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South Korea’s MBK Partners said on Jan. 3 that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Dongjin Textile Co. -- a Korean firm that has been s...

South Korea’s leading petrochemical company SK Geo Centric Co. and Japan’s chemicals producer Tokuyama Corp. plan to found a joint ventu...

Affinity Equity Partners has chosen Goldman Sachs as its adviser for the planned sale of its entire stakes in Burger King’s operations in Kore...

Credit Suisse Group AG has appointed two South Koreans as new managing directors (MD) for its Seoul office. Shim Jong-min and Kim Sei-won were promo...

South Korea has officially declared its plan to join a mega Trans-Pacific free trade deal, called the CPTPP, following China’s application to ...

Japanese companies operating in South Korea are making a comeback after being hit hard by a campaign that began in mid-2019 to boycott Japanese prod...

Japan's Aeon Co. has received preliminary bids for its wholly-owned subsidiary of Ministop Korea, which is estimated at around 200 billion won ($170...

The Carlyle Group has bought South Korea's No. 2 coffeehouse chain A Twosome Place from Anchor Equity Partners, saying it would "capture the signifi...

MBK Partners has sold Japan's largest golf course operator Accordia Next Golf to SoftBank's Fortress Investment Group for 400 billion yen ($3.5 bill...

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

Japan: What Does the Current Investing Environment Look Like? Summary of Japan Real Estate  “Work-from-Home” Tre...

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top chemical maker, has agreed to set up a joint venture with Japan’s Toray Industries Inc. for the producti...

South Korea's top online portal Naver Corp. launched its e-commerce platform dedicated to Japan last month, taking its first step toward a global on...

South Korea's STIC Alternative Co. has raised $25 million to invest in a special purpose company of the Carlyle Group, which owns 50% of an oil expo...

South Korea's over-the-top (OTT) streaming platform TVing Co. will make its inroads into Japan and Taiwan next year and into the US in 2023, tapping...

South Korea-based artificial intelligence startup Riiid is looking to boost its presence in Japan following the acquisition of its Japan-based distr...

KYOTO, Japan - Murata Manufacturing Co., the world's No. 1 producer of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and other electronic components, will e...

China, Japan and South Korea are racing for expanding wafer production as surging chip demand and increase in semiconductor makers’ capacity t...

South Korea’s major portal operator Naver Corp. is looking to firm up its partnership with SoftBank Group Corp. and increase its presence in J...

Devsisters Corporation, the developer of the globally popular mobile game Cookie Run, has become a “ten bagger” stock with its price ris...

SEOUL—North Korea launched two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in Pyongyang&rs...

TOKYO -- Japan-based concert streaming platform Mahocast, dubbed as the Netflix for concerts in Japan, is gaining attention as a venue for both musi...

Affinity Equity Partners is putting Burger King's operations in South Korea and Japan up for sale, after the US hamburger franchise overtook its big...

South Korea-based game developer NPIXEL Co. has become the country’s fastest game company to join the unicorn club after raising 100 billion w...

Japan’s major chemical company Sumitomo Chemical Co. will invest more than 10 billion yen ($91 million) in South Korea to manufacture photores...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics is expected to benefit as the COVID-19 has hit its competitors in the global multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market.T...

South Korea’s online platform giant Naver Corp. is set to enter the big data-based healthcare industry by investing in ezCaretech Co., a domes...

South Korea’s fifth-largest convenience store chain Ministop Korea Co. is up for sale by its owner, the Aeon Group of Japan. Ministop Korea is...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has deepened its reliance on top-tier private equity firms during the prolonged pandemic situation, focusing on r...

South Korea-based Naver Financial, the fintech arm of online giant Naver Corp., has invested $20 million in a Series B funding round for the US-base...