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Foreign investors ramped up their holdings of South Korean stocks 180 times in 30 years, increasing influence in the local financial markets and dom...

South Korea's Samsung Group is in negotiations to buy Biogen Inc., a leading US-based drugmaker for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's and ...

South Korea’s antitrust regulator the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has decided on conditional approval for Korean Air Lines Co.‘s 1.8 tri...

Fundraising via initial public offerings and rights issues in South Korea more than doubled to 27.2 trillion won ($23 billion) in 2021 from a year a...

Germany's car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen is in the final stages of negotiations to invest around 20 billion won ($17 million) in StradVision, a ...

Korean investment firm SK Square Co. Ltd. has invested approximately 35 billion won ($29.5 million) into homegrown agriculture tech startup Greeln...

Voluntary retirement packages, often coming with generous compensation, have been adopted by companies as a way to let go of older or redundant empl...

While the recent urea crisis laid bare South Korea’s heavy dependence on China for the basic raw material, concerns are growing that the count...

Diageo Korea Co., London-headquartered multinational beverage alcohol company Diageo plc’s Korean affiliate and the biggest whisky importer in...

South Korea's electric vehicle components market is heating up as top automaker Hyundai Motor Group accelerates its transformation into an EV manu...

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, will stop developing new internal combustion engines in order to accelerate its transformati...

South Korean venture capital firms and online giants are flocking to startups in India, a country with the world's second-largest population and low...

IGIS Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest real estate asset manager, has made a forward funding deal of three logistics centers under...

South Korea’s Tiger Alternative Investors Co. has liquidated its structured fund backed by shares of US-based business development companies...

South Korean steelmakers, led by POSCO Co., are rolling up their sleeves to secure metal scrap as they are shifting into less carbon-intensive steel...

Nexen Tire Corp., Korea’s third-largest tire maker, has made an undisclosed amount of equity investment in ANRA Technologies, a US urban air m...

Investment in South Korean startups hit an all-time high in 2021 as the number of new unicorns, unlisted companies with a valuation topping $1 billi...

The world sought new opportunities in 2021, recovering from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global major companies have been in cutthroat compet...

South Korea’s construction conglomerate GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) said on Dec. 16 it has become the first Korean constr...

South Korea's SK Inc. on Thursday said it would co-invest $50 million in the US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy with a domestic private equity fund, in a bi...

Korean Air Lines Co. is expected to benefit from China’s ban on conversion of airliners into freighters since the measure is likely to further...

South Korea’s top chemical manufacturer LG Chem Ltd. and its battery affiliate LG Energy Solution Ltd. have acquired a combined 2.6% stake in ...

MedPacto Inc., a South Korean biotechnology company that develops therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases, has agreed with global drugmaker ...

South Korea’s exports have reached an all-time high thanks to strong overseas demand for key products such as semiconductors amid the global e...

Patrizia AG, a Germany-based global leading real estate investment firm, said on Dec. 13 it has sold the shares of the company owning Brussels&rsq...

Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), a prestigious national research university in South Korea, is slated to establish a ...

There appear to be two diverging roads for South Korea's top duty free operators Lotte and Shilla: expanding outside China, or going deeper inside t...

Seven South Korean limited partners have committed $730 million to Paris-headquartered alternative asset manager Ardian SA’s secondaries fund ...

South Korea’s three major shipbuilders have swept global orders for LNG carriers, more profitable than oil tankers and container ships, amid s...

Foreign investors are poised to extend their buying spree in South Korea’s main stock market to a sixth straight session, spurring hopes for t...