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Who’s in and who’s out at G-Star 2019?

G-Star 2019, the biggest annual game convention in Korea, is to see attendance from a slew of notable players in the game industry, but several will be missing from the picture. Biggest local game c...

October 24, 2019
Industry
Korea’s biggest game convention G-Star to return in Nov.

The port city of Busan is expected to see a splurge of footfalls in November, with Korea’s biggest annual game convention G-Star slated to return Nov. 14-17 at Bexco. On the eve of the game trade sh...

October 24, 2019
Industry
NCSoft looks forward to rosy Q4 with Lineage2M

South Korean video game developer NCSoft expects rosy fourth-quarter earnings following the launch of its new high-end mobile game Lineage2M. Lineage2M’s advance sign-ups have surpassed 5 million in...

October 24, 2019
Industry
Samsung BioLogics posts 136.6% increase in revenue for Q3

Samsung BioLogics has turned to black in the third quarter as per its latest earnings report Wednesday. The company officially posted revenue of 184.8 billion won ($157.6 million), 23.6 billion won ...

October 23, 2019
Industry
Oxford University study contradicts WHO on gaming disorder

A fresh study at Oxford University suggests that obsessive gaming may be an expression of underlying psychosocial frustration rather than an evil in itself, contradicting the World Health Organizatio...

October 23, 2019
Industry
HLB trading suspended after 2-day 40% spike

Authorities suspended the trading of biotech HLB’s stocks on Wednesday to offset a sudden 40 percent jump over two days on the back of hyped expectations for a new cancer drug. HLB will have a pre-n...

October 23, 2019
Industry
Young coders to compete at Nexon challenge

South Korea’s game company Nexon will host the fourth annual Nexon Youth Programming Challenge on Saturday. The event, designed to nurture the next generation of programmers in Korea, gives coding p...

October 22, 2019
Industry
Trailblazing game engine expands its reach

Technologies used to build games are now being used across different sectors. Unity Technologies, whose software Unity is used to program mobile games including augmented reality game Pokemon Go, is...

October 22, 2019
Industry
Pharmacists support wholesalers’ demand for ranitidine recall reimbursement

A South Korean pharmacists’ association on Monday sided with drug wholesalers demanding 3 percent reimbursement for costs incurred in the aftermath of a recall on ranitidine. Ranitidine is a drug us...

October 21, 2019
Industry
LG Chem becomes first Korean battery company to join RMI

LG Chem announced Monday it has become the first South Korean battery manufacturer to join the Responsible Minerals Initiative. RMI is a global association established in 2008 that monitors the ethi...

October 21, 2019
Industry
SK’s bio biz put to test as it waits for FDA approval for antiepileptic drug

The US Food and Drug Administration is likely to make a final decision in November on approval for Cenobamate, an investigational antiepileptic drug developed by SK Biopharmaceuticals. The company i...

October 18, 2019
Industry
Korean pharmas eye China

Korean pharma and biopharma companies are considering the inevitable: the advance to the Chinese market. According to Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Friday, China was the second bigges...

October 18, 2019
Industry
Daewoong’s BTX launches in Canada

Daewoong Pharmaceutical’s wrinkle-removing botulinum toxin Nabota has launched in Canada under the name Nuceiva, the company said Thursday. Marketed outside of Korea by US-based Evolus, Daewoong’s p...

October 17, 2019
Industry
Supreme Court finalizes suspension of FSC restriction on Samsung BioLogics

The Supreme Court of South Korea upheld earlier rulings to suspend the Financial Services Commission’s restrictions on Samsung BioLogics, citing fear of irreparable damage to the company. Samsung B...

October 16, 2019
Industry
[Herald Interview] Is it a go or a no for Korean bio investment?

The South Korean bio market is not faring well, or so the media here says, fanning anxiety among individual investors. But PMG Investment Solutions’ Head of Healthcare Investment Kwon Myoung-ok brus...

October 16, 2019
Industry

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