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One after another, South Korea’s household name conglomerates are establishing corporate venture capital (CVC) firms under their holding compa...

Dividend payments of foreign companies operating in South Korea have nearly doubled and the repatriation of profit to their headquarters is expected...

Biotechnology startups in Europe, backed by South Korea's SK Inc., are speeding up their development of next-generation drug candidates by joining h...

  Korea Post, South Korea's state-run postal service agency, said on April 14 that its insurance arm will select two asset managers for a maxi...

South Korean auto shares are showing some signs of a rebound after a long downtrend since the second half of last year. Foreign investors have ret...

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has established its own content ecosystem including crea...

SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, has made an equity investment in Morph Interactive Co., a local three-dimensional graphics c...

South Korea’s HYBE Co. plans to accelerate the development of its game business by separating the unit as the entertainment giant aims to cut ...

It seems as though the list of risks to investors is rising. Supply chain imbalances, higher raw material costs, rising interest rates, labor shortage...

Six manhwa platforms operated by South Korea’s tech juggernauts rank among the top 10 paid digital comics platforms worldwide. Manhwa is ...

Samsung Electronics Co. has hired a 20-year governance veteran for its much-awaited corporate governance restructuring, according to those familia...

South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. generated sales of more than 1 trillion won ($812.3 million) from its own medicines last year on strong...

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the digital comics platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., is slated to intensify its partnership with ...

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is one step closer to including foreign nationals to its list of owner-cum-heads of conglomerates ...

Korea Post, South Korea's state-run postal service agency, said on April 6 its savings arm will choose two asset managers for two closed-end comming...

South Korea’s two largest automakers, Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., ranked fifth in terms of electric vehicle sales, which posted triple-di...

Mirae Asset Global Real Estate Investment Trust Co., a South Korean listed REIT under Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., is set to raise around 450...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), a retirement fund for South Korean teachers and employees, and The California State Teachers' Retireme...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has acquired a controlling stake in Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese c...

The increase in the price of carbon emission rights is dealing another blow to South Korean companies reeling from soaring raw materials and logisti...

Topco, South Korea’s top adult webtoon platform operator, is targeting the global digital comic market with the goal to expand its business in...

MBK Partners is in the early stages of talks with telecom operator KT Corp. and other potential bidders to sell its majority stake in South Korea's ...

South Korea's SK Hynix Inc. is considering forming a consortium with other strategic investors to buy Arm Ltd., a British semiconductor design compa...

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to break ground on the construction of its first purpose-built vehicle (PBV) plant ne...

South Korean exporters such as Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are jittery as the country’s won currency hit its strongest level versus the Ja...

South Korean food maker Daesang Corp. has completed the construction of a kimchi plant in the US, its first factory outside Asia, which the company ...

Global TV prices rose by a third last year and are expected to continue their uptrend this year, which could be a boon for the world’s two lar...

SEOUL—South Korea’s political division runs so deep now that the country can’t agree where the next president should liv...

South Korea’s won currency on Monday hit its strongest point against the Japanese yen in more than three years on higher interest rates and co...

LG Household & Health Care Ltd. was one of the most coveted shares on the Korean bouse in the past couple of years as the company basked in the ...