Kakao Corporation

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing company, has indefinitely postponed its planned initial share sale, as its parent, Ka...

Kakao Corp. will accelerate its overseas expansion as part of its recently announced reform plan to strengthen fair business practices.Kakao said on...

Kakao Corp. will be abandoning its growth model that has transformed once a mere mobile messenger operator into one of South Korea's largest busines...

Toughening regulations on big tech firms in South Korea are impacting the IPO timeline of Kakao Pay Corp. and Kakao Mobility Corp. According to the ...

South Korea's antitrust body has launched an investigation into Kakao Mobility Corp. on allegations of discrimination against taxi drivers not subsc...

South Korea may be following China’s lead in cracking down on big tech firms. The country’s two leading tech giants Naver Corp. and Kaka...

South Korean government has hosted the first top-level artificial intelligence (AI) roundtable meeting with representatives from the country’s...

SK E&S Co., the natural gas business unit of SK Group, aims to turn into an eco-friendly company with an enterprise value of 35 trillion won ($3...

South Korea’s online retail platform Interpark Corp. has failed to drum up interest from the country's largest online platforms, including Nav...

Kakao Pay Corp., the digital settlement platform unit of South Korea’s top messaging app operator Kakao Corp., has slashed its initial publi...

South Korea’s Netmarble Corp. has earned 816.9 billion won ($703 million) so far in August alone by selling shares of KakaoBank Corp. and Kaka...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea's most popular taxi-hailing app, has taken its first step toward a stock market debut, which is expected to value ...

SK Inc., the investment and holding company of SK Group, will absorb SK Materials Co., the group’s industrial gas manufacturing affiliate, in ...

Kakao Corp., which a decade ago was merely a mobile messenger operator, has now grown into one of the largest business groups in South Korea. The in...

South Korean unicorn startups are soaking up talent from global investment banks (IBs) and brokerage houses. Junior and senior financial market spec...

Global index provider Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) added SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), SK Bioscience Co. and EcoPro BM Co. to its K...

South Korea’s leading game developer NCSoft Corp. will be launching its latest massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Lineag...

Kakao Corp. this year has reported the highest second-quarter earnings in company history.Its regulatory filing on Aug. 6 posted an operating profit...

Samsung Group will be working together with Kakao Corp. on the digital currency simulation project led by South Korea’s central bank. Accordin...

South Korea's entertainment- and food-focused CJ Group has emerged as a darkhorse to buy a controlling stake worth about 300 billion won ($260 milli...

South Korea’s GS Group has invested 30 billion won ($26 million) in Kakao Mobility Corp. to fast forward its energy unit’s transition to...

South Korean companies with low credit ratings around BBB are suffering weaker demand in the primary market. A spread in the Delta coronavirus varia...

Kakao Pay Corp., the digital settlement platform unit of South Korea’s top messaging app operator Kakao Corp., is delaying its planned initial...

Kakao Corp.’s blockchain arm Ground X was selected as a simulator for the Bank of Korea-led central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, beat...

South Korea’s financial regulator Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) on July 16 requested correction of Kakao Pay’s IPO registration st...

KT Corp., a South Korea's telecom company, is set to raise $300 million in a dollar corporate bond at the lowest interest rate for its foreign curre...

Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) and Hyundai Motor Co.’s Turkish unit sold foreign currency corporate bonds at narrower spreads than their initial targ...

The fierce competition over webtoons between Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. enters another round as the two South Korean platform giants join forces wi...

LG Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group, is investing 100 billion won ($88 million) in Kakao Mobil...

South Korea-based Kakao Pay Corp. is set to make a trading debut on the country's main bourse next month -- just a week after its sister company Kak...