Dragonfly, CJ ENM sign MOU on content business

Dragonfly said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CJ ENM Co. to cooperate in moving into new content busines...

S.Korea sends dairy cows, livestock genetic resources to Nepal

The South Korean government is donating dairy cows and genetic resources for cattle to Nepal.The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on ...

S.Korea develops carbon composite materials as its 2nd steel industry

The South Korean government will invest 185 billion won ($139.6 million) by 2030 in the development of technology for carbon composite materials, wh...

Samsung’s Lee visits UAE nuclear plant project on first trip as chairman

Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee is in Abu Dhabi to meet with businesspeople and politicians and tour the Barakah nuclear power plant project in the ...

LG plans additional $4 billion investment in Vietnam

South Korean electronics giants including LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics plan to pour billions of dollars of additional investment into Viet...

Daol Financial Group to let go of VC affiliate, hit by liquidity crunch

The Daol Financial Group is widely expected to let go of its venture capital arm in the midst of a worsening liquidity crunch. The VC firm Daol...

Twelve Labs secures $12 mn for AI-powered video analysis platform

Twelve Labs Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence-powered video search platform developer, closed its seed extension round with an additional...

SK Discovery launches bio strategy, investment division

Korea's chemical company SK Discovery Co. on Tuesday said it launched a bio strategy and investment division headed by Kim Jung-hoon, director of SK...

Nexen Tire develops AI-based tech for road surface detection

Nexen Tire Corp. on Monday said it developed technology for road surface detection and analysis of tire braking distance using artificial intelligen...

Taihan earns certification for extra-high voltage transmission cable

Taihan Cable & Solution said on Monday that it had completed the development of a 500-kV current cross-linked polyethylene extra-high voltage DC...

DWS taps Steven Kim as APAC real estate asset management head

German asset management giant DWS Group said on Dec. 5 that it has appointed DWS Asset Management Korea’s Director Steven Kim (Kim Sang-wook) ...

Korean restaurant startup GFFG raises $23 million in Series A round 

South Korean lifestyle hospitality startup Good Food For Good (GFFG) announced Monday that it raised 30 billion won ($23.2 million) in Series A roun...

Mispriced risk in EU, UK real estate brings appealing opportunities: Abrdn

European real estate prices are adjusting, creating mispriced risk amid current market turbulence. This brings attractive opportunities for investor...

Nearly half of Korean firms plan no domestic investment next year

Rising gloom over the business environment due to a financial market crunch and weak Korean won has led to nearly half of Korea's firms having no pl...

LG Energy, GM to inject another $275 mn in Tennessee plant

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and General Motors Co. plan to inject an additional $275 million in a US electric vehicle battery...

Hanwha Aerospace to launch 4 more Nuri rockets under $220 mn project

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is planning on four additional launches of the country’s first h...

Industrial Bank of Korea provides Silicon Valley-style financing for startups

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) on Friday launched the IBK Venture Loan, which provides bridge loans to promising startups struggling to borrow funds...

VC firms rake in profit of up to 6 times principal from Raemongraein

Venture capital firms that invested in media production company Raemongraein Co. raked in significant profit from the surge in popularity of the TV ...

NPS shortlists 6 candidates for chief investment officer opening

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund managing 896.6 trillion won ($690.5 billion) as of end-S...

LS Cable & System Asia expands cable production capacity in Vietnam

LS Cable & System Asia said on Thursday that it has invested 6.8 billion won in its Vietnamese subsidiary LS Cable & System Vietnam to compl...

SK Inc. bulks up green investments to achieve net zero by 2035

SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, is taking preemptive steps to expand its eco-friendly busin...

SK On attracts $1 billion in investment

SK On, the electric battery affiliate of Korea's petroleum, alternative energy and oil exploration corporation SK Innovation, has secured 1.3 trilli...

Whisky imports up 62%, projected to be popular next year and beyond

As whisky became more popular in Korea, the amount of whisky imported for 10 months until October this year increased about 62% compared to the same...

Biden hails SK Siltron’s investment in Michigan as 'game changer'

BAY CITY, Michigan – For the first time since taking office, United States President Joe Biden toured a US subsidiary of South Korean conglome...

NPS posts 7% investment loss in Q1-Q3 as equities, bonds plunge

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...

First joint law office with overseas firm to open in Korea

The first South Korea-overseas joint law firm is set to start operations in Seoul.The joint firm of Korean law firm Hwahyun and UK’s Ashurst h...

KEPCO raises $368 mn via bond issuance on heated demand

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) saw on Nov. 27 around 1.7 trillion won ($1.3 billion) worth of investor bids for its bond issuance targeting 400 ...

Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang to invest in logistics automation

Coupang Inc. is poised to invest in the automation transformation of its logistics system, according to industry insiders. Headquartered in Seo...

Market volatility creates opportunities for secondary buyers: Stafford

Equity and bond portfolios' shrinking assets are major challenges currently faced by global investors in terms of asset allocation. But the situatio...

Korea to reform market rules to boost foreign investment

South Korea will reform financial market regulations to attract more foreign investments and to achieve MSCI Inc.’s developed market status fo...