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A South Korean co-CEO of a blockchain investment firm with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets moved to Singapore last year to avoid the North...

South Korean generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scatter Lab said on Monday its interactive AI content platform Zeta has surpassed 1 mil...

South Korea’s leading brokerage houses are flocking to the debt market as bonds issued by securities companies are in growing demand, industry...

Bain Capital has embarked on the process to sell a majority stake in Classys Inc., a South Korean medical aesthetic device maker. The deal is estima...

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is considering ac...

A consortium of Samsung C&T Corp., South Korean state-run firms and a Turkish builder won a $1.6 billion project to build and run a highway in t...

South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank opens branches in Chennai and Pune, major economic hubs in India on October 21. The bank, which established its Gurug...

South Korean pension funds and insurance companies are raising their bets on real estate as they diversify their US and Europe-focused portfolios in...

Align Partners Capital Management Inc., a South Korean activist fund, has called on Doosan Bobcat Inc., a global construction machinery maker owned ...

K Bank, a South Korean online bank, has postponed its initial public offering (IPO) plan to list on the main bourse Kospi later this month.The digit...

South Korea’s professional baseball league games enjoyed record-high attendance of more than 10 million this year thanks to the growing number...

South Korea’s major telecom company KT Corp. and the country’s leading financial newspaper The Korea Economic Daily have teamed up to sc...

LG Chem Ltd., the world’s fourth-largest chemicals manufacturer, is targeting the functional cosmetics market with bio-materials derived from ...

Private debt remains attractive for South Korean pension and big asset owners, although they may offer lower yields than before given recent interes...

South Korea's major pension and savings funds see no drastic reshuffle to their portfolios tilted to private debts next year. But they are looking t...

An increasing number of South Korean companies are on the radar of private equity investors as the firms undergo digital transformation and generati...

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday that it launched the startup support program Shift, which aims to discover and nurture startups, incl...

UK-based activist fund Palliser Capital Ltd. is calling on SK Square Co., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK G...

Activist investor Palliser Capital has built a stake in the holding company of highflying artificial-intelligence chip maker SK Hynix Inc. and is pu...

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will aggressively explore early investment opportunities in sectors undergoing AI-driven in...

Rebellions, South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) chip design startup, said on Tuesday that it partnered with the UK-based semiconductor design...

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. said on Wednesday that it signed a master franchise agreement with Laos-based ...

AfreecaTV, South Korea’s first-generation interactive livestreaming service with a nearly two-decade history, has started a new chapter under ...

South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. said on Tuesday it participates in Breakbulk Americas 2024, a four-day event in Houston starting on October 15.&n...

South Korea’s air carriers are fiercely vying for lucrative or untapped routes in a game of chicken to shore up their falling profit, raising ...

South Koreans are flocking to bookstores to snap up 2024 Nobel laureate Hang Kang’s novels, making her books — and even those of her nov...

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Monday that it won the international personal information standard ISO 27701 certification after un...

An unprecedentedly high number of South Korean corporations have become targets of unwanted hostile takeover attempts or have been embroiled in mana...

South Korea's POSCO Future M Co. has started production of nickel, cobalt, aluminum (NCA) cathode materials at its Pohang factory, three months ea...

South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s No. 6 auto parts supplier, has teamed up with German optics giant Zeiss to mass-produce nex...