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SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Vice Chairman Park Jung-ho said Friday his company stopped doing business with Huawei Technologies Co., following U.S. chip sanctions against China in 2020 and has not supplied semiconductors to the Chinese smartphone maker. Last week, the chipmaker said it opened an internal investigation into how its memory [...]
ULSAN, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group plans to invest 8 trillion won (US$6.02 billion) to transform its main refinery and chemical complex in the country’s southeast into eco-friendly businesses, its chief has said. Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, made the announcement as he reinforced the company’s commitment to shifting its key areas [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean oil refiner GS Caltex Corp. said Friday it has begun the pilot operation of a container ship that runs on its bio marine fuel in collaboration with the shipping company HMM Co. The 6,400 twenty-foot equivalent unit vessel, powered by GS Caltex’s B30 bio marine fuel, will [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The waters off the coast of Ulsan were once a haven for whale sightings. However, the whale population has sharply declined as many animals have starved to death after ingesting plastics discarded by humans. Byun Eui-hyun, CEO of Usisan, said, “We’re committed to saving Earth’s largest endangered creatures by [...]
VATICAN/SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has finished installing four LED billboards at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, where the Pope gives his weekly address. Samsung’s billboards became operational in time for the Papal Audience, the general audience session held every Wednesday morning for Catholic followers and tourists visiting the revered [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis’ innovative drowsy driving prevention technology has earned the prestigious Presidential Award at the 2023 Korea Safety Technology Awards, as announced by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Tuesday. This groundbreaking technology, known as “M.Brain,” combats drowsy driving accidents by continuously monitoring the driver’s real-time condition through brainwave [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Ecoplant announced on Tuesday that it is teaming up with NETSPA, a startup that specializes in recycling waste fishing nets, for a project in Southeast Asia. This project has been chosen as an initial project for the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Platform ESG Initiative. On September 12, SK Ecoplant [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will invest US$1 million in Texas A&M University’s education and recruiting programs meant to nurture talent in the semiconductor sector. The South Korean chip giant signed the partnership with the engineering school last week in an effort to secure talent for its semiconductor [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, South Korea’s largest emoji marketplace, has decided to maintain its policy of prohibiting AI-generated emojis from being incorporated into KakaoTalk. This decision comes after discussions with various industry stakeholders, who expressed concerns that AI-generated emojis could potentially disrupt the existing ecosystem of human creators and may pose challenges in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SKC Co., a South Korean manufacturer of secondary battery parts and advanced materials, said Monday it is acquiring a stake in a U.S. semiconductor packaging startup as it accelerates the drive for chip post-processing. The investment in Chipletz, an Austin-based fabless company, will give SKC an approximately 12 percent [...]