Koreans' fractional investing craze spreads to cows

Koreans' fractional investing craze spreads to cows

Investment rights for dozens of Korean calves, worth a combined 10 million won ($7,900), sold out within one minute after each of the three investme...

Korean firewater lures more young Japanese

Korean firewater lures more young Japanese

South Korea’s distilled spirit soju is alluring more young drinkers in Japan, the home of its rival liquor shochu, as K-content such as drama ...

Korea names IMF official as new central bank head

Korea names IMF official as new central bank head

South Korea on Wednesday nominated veteran International Monetary Fund official Rhee Chang-yong as the country’s new central bank chief, who i...

South Korea's working young teeter on brink of debt disaster

South Korea's working young teeter on brink of debt disaster

As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...

Daewoo consortium to develop building complex in Hanoi new town

Daewoo consortium to develop building complex in Hanoi new town

Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has said it signed a contract on Jan. 26. to develop the H1HH1 block in Starlake, a new urban town in no...

Koh Young’s medical robot conducts 100 brain surgeries a year

Koh Young’s medical robot conducts 100 brain surgeries a year

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean 3D imagery tech company listed on the Kosdaq, announced on Tuesday that its medical robot Kymero has condu...

STIC injects $168 mn in pre-unicorn Musicow

STIC injects $168 mn in pre-unicorn Musicow

Music copyright trading platform Musicow Inc. has attracted a 200 billion won ($167.9 million) investment from Korea’s private equity firm STI...

Baillie Gifford, Allianz increase holdings in 3D tech firm Koh Young

Baillie Gifford, Allianz increase holdings in 3D tech firm Koh Young

Global asset managers are increasing shareholdings in Koh Young Technology Inc., Korea’s leading 3D image measurement tech firm listed ...

Squid Game Player 001 wins as best TV supporting actor at Golden Globes

Squid Game Player 001 wins as best TV supporting actor at Golden Globes

Netflix mega-hit Squid Game’s actor Oh Young-soo, Player 001, has won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role on TV at the 79th Gold...

Retirement packages unexpectedly benefit young talent

Retirement packages unexpectedly benefit young talent

Voluntary retirement packages, often coming with generous compensation, have been adopted by companies as a way to let go of older or redundant empl...

Kosdaq Listed Companies Association announces top Kosdaq blue chips

Kosdaq Listed Companies Association announces top Kosdaq blue chips

The Kosdaq Listed Companies Association of South Korea announced its top Kosdaq blue chips during its 13th annual award conference held on Dec. 16...

3D tech firm Koh Young wins highest ESG rating two years running

3D tech firm Koh Young wins highest ESG rating two years running

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean 3D image measurement tech company listed on the Kosdaq, has earned the highest AA rating from Sustinvest, ...

Hyundai to replace design, R&D presidents for future mobility

Hyundai to replace design, R&D presidents for future mobility

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, may replace its presidents of design as well as research and development in a bold leadershi...

Samsung’s mid-tier executive reshuffle: More female and foreign faces

Samsung’s mid-tier executive reshuffle: More female and foreign faces

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday carried out its year-end reshuffle of mid-tier executives, marked by the highest number of promotions for female...

Samsung to adopt flatter hierarchy to lure young talent

Samsung to adopt flatter hierarchy to lure young talent

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday announced a set of drastic steps to reduce bureaucracy and hierarchical management at the world's top memory chip ...

Global cities with young elites will survive in long term, RXR chairman says

Global cities with young elites will survive in long term, RXR chairman says

Now it is time to invest in e-commerce, healthcare and multifamily housing, or the so-called three megatrends, which have increased in demand during...

SEMA sees growth in young members

SEMA sees growth in young members

Backed by the growth of the information technology and bio-related industries in South Korea, Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-Aid Associatio...

Race for CJ Olive Young IPO underwriting deal heats up

Race for CJ Olive Young IPO underwriting deal heats up

The competition to underwrite a listing of CJ Olive Young, South Korea’s top beauty store chain, is intensifying with some brokerage houses va...

Beauty chain CJ Olive Young to embark on 2022 IPO process

Beauty chain CJ Olive Young to embark on 2022 IPO process

CJ Olive Young, South Korea's largest beauty store chain, is moving ahead with its plan to go public next year, which will likely raise new capital ...

S.Korean millennials rush on Nasdaq and NYSE amid sluggish Kospi

S.Korean millennials rush on Nasdaq and NYSE amid sluggish Kospi

South Korean millennials in their 20s and 30s are rushing to Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) amid skyrocketing real estate prices in t...

Koh Young’s medical robot KYMERO expands foothold in Korean hospitals

Koh Young’s medical robot KYMERO expands foothold in Korean hospitals

Koh Young Technology Inc., Korea’s leading maker of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, has further strengthened ...

A generation indebted: Young Koreans struggle under record loans in Q1

A generation indebted: Young Koreans struggle under record loans in Q1

Young South Koreans are drowning in debt.Korean youths in their 20s and 30s are reeling under growing personal debt as they aggressively take out pe...

Paint makers lure MZers with YouTube stars, fashion brand

Paint makers lure MZers with YouTube stars, fashion brand

A car pulls in front of an old warehouse. In funky and vivid outfits and holding various tools in their hands, five boys and girls from the Ambiguou...

LG undergoes restructuring under young Chairman Koo's bold leadership

LG undergoes restructuring under young Chairman Koo's bold leadership

On June 29, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo will reach a three-year mark of serving as the head of South Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate. This ye...

Letters to a Young Chef

Letters to a Young Chef

My first paid job as a cook was when I was hired as a line cook at Daniel, a New York Times' four-star restaurant located in New York City’s U...

NPS aims to lure young talent with enticing package, programs

NPS aims to lure young talent with enticing package, programs

The National Pension Service has offered an attractive on-the-job training package, including education programs to aid new hires in getting an MBA ...

Young, female, foreign: Hyundai Motor Group’s new BOD

Young, female, foreign: Hyundai Motor Group’s new BOD

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, under its new leader Chung Euisun, is seeking changes on its board of directors, the group's top business d...

Samsung promotes young executives to lead memory, foundry businesses

Samsung promotes young executives to lead memory, foundry businesses

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced a leadership shuffle in its two key businesses – memory chips and foundry – as the South ...

Goldman Sachs joins race for Korea’s beauty store chain

Goldman Sachs joins race for Korea’s beauty store chain

Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) has entered the race for a stake in South Korea’s health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young, beco...

IMM, four other local PEFs shortlisted for CJ Olive Young pre-IPO

IMM, four other local PEFs shortlisted for CJ Olive Young pre-IPO

IMM Private Equity and four other South Korean private equity firms have been shortlisted for health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young’s pre-i...

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