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Bank of America Corp. has appointed Korean American Mike Joo as its new head of North America global corporate and investment banking (GCIB), accord...

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s announcement last week that it will build its first overseas EV plant in Thailand is setting off alarm be...

Hyundai Glovis announced on Wednesday that it received an order worth 2.2 trillion won ($1.6 billion) from a global carmaker, a record-high vehicle ...

South Korea's Lotte Card Co. has drawn preliminary bids from Hana Financial Group, a leading banking group in the country, and two to three unidenti...

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, on Wednesday opened the largest driving center in Asia to showcase the performance of its ve...

Michael ByungJu Kim, founder and chairman of MBK Partners, has pledged $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (the Met), the muse...

Ralph Lauren Corp., the world-renowned fashion firm that features timeless design and a classic sporty style with its trademark Polo brand, is seein...

MBK Partners’ talks to buy a controlling stake in South Korea’s MegaStudyEdu Co. have collapsed, the company said on Friday, a deal esti...

SEOUL—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created an opportunity for North Korea, which has strengthened its ties with Moscow and beco...

South Korean teens appear to prefer to do their social networking on TikTok over KakaoTalk, as short-form videos surge in popularity worldwide. ...

With just three days before the world-renowned Frieze Art Fair launches its inaugural event in Seoul, corporate sponsors are duking it out to outs...

Taizo Son, the youngest brother of SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son, is poised to buy the group's South Korean venture capital arm for around 200 bil...

South Korea’s homegrown coffee chain Ediya Coffee is ready for re-entry into the global café market after the failure of its Chinese bu...

Gourmet food delivery platform Kurly and Golfzon County have won preliminary approval for their initial public offerings set for this year.The Korea...

SEOUL—South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol sought to shake up frothy inter-Korean ties on Monday with what he called an “audacious plan....

The South Korean government is considering filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the US' new Inflation Reduction Act (IR...

South Korea’s major defense maker LIG Nex1 Co. plans to develop drone jammers that can force small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to go off c...

South Korea's Kakao Corp. has terminated talks with MBK Partners to sell a stake in Kakao Mobility Corp., the country’s No. 1 taxi-hailing app...

Align Partners Capital Management, a South Korean activist fund, has threatened legal action against entertainment behemoth SM Entertainment Co., re...

The Carlyle Group, a US private equity giant, has joined hands with South Korean energy-to-retail conglomerate GS Group to buy Medit Corp., the worl...

BC Card Co., a South Korean financial services provider, agreed to acquire an Indonesian IT company as it expands its businesses into overseas marke...

South Korea’s Kurly Inc., the operator of grocery delivery service Market Kurly, made inroads into Singapore with an aim to expand its busines...

Megazone Cloud Corp., South Korea’s largest managed cloud service provider (MSP), has completed its Series C funding round with a combined 450...

Travel startup Storicity Inc. tried for a year to find a developer in South Korea – to no avail.But when it expanded its search abroad through...

LX Pantos Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s LX Group, is looking to acquire a controlling stake in local budget carrier Air Premia Co.,...

South Korea’s top chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. has signed a long-term battery materials supply deal with General Motors Co. to support the U...

MBK Partners, one of Asia's largest private equity firms, is in exclusive talks to acquire Korea’s top online education company MegastudyEdu C...

South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and China’s mining company Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. have agreed to launch a ba...

SK Geo Centric, an SK Innovation Co. subsidiary focused on the eco-friendly chemical business, joined hands with Paris-based Veolia Environnement S....

South Korea’s leading cloud computing and software services providers are slated to join forces to launch a service for smart working in Korea...