CLO Virtual Fashion raises $35 mn

CLO Virtual Fashion raises $35 mn

South Korea's 3D digital fashion solution startup CLO Virtual Fashion said on Monday it raised 50 billion won ($35 million).Atinum Investment Co. an...

Celltrion to allot cash, stock dividend at once

Celltrion to allot cash, stock dividend at once

South Korea’s biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. on Friday announced a plan to allot cash and stock dividends simultaneously. The company wi...

SK Telecom invests $3 mn in AI-powered video analysis startup Twelve Labs

SK Telecom invests $3 mn in AI-powered video analysis startup Twelve Labs

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said on Friday it will invest $3 million in Twelve Labs Inc., a Korean AI-powered video analys...

POSCO Future M develops technology to make electrode rods

POSCO Future M develops technology to make electrode rods

POSCO Future M Co., a battery material and steel manufacturing equipment supplier, said on Thursday it has developed electrode rod manufacturing tec...

S.Korean game firms invest in Poland

S.Korean game firms invest in Poland

South Korean game developers and publishers focus on investment in Poland. NCSoft Corp. said on Wednesday it signed a new intellectual property...

Korea’s OCI, US partner CPS Energy sign 20-year energy storage deal

Korea’s OCI, US partner CPS Energy sign 20-year energy storage deal

South Korean solar cell company OCI Holdings Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a deal with US power supplier CPS Energy to jointly build a 120-megaw...

POSCO, Hancock seek to jointly build lithium plant

POSCO, Hancock seek to jointly build lithium plant

POSCO Holdings Inc. on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Hancock Prospecting, an Australian mining company, to build a plant to annu...

Boryung invests $10 million in Intuitive Machines

Boryung invests $10 million in Intuitive Machines

South Korea's Boryung Corp. said on Friday it bought $10.0 million in shares of US-based lunar lander company Intuitive Machines to expand its space...

IFM Investors bets big on infrastructure investing: Gee-Grant

IFM Investors bets big on infrastructure investing: Gee-Grant

IFM Investors, a global investment manager owned by Australian pension funds, is looking to infrastructure as the fastest-growing asset segment for ...

Samsung invests in AI security platform Axiado

Samsung invests in AI security platform Axiado

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it invested in the Series C funding round of Axiado, a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) security platf...

S.Korea's Smilegate invests in GTA producer's studio

S.Korea's Smilegate invests in GTA producer's studio

Smilegate, the South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, said on Tuesday it invested in the US-based medi...

LG CNS to enter US smart building biz

LG CNS to enter US smart building biz

South Korea's LG CNS said on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the US-based real estate management SomeraRoad and Mastern A...

Naver recruits 500 creators for Clip

Naver recruits 500 creators for Clip

South Korea's Naver Corp. said on Monday it will recruit 500 creators for Clip in the first half of 2025, the company's short-form platform from Dec...

POSCO Pilbara completes Gwangyang lithium hydroxide plant

POSCO Pilbara completes Gwangyang lithium hydroxide plant

South Korea's POSCO Pilbara Lithium Solution Co., a subsidiary of POSCO Group, said on Friday the completion of its second rock-based lithium hydrox...

China’s Alibaba acquires 5% of Ably in 1st equity investment in Korean firm

China’s Alibaba acquires 5% of Ably in 1st equity investment in Korean firm

Chinese online shopping giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has invested 100 billion won ($71.4 million) in South Korea’s top women’s cloth...

POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business

POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group will invest in the leading domestic robotics company to boost its ailing ste...

Controversy brews over HYBE Chair Bang’s investment deal with PEFs

Controversy brews over HYBE Chair Bang’s investment deal with PEFs

Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of HYBE Co., the South Korean entertainment giant behind K-pop global sensations BTS and NewJeans, is embroiled i...

CJ ENM, SK Square invest $179 mn in Wavve ahead of merger with TVing

CJ ENM, SK Square invest $179 mn in Wavve ahead of merger with TVing

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. and SK Group’s investment arm SK Square Co. have invested a combined 250 billion won ($179 mi...

BlackRock names Lee Yoon Pyo as head of S.Korea business

BlackRock names Lee Yoon Pyo as head of S.Korea business

BlackRock, the world's best-known asset manager, has appointed Lee Yoon Pyo as managing director and head of its South Korea operations, effective f...

Samsung C&T-Sumitomo consortium wins $3.7 billion Qatar project

Samsung C&T-Sumitomo consortium wins $3.7 billion Qatar project

An international consortium involving South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. and financial firms has won a $3.7 billion project to build a desali...

Hyundai Motor to invest $479 million in Malaysia

Hyundai Motor to invest $479 million in Malaysia

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $479 million in Malaysia over five years, starting in 2025.The South Korean automaker stat...

S.Korean gov't eases restrictions on Korean investment in overseas startups

S.Korean gov't eases restrictions on Korean investment in overseas startups

The companies founded by South Korean nationals abroad will be recognized as domestic companies if they contribute to the Korean economy, making it ...

POSCO Int'l starts commissioning of Senex Energy gas facility

POSCO Int'l starts commissioning of Senex Energy gas facility

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. said on Monday it has begun commissioning its first gas processing facility at Senex Energy’s Atlas ...

NPS expects Korea’s WGBI inclusion to attract $56 billion in foreign funds

NPS expects Korea’s WGBI inclusion to attract $56 billion in foreign funds

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund and the country’s largest institutional investor, expects some ...

Apple supplier LG Innotek to invest $268.4 mn in Vietnam in 2025

Apple supplier LG Innotek to invest $268.4 mn in Vietnam in 2025

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co., a major contractor for Apple Inc., said on Thursday it plans to spend 375.9 billion won ($268.4 million) next ye...

SK Square to buy back $72 mn shares amid Palliser's value-up push

SK Square to buy back $72 mn shares amid Palliser's value-up push

SK Square Co., the investment arm of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, announced shareholder-friendly measures on Thursday, in respon...

CJ CheilJedang to invest $584 mn to build food factories in Europe, US

CJ CheilJedang to invest $584 mn to build food factories in Europe, US

CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea’s largest food company, will spend a total of $584 million to build new food-manufacturing factories in Euro...

Korean funds offer rescue financing for global offices

Korean funds offer rescue financing for global offices

South Korean institutional investors are offering rescue financing for overseas office buildings, which their local peers have yet to exit, as they ...

S.Korean firms bet big on US LNG market under new Trump gov't

S.Korean firms bet big on US LNG market under new Trump gov't

South Korean energy and shipbuilding companies are gearing up for a swift advance into the US liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, which is expected ...

Korea mulls raising US oil imports to cope with Trump trade policies

Korea mulls raising US oil imports to cope with Trump trade policies

South Korea, the world’s fourth-largest oil importer, is considering increasing US oil imports to ease potential pressure from President-elect...

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