Hanwha holding firm

A slew of South Korean venture capital firms are knocking on the doors of the domestic stock market, with startup investments hitting the jackpot am...

Hanwha Defense Co., a wholly owned defense solutions subsidiary of Hanwha Aerospace Co., got the go-ahead from South Korea’s defense procureme...

Jang Dong-hyun, chief executive of SK Inc., formerly known as SK Holdings Co. made a rare public remark during a March shareholder meeting, saying t...

South Korea-based EastBridge Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the country's waste treatment firm YIDO for around 260 billion won (...

South Korea’s industrial nitric acid sector, currently led by Hu-Chems Co. with around a 90% market share, will see a change in the competitiv...

South Korea's Mastern Investment Management Co. and Kiwoom Securities Co. are in the due diligence process to acquire six last-mile logistics center...

South Korea’s leading renewable energy company Hanwha Solutions Corp. plans to raise 1 billion Chinese yuan ($153 million) this month in green...

Shares of LG Corp. are significantly outperforming the broader market on expectations the company will be fairly valued when it’s relisted on ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), other state-run savings funds and big companies are expected to pocket decent gains from their...

Smilegate Entertainment Inc. has become the fifth South Korean game company to join the trillion won club, as it posted a revenue of 1.73 trillion w...

South Korean brokerage houses enjoyed a bumper year in 2020 with a record fee income from global derivatives trading, driven by retail investors' ve...

Hanwha Solutions Corp., a South Korean petrochemical and renewable energy company, plans to raise 2 billion yuan ($300 million) in a green bond issu...

South Korea-based startup Riiid Inc. has been named to the annual AI 100 list issued by global market research firm CB Insights. The AI 100 is a lis...

Semiconductor chips, electric vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) drove the top 100 South Korean companies' spending on research and developme...

Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and information technology service unit of Hanwha Group, is seeking to purchase the entire stake of US air taxi star...

South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. announced on Mar. 27 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by China-ba...

Leading South Korean companies are diversifying their once rubber-stamp boards with a broader pool of professionals and women, alongside the growing...

South Korea's SK Holdings Co. will give outside directors more authority to get involved in the selection and dismissal of its chief executive and i...

Slightly more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the business world, the role of management consultants has become important more than ...

The sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will make co-investments worth up to 1 trillion won ($900 million) alongside the Hyunda...

Last year's expansion of contactless technologies and services has created a new salary gap among key industries and companies in South Korea.  ...

Leading international law firms with offices in South Korea are gearing up for growing legal service demand from local companies in their push for m...

South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s leading carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. have launched a $300 million joint fund...

South Korea’s top online fashion retailer Musinsa has raised another 130 billion won ($115 million) from Sequoia Capital and IMM Investment, g...

Hanwha Group has created an internal task force headed by the group's heir apparent to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing global space sect...

Korean Air Lines Co. has raised 3.32 trillion won ($2.9 billion) from a new share sale as planned in the the largest-ever rights offering by a domes...

MBK Partners and two leading South Korean conglomerates – SK and CJ groups – have chalked up hefty returns from investments in Chinese l...

Bain Capital has agreed to invest around 400 billion won ($360 million) in South Korea’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software d...

Hanwha Group leader Kim Seung-youn is returning to management seven years after he was banned from business activities following his conviction for ...

New corporate bond issuance in South Korea is on course to hit 9.2 trillion won ($8.3 billion) in February of this year, the highest amount issued f...