Kakao Corporation

Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of Korea’s web service giant Kakao Corp., has invested $15 million in US game studio Playable Worlds...

Global pension funds are expanding their influence as key shareholders of major companies in South Korea. Some of the world’s largest pensio...

One Store Co., investment firm SK Square Co.'s homegrown app store, is gearing up for an initial public offering to be held in May. The local app st...

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has established its own content ecosystem including crea...

Shares of Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. are expected to decline further after South Korea’s top two platform giants already lost 20 trillion won...

Lionheart Studio Corp., the firm behind South Korea’s popular mobile game Odin, is preparing to go public as early as this year, with its ente...

South Korea’s major tech companies such as Netmarble Corp., NCSoft Corp., Kakao Corp. and DoubleUGames were selected among the world’s m...

Six manhwa platforms operated by South Korea’s tech juggernauts rank among the top 10 paid digital comics platforms worldwide. Manhwa is ...

The seven hottest tech companies and startups in South Korea earned a new nickname, a word combining their first syllables. What they also have in c...

South Korea’s major companies are drastically cutting their capital spending as heightened macroeconomic risks coupled with growing external u...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has acquired a controlling stake in Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese c...

South Korean companies are hesitating to raise funds on surging corporate bond yields. More firms are repaying existing debt and have postponed new ...

Kakao Entertainment Corp. has hit a snag in its talks to buy a controlling stake in SM Entertainment Co., according to those familiar with the neg...

South Korea’s tech behemoths Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. are intensifying competition over who will dominate the global webtoon market. ...

South Korea's dominant online platform Naver Corp. on Monday entered a new chapter in its 22-year history under a new millennial leader, whose prior...

Kakao Corp. founder and chairman Brian Kim said on Monday that he will step down from the tech giant’s board of directors, following a series ...

Kakao Corp. founder and chairman Brian Kim said on Monday that he will step down from the board of directors, following a series of scandals that ro...

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea's top mobile messenger app, is in the final stages of talks to buy a controlling stake in SM Entert...

Kakao Corp., the No. 1 digital comics platform in Japan, will expand deeper into the neighboring country's comics market by launching a platform whe...

POSCO, the world’s sixth-largest steelmaker, on Wednesday launched a holding company to develop the group into an eco-friendly future material...

‘Beyond Korea’ is South Korean tech juggernaut Kakao Corp.’s new vision for the future. Kakao’s new CEO nominee Namkoon...

South Korea's NCSoft Corp., the publisher of the popular mobile game Lineage series, on Tuesday reported a worse-than-expected operating profit in 2...

Shares in South Korean gaming companies have been on a losing run since the start of the year, giving up about half of the gains they enjoyed late l...

South Korea’s tech giant Kakao Corp. reported 4Q revenue of 1.78 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in 2021, a 45% jump on-year. The figure is slight...

South Korean companies suffered from surging financing costs as corporate bond yields shot to eight-year highs. Affiliates of major conglomerates wi...

Kakao Corp. announced Sunday that it plans to launch the European version of its webtoon subscription service in either April or May of this year....

South Korea's POSCO Co. will transform into a holding company structure on Mar. 2, after its plan to split itself into a holding firm and a steelmak...

Korean companies raised capital of 231.5 trillion won ($193.2 billion) through stock and bond issuance in the domestic market in 2021, according t...

Megazone Cloud Corp., a leading cloud service provider and the first Korean business partner of Amazon Web Service (AWS), plans to attract 300 billi...

Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, on Thursday announced a new chief executive nominee as the company ...