UAE’s sovereign funds to invest $30 billion in South Korea

ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates will invest $30 billion in South Korea across strategic sectors, including the nuclear power, defense, hy...

KAI aims to become world's No. 7 aerospace company by 2050

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) seeks to become the world's No. 7 aerospace company by 2050, aiming to rival the likes of global defense giant...

Orchestra PE acquires KFC Korea for about $50 mn

Asia-focused Orchestra Private Equity agreed on Wednesday to buy a 100% stake in the South Korean operations of fast food chain KFC for around 60 bi...

PIF, GIC to invest $964 mn in Korea's Kakao Entertainment

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have agreed to invest a combined $964 million in K...

3 HD Hyundai affiliates to help ESG management of biz partners

Three construction machinery affiliates of South Korea's HD Hyundai will support environmental, social and governance (ESG) management of their part...

Naver secures largest stake in Spain's online marketplace Wallapop

Naver Corp. has made a massive additional investment in Wallapop, Spain's online market for used items and Europe's equivalent to Korea's Danggeun M...

Lotte to invest more in US bio biz, spend $3 bn in Korea

SAN FRANCISCO -- South Korea’s Lotte Biologics Co. is considering investing more in the US bio industry and spending $3 billion in new factori...

Anda pushes for right to copy KT&G shareholder list

South Korea's Anda Asset Management Co. said on Tuesday it applied for an injunction Jan. 9 to view and copy the shareholders’ list of KT&...

Lotte E&C, Meritz Securities conclude $1.2 billion investment deal

Lotte Engineering & Construction (E&C) has secured financing of 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion).The company on Monday announced its conclusi...

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...

SK Ecoplant joins with PnP to foster eco-friendly global startups

South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co. will join with global venture capital firm Plug and Play (PnP) to discover and launch global startups in eco-fri...

Seoul ranks 7th in city competitiveness assessed by Japanese Institute

Seoul's urban competitiveness rebounded after five years, ranking seventh in the world. It was due to the fact that the ranking of the economy categ...

Mirae Asset buys logistics center in India for $17 mn

Mirae Asset Global Managements Co. said on Friday that it has invested 21 billion won ($17 million) in a large logistics center in Mumbai to become ...

Samsung’s Q4 profit tumbles; cuts 2023 chip profit forecast by half

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, posted its worst quarterly operating profit in eight years on F...

EcoPro Group nearly doubles sales target to $7.8 billion this year

South Korea's EcoPro Group has set its sales target this year at 10 trillion won ($7.8 billion), nearly double that of last year, under a strategy t...

Korean law firm creates startup investment association

The Law Office of Choi & Lee, a small-sized law firm, became Korea's first law firm to invest in startups. In one of the most difficult times wh...

SK Shieldus acquires environmental management standard certification

South Korea's cybersecurity service provider SK Shieldus said on Wednesday that it had obtained ISO 14001, an international standard for environment...

AhnLab CEO Kang: Betting on next-gen technology from detection to cloud

Kang Suk-Kyoon, CEO of AhnLab, Inc. proposed a strategy to develop next-generation models and technologies, such as solutions to detect and respond ...

Com2verse attracts investment of $9.4 million from strategic partners

Com2verse, Com2uS Corp.'s metaverse subsidiary said on Tuesday that it has secured a strategic investment of 4 billion won ($3.1 million) each from ...

Samsung Elec to invest $46 mn in S.Korean robot maker

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is set to invest 59 billion won ($46.4 million) in South Korean...

S.Korea's Daehan Green Power invests in energy superstation biz

South Korea's Daehan Green Power has entered the green hydrogen sector, a new growth engine, through an energy super station project.The company on ...

Ideahub to launch new platform for individual investors of patents in Q1

In the next three months, South Korea's Ideahub is poised to launch a platform on which individual investors can also invest in patents.If all goes ...

Korean banks must increase total shareholder returns: Align Partners

South Korean private equity firm Align Partners Capital Management Inc. is set to lead shareholder activism against the country’s top financia...

Silvia Health attracts investment through pre-Series A funding

Silvia Health Inc., an age-tech startup based in Seoul, South Korea said on Monday that it has completed a pre-Series A investment with the particip...

Disclosure obligations of venture capital accelerators to be strengthened

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said on Monday that an amendment to the Venture Capital Investment Promotion Act, which will strengthen the disclo...

Korean business chiefs’ Year of the Rabbit messages: Keep investing

South Korea’s top business leaders on the first business day of the year stressed the importance of active investment and concentration of r...

KT Investment injects $27.8 million in 20 startups this year

KT Investment said on Thursday that it invested 35 billion won ($27.8 million) in 20 startups this past year, and that six invested companies succee...

Hyundai Wia gets silver medal from EcoVadis

 Hyundai Wia Corp. has been awarded a silver medal from EcoVadis in recognition of its continuing effort toward its sustainability credentials,...

Doosan Corp. starts building flexible copper-clad layer plant

South Korea's Doosan Corp. is expanding its production line for flexible cooper-clad layers (FCCL) to boost competitiveness in electronic materials ...

Naver D2SF makes follow-up investment in fashion startup Onthelook

Naver D2SF, Naver Corp.'s startup investment arm, made a follow-up investment in fashion content startup Onthelook.The company said on Wednesday tha...