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Naver Corp. has chosen Choi Soo-yeon, 40, to lead the top online platform in South Korea, in the 22-year-old company's most dramatic top management ...

Global asset managers will see great opportunities in the European non-performing loan market amid challenges facing the EU banking industry, such...

Hyundai Motor Co. is considering a return to Japan with electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles after South Korea’s top carmaker r...

Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) plans to increase alternative investments to a quarter of its portfolio by 2027 from the current 16%, its CEO Jin Seoun...

Kang Young-kwon, chairman and chief executive of South Korea’s Edison Motors Co., was virtually unheard of in the country’s automobile i...

When Cheil Industries, a former chemical unit of South Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group, decided to hive off a business unit that ma...

Joseph Bae, co-president of KKR & Co., was named as its co-chief executive officer this week, becoming the second Korean descendent CEO to lead ...

South Korea’s leading mobility company Hyundai Mobis Co. will be heading the country’s new industry association of autonomous driving ma...

SILICON VALLEY – One of the things that have drastically changed the business environment in the pandemic era is the prevalence of companies t...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is South Korea’s largest source of trade surplus. The Northeast Asian country generated $34...

Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, plans to add a couple of new sectors to the list of its new growth drivers: green h...

Shareholders of South Korea’s SK Innovation Co. on Thursday approved the company's plan to separate its battery business into a new entity.Und...

South Korea’s major telecom company KT Corp. is expanding investments in future growth areas outside the traditional mobile sector. KT said on...

South Korean software and ICT conglomerate Hancom Group will be the first private company in the country to launch a micro-satellite, or a satellite...

SILICON VALLEY -- In a digital world where data theft is growing rapidly, hackers who turn their lives around to help in the fight against cybercrim...

In September 2020, Krafton Inc.’s blockbuster game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) hit a major roadblock. India prohibited Chinese ...

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has clocked 50 million downloads on Google Play in about 1-1/2 months after the game’s launch, its deve...

SK Hynix that took over Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip business plans to set up a new company in the United States. Intel’s senior vice ...

South Korea-based fitness content startup DevUnlimit Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence-based fitness platform that gamifies exercise rou...

South Korea-based e-commerce startup RXC has secured around 20 billion won ($17.5 million) in a seed round -- an impressive and rare amount consider...

BTS agency HYBE’s founder Bang Si-hyuk will resign from his position as CEO to focus on music production. HYBE said that Bang will remain as c...

The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will gradually increase alternative investments such as venture capital, private equity and debt, and infrast...

South Korea-based venture capital firms are likely to see rankings shift once the glory days of lucrative exits in a liquidity-driven market are gon...

Gender-discrimination controversies are rattling South Korean retailers, with two companies recently accused of misandry in publicity campaigns. In...

South Korea’s Partron Co., specialized in electronic parts for telecommunication devices, started as a mobile phone antenna maker in 2003 afte...

The recent announcement by President Moon Jae-in that South Korea will stop funding coal-powered plants overseas and expand its decision to phase out ...

Chung Euisun, chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, has vowed to go carbon neutral in the group's processes, from automaking to vehicle disposal, in a mo...

Jin Seoungho, an ex-senior finance ministry official in South Korea, will take office as Korea Investment Corporation's (KIC) new chief executive on...

The chief executive of SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, aims to achieve as much as 13 trillion won ($12 billion) in...

Hyundai Motor Group has created a new Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) division that will oversee the mobility businesses of Hyundai Motor Co. and...