SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it has started construction on its first fabrication plant and relevant facilities at an envisioned semiconductor cluster in Yongin, south of Seoul. The company broke ground Monday after receiving approval from the Yongin municipal government last week, according to SK hynix’s newsroom. The Yongin [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — San Francisco Giants outfielder Lee Jung-hoo has gone deep for the first time this spring training. Lee belted a solo home run off Colorado Rockies starter Chase Dollander in the bottom of the first inning at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday (local time). The homer over the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The cumulative number of hybrid vehicles registered in South Korea surpassed 2 million for the first time last year, government data showed Tuesday. The total number of registered hybrid vehicles in the country reached 2,024,481 as of the end of 2024, exceeding the 2 million mark for the first [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Even as anti-China protests have intensified amid South Korea’s presidential impeachment crisis, Chinese tourism has experienced an unexpected boom, with travel numbers surging more than 60% following China’s visa-free policy implementation. According to data obtained from the Ministry of Justice by lawmaker Park Eun-jung of the Rebuilding Korea Party, 647,901 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Small business owners in South Korea saw their income drop more than 10 percent from a year earlier in 2024 amid sluggish consumer sentiment, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the survey conducted by Mono Research from January 20 to February 7 on 500 small business owners, the level [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK member Rose’s global hit single “APT.” remains strong on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 main singles chart this week. According to a Billboard chart preview released Monday (U.S. time), “APT.,” featuring Bruno Mars, ranked seventh, holding steady from last week’s position. The song previously peaked at No. 3, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDI Co., South Korea’s second-biggest battery maker, said Tuesday it has signed an initial pact with Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. to jointly develop robot-specific batteries. Samsung SDI has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the two carmakers to develop high-performance batteries specifically for [...]
ULSAN, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent threat to impose steep tariffs on imported vehicles has sent shockwaves through Ulsan, South Korea’s automotive manufacturing powerhouse, where cars account for nearly a third of the city’s exports and form the backbone of the local economy. According to data from the Korea International Trade [...]
Imua uses novel techniques to bundle decentralized security & trust from top blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Solana, and extends it as a service to secure off-chain networks such as AI. San Francisco, CA, Feb. 24, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — Imua, formerly known as Exocore, has raised a $5 million seed round led by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In a prestigious mathematics academy in Seoul’s affluent Daechi-dong district, known as South Korea’s “education capital,” an admission question for elementary students recently read: “How many times does the digit ’1′ appear in the sum of the series 9+99+999+…+99999999999999999999 (twenty 9s)?” This was part of the academy’s notoriously difficult [...]