Samil PwC expands global foothold with Carlyle's Japan KFC deal

Samil PwC expands global foothold with Carlyle's Japan KFC deal

Global accounting industry leader PricewaterhouseCoopers’ South Korean member firm is expanding its foothold with global mergers and acquisiti...

Yanolja gains momentum with cloud, overseas trip businesses

Yanolja gains momentum with cloud, overseas trip businesses

SoftBank-backed Yanolja Co. cheered stellar earnings in the first quarter after its new businesses – cloud and outbound trip services – ...

HD Hyundai, Shell to develop liquefied hydrogen carrier

HD Hyundai, Shell to develop liquefied hydrogen carrier

HD Hyundai Co., a South Korean shipbuilding and machinery conglomerate, announced on Friday that it will collaborate with global energy compa...

Niche real asset creates new opportunities, Korean investors say

Niche real asset creates new opportunities, Korean investors say

The scope of real assets is expanding with new businesses such as infrastructure operating services and supply chain management, creating niche oppo...

World’s No.1 magnet wire maker SPSX mulls Korean IPO

World’s No.1 magnet wire maker SPSX mulls Korean IPO

Superior Essex Inc. (SPSX), the world’s top magnet wire provider under South Korea’s LS Group, is mulling an initial public offering in ...

Korea Eximbank provides $1 bn in PF for Saudi Amiral project

Korea Eximbank provides $1 bn in PF for Saudi Amiral project

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Thursday that it will provide $1 billion in project financing for the Amiral petrochemical f...

Celltrion eyes M&A in Europe, $3.3 bn Zymfentra sales: chairman

Celltrion eyes M&A in Europe, $3.3 bn Zymfentra sales: chairman

WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Inc. is accelerating its push to transform into a novel drug developer, going after...

SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...

Korean investors turn to private credit, secondaries: CIOs

Korean investors turn to private credit, secondaries: CIOs

South Korean institutional investors favor private credit as interest rates are expected to remain higher for longer, said speakers at the chief inv...

Japan’s Toray to spend $366 mn on Korean capacity expansion

Japan’s Toray to spend $366 mn on Korean capacity expansion

Japan’s Toray Industries Inc., the leading global carbon textile manufacturer, plans to spend 500 billion won ($366.3 million) to expand eco-f...

Lunit buys breast cancer detection AI firm Volpara Health

Lunit buys breast cancer detection AI firm Volpara Health

Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, has completed the acquisition of Volpara Health Technologies Ltd., a New Zealand-based AI ...

Korea Investment to expand CLO portfolio with Anchorage Capital

Korea Investment to expand CLO portfolio with Anchorage Capital

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will scale up its collateralized loan obligation (CLO) business with New York-based investment firm Anchorage ...

HL Holdings wins exclusive AS parts deal from Stellantis

HL Holdings wins exclusive AS parts deal from Stellantis

HL Holdings Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s construction-to-auto parts conglomerate HL Group, will be the exclusive supplier of af...

Naver beleaguered by weak Korean businesses amid Line woes

Naver beleaguered by weak Korean businesses amid Line woes

South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. is struggling with sluggish core domestic businesses – commerce, search and sports – as Jap...

Korean construction machine makers set sights on India, Brazil, Mexico

Korean construction machine makers set sights on India, Brazil, Mexico

South Korea’s leading construction machine makers are actively advancing into emerging markets such as India, Brazil, Mexico and Saudi Arabia,...

Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade

Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade

Cash dividend payments by companies listed on the Korea Exchange, the country's main bourse, have nearly tripled in a decade. They have returned a l...

Amorepacific's Aestura to enter Thai market

Amorepacific's Aestura to enter Thai market

South Korean beauty and cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. announced on Monday that its derma cosmetic brand Aestura will enter Thailand.Aestura joi...

Korean Air, Amazon to build AI customer center

Korean Air, Amazon to build AI customer center

South Korea's Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Monday that it will build an artificial intelligence (AI) contact center (AICC) platform in collabor...

Korean banks broaden horizons to Mexico, Poland, Africa

Korean banks broaden horizons to Mexico, Poland, Africa

South Korean banks are broadening their horizons beyond Asia into Mexico, Poland and Africa in step with Korean manufacturing companies’ globa...

Block deals of Korean stocks surge ahead of tighter regulation

Block deals of Korean stocks surge ahead of tighter regulation

Block trades of South Korean listed shares have surged by six times so far this year from the same period in 2023, according to the Financial Superv...

SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio

SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio

SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s second-largest business group SK, is in talks with Joyvio Group to sell its entire 13.3% stake i...

Young rich Koreans set sights on M&As, commercial property deals

Young rich Koreans set sights on M&As, commercial property deals

Young rich Koreans have emerged as big players in South Korea’s asset management market, expanding into M&As and commercial real estate, a...

Investors dump Korean biotech HLB stocks on FDA rejection

Investors dump Korean biotech HLB stocks on FDA rejection

HLB Co. and its affiliate stocks tumbled on Friday on news that the South Korean biotech group’s highly anticipated new cancer treatment Rivoc...

Korean landfill companies put on market after Affirma deal

Korean landfill companies put on market after Affirma deal

South Korea’s landfill companies are increasingly being put up for sale, drawing interest from private equity firms and environmental companie...

Samyang tops Korean ramen makers by market cap, beating Nongshim

Samyang tops Korean ramen makers by market cap, beating Nongshim

South Korean food maker Samyang Foods Co., globally renowned for its Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, saw its stock hit a record high on Friday after it de...

South Korean startups' Tokyo fever sizzles

South Korean startups' Tokyo fever sizzles

Despite the recent Line-Yahoo cacophony, South Korean entrepreneurs are continuing their advance into Japan to find the next big market.On Thursday,...

Korean beauty brands show signs of turnaround in China

Korean beauty brands show signs of turnaround in China

South Korean cosmetics brands are showing signs of a turnaround in China, with their sales in the neighboring country recovering from the slump over...

SeAH to invest $155.3 mn to build special alloy plant in US

SeAH to invest $155.3 mn to build special alloy plant in US

SeAH Group, South Korea’s major steel group said to be a steel supplier to SpaceX, is set to foray deeper into the US, the world’s bigge...

Korean biotech Xcell Therapeutics eyes June IPO

Korean biotech Xcell Therapeutics eyes June IPO

South Korean biotech Xcell Therapeutics Inc., a developer of chemically defined media for in vitro cell culture, is aiming for a junior bourse Kosda...

KCCI to support Korean companies expanding into US

KCCI to support Korean companies expanding into US

The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) partnered with the Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles (KACCLA)  to address th...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal