capacity to cover 1 million people a month. The company’s researchers are currently working day and night without weekends, Seo said, saying that it may even be possible to begin human administration for clinical trials in mid-July. “It is...

Even as foreign companies across the globe are increasingly suspending operations of production facilities and offices, South Korean firms are once again gearing up for full business operations. Major Korean companies that had advised employees to work from home amid the spread of COVID-19 are now reopening offices as the situation in Europe and the US drastically worsens, hiking concerns of a ...

Samsung Electronics launched nine models of 2020 quantum-dot light-emitting diode TVs on Thursday. The company said it has expanded its QLED 8K models by twofold from before, to increase consumer options and its dominance in the 8K TV market. The 2020 QLED 8K from Samsung Electronics are categorized by series names QT970S, QT900S and QT800, offered in screen sizes ranging from 55 to 85 inches. ...

By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)

LG Display nabbed the top seat in 2019’s automotive display market, edging out Japan Display, IHS Markit data showed Wednesday. LG Display recorded $1.6 billion revenue in the automotive display segment last year, accounting for 20.1 percent of market domination. The company manufactures center information displays for cars, dashboard, and rear seat entertainment display panels. Japan Display,...

Global health care company Johnson & Johnson has donated 200 million won ($161,000) of relief goods to medical professionals and low-income families in Korea to help alleviate the COVID-19 situation, the company said Tuesday. Johnson & Johnson’s four operations in Korea -- Medical, Janssen, Vision and Consumer -- collaborated with the Salvation Army here in distributing 20,000 KF94 masks and 4,0...

Samsung Biologics said Tuesday it has signed a deal to develop Taiwanese bio firm Aprinoia’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment. Aprinoia Therapeutics is a bioventure with specialized technology in diagnostic devices and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. It is a leader and pioneer in the development of monoclonal antibodies against the tau protein, known to be the key trigger of Alzheimer’s...

Celltrion Healthcare launched breast cancer and stomach cancer treatment Herzuma in the US market through local partner Teva Pharmaceutical. The company said Tuesday that Herzuma (trastuzumab) will be 10 percent cheaper than the original Roche drug, Herceptin. The cost of the drug to US patients will vary depending on their individual insurance plans, Celltrion Healthcare said. The trastuzumab...