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LG Uplus Corp. announced it will recycle 100% of industrial waste from its plants by 2025.The mobile network arm of LG Corp. published a report titl...

Affirma Capital is a small player in South Korea’s private equity market, but its successful bolt-on strategy helps the mid-cap-focused invest...

KB Investment Co., a venture capital arm of KB Financial Group, is seeking to raise more than 200 billion won ($150 million) in its second global fu...

IMM Investment Co. and STIC Investments Co., the two most active South Korean private equity firms in 2021 fundraising, made bets on a dividend-focu...

Hansol Paper Co. announced Thursday that it participated as a strategic investor in a Series A funding worth 2 billion won ($1.5 million) for South ...

Planetarium Labs raised $32 million in a Series A funding round, led by Animoca Brands, and joined by Samsung Next, WeMade, and Krust Universe.The s...

Some major retirement funds in South Korea are raising interest rates on their members’ savings accounts in line with global central banks&rsq...

The Korea H2 Business Summit, a business council established by South Korea’s leading conglomerates to invest in the hydrogen industry, launch...

South Korean corporates’ price-earnings ratios are affected by their environmental, social and governance (ESG) management, experts said at an...

LS Cable & System Ltd. is slated to begin recycling wooden cable drums as part of its environmental, social and governance (ESG) management effo...

The much-touted sale of a controlling stake in Iljin Materials Co., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, is flagging as big spenders are ...

NCSOFT Corp., a leading South Korean game developer, has published its second annual sustainability report using a playbook map concept. The re...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has decided to raise the interest rates of the members’ savings products by 25 to 4...

A number of financial experts who built their careers at Samsung Life Insurance Co. are in the spotlight as more South Korean pension funds and mutu...

Axiom Space Inc., which is developing the world’s first commercial space station, is seeking to raise $500 million from South Korean investors...

SK Gas Ltd., South Korea’s leading liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supplier, is poised to sell its stake in an operator of the Eurasia Tunnel in...

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. have invested a combined $115 million in Series B funding for Overair Inc., a Califo...

South Korea’s leading webtoon production startup Kenaz was taken over by a domestic hedge fund as it aims to reduce dependence on major platfo...

SV Investment, a South Korean venture capital and private equity firm, is looking to launch a $100 million bio fund in the US as a growing number of...

A few key institutional investors in South Korea are set to commit up to $300 million to a $3.5 billion private credit fund by US private debt man...

South Korea has embarked on a public-private project to bolster communication security for autonomous driving, for which a domestic startup will pla...

High-yield bonds generally create greater yields than other funds, but low-quality bonds are vulnerable to economic downturns and the firms’ c...

South Korea's early stage startups raised a record amount of funding in the last 12 months.Even though venture capital firms at home and abroad are ...

Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund is discussing the sale of Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. to a South Korean textile business group....

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced Wednesday it has selected 60 promising startups to which it will provide financial assistance and expert...

Hyundai Motor Group and the group’s social contribution foundation will create a domestic startup fund to invest a total of 100 billion won ($...

The sale of South Korea’s landmark office Alpharium Tower has been completed for 1.02 trillion won ($827.3 million), marking a record-high pri...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, has adjusted its five-year asset allocation plan to enh...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, posted a 9.13% annualized return on total assets and $205 billion on a...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, and private equity firm White Whale Group (WWG) are slated to jointly in...