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Taizo Son, the youngest brother of SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son, is poised to buy the group's South Korean venture capital arm for around 200 bil...

Getting shots of a drug or vaccine over a long period is not easy for many people.That's probably why global biopharmaceutical companies and biotech...

Gourmet food delivery platform Kurly and Golfzon County have won preliminary approval for their initial public offerings set for this year.The Korea...

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s leading aircraft engine maker, is accelerating the expansion of its urban air mobility (UAM) business.&nbs...

South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co. has forged a partnership with China’s top data center developer and operator GDS to jointly enter the Sout...

Tesla Inc. and other US electric vehicle makers are enjoying strong sales in South Korea thanks to government subsidies while the revised US EV tax ...

South Korea’s major petrochemical producer Lotte Chemical Corp. faced an earnings shock in the second quarter of 2022, hard hit by the perform...

South Korean companies are embracing the x-to-earn (X2E) business model, by which users earn rewards by playing online games and accomplishing other...

Daedong Corp., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, has attracted 10 billion won ($7.6 million) from Kakao Mobility Corp. t...

The Life Science Fund, jointly launched by Samsung Biologics and Samsung C&T Corp., announced Wednesday it invested $15 million in US biotech fi...

Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip equipment maker, has launched a ‘full automation glass micro saw' dubbed GL2101 and ...

Top South Korean conglomerates Samsung and Hyundai have selected Boston as the home of their first overseas research centers for batteries and artif...

South Korea’s SK Group said on Monday it invested $250 million in TerraPower, a US venture founded by billionaire Bill Gates. The holdi...

POSCO International Corp., the trading unit of Korean steel giant POSCO, will merge with its unlisted affiliate POSCO Energy Co. to reinforce its en...

BC Card Co., a South Korean financial services provider, agreed to acquire an Indonesian IT company as it expands its businesses into overseas marke...

South Korea’s small and mid-sized private equity firms are increasingly postponing fundraising schedules for their project-based funds to the ...

Singapore-based Oasys has an ambitious goal to revolutionize the gaming industry by making blockchain games cheaper to develop and faster to play &n...

South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. is set to kick off direct investment in overseas real estate via its subsidiary in the US, according t...

Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, plans to spend 9.74 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in renewable energy, green hydrogen...

Harim Co., South Korea’s top poultry processing company, is seeking to acquire Genofocus Inc., a Kosdaq-listed industrial and pharmaceutical e...

Investors are staying away from South Korea’s initial public offering markets as sentiment remains sour on global interest rate hikes, the sus...

Travel startup Storicity Inc. tried for a year to find a developer in South Korea – to no avail.But when it expanded its search abroad through...

The state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) has decided to reduce its exposure to a $2.8 billion joint liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia in...

South Korea’s major biopharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing the cell and gene therapy business under a contract drug-making mechanis...

US chipmaker Broadcom Inc. applied for a consent order to the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFT) in July against allegations that it forced Samsung E...

Hanwha Solutions Corp. and OCI Co., South Korea’s two leading solar power-related companies, are poised to gain a tailwind from the US governm...

Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s largest auto parts maker, is accelerating its future mobility businesses as well as intensifying open innovat...

South Korea’s six biggest companies joined hands with Malaysia’s state energy firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) for the carbon c...

Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to ship 27 of its Xcient Fuel Cell hydrogen trucks to seven German companies by the year’s end, following a simila...

CJ Olive Young, South Korea’s top beauty store chain, has suspended its process to seek a stock market listing, becoming the latest major loca...