Kakao Investment

The sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will make co-investments worth up to 1 trillion won ($900 million) alongside the Hyunda...

The National Pension Service has made an investment in BC Partners by acquiring a stake in the UK private equity firm through a Blackstone fund, acc...

South Korean tech giant Kakao’s unlisted subsidiaries have posted record-high growth figures for the previous financial year. According to Kak...

Samsung Electronics Co. will make efficient and right-time investments to achieve economies of scale so that the world's largest memory chipmaker wi...

Hyundai Motor Co. has invested $5 million in Clearpath Robotics Inc., a Canada-based robotics startup, in a stepped-up push to transform into a comp...

LG Energy Solutions Ltd. announced on Friday that it will invest more than 5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) by 2025 to expand its US battery business, ...

  Affirma Capital and South Korea-based EastBridge Partners will invest a combined 400 billion won ($350 million) in SK Telecom Co.'s mobility...

Spotify Technology S.A., the world's largest music streaming service, has reached a licensing agreement with Kakao Entertainment Corp., to make musi...

South Korea-based Kakao Mobility Corp., a subsidiary of mobile giant Kakao Corp., has acquired the country's leading pet taxi service, Pet Me Up, in...

South Korea-based oil refiner S-Oil Corp. is readying to expand its business into the hydrogen energy sector by investing around 8.2 billion won ($7...

Early stage startups are almost always risky ventures, promising but unprofitable, and far from market-ready – often making it challenging to ...

The National Pension Service boosted investments in private equity deals involving high-growth internet and software companies last year, while dive...

South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., which plans to list its shares on the local bourse this year, has mandated Korea Investment &...

Bain Capital has agreed to invest around 400 billion won ($360 million) in South Korea’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software d...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has begun a process to initiate multi-asset investment as part of an effort to create higher retu...

Kakao Corp. will split its stock on a five-for-one basis in April, which the South Korean mobile messaging app giant said would make the stock more ...

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

The National Pension Service (NPS) signed new contracts worth around 23 trillion won ($20.1 billion) abroad in alternative investments last year, de...

South Korea-based edtech startup Yanadoo is the latest affiliate of Kakao Corp., the country's largest messaging app operator, to prepare for an ini...

South Korea's Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is planning to commit a combined 150 billion won ($135 million) to three global infrastr...

The Carlyle Group has agreed to buy $200 million worth of new shares in Kakao Mobility Corp. as a pre-IPO investment in the transportation arm of So...

The National Pension Service has committed $150 million to London-based Stafford Capital Partners in its first investment in timberland, land availa...

Medivate Partners, South Korea’s life science-focused private equity firm, is set to secure more than 2.5 times its investment of around 60 bi...

South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group's corporate venture capital (CVC) fund Signite Partners has invested in Grab Holdings Inc., a Southeast As...

South Korea-based mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. has posted an all-time earnings high for last year, thanks to robust growth of its core operatio...

South Korea-based mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. has reported an all-time high on last year's earnings, thanks to its core operations posting rob...

To leave the world a little bit better – a line from the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem What is Success and the status message...

LG Display Co., a major South Korean display panel maker, will invest $750 million in its display plant in Vietnam to meet rising demand from electr...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, plans a bond issue worth as much as 1.26 trillion won ($1.13 billion) in local and ove...

Google Inc. is planning to invest around $270 million in Kakao Mobility Corp., the transportation arm of South Korea's No. 1 messaging operator Kaka...