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Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...

South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. announced on Tuesday that the net assets of its Mirae Asset US Dividend Premium Fund, which invests...

HiteJinro Co., South Korea’s largest soju maker, announced on Monday that it invested in a stake in the table order service startup TMR Founde...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. has engaged in an upcycling business by utilizing wheat bran, previously discarded as a milling byprodu...

Middle market direct lending can mean different things to different lenders and investors. Many, if not most, would agree that companies with over $...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, aims to clinch additional deals from Argentina and Chile to secure lith...

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it invested $10 million in Perplexity, the US-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Asian private equity firm MBK Partners has dropped out of a plan to back 300 billion won ($217.9 million) for South Korean budget airline Air Premia...

LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, is for the first time supplying high-performance chip substrates for AI devices to g...

South Korea's Hana Securities announced on Tuesday that it launched a service allowing Hong Kong investors to open its accounts through Hong Kong's ...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a 25.4 trillion won ($18.5 billion) savings arm of South Korean small business owners, has tapped an alternativ...

South Korea outstripped Japan in terms of per capita gross national income (GNI) for the first time in 2023, central bank data showed, with the Japa...

South Korea's hygiene products company Monalisa and Ssangyong C&B, known for its toilet paper brand Codi, will be sold to Indonesia's paper comp...

Perpetual bond offerings by non-financial firms in South Korea are poised to hit new records this year as many companies have flocked to the hybrid ...

A 370-billion-won ($270 million) real estate fund managed by IGIS Asset Management Co. faces a heavy loss from its investment in Trianon, a landmark...

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and resources exploration unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Tuesday that ...

South Korean cable-to-energy giant LS Group said on Monday that it has renamed brokerage subsidiary eBest Investment & Securities to LS Securiti...

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced on Monday that it will host Battery Challenge 2024, an open innovation program to discover startup...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), also the world’s third-largest pension fund, will gradually reduce the proportion of its l...

South Korea's micro-satellite startup Nara Space Technology Inc. announced on Friday that it attracted a 20 billion won ($14.5 million) series B inv...

South Korea’s factory production rebounded in April on healthy manufacturing while domestic consumption and capital expenditures dipped, indic...

INCHEON -- Italian sports car maker Ferrari S.p.A. on Thursday unveiled the 12Cilindri with a V12 petrol engine in South Korea for the first time in...

Private credit continues to lure investors, not least within one of the largest areas of private credit, direct lending. Providing reliable income s...

South Korea and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday signed a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) to facilitate bilateral trade aft...

Global chemical company Ineos Group Ltd. and South Korea’s Hanwha Group have teamed up to assess building a low-carbon ammonia facility in the...

South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery producer, is slated to invest in South Korean robot automation system developer ...

HYBE Co., the company behind global sensations BTS and NewJeans, has offered to sell some of its shares in K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. in a b...

The number of artificial intelligence unicorns has been on the rise thanks to the AI boom, but none of these South Korean AI startups have yet to jo...