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South Korea’s financial regulator Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) on July 16 requested correction of Kakao Pay’s IPO registration st...

South Korea's largest travel platform Yanolja has raised 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) from the Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Vision Fund II, marking t...

A consortium led by global investment firm Affinity Equity Partners is the most likely candidate to acquire South Korea’s second-largest food ...

South Korea-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Rebellions Inc. is drawing industry attention as AI chips become mainstays of the semiconduct...

South Korea-based Seven Brau Co., or 7brau, is poised to become the country's second craft brewery to make a trading debut, following the footsteps ...

Samsung Electronics Co. is betting big on non-fungible token (NFT) companies through its venture capital unit Samsung Next, headquartered in Mountai...

South Korea-based fintech startup Qraft Technologies Inc. captured the attention of Wall Street in May 2019, when it listed two artificial intellige...

Delivery Hero SE has requested up to another six months to sell South Korea's No. 2 food delivery platform Yogiyo, the estimated value of which was ...

South Korea-based 3D animation company SAMG Entertainment Co. is enjoying great success in China and Latin America thanks to its animation series' p...

RBW Inc., the label behind K-pop star Mamamoo, is looking to go public after HYBE Co., the music and entertainment agency behind BTS, made a big h...

South Korea-based grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp., referred to as Oasis Market, has attracted 50 billion won ($44 million) from global private...

In February 2020, a South Korean broadcasting network aired a virtual reality (VR) reunion between a grieving mother and her late daughter. The docu...

South Korean game developer Krafton Inc. has decided to lower its initial public offering share price amid criticism over its high valuation followe...

South Korean startup Atlas Labs is making it easier for people to keep track of their phone conversations via Switch, an app that uses artificial in...

San Francisco-based startup Impressivo is seeking partnerships in the fitness and healthcare sector as the company aims to bridge the fitness and he...

South Korea-based mobile financial platform Toss is en route to becoming the country's first fintech decacorn, or a company valued at over $10 billi...

South Korea-based artificial intelligence startup Voyager X Inc. has successfully raised around 30 billion won ($26.4 million) in a Series A funding...

A self-driving car needs to pass all sorts of tests before setting off for the open road. It needs to experience different types of roads, terrain f...

South Korea-based game publisher Krafton Inc.'s highly-anticipated initial public offering is raising concerns that it may be overvalued. The compan...

Imagine getting this text from your favorite K-pop group member: “Hey, what did you eat for lunch? Can’t wait to see you at the concert ...

South Korea's island of Jeju is famous for its native citrus and pork. It's also where Shin Woo-sup, the founder of startup studio Futurera, came up...

Krafton Inc. is set to become the first South Korean decacorn startup, or a company valued at over $10 billion, to make a trading debut on the count...

South Korea-based Brave Mobile Inc., the operator of service matching platform Soomgo, has secured 32 billion won ($28.6 million) in a Series C fund...

South Korea-based fan platform DearU Co. has filed a preliminary application to the Korea Exchange with plans for a trading debut on the country&rsq...

South Korea's co-working space provider FastFive Co. announced on June 11 that it has raised 30 billion won ($27 million) from seven investors, brin...

Logistics IT platform service Barogo has successfully wrapped up an 80 billion won ($72 million) Series C round, far above the company's initial tar...

South Korea-based artificial intelligence startup Buzzvil is preparing to make a trading debut on the country’s junior bourse Kosdaq in the th...

 The combined valuation of some 70 tech startups that received funding from the platform giant Naver Corp. has reached around 1.3 trillion won ...

South Korea-based venture capital firms are likely to see rankings shift once the glory days of lucrative exits in a liquidity-driven market are gon...