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South Korea will develop its own messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines by next year with plans to annually manufacture 100 million doses from 2...

Goldman Sachs has begun researching its right to call in the 300 billion won ($265 million) loan it provided against Coupang Corp.'s two distributio...

Seoul-based STIC Investments, the third-largest shareholder in South Korea's HYBE Co., sold its remaining shares in the label behind BTS, in a block...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is targeting life science buildings, last-mile distribution centers and student housing fa...

A self-driving car needs to pass all sorts of tests before setting off for the open road. It needs to experience different types of roads, terrain f...

“Just give us three weeks. We’ll offer a price by then.”This conversation took place in early March. A senior executive from retai...

On June 29, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo will reach a three-year mark of serving as the head of South Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate. This ye...

South Korea’s luxury handbag maker Simone Acc. Collection Ltd., 30% owned by US private equity firm Blackstone, has kicked off a process to li...

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

South Korea’s exports surged to the highest level in over 32 years in May on the back of strong demand for semiconductors and automobiles, rei...

Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has begun the process to raise 1 trillion won ($900 million) in a rights offering, in what is set to be its first share...

South Korean media company CJ ENM Co. on Monday announced a plan to spend 5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) to produce original content over the next fi...

Choi Jeong-woo, chairman of POSCO, South Korea’s largest steelmaker, said it’s no exaggeration to say that the company’s future is...

It’s been about four months since Lee Seul, a manager at real estate app Zigbang, worked from the company office in Gangnam, one of South Kore...

My first paid job as a cook was when I was hired as a line cook at Daniel, a New York Times' four-star restaurant located in New York City’s U...

The National Pension Service has offered an attractive on-the-job training package, including education programs to aid new hires in getting an MBA ...

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 Korea-based fresh food logistics startup Team Fresh has concluded its 30 billion won ($26.7 million) Series C round, attracting high-profile i...

Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, commonly known as Baemin, has joined the 1 trillion w...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, has invested €115 million in Wallapop, a Spanish virtual marketplace, as part of its effort...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, under its new leader Chung Euisun, is seeking changes on its board of directors, the group's top business d...

One of the highlights from last month’s CES 2021 was Reah Keem, a virtual influencer who appeared during LG Electronics' virtual press confere...

One of the highlights from last month’s CES 2021 was Reah Keem, a virtual influencer who appeared during LG Electronics' virtual press confere...

South Korea’s Kiwoom Securities Co. has acquired a new logistics center in the Netherlands for 180 billion won ($165 million) this year, relyi...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced a leadership shuffle in its two key businesses – memory chips and foundry – as the South ...

Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) has entered the race for a stake in South Korea’s health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young, beco...

The South Korean won suffered its biggest daily loss in five months against the dollar on Nov. 19, after Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki stepped up warni...

The won-dollar exchange rate, which has been declining since the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, is falling faster since Joe Biden was elected as...

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Oct. 29 that it has entered into an agreement with CJ Olive Networks Co. to collaborate on Neon, an artificial hu...

IMM Private Equity and four other South Korean private equity firms have been shortlisted for health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young’s pre-i...