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Top California Lender Welcomes New Investors to Fuel Expanded Lending Capacity

Top California Lender Welcomes New Investors to Fuel Expanded Lending Capacity

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 30, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Top California Lender, LLC, a leading private lender in commercial real estate, is thrilled to announce the onboarding of a dynamic group of new investors to significantly bolster its capital base for funding. This strategic partnership enhances the company’s ability to support an expanding pipeline of [...]

Suicide-Related Poisonings Account for Most Drug Overdose Deaths, Report Finds

Suicide-Related Poisonings Account for Most Drug Overdose Deaths, Report Finds

SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – An average of 11 people died each day from poisoning in South Korea in 2023, with the overwhelming majority of cases linked to suicide, according to a government report released Sunday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) revealed in its 2023 Discharge Injury Statistics that 3,885 deaths [...]

South Korea to Launch 24-Hour Emergency Care Pilot at 30 Regional Hospitals

South Korea to Launch 24-Hour Emergency Care Pilot at 30 Regional Hospitals

SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting in July, 30 secondary hospitals across South Korea will begin offering round-the-clock medical services in five critical fields: burn treatment, microsurgery, childbirth, pediatrics, and cerebrovascular care, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Monday. The initiative aims to bolster access to essential medical services in areas where supply [...]

Samsung and LG Expand into Europe’s HVAC Market Amid Green Energy Push

Samsung and LG Expand into Europe’s HVAC Market Amid Green Energy Push

SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two largest electronics giants, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, are aggressively expanding their heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) businesses in Europe through high-profile acquisitions, aiming to align with the European Union’s carbon-neutral policies and tap into a rapidly growing market. LG Electronics announced this week it has [...]

Wage Gap Widens Among Skilled Labor in South Korean Manufacturing Sector

Wage Gap Widens Among Skilled Labor in South Korean Manufacturing Sector

Metal Materials Quality Inspectors Earn Highest Daily Pay; Bakers Rank Lowest SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Among 129 job categories in South Korea’s small and medium-sized manufacturing sector, metal materials quality inspectors command the highest average daily wage, while bakers and rice cake makers earn the least, according to new industry data. The Korea Federation [...]

Carestream NDT Announces Worldwide Availability for New Bendable Digital Radiography Detector

Carestream NDT Announces Worldwide Availability for New Bendable Digital Radiography Detector

The new detector offers an innovative, bendable design that conforms to various objects and quickly delivers high-resolution images. Rochester, N.Y., June 30, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Carestream’s Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) group is announcing worldwide availability for a new bendable digital radiography (DR) detector with revolutionary physical properties to markets in need of capturing images around [...]

Altezza Travel and Scientists Discover Africa’s Highest-Living Frog on Mount Kilimanjaro

Altezza Travel and Scientists Discover Africa’s Highest-Living Frog on Mount Kilimanjaro

MOSHI, Tanzania, June 30, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Researchers have discovered Africa’s highest-living frog species on Mount Kilimanjaro at an altitude of 4000 meters. The discovery, made by Altezza Travel during a climb in June 2024, led to a scientific study to determine whether the frogs represent a new species or are known frogs living [...]

Portal Biotech Raises $35 Million Series A, Leveraging AI to Deliver the World’s First Full-Length Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer

Portal Biotech Raises $35 Million Series A, Leveraging AI to Deliver the World’s First Full-Length Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer

Breakthrough proteomics platform technology unlocks full-length protein sequencing and characterisation, accelerating drug development and diagnostics LONDON, June 30, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Portal Biotech, a pioneering biotechnology company headquartered in London, today announced a $35 million Series A raise, representing one of Europe’s largest investments into a life sciences tools company. This significant milestone positions [...]

BitGo and Dinari Launch Unified API for Crypto, Stablecoins, and Tokenized U.S. Equities

BitGo and Dinari Launch Unified API for Crypto, Stablecoins, and Tokenized U.S. Equities

Fintechs can now access BTC, USDC, and tokenized stocks like AAPL and TSLA through one regulated gateway PALO ALTO, Calif., June 30, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – Dinari, the largest issuer of tokenized U.S. equities, and BitGo, the leading infrastructure provider of digital assets, today announced a strategic partnership that puts traditional stocks on the same rails as [...]

KAIST Develops Self-Propelling Cell Robots Powered by Biological Waste

KAIST Develops Self-Propelling Cell Robots Powered by Biological Waste

DAEJEON, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In a breakthrough that could reshape targeted drug delivery and biomedical engineering, South Korea’s Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced Monday the development of self-moving cell robots fueled by biological waste products. While global research on micrometer- and nanometer-scale non-living self-propelling robots is well advanced, the application [...]