{"id":68461,"date":"2026-06-29T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/68461\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:00:26","slug":"lg-energy-solution-partners-with-kosme-to-strengthen-koreas-battery-ecosystem-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/68461\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Energy Solution Partners With KOSME to Strengthen Korea&#8217;s Battery Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Kim Je-young (left), Chief Technology Officer of LG Energy Solution, and Ban Jeong-sik, Director of Regional Innovation at the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, pose for a photo after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen the K-battery ecosystem at LG Energy Solution's Technology Research Institute in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, on the 24th. Photo courtesy of LG Energy Solution - Seoul Economic Daily Finance News from South Korea\" title=\"LG Energy Solution Partners With KOSME to Strengthen Korea's Battery Ecosystem\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782730826_167_news-p.v1.20260624.5ae5ec5bd09e4fccb661f755258a473f_P1.jpg\"\/>Kim Je-young (left), Chief Technology Officer of LG Energy Solution, and Ban Jeong-sik, Director of Regional Innovation at the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, pose for a photo after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen the K-battery ecosystem at LG Energy Solution&#8217;s Technology Research Institute in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, on the 24th. Photo courtesy of LG Energy Solution<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">LG Energy Solution (373220.KS) is joining forces with the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME) to strengthen the competitiveness of Korea&#8217;s battery industry ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">LG Energy Solution said Tuesday it signed a &#8220;memorandum of understanding to strengthen the K-battery ecosystem&#8221; with KOSME at its LG Energy Solution Daejeon Institute of Technology in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The agreement is a follow-up to the &#8220;K-Battery Open Innovation&#8221; program the two organizations jointly launched in May. It aims to strengthen competitiveness across the battery industry ecosystem and expand cooperation between large corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Through the agreement, the two organizations agreed to cooperate on identifying and nurturing promising battery industry SMEs and startups, jointly operating the open innovation program, supporting partner companies&#8217; competitiveness, and finding joint projects to invigorate the battery industry ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">&#8220;The sustainable growth of the battery industry begins with a healthy industrial ecosystem in which large corporations and SMEs and startups grow together,&#8221; said Kim Je-young, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Executive Vice President of LG Energy Solution. &#8220;Building on this agreement, we will further expand cooperation with promising domestic companies and accelerate their growth to contribute to strengthening the competitiveness of the K-battery industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Je-young (left), Chief Technology Officer of LG Energy Solution, and Ban Jeong-sik, Director of Regional Innovation at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[35079,10799,759,10890,315,747,733,10891,35080],"class_list":["post-68461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lg-energy-solution","tag-battery-industry","tag-k-battery-ecosystem","tag-korea-battery-industry","tag-kosme","tag-lg","tag-lg-energy","tag-lg-energy-solution","tag-open-innovation","tag-sme-cooperation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}