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
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 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 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 & Securities Co. will scale up its collateralized loan obligation (CLO) business with New York-based investment firm Anchorage ...
POBA favors data centers, senior housing in Europe: CIO
South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a retirement fund with assets under management (AUM) of 26 trillion won ($19.1 bill...
HD Hyundai Marine Solution builds ship smartcare center in Busan
South Korea's HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. established an HD SmartCare Busan Center for ship lifecycle management services and begun full-scale op...
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
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
South Korea’s leading construction machine makers are actively advancing into emerging markets such as India, Brazil, Mexico and Saudi Arabia,...
SM Bexel supplies $14.7 mn lithium ampoule batteries to KDI
SM Bexel Co., the battery manufacturing arm of South Korea's SM Group, announced on Tuesday that it signed a supply contract worth 20 billion won ($...
KIC eyes direct lending with high return potential: CEO
Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) seeks opportunities in direct lending for companies that are not cyclically sensitive and g...
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
South Korean beauty and cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. announced on Monday that its derma cosmetic brand Aestura will enter Thailand.Aestura joi...
NPS to spur buyout, VC in US tech sector: chairman
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, will speed up its private equity (PE) investments ...
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
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 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...
Samsung SDS taps generative AI to counter logistics risks
Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit under Samsung Group, actively incorporates generative artificial intelligence and machine...
Conversational AI startup Rapeech attracts $4.4 mn investment
South Korean conversational artificial intelligence (AI) startup Rapeech announced on Sunday that it attracted an investment of 6 billion won ($4....
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) partnered with the Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles (KACCLA) to address th...
