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South Korean conglomerates have been reaching out to D.CAMP, the country's largest non-profit foundation for startups, to get in touch with domestic...

Queenit, a South Korea-based fashion mobile platform targeting women in their 40s and 50s, has raised 10 billion won ($9 million) from venture capit...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has ventured into the real estate secondaries market, committing $150 million to Brookfiel...

LG Technology Ventures, a venture capital arm of South Korea's LG Group, has diversified its portfolio into the industrial cybersecurity market with...

Shares of SK Materials Co., the industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Group, are hovering around all-time high levels ami...

Samsung Electronics Co. is betting big on non-fungible token (NFT) companies through its venture capital unit Samsung Next, headquartered in Mountai...

Indonesia's online grocery platform HappyFresh will receive another $33 million from South Korean investors, including the Asian startup fund of Nav...

South Korea is unlikely to obtain the global index provider MSCI’s developed-market status this year with the Korean government’s decisi...

Kakao Corp. is now the third most valuable company in Korea, after Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.Kakao’s market cap on June 15 surp...

Samsung SDI Co., one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle battery makers, is considering launching a battery production joint venture i...

South Korea-based venture capital firms are likely to see rankings shift once the glory days of lucrative exits in a liquidity-driven market are gon...

The Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC), a quasi-government agency established to support South Korean startups and venture capital industry, has ...

South Korea-based luxury goods platform MUST'IT has secured 13 billion won ($11.7 million) in a bridge round from venture capital firms Kakao Invest...

South Korea-based venture capital firm STIC Ventures has recently invested $2 million in a Vietnamese logistics startup EcoTruck, a move aimed at bo...

South Korea-based Queenit, a fashion mobile platform targeting middle-aged women, has secured around 5.5 billion won ($5 million) from a pool of hig...

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...

In September 2019, South Korea-based mobile marketplace platform Danggeun Market received 40 billion won ($36 million) from venture capital firms wi...

South Korea’s central bank will launch a new economic index based on analysis of online business news articles. The Bank of Korea said on Apr....

The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) officially opened its San Francisco office on Mar. 26, as part of its efforts to improve deal sourcing and in...

The Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC), which manages funds of venture capital funding vehicles, will pick offshore VC funds to commit around 75 ...

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

  Affirma Capital and South Korea-based EastBridge Partners will invest a combined 400 billion won ($350 million) in SK Telecom Co.'s mobility...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has begun a process to initiate multi-asset investment as part of an effort to create higher retu...

KTB Network Co., a South Korean venture capital firm, will renew its plans to go public this year, after its aggressive investments in both domestic...

South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group's corporate venture capital (CVC) fund Signite Partners has invested in Grab Holdings Inc., a Southeast As...

Venture capital funds in South Korea have raised their largest-ever amount of 6.6 trillion won ($6 billion) last year, supported by government polic...

Plug and Play (PnP), a Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, will team up with the city of Seoul to invest in South Korean venture firms with sm...

The South Korean government will inject 1 trillion won ($924 million) into homegrown venture capital funds this year, with a plan to launch three VC...

Growth in South Korea’s venture capital investments has been slow relative to the pace of the country’s economic growth, creating an opp...

KB Investment Co. will join forces with US-based RM Global Partners to launch a $100 million life science fund to invest in early stage startups in ...