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South Korea plans to accelerate growth in the defense industry, a future growth engine of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, by investing more tha...

CJ Investment, the corporate venture capital arm of CJ Corp., announced on Tuesday its plans to foster promising South Korean startups in order to d...

South Korea’s key institutional investors are highly likely to invest via European private equity giant CVC Capital Partners’ ninth buyo...

HYBE Co., the label behind the world’s top boyband BTS, said it does not plan to raise its buying price for SM Entertainment Co., denting hope...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, may accelerate investment in leading-edge technologies including chip packaging...

Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemicals maker, said on Friday it is acquiring a 6% stake in Piedmont Lithium Inc., a US mining company, ...

South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. will spend 100 billion won ($77.3 million) a year to enhance data security about a m...

Kakao Enterprise, a leading IT platform business operator in South Korea, recently announced its "Matching 2.0" strategy to enhance the quality of s...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, will not significantly cut its semiconductor output this year, Vice Chairman Park ...

On Tuesday, Kakao Brain, the AI unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced the development of a new text-based motion generation model, called "FL...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, has been fined 25.7 billion won ($20.3 million) for discriminating agai...

Netmarble Corp. announced that the webtoon "MAVE: Another World," based on the virtual girl group, will be available on KakaoPage and Kakao Webtoon ...

South Korean pharmaceuticals firm Hanall Biopharma Co. is investing in Interon Laboratories, a US biotech firm that finds and develops treatments fo...

SM Entertainment Co., a South Korean music label widely credited as the pioneer of K-pop, has emerged as a new battlefield between HYBE Co., the age...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s No. 1 mobile messenger platform, will launch Korean language-specific, vertically-integrated AI service this year s...

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment arm of South Korean tech firm Kakao Corp., has been added to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Kor...

South Korea’s game publishers reported dismal quarterly earnings, deepening concerns over their outlook this year amid doubts over measures su...

The local government of South Korea’s capital city Seoul this year will launch its own vision fund, dubbed the Seoul Vision 2030 Fund, to inve...

Despite South Korea's Kosdaq stock market growing this month following the "January rally," individual investors in the country are still betting on...

South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. on Wednesday said its net profit last year reached a record-high 263.1 billion won ($208.6 million), up 28.9% from 202...

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., posted a net profit last year for the first time since its ...

Samsung Electronics Co. may ramp up its investment in screen panel affiliate Samsung Display Co. to meet growing demand for next-generation quantum ...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

As venture capitalists tighten their purse strings amid looming recession fears, only startups with killer products that generate profits are well-p...

South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, lags far behind other countries in attaining unicorn startups in the artificial intellige...

SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is poised to strengthen its eco-friendly b...

South Korea is set to allow all kinds of fractional investments next year through the legalization of a security token (ST), a digital form of tradi...

South Korea's No. 4 conglomerate LG Corp. is set to accelerate its net zero by 2050 strategies.LG will invest 3.4 trillion won ($2.7 billion) by 203...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, has underperformed its global peers over the past decade in te...