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SK bioscience researchers analyze their findings in a photo shared by the company on Feb. 12. [YONHAP]

SK bioscience wins patent case against Moderna in Korea

SK bioscience won a patent case against Moderna in Korea, impacting mRNA technology development and potential vaccine exports to developing countries.

2025.4.23

Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, left, poses for a photo with Flagship Pioneering, a venture capital firm, CEO Noubar Afeyan at the venture capital's office in the United States in November 2021. [SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS]

Samsung chief looks to bio as new growth engine

Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong had a round of meetings with global biopharmaceutical leaders to find a new growth engine beyond chips.

2023.5.7

Korea's problem with vaccines is now a glut

With inoculation rates high, Korea is struggling with a surplus of Covid-19 vaccines. Authorities are seeking to extend the shelf life of Pfizer and other vaccines by three months to use them as boosters, and looking for ways to send vaccines...

2022.5.11

Moderna and IAVI to cooperate on developing vaccines

Moderna has joined forces with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in developing vaccines for highly infectious diseases that can be used in low-income countries.

2022.4.8

Samsung Electronics' vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, right, meets with Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg on Wednesday in New Jersey. [SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS]

Lee in New Jersey and Massachusetts, but no word on Texas

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong met with the chief executives of Moderna and Verizon this week while in the United States, though it was not disclosed whether Lee will head to Texas to discuss a pending $17 billion chip deal there.

2021.11.18

Medical workers look at critical Covid-19 patients at the control center of Seoul Medical Center in Jungnang District, eastern Seoul, on Wednesday. According to government data, 80.6 percent of sickbeds for such patients in Seoul had been occupied as of 5 p.m. the previous day, raising concerns over a sickbed shortage amid a surge of new cases. [YONHAP]

Booster shots sped up for many groups of people

Korea is speeding up booster shots for the elderly, the sick, people in their 50s, soldiers, police and firefighters amid soaring infections and hospitalizations.

2021.11.17

A vial of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine. [YONHAP]

Locally bottled Moderna shots to go into Korean arms

Around 2.4 million doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine packaged locally by the Korean drugmaker Samsung Biologics are to be used in Korea.

2021.10.26

An entrance of the Mapo Agricultural and Marine Market in western Seoul is taped off on Sunday after the district office issued an administrative order for its temporary closure following an outbreak of infections at the market. [YONHAP]

Government-private committee will talk return to normal

Korea will form a government-private committee to discuss strategies to return to normal life and will hold its first meeting this week in preparation of starting its "With Corona" plan in November.

2021.10.10

People wait to get tested for Covid-19 at a public health center in Songpa District, eastern Seoul, on Monday. [NEWS1]

Teens and pregnant women get ready for jabs

Minors aged 12 to 17 and pregnant women will be eligible for Covid-19 vaccinations next month, and booster shots will be offered people over the age of 59 and front-line medical workers.

2021.9.27

Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum, second from right, and John Rim, third from right, CEO of Samsung Biologics, listen to an explanation about the company's manufacturing facilities in Yeonsu District, Incheon, on Friday. [NEWS1]

Prime minister visits Samsung Biologics, discusses vaccines

Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum encouraged Samsung Biologics to take an active role in helping Korea achieve “vaccine sovereignty,” during his visit to the company's plant in Yeonsu District, Incheon, Friday.

2021.9.3

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