NH gains most in Korea’s first-half IB league; Meritz emerges as fast-rising challenger

NH gains most in Korea’s first-half IB league; Meritz emerges as fast-rising challenger

South Korea’s investment banking hierarchy is in flux after the country’s leading brokerages reported sharply divergent earnings perform...

Seoul signals agricultural market access on tariff talks table amid intensifying US trade pressure

Seoul signals agricultural market access on tariff talks table amid intensifying US trade pressure

South Korea’s senior government officials said on Friday that agricultural products, including politically sensitive items such as rice and be...

NH, KB Securities, Kookmin Bank, Kim & Chang lead capital markets in H1

NH, KB Securities, Kookmin Bank, Kim & Chang lead capital markets in H1

NH Investment & Securities Co. retained its lead in South Korea’s equity capital market (ECM) in the first half, riding a surge in large-s...

Paris Baguette partners with Tottenham Hotspur

Paris Baguette partners with Tottenham Hotspur

South Korean bakery brand Paris Baguette, operated by SPC Group, said on Wednesday it partnered with Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspu...

TVing beefs up sports content, narrowing gap with Netflix

TVing beefs up sports content, narrowing gap with Netflix

TVing, a South Korean over-the-top (OTT) platform, is beefing up its live sports programming and TV series featuring baseball players to catch up to...

UBS retains top position on Korea’s M&A advisor list after Ecorbit deal

UBS retains top position on Korea’s M&A advisor list after Ecorbit deal

UBS Group AG remained on the top of the South Korean merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory market as of the end of the third quarter after addin...

HiteJinro invests in table order service startup

HiteJinro invests in table order service startup

HiteJinro Co., South Korea’s largest soju maker, announced on Monday that it invested in a stake in the table order service startup TMR Founde...

Hankook Tire extends sponsorship of Europa League for 3 years

Hankook Tire extends sponsorship of Europa League for 3 years

Hankook Tire & Technology announced on Tuesday that it extended its official sponsorship contracts with the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa C...

Korea’s Catchtable eyes offshore table reservation markets

Korea’s Catchtable eyes offshore table reservation markets

Wad Corp., the developer and operator of South Korea’s most popular restaurant reservation app Catchtable, is considering offering Catchtable ...

China to stop broadcast of S.Korean LoL league

China to stop broadcast of S.Korean LoL league

China will stop the official broadcast of League of Legends (LoL) Champions Korea (LCK), according to the South Korean game industry. “There w...

POSCO startup POSCORE wins grand prize at D.Camp All-Star League

POSCO startup POSCORE wins grand prize at D.Camp All-Star League

POSCORE, an in-house startup of South Korean steel giant POSCO Group, won the grand prize during an annual startup demo day hosted Wednesday by star...

Faker’s T1 wins League of Legends global championship

Faker’s T1 wins League of Legends global championship

South Korea’s video game team T1 led by local hero and professional player Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok won the 2023 League of Legends W...

Preppy style attracts Korea's Gen Z, Alpha seeking retro trends

Preppy style attracts Korea's Gen Z, Alpha seeking retro trends

A licensed fashion brand from the University of Cambridge has entered South Korea as more young consumers are enthusiastic about the so-called Ivy L...

Hopeful signs for full comeback of Korean resort operator Paradise

Hopeful signs for full comeback of Korean resort operator Paradise

Paradise Co., a major South Korean resort and casino operator, is taking big steps towards a full comeback this year from the pandemic shock, with a...

SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league

SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league

SentBe, a South Korean fintech startup operating a personal international remittance app of the same name, is readying to play in the bigger global ...

dConstruct Robotics becomes 2nd foreign startup to win at D.Day

dConstruct Robotics becomes 2nd foreign startup to win at D.Day

South Korea’s decade-old startup pitch competition D.Day has picked Singapore-based mobile robotics application developer dConstruct Robotics ...

LG UltraGear selected as official monitor for League of Legends

LG UltraGear selected as official monitor for League of Legends

LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday that its UltraGear gaming monitor, with enhanced gamer-specific features, has been selected as the official moni...

K League's campaign wins gold prize at International ad festival

K League's campaign wins gold prize at International ad festival

The promotional video for the "Dribble-made Route" campaign produced by the Korea Professional Football Association (K League) in partnership with H...

Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor releases new glass micro saw

Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor releases new glass micro saw

Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip equipment maker, has launched a ‘full automation glass micro saw' dubbed GL2101 and ...

NH, KB ranked top S.Korean equity, debt underwriters

NH, KB ranked top S.Korean equity, debt underwriters

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...

Kosdaq: Perennial bush league as blue chips favor Kospi

Kosdaq: Perennial bush league as blue chips favor Kospi

South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq market has been underperforming the main Kospi market for a couple of decades, raising concerns that the junio...

MBK in talks to buy S.Korea's top shoe fabric maker

MBK in talks to buy S.Korea's top shoe fabric maker

MBK Partners is in exclusive talks to buy Dongjin Textile Co., a South Korean family-owned business that supplies footwear textiles to companies inc...

POSCO’s 37-year gymnastics sponsorship proves fruitful in Tokyo

POSCO’s 37-year gymnastics sponsorship proves fruitful in Tokyo

South Korean steelmaker POSCO’s long-standing sponsorship of the country’s gymnasts again proved effective at the Tokyo Olympics. The So...

Morgan Stanley tops S.Korea's H1 M&A league table

Morgan Stanley tops S.Korea's H1 M&A league table

Morgan Stanley topped South Korea's M&A advisor league table in the first half of this year, working on six buyout deals worth a combined 9.75 t...

Morgan Stanley tops Korea's Q1 M&A league table

Morgan Stanley tops Korea's Q1 M&A league table

Morgan Stanley reclaimed its top position in South Korea's M&A advisor league table in the first quarter of this year for the first time in two ...

Credit Suisse retains top spot in Korea’s M&A advisory league

Credit Suisse retains top spot in Korea’s M&A advisory league

Credit Suisse has maintained its top position on South Korea’s M&A advisory league table in 2020, working on most of the high-profile deal...

Kosdaq at 20-yr high, eyes opportune moment to emerge from bush league

Kosdaq at 20-yr high, eyes opportune moment to emerge from bush league

Twenty years ago today, South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq was reeling from the bursting of the IT bubble, with the junior market’s benchma...

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