Korean ETP market doubles amid increasing distrust of fund managers

South Korea’s exchange-traded product (ETP) market has doubled in four years as more investors preferred their own trades to discretionary inv...

SK Oceanplant, Corio team up for offshore wind power

SK Oceanplant, a South Korean offshore wind power subsidiary of SK Ecoplant Co., and Corio Generation, a global offshore wind power developer owned ...

Samsung raises Rainbow Robotics stake, eyes management control

Samsung Electronics Co. is looking to own a controlling stake in Rainbow Robotics Co., a South Korean collaborative robot maker, as the tech giant h...

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo sued over inheritance in family feud

Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, has been sued over the distribution of inherited wealth, including a s...

Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025

CHA Healthcare Co. operating nearly 90 hospitals and infertility treatment centers across the world, is set to pave the way for South Koreans' inves...

Korea's AI startup Quantit attracts $23 mn Series A investment

South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) company Vaiv Company Inc. announced on Tuesday that Quantit, its fintech subsidiary, has received a 30 bi...

Shilla Duty Free Shop selected as excellent partner by Changi Airport

The Shilla Duty Free Shop announced on Monday that it had received the Gold Award at the 2022 OneChangi App Awards held by Singapore's Changi Airpor...

S.Korea's Taekwang Industrial acquires ISO 45001 certification

Taekwang Industrial Co., a textile and petrochemical subsidiary of Taekwang Group, announced on Sunday that it has achieved ISO 45001 certification ...

Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally

South Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion Group’s founder and Honorary Chairman Seo Jung-jin is readying to return to management just two...

Hyundai's Namyang R&D Center acquires safety management certification

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday that the polymer materials analysis lab and the metal component analysis lab in the Basic Materials Research...

Korea's Innogrid wins contract for open cloud platform project

Innogrid Co., a South Korean company specializing in cloud computing and digital transformation, said on Thursday that it secured a three-year deal ...

SKC earns ISO 37001 certification for anti-corruption management

SKC, the chemical materials unit of South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, announced on Thursday that it has received the ISO 37001 certificatio...

Kakao vows to thwart HYBE scheme for SM control

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, said on Monday it would mobilize all possible countermeasures against HYBE Co. ’s a...

POSCO Chemical changes name to POSCO Future M

POSCO Chemical, a chemical subsidiary of the POSCO Group, announced on Friday that it had approved an agenda to change its company name to "POSCO Fu...

Korea’s LG CNS to enhance digital channel biz with Adobe

South Korea’s largest cloud computing service provider LG CNS Co. joined hands with US computer software company Adobe Inc. to improve its dig...

S.Korean investors eye VC, growth equity in tech: Adams Street

Many investors are questioning whether private markets will stay bullish amid uncertainty in 2023. The markets will continue to generate interesting...

Samyang to develop biomaterials for battery heat management

South Korea’s Samyang Corp. signed a partnership agreement with local tech venture Nano Tim on Feb. 20 to jointly develop thermal interface ma...

S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle

Internal conflict is growing at South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management over the company's de facto restructuring of its fund management in the wake o...

SK Enmove joins GRC's ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program

South Korea's SK Enmove Co. said on Monday it will participate in the ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program run by US-based specialist company GRC, whic...

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...

Kumho Tire establishes ESG committee under its board of directors

Kumho Tire Co. is intensifying its sustainable management efforts by establishing an environmental, social and governance (ESG) committee directly u...

Daesang Wellife signs contract with RexSoft for healthcare platform

South Korea's Daesang Wellife Corp. has inked a 2 billion won ($1.5 million) investment contract with local healthcare data science company RexSoft ...

Law firm's paper on SM: Trigger of SM Ent.'s management feud

On Jan. 19, SM Entertainment Co. founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man received a 17-page document written by South Korea’s largest la...

Bespin Global, STEG partner to develop cloud management platform

South Korea's two IT firms, Bespin Global and STEG, have teamed up to jointly develop a cloud operation management platform. Bespin Global said on T...

LG U+, Plana jointly research data transmission tech for urban air mobility

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. and Plana, a domestic startup for urban air transportation (UAM) craft, have signed a business deal on joint research o...

Samsung Asset Management's bond-type ETF assets exceed $7.9 billion

Investment in South Korea is pouring into bond-type exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under the anticipation that interest rate hikes end this year. Such...

S.Korea's banks see deposits plummet $35.5 billion in Jan

Banks in South Korea last month saw deposits plummet over 45 trillion won ($35.5 billion) from the previous month due to a decline in deposit intere...

Fintech firm Kakao Pay logs first yearly net profit in 2022

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., posted a net profit last year for the first time since its ...

Korea refiners swing to Q4 loss amid windfall tax calls

South Korean refiners such as SK Innovation Co. and S-Oil Corp. are estimated to incur a combined loss of over 1 trillion won ($800 million) in the ...

K-pop pioneer SM engulfed in management dispute

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...