Forbes Asian Women

Samsung heiress and Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin ranked 85th on The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women selected by Forbes. Lee, who leads Samsung Group's...

One out of six married women in South Korea has opted out of the workforce, to take on most of the childrearing burden in the family. Around 1....

NEW YORK – One by one, impeccably dressed Korean American women flocked into the Anchorage Capital Group’s headquarters in New York City...

HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...

People can debate what it means for the government of a top-12 economy to be “anti-feminist.” There is no question, though, that President...

Bank KB Bukopin, South Korean bank KB Bank's Indonesian subsidiary, is set to raise capital by issuing 8.44 trillion rupiah ($550.6 million) in new ...

South Korean silicon wafer maker SK Siltron Co. has teamed up with UK-based wafer products supplier IQE plc to produce gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxi...

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s announcement last week that it will build its first overseas EV plant in Thailand is setting off alarm be...

Tikehau Capital, a Paris-headquartered global alternative asset management group, is working hard to expand growth and its operating capacity in Asi...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. have secured $710 million from financial institutions overseas to ...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo will visit Hyundai Motor Co. during his upcoming two-day official visit to South Korea as the automaker is aggressi...

South Korea's over-the-top streaming platform TVing Co. has partnered with global content provider Paramount Plus to challenge top OTT player Netfli...

South Korea’s smaller webtoon platforms are targeting the world’s digital adult comics market, in which industry leaders Naver Corp. and...

South Korea’s Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS) said on Thursday it has completed the listing of PT Cilacap Samudera Fishing Industr...

NongHyup Bank, a major arm of South Korea's National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, got the nod from India last week to open its first branch ...

South Korean individuals are likely to become the first non-resident direct stock investors in India, after the South Asian country lifted the ceili...

Hyundai Motor Co. has started mass producing its iconic all-electric crossover IONIQ 5 at its newly built plant in Indonesia, a country that the top...

Valuence Merger Corp. 1, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), led by South Korean fund managers, has debuted on the Nasdaq, targeting Asian...

Asian stock markets lost ground on Monday with South Korea’s main shares down to their lowest level in more than two weeks as rising tensions ...

Online shopping platform Queenit recently received 36 billion won ($30 million) from Kakao Ventures Corp., SoftBank Ventures Korea Corp. and more,...

Global infrastructure investment firm Antin Infrastructure Partners SA said on Jan. 25 it has appointed Michelle (Min Kyung) Maeng as its new Invest...

Michael ByungJu Kim, the founder of South Korean investment firm MBK Partners, and Kim Jung-ju, founder of Nexon, the largest online gaming compan...

South Korea's real estate prices have risen at a rapid pace over the past two years, but that would not indicate an increased risk of loan defaults ...

IGIS Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest real estate asset manager, was ranked as the world’s second-largest asset management ...

North Asia-focused MBK Partners has made lucrative exits from three investments in South Korea, China and Japan this year. They rank among the nine ...

The world’s No. 1 boy band BTS became the first Asian act to take the prize for artist of the year at the American Music Awards, one of the to...

Two decades after the onset of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC) is finally set to privat...

South Korea’s MBK Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in Asia, said it has raised $1.8 billion for its second special situations...

South Korea's top three retail groups -- Lotte, Shinsegae and GS -- are struggling with increased losses in the Southeast Asian market, once believe...

MBK Partners' first female partner Lee In-kyung has made it to the list of Forbes Asia's 20 power businesswomen published in its November issue. For...