(Photo=LivsMed) Rising costs and tighter capital budgets are forcing hospital systems to reexamine how they invest in surgical robotics, a category long shaped by a single dominant platform. That reassessment is beginning to draw overseas manufacturers that see room for alternatives, including LivsMed, a South Korean medical-device maker that is moving to establish a foothold after securing fresh capital from

Photo=Motionelements A two-day strike by Seoul’s city bus drivers ended late Wednesday after labor and management reached a last-minute deal, restoring full service early Thursday and easing disruptions that had left millions of commuters scrambling amid freezing winter conditions. The Seoul City Bus Labor Union and the Seoul Bus Transport Business Association finalized a tentative wage agreement shortly before midnight

Photo=Dongwon Group Kim Jae-chul, honorary chairman of Dongwon Group, one of South Korea’s largest food and logistics conglomerates, has pledged additional funding to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, reinforcing private-sector support for artificial-intelligence education as the country looks to narrow its gap with global AI leaders. KAIST said Thursday that Mr. Kim will donate an additional about

(Photo=Gemini Generated Image) The Covid-19 pandemic exposed a deep vulnerability in South Korea’s labor market: women’s economic activity, particularly among mothers with young children, proved far more fragile than headline employment figures suggested. New academic research shows that as Covid infection rates rose, mothers of children under seven sharply curtailed their participation in paid work, underscoring how quickly women’s attachment

(Photo=GS Retail) GS25, one of South Korea’s largest convenience-store chains, is taking its private-label ambitions abroad by launching its house-brand ramen in Japan, a market widely regarded as the world’s most competitive for instant noodles. The company has begun selling its “Omoni” ramen nationwide through 485 outlets of Don Quijote, a Japanese discount retailer known for experimenting with new mass-market