The 2023 Olive Young Awards & Festa held at the DDP on Dec. 12 (a beautifully designed architecture by Zaha Hadid) and I thought those of you in the beauty industry and interest in the Korean beauty landscape would find the analysis interesting.The Conference started off with Olive Young updating th
Rethinking Beauty Science - this is the main theme of the ‘33rd IFSCC Congress’, in 2023.The K Beauty Science analyzed key words that appeared on the posters of the presenters (76) and the main keywords included Skin, Hair, Aging, Microbiome, Protection, Metabolomic, Senescence, Stem cell, and Folli
Incospharm, a Korean cosmetics & pharmaceutical ingredient company together with Kookmin University and Metapore Inc. developed an ingenious method to extract and produce exosome in large quantity that will make products with exosomes much less expensive. Their research made the Cover story on the A
Q. Please introduce yourself.My name is Jay Ingram, I am the Director for EMEA operations at Delphic HSE Solutions Ltd.; this means I have responsibility and oversight over the deliverable work we conduct in the fields of Regulatory Compliance and Toxicological Safety. I have nearly 15 years of expe
Q. Please introduce your company and yourself. We are a consulting company specializing in the cosmetics industry. We provide product development, branding, and marketing support for major cosmetics manufacturers as well as start-up manufacturers.Q2. What’s the topic you presented at COSME Tokyo 202
The K Beauty Science is publishing High K-beauty 2023.High K-beauty 2023 is a bookazine (a book combined with a magazine) that is designed to help the global audience deepen their understanding of K-beauty. The bookazine puts the spotlight on R&D, the latest industry developments, and what’s trendin
The Korean Cosmetics and Beauty Society's Journal of the Korean Cosmetics and Beauty Society was selected as a KCI-listed academic journal.KCI (KOREA CITATION INDEX), operated by the National Research Foundation of Korea, is a system that analyzes the citation relationship between papers by converti
EuroMonitor International, a global market research company, said on Nov. 15 (London time) that it has launched a new "Sustainability" database that helps companies achieve sustainability goals and strategically plan climate change measures.Euromonitor's sustainability data is a new addition to its
Kolmar Holdings Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Tiger Scofield Memorial Association on November 10 for "microbiome-based research and social contribution activities."The signing ceremony held at Kolmar Korea Institute of Technology was attended by Chairman Yoon Dong-han of
The Ministry of Environment's National Institute of Biological Resources published "The Story of Gangwon Living Organisms Coming from the Mountains and Fields" on Nov. 15, which contains the stories of creatures corresponding to 70 traditional knowledge passed down from traditional villages near nat
Jeju Special Self-Governing Province has signed a public-private partnership agreement with AmorePacific to establish a Jeju-type RE100 trading market system to expand renewable energy and stabilize the operation of renewable energy projects.RE100 (abbreviation of 100% Renewable Electricity, 100% us
Jung Hye-sun, a student at Daegu Oriental Medicine University, won the best thesis presentation award in the poster category at the 2022 Autumn Conference of the Korean Polymer Association.At the conference, Jeong Hye-sun presented the theme of "Hydrogel Microcapsules with a Thin Oil Layer for Mecha
Cosmax Group, a global cosmetics, health functional food, and pharmaceutical research, development, and production (ODM) company, celebrated its 30th anniversary. Cosmax Group announced its ambition to open a new horizon for the "Beauty & Health ODM Market" focusing on digital platforms and customiz
Kolmar Korea has been recognized as the most book-loving company in Korea.Kolmar Korea won the grand prize at the "Excellent Reading Management Workplace Certification Award" held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korea Publishing and Cultural Industry Promotion Agency, and the Nat
The opening ceremony of the Jeju Cosmetic Materials Center and the Microbiological Industrialization Support Center was held on the morning of November 14 at the site of the Jeju Techno Park Biodiversity Research Institute. These centers are bases for the bio-health industry, which creates high adde
Sohn Sung-min, CEO of global regulatory consulting firm REACH24H KOREA, will attend the "Cosmoprof Singapore Edition" in Singapore on November 16 (Wed).CEO Son Sung-min will present on the theme of "Changes and Responses to Chinese Cosmetics Regulations" at the third hall for 45 minutes starting fro
Global Derma Cosmetics brand Derma Firm invited 35 professional beauty business partners from Vietnam to hold a Derma Firm factory tour and a new "Plant Exosome" seminar on November 2.Since 2012, Derma Firm has entered the B2C market in more than 30 countries around the world, including China, the U
Nowcos Co., Ltd., a cosmetics manufacturing company, acquired a patent (Application No. 10-2021-0158971) related to "high-gloss lip makeup composition with improved usability" as of October 25.This patent is a lip makeup-related patent that does not contain powder, a large amount of volatile ingredi
Lim Kyung-min, an editor of The K Beauty Science and a professor at Ewha Womans University's College of Pharmacy, won the Unbong Toxicology Grand Prize of the Korean Toxicology Association.The award ceremony was held at the '38th Autumn Regular Academic Conference 2022' held at the Gyeongju Hwabaek
Dongsung Pharmaceutical, which celebrated their 66th anniversary, won the Presidential Citation for the 2022 Korea Sharing National Awards.The awards ceremony was held at the KBS Public Hall in Yeouido, Seoul, on the afternoon of November 9. The awards, which marks their 11th year this year, is Kore