Big Mobility Hummingbirds

South Korea’s coal power companies are facing tighter scrutiny for debt financing as they are increasingly shunned by financial investors amid...

South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. has forged a partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. to supply electric vehicles in Europe fo...

South Korea's online giant Naver Corp. is preparing to join a government-initiated fintech platform, on which individual borrowers can directly sear...

Kakao Corp. is now the third most valuable company in Korea, after Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.Kakao’s market cap on June 15 surp...

The telecom companies in South Korea, one after another, are taking bold steps outside their traditional turf of mobile business.  They are eng...

The National Pension Service has committed $100 million to a TPG consortium that recently raised $116.8 million to invest in Kakao Mobility Co., Sou...

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co. is set for a successful rights offering as the defense and air mobility unit of Hanwha Group has garnered str...

The Korea Development Bank (KDB) has decided to invest 80 billion won ($72 million) in the fintech startup Toss via a rights offering. This marks th...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday launched a low-end 5G smartphone in overseas markets amid intensified price competition initiated by Chinese mobil...

About eight years ago on Oct. 5, 2013, Song Byung-joon, the then-chief executive of South Korean mobile game developer Gamevil Inc., visited the off...

South Korean medical cosmetics companies that underwent a tough year in 2020 are posting rejuvenated earning results thanks to s rise in demand in E...

South Korea-based Ably Corporation, the operator of fashion platform Ably, is seeking to raise around 40 billion won ($35.3 million), attracting a p...

Hyundai Motor Group will pilot an urban mobility service for pets in Seoul, using a specially designed Ray EV model by Kia Corp. The group said on A...

FiscalNote, a Washington D.C.-based tech firm that uses artificial intelligence and big data to track, predict and analyze regulation and legislatio...

South Korea’s telecom and mobile network market leader SK Telecom Co., which announced last week its strategic long-term shift towards non-tel...

South Korea’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. will split into two separate entities. SK Telecom said on Apr. 14 that it will create a ne...

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Monday its exit from the loss-making mobile phone business, which has accumulated operating losses of 5 trillion wo...

Google Inc. will acquire 56.5 billion won ($50 million) worth of new Kakao Mobility Corp. shares, in a strategic investment in the South Korean mobi...

South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis will undergo significant reforms in its business model to become a future mobility platfo...

South Korea’s state-funded Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) is undergoing a full-scale digital transformation to expedite inter...

South Korea's GS Caltex Corp., aiming to become a logistics platform, will invest around 30 billion won ($26 million) in Kakao Mobility Corp. to str...

South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s leading carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. have launched a $300 million joint fund...

Hyundai Motor Co. has invested $5 million in Clearpath Robotics Inc., a Canada-based robotics startup, in a stepped-up push to transform into a comp...

  Affirma Capital and South Korea-based EastBridge Partners will invest a combined 400 billion won ($350 million) in SK Telecom Co.'s mobility...

BH Co. is South Korea’s leading manufacturer of flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), an essential component of smartphones, from camera to O...

South Korea’s SK Global Chemical, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK Innovation, and POSCO have joined hands to develop steel and plastic composi...

SK Hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, has started mass production of 18 gigabyte (GB) mobile DRAM, which offers the industry&...

Global buyout fund Affirma Capital and South Korean private equity firm EastBridge Partners will compete in a race for the 300 billion won ($267 mil...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, has invested €115 million in Wallapop, a Spanish virtual marketplace, as part of its effort...

The Carlyle Group has agreed to buy $200 million worth of new shares in Kakao Mobility Corp. as a pre-IPO investment in the transportation arm of So...