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LAS VEGAS – South Korean startups have won four out of the 23 Best of Innovation awards from Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which host...

TOKYO - South Korea ranked the world’s sixth most powerful country, beating Japan, while the peninsular nation was far behind its neighbor in ...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said on Monday that an amendment to the Venture Capital Investment Promotion Act, which will strengthen the disclo...

With both exports and domestic spending growing shakier amid the global economic downturn, South Korean business sentiment has taken a backward step...

SK Inc., SK Group's investment arm, won the highest AAA ratings from both Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) and the Dow Jones Sustainabili...

South Korea’s four leading biotech firms plan to launch an investment fund of up to 50 billion won ($39 million) to support smaller domestic b...

South Korea’s OTT platform Wavve has acquired Los Angeles-based content platform KOCOWA, short for Korean Content Wave. KOCOWA is a US online ...

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. is accelerating its entry into the North American battery recycling market by joining forces with JaeYoung Tech, a Korean...

Geeks, The Korea Economic Daily’s startup news platform launched in May, launched an upgraded website in Korean on Monday. The new conten...

South Korea's Plugo, a comprehensive e-commerce platform based in Singapore, has attracted $9 million in Series A investment, the Silicon Valley, Ca...

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. is forming a joint venture with SungEel HiTech Co., a company that recycles discarded batteries, to extract metals f...

South Korea's heavy industry company Doosan Enerbility Co. on Monday said it is Korea's first to receive international certification for an eight-me...

South Korea's Jobis & Villains Corp., which operates the tax return service "3o3," announced on Thursday that it has been officially registered ...

The Daol Financial Group is widely expected to let go of its venture capital arm in the midst of a worsening liquidity crunch. The VC firm Daol...

NEW YORK – SK On Co., a leading South Korean battery maker, and Ford Motor Co. have begun building their multi-billion-dollar joint venture in...

South Korea’s chemical firm Lotte Chemical Corp. and Air Liquide Korea, the Korean unit of the French company Air Liquide SA, announced on Tue...

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Dec. 5 that it has signed a $688.6 million deal to provide a key...

South Korean lifestyle hospitality startup Good Food For Good (GFFG) announced Monday that it raised 30 billion won ($23.2 million) in Series A roun...

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) on Friday launched the IBK Venture Loan, which provides bridge loans to promising startups struggling to borrow funds...

Venture capital firms that invested in media production company Raemongraein Co. raked in significant profit from the surge in popularity of the TV ...

Daesang Welllife on Thursday said it has concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China Sinopharm International, an affiliate of China's l...

When it comes to the global startup ecosystem, South Korean cities, including the capital Seoul, often do not come to investors’ minds before ...

Orion Corp., the Korean company, best known for its signature product choco pie, is entering drug development. Instead of indirectly running a joint...

SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Singapore's top telecom provider Singtel Group on joint business o...

SK picglobal, a joint venture between SKC's chemical division and a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) named PIC, have built a pla...

Yeochun NCC Co., a leading South Korean petrochemical producer, will split up after its two owners – Hanwha Group and DL Group – have ag...

Business sentiment among South Korea's companies has fallen to its lowest level in 23 months, as worsening business conditions mainly in the non-man...

Medical data platform operator JNPMEDI Inc. announced on Tuesday that it raised 14 billion won ($10.3 million) in a Series A round. Pavilion Ca...

Come this Thursday, D.Camp operated by the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs will host the biggest demo day of the year, in collaboration wit...

South Korea's Doosan Fuel Cell on Monday said it has signed an export contract worth 346.9 billion won($255 million) to supply large-scale versions ...