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Big Hit Entertainment Co., the label behind K-pop sensation BTS, and portal giant Naver Corp. are set to team up with Universal Music Group, the wor...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, plans a bond issue worth as much as 1.26 trillion won ($1.13 billion) in local and ove...

LG Electronics Inc. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc. have agreed to cooperate in the development of 5G wireless platforms for next-generation connecte...

Online fashion platform Musinsa Co., a familiar name among Gen Zers and millennials in South Korea, is ready to go global. This month, the Korean co...

South Korea’s portal giant Naver Corp. will acquire Wattpad, the world's largest web novel platform based in Toronto, for 653.2 billion wo...

South Korean game publisher NCSoft Corp. is fueling competition in the online entertainment platform market with the planned launch of its own app, ...

LG Electronics Inc. has launched LG AI Research, an artificial intelligence think tank dedicated to securing AI technology, to further aid the gro...

Hyundai Motor Co. has unveiled a new platform, which will underpin its electric vehicles in coming years as South Korea’s largest automotive g...

South Korea’s online fashion apps are booming thanks to their ability to attract Gen Zers and millennials. This year, the top five players&r...

South Korea-based startup Bucketplace, an operator of home interior app OHouse, has raised $77 million in Series C funding, moving a step closer to ...

The South Korean won suffered its biggest daily loss in five months against the dollar on Nov. 19, after Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki stepped up warni...

Kakao Corp., South Korea's platform giant, announced on Nov. 9 that its webtoon (digital comics) platform Piccoma has become the No. 1 grossing mobile...

The Korean Teachers' Credit Union (KTCU) has secured returns nearly four times its $37.6 million investment in the US cloud-based platform provider El...

South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja is planning to list on the domestic stock market in 2022, paving the way for Singapore’s GIC...

Kakao Enterprise Corp., the artificial intelligence service unit of South Korea’s Kakao Corp., has launched a business messenger platform to com...

South Korea’s leading car-sharing platform Socar Inc. has become the country's 12th unicorn valued at around 1.1 trillion won after re...

Daelim Industrial Co., a major South Korean builder, is splitting into three firms -- a holding company and two affiliates -- as the company seek...

Shares of South Korea’s largest life insurer, Samsung Life Insurance Co., have rallied in recent sessions on expectations that the company will ...

Viva Republica Inc., the operator of South Korea's popular digital wallet Toss, has raised its largest single fundraising worth $173 million from...

South Korean webtoons (mobile and digital comics) are taking over the digital comics markets in Japan and the US. Market watchers claim it is&nbs...

While the market awaits the government's final decision on whether to extend its temporary ban on short selling, the investment banking industry is ex...

Manga platform Piccoma is gearing up to take over Japan’s massive digital comics market as the company continues to see prominent growth in its ...

Kakao Games Corp., a unit of South Korea’s top mobile messaging app operator, is seeking to raise up to 384 billion won ($323 million) from an i...

Naver, a Korean online platform giant, has invested 100 billion won ($83.8 million) in SM Entertainment's subsidiaries SMEJ Plus and Mystic Story in a...

My Real Trip, Korea’s leading online travel platform, has received 43.2 billion won ($36 million) in funding from domestic and overseas investor...

Reading the biographical novel of nuclear physicist Lee Whi-so made his heart beat. "I, too, want to be a creator of something that will change the wo...

South Korea’s $25 million biotechnology-themed fund, launched by Meritz Securities Co. Ltd., has earned triple-digit returns on its 2.7 billion ...

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has committed $425 million to a housing finance platform in India as an anchor investor, in its first foray into the countr...

Planning a trip is no vacation. Booking a flight and hotel isn't the end and searching for activities and mode of transportation is a must. This is wh...

South Korean institutional investors, including the Teachers’ Pension and insurance companies, are set to reap a profit of more than €106 million ($12...