Market boom drives more S.Koreans to become angel investors

Angel investing has become widely prevalent among South Koreans. The practice of providing capital for new and small business ventures, which were t...
Angel investing has become widely prevalent among South Koreans. The practice of providing capital for new and small business ventures, which were t...
Dunamu Inc., the operator of South Korea’s top cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, became a decacorn, a company valued at over $10 billion.Dunamu h...
South Korea-based artificial intelligence semiconductor startup FuriosaAI Inc.'s silicon chip has delivered higher performance than the US-based chi...
South Korea-based Birdview, the operator of leading cosmetics platform Hwahae, is aiming to make a trading debut as early as the first half of nex...
South Korea’s No. 2 fried chicken brand BHC Group is set to spend $255 million to acquire the Korean operations of Outback Steakhouse, an Aust...
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. will name Jun Park, a top manager of Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co., as the new head of its South K...
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. successfully went public on Sept. 17 by closing at almost double its IPO price. The stock price closed at 111,500 won (...
Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading arm of Samsung Group, has tentatively agreed with S-Oil Corp. to cooperate in securing overseas ...
South Korea's Firstface Co. has inched a step closer to winning its patent dispute against Apple Inc., after a US federal appeals court ruled in fav...
South Korea's two banking giants -- KB Financial Group and Shinhan Financial Group -- have invested a combined 80 billion won ($68 million) in a win...
South Korea’s auto parts supplier Halla Holdings Corp. is making inroads into the electric vehicle battery materials business.Halla said on Se...
South Korea's electric vehicle and battery startup EL B&T has offered the highest price of around 500 billion won ($430 million) for debt-laden ...
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is slated to raise $500 million in dollar corporate bond at a lower-than-planned cost on strong demand.IBK decided to...
There are about 2,000 satellites in space, orbiting the earth and generating countless images without being confined to geographical boundaries. And...
A number of new rare disease treatments, approved in South Korea over the past year, are still unaffordable for the public because of their price ta...
SEOUL—North Korea launched two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in Pyongyang&rs...
Earlier this month, Singapore reached a Covid-19 milestone: The fully vaccinated portion of the population crossed 80%. But instead of moving ahead wi...
The race to become the lead underwriter for the IPO of Shinsegae Group’s e-commerce brand SSG.COM is getting fierce. A total of nine instituti...
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday imposed a fine of 207.4 billion won ($180 million) on Google, alongside a correction order, aft...
Investors are selling technology stocks in a major Asian economy on regulatory worries just as one of the country’s biggest online payment com...
The millennials have become the largest spenders on luxury goods at department stores in South Korea. According to joint research by The Korea Econo...
The COVID-19 pandemic has dampened South Korea's growth potential between this year and the next by 0.2 percentage points to its historic low of 2.0...
South Korean refiners are gathering recovery momentum as refining margins hit a two-year high on falling petroleum product supply from China and r...
In 2009, battery makers were barely on the radar in South Korea when it comes to stock investment. Back then, the rechargeable battery industry was ...
A South Korean content platform startup OGQ Corp. is set to take over the world’s leading stock content company Getty Images Inc.’s unit...
South Korea’s government delayed a sale of foreign exchange stabilization fund bonds to next month, disrupting local companies’ plans to...
South Korea's ruling Democratic Party has called on the Bank of Korea (BOK) to take a more active role to aid pandemic-hit small business operators ...
The global silicon-based anode materials market is gathering momentum as demand is expected to outpace supply on increasing production of electric v...
UIWANG, Gyeonggi Province – Simone Acc. Collection Ltd., a South Korean luxury handbag maker, stresses one interesting number to its clients w...
South Korea’s microbiome medicine developer Genome & Company geared up for entering the U.S. market to boost profits and make inroads into...