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South Korea's biotech company Bioneer Corp. on Monday said it concluded a deal to form a joint venture with PT Indika Energy of Indonesia for busine...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. have launched their first US joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio, LG said o...

Naver Corp. has made a massive additional investment in Wallapop, Spain's online market for used items and Europe's equivalent to Korea's Danggeun M...

POSCO Group said on Wednesday that it has opened the first overseas office of ChangeUp Ground in Silicon Valley in the US.ChangeUp Ground is a start...

Smart Study Ventures, a corporate venture capital (CVC) affiliated with The Pinkfong Company, said on Thursday that it has created a "Baby Shark Nex...

Naver Corp.’s business-to-business (B2B) services provider Works Mobile Co. posted its first-ever profit in 2022, driven by a surge in Japanes...

LAS VEGAS – South Korean startups have won four out of the 23 Best of Innovation awards from Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which host...

Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp., South Korea’s two leading online platforms, will put on hold acquisition-oriented growth strategies and instead p...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said on Monday that an amendment to the Venture Capital Investment Promotion Act, which will strengthen the disclo...

Naver D2SF, Naver Corp.'s startup investment arm, made a follow-up investment in fashion content startup Onthelook.The company said on Wednesday tha...

Kream, a customer-to-customer (C2C) platform for buying and selling limited-edition sneakers, is slated to close the Series C round with a 200 bil...

South Korea’s four leading biotech firms plan to launch an investment fund of up to 50 billion won ($39 million) to support smaller domestic b...

SK Energy and Naver Corp. are joining hands to transform gas stations into urban logistics hubs where advanced technologies will be employed.SK Ener...

South Korea’s OTT platform Wavve has acquired Los Angeles-based content platform KOCOWA, short for Korean Content Wave. KOCOWA is a US online ...

Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF has newly invested in PranaQ, a US sleep tech startup. This is the 100th investment since the comp...

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. is accelerating its entry into the North American battery recycling market by joining forces with JaeYoung Tech, a Korean...

South Korea's Plugo, a comprehensive e-commerce platform based in Singapore, has attracted $9 million in Series A investment, the Silicon Valley, Ca...

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. is forming a joint venture with SungEel HiTech Co., a company that recycles discarded batteries, to extract metals f...

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, is set to be a textbook case study for global students as a prominent business sc...

South Korea's heavy industry company Doosan Enerbility Co. on Monday said it is Korea's first to receive international certification for an eight-me...

South Korea's Jobis & Villains Corp., which operates the tax return service "3o3," announced on Thursday that it has been officially registered ...

Line Games Corp., an affiliate of South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., plans to list its shares on the Korean stock market via an initial...

NEW YORK – SK On Co., a leading South Korean battery maker, and Ford Motor Co. have begun building their multi-billion-dollar joint venture in...

South Korea’s chemical firm Lotte Chemical Corp. and Air Liquide Korea, the Korean unit of the French company Air Liquide SA, announced on Tue...

Samsung Electronics Co. and Naver Corp. have agreed to cooperate in developing next-generation AI semiconductor solutions optimized for artificial i...

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Dec. 5 that it has signed a $688.6 million deal to provide a key...

South Korean lifestyle hospitality startup Good Food For Good (GFFG) announced Monday that it raised 30 billion won ($23.2 million) in Series A roun...

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) on Friday launched the IBK Venture Loan, which provides bridge loans to promising startups struggling to borrow funds...

Daesang Welllife on Thursday said it has concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China Sinopharm International, an affiliate of China's l...

When it comes to the global startup ecosystem, South Korean cities, including the capital Seoul, often do not come to investors’ minds before ...