S.Korea's largest investment forum to begin Sept. 11

S.Korea's largest investment forum to begin Sept. 11

South Korea’s largest investment conference will be held in Seoul Sept. 11-15 with around 100 chief executives from global financial services ...

S.Korea's SK C&C enters battery sector with DNA Motors

S.Korea's SK C&C enters battery sector with DNA Motors

South Korea's SK C&C will make batteries for electric motorcycles as the first domestic system integration company to enter the battery field.SK...

Sejong City to cooperate with Northern Ireland in smart city, cybersecurity

Sejong City to cooperate with Northern Ireland in smart city, cybersecurity

South Korea's Sejong Special Self-Governing City will pursue economic exchange with Northern Ireland and cooperation in cybersecurity research with ...

SK Bioscience buys 6.5 million Novavax shares for $83.4 million

SK Bioscience buys 6.5 million Novavax shares for $83.4 million

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, said on Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy 6.5 million shares in US vacc...

UBS names Credit Suisse Korea head as vice chair for Asia

UBS names Credit Suisse Korea head as vice chair for Asia

UBS Group AG, a global investment bank, appointed Kyungin David Lee, chief of Credit Suisse Group AG’s Seoul branch, as vice chair for Asia an...

Kakao Healthcare signs agreement with Novo Nordisk for digital service

Kakao Healthcare signs agreement with Novo Nordisk for digital service

Kakao Healthcare Corp., a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced that it has signed on Tuesday a business agreemen...

Woori Bank teams up with BuildBlock on US real estate services

Woori Bank teams up with BuildBlock on US real estate services

South Korea's Woori Bank and US real estate platform operator BuildBlock have entered into a strategic memorandum of understanding to bolster overse...

Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave

Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave

Affinity Equity Partners’ founding member and Managing Partner Lee Chul-joo (CJ Lee) will resign from the Asia’s leading buyout manager,...

Korea’s STX to build joint Indonesia nickel plant for EV cells

Korea’s STX to build joint Indonesia nickel plant for EV cells

South Korea’s trading company STX Corp. is set to build a nickel plant with an Indonesian company in the Southeast Asian country to expand its...

Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

South Korea’s fractional investment market is gearing up for a grand opening after the government earlier this year unveiled security token of...

Advanced memory is strategic asset for Korea’s chip supremacy: Hwang

Advanced memory is strategic asset for Korea’s chip supremacy: Hwang

South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – has been the dominant...

Morgan Stanley subsidiary takes 5% stake in JYP Entertainment stock

Morgan Stanley subsidiary takes 5% stake in JYP Entertainment stock

A Morgan Stanley-affiliated asset manager has bought more JYP Entertainment shares, raising its stake to more than 5 percent.Asset management firm M...

K-pop powerhouse SM to launch US office with Kakao

K-pop powerhouse SM to launch US office with Kakao

K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment Co. and Kakao Entertainment will jointly launch an office in the US later this year to boost their global business...

LG Chem to make first domestic 6-in-1 vaccine for infants

LG Chem to make first domestic 6-in-1 vaccine for infants

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. will produce the nation's first homegrown six-in-one vaccine for infants, something that the country is entirely reliant ...

LG Energy Solution converts 56% of electricity into renewable energy

LG Energy Solution converts 56% of electricity into renewable energy

South Korea’s lithium-ion battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. on Monday released a report containing the company’s environmental, soci...

Fractional investing to gain traction in Korea with green light from FSC

Fractional investing to gain traction in Korea with green light from FSC

Come September, South Korean investors will be able to freely and safely buy and sell fractions of artwork and even live cows just as they do with t...

Macquarie seeks to sell off Korea’s tank terminal operator

Macquarie seeks to sell off Korea’s tank terminal operator

Macquarie Korea Asset Management seeks to sell off a Korea tank terminal operator six years after the acquisition, at around 400 billion won ($314.8...

SK Telecom enters cloud managed service provider market

SK Telecom enters cloud managed service provider market

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will aggressively enter the cloud market by providing differentiated services based on its nationwide communication net...

Korea’s KFCC likely to see loss from London-based office investment

Korea’s KFCC likely to see loss from London-based office investment

South Korea’s Vestas Investment Management Co. is slated to sell off a London-based office tower as the property value has plunged due to rate...

S.Korea relies heavily on Samsung Elec for R&D spending: FKI

S.Korea relies heavily on Samsung Elec for R&D spending: FKI

South Korea’s corporate expenditures on research and development grew 1.7 times from 2013 to 2021, much slower than such spending by the US an...

Hyundai Motor Group, Seoul Univ. to jointly develop battery

Hyundai Motor Group, Seoul Univ. to jointly develop battery

Hyundai Motor Group opened a joint battery research center at Seoul National University, marking its full-fledged foray into next-generation battery...

Korea's Daesang begins production of sugar alternative allulose

Korea's Daesang begins production of sugar alternative allulose

South Korean food maker Daesang Corp. has started operations of the country’s largest facility for the production of allulose, a low-calorie s...

S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025

S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025

The South Korean government and the private sector will jointly create a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund pool worth more than 8 trillion won ($...

KT invests over $11 mn in AI software company Moreh

KT invests over $11 mn in AI software company Moreh

South Korea's KT Corp. will invest 15 billion won ($11.6 million) in Moreh, a Seoul-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure software compa...

SK E&S opens representative office in Vietnam

SK E&S opens representative office in Vietnam

South Korea's renewable energy company SK E&S is speeding up the expansion of its global eco-friendly power generation business by opening a rep...

Korea's IMM to invest $23 mn in battery parts supplier Choil Aluminum

Korea's IMM to invest $23 mn in battery parts supplier Choil Aluminum

South Korean private credit firm IMM Credit & Solutions Inc. will invest 30 billion won ($23.4 million) in Choil Aluminum Co., an EV battery com...

S.Korea proposes extended tax breaks for reshoring companies

S.Korea proposes extended tax breaks for reshoring companies

The South Korean government and the ruling party proposed longer-term tax cuts for companies that bring production back home to reinvigorate the cou...

SK Networks to acquire data management company en-core

SK Networks to acquire data management company en-core

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading company, will acquire en-core, a data solutions and consulting firm. The strategy is aimed at strengthening ...

KKR leads $190 mn Series C funding of fashion platform Musinsa

KKR leads $190 mn Series C funding of fashion platform Musinsa

South Korea’s leading fashion platform Musinsa said on Wednesday it has attracted 240 billion won ($189.7 million) in its Series C funding rou...

Mirae Asset’s global ETFs exceed $100 bn in net asset value

Mirae Asset’s global ETFs exceed $100 bn in net asset value

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, said on Tuesday its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) worldwide have surpa...

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