K-food business

When Dia Kang first moved to Silicon Valley in October 2016 to create a dance app to learn K-pop moves, there was no worldwide pandemic. By Jan...

South Korea's largest supermarket chain E-Mart Inc. has spent nearly $4 billion on acquisition deals so far this year, including the $3 billion purc...

Korean investment firm SK Square Co. Ltd. has invested approximately 35 billion won ($29.5 million) into homegrown agriculture tech startup Greeln...

South Korea’s initial public offering market continues to rewrite history this year. More than 20 million people have participated in the...

Diageo Korea Co., London-headquartered multinational beverage alcohol company Diageo plc’s Korean affiliate and the biggest whisky importer in...

Shares of Korean companies supplying parts to Apple rose sharply on Thursday. The jump comes on the back of robust iPhone sales and buzz that the ...

South Korea’s HK inno.N Corp. has signed a 640 billion won ($540 million) contract to license out its technology for K-CAB, a gastroesophageal...

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has imposed a fine of 1.6 billion won ($1.3 million) on SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and the conglomerat...

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the digital comics platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., is set to acquire the management rights of d...

South Korea’s steel giant POSCO has chosen stability over reform in its latest management overhaul, retaining most chief executives at group a...

South Korea’s KB Investment Co. and US venture capitalist Strong Ventures LLC have invested in Stan World, a K-pop metaverse platform operator...

South Korea’s DL Energy is set to expand its power plant business in the US.DL Energy, formerly known as Daelim Energy, said on Dec. 17 that i...

Motional Inc., a US mobility joint venture between Hyundai Motor Co. and Aptiv PLC, has teamed up with Uber Technologies Inc. to provide an autonomo...

K Auction, South Korea’s No. 2 art auction house, is set to go public in January 2022 as it aims to court the domestic leader Seoul Auction Co...

Persona Space, a subsidiary of South Korean metaverse company Galaxy Corp., said on Dec. 16 it has attracted 10 billion won ($8.5 million) investm...

Shares of Korean robot makers jumped this week following a tech giant’s decision to extend resources on its robotics department. Invest...

Meta fashion, a combination of fashion, metaverse, and NFT, is becoming a global trend. The MZ generation, as those in their 20s and 30s are ca...

South Korea’s POSCO Co. is set to split off the company to launch an investment holding firm, 21 years after its privatization. The move aims ...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday changed the name of its mobile communications business to MX, short for mobile experience, in line with its pursui...

Kimchi exports hit record high Kimchi, Korea’s traditional fermented food, is raising its status in the global food market. Korea exported $1...

ViacomCBS Inc., one of the top four US media conglomerates, and CJ ENM Co., South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse, have teamed up to expand t...

Leaders of South Korea’s three big conglomerates – Samsung, Hyundai and SK – are meeting with their major partners and business le...

Krafton Inc., one of South Korea’s major game developers, is entering the metaverse space by investing 5 billion won ($4.2 million) in Zepeto,...

South Korea’s parliament on Dec. 3 approved a record $515 billion spending for 2022 to support a recovery in Asia’s fourth-largest econo...

Mirae Asset Global Investment Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, has participated in a $260 million Series B funding for Jokr, a New ...

South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank Co. plans to begin the process for a stock market listing in the first half of 2022 as early as this month with...

Korea’s government-backed fund of funds (FOF) management institution announced its latest selection of funds late last month, which would bene...

Naver Corp.’s metaverse platform secured $190 million from Softbank and other investors to expand its business in a market marked by fierce co...

South Korea's Hankook Tire Group has acquired a majority stake worth 204.5 billion won ($173 million) in Canada's Preciseley Microtechnology Corp., ...

South Korea is planning to build solar photovoltaic power plants in Chile, investing $130 million, in a move to help local companies expand their re...