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Direct lending, which has topped South Korean institutional investors’ private debt strategies for years, has become even more popular amid risi...

Healthcare continued to be the preferred sector for South Korean institutional investors this year as it was last year, a survey found. Meanwhile, the...

South Korean institutional investors are eyeing private debt and infrastructure for stable income and to hedge against inflation, a survey by The Kore...

Private equity firm MBK Partners is set to acquire Pierre Marcolini, a Belgian chocolate brand called "Hermes of Chocolate."MBK bought the South Kor...

Shinhan Financial Group's Chairman Jin Ok-dong is set to embark on his first overseas business trip since taking office as chairman last month. From...

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), set up by South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group in 1986 as a research university in the...

South Korea's confectionary giant Orion Corp. has seen brisk sales growth this year, pushing out rival CJ CheilJedang Corp. to solidify its dominanc...

The Korean government has decided to develop electric vehicle batteries that can travel more than 600 km on a single charge and lunar landing vehicl...

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee has chosen Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.'s new multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) plant in Tianjin as ...

South Korean scientists have developed a chip that needs less electricity for advanced efficiency and data processing to help the country’s se...

ST Pharm Co., a South Korean pharmaceutical firm, announced on Thursday that it had entered into an agreement to supply oligonucleotides to an undis...

South Korea’s Ably Corp., operator of the fashion shopping app Ably, has attracted 50 billion won ($39 million) via venture debt amid the slow...

EcoPro Group, South Korea’s leading battery materials producer, is mulling investments in mines in the Americas to source cathode materials, a...

South Korea's Kolon Group announced on Wednesday that Kolon DACC Composite participated in the launch of the first private test launch vehicle in Ko...

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was ranked as South Korea’s highest-paid business owner in 2022 thanks to the group's record-high pr...

South Korean space startup Innospace said on Monday it has launched a suborbital test projectile, the country’s first private launch vehicle, ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is slated to undergo a management reshuffle for the first time since Chief Investment Officer Seo...

South Korea's hypermarket Lotte Mart on Wednesday announced the debut of its integrated private brand (PB) Good Today under its plan to conduct focu...

Tmap Mobility Co., the Korean navigation app company, announced on Tuesday its plan to sell its 30% stake in Grab Geo Holdings, a joint venture esta...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s summit meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden next month will celebrate 70 years of the Korea-US sec...

SK Incheon Petrochemical, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Innovation Co., on Sunday said it made an equity investment in the eco-friendly sta...

LG Electronics Inc. is seeking to make inroads into the private 5G network market, set to grow rapidly amid accelerated migration to automation in a...

ST Pharm Co., a South Korean drug raw material-producing subsidiary of Dong-A Socio Holdings, said on Friday that it has finished building an R&...

South Korea has started the process to privatize the country’s No. 1 container line HMM Co. by tapping advisors for the sale of the controllin...

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., has made an equity investment in ION Clean Energy Inc., ...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...

Samsung Group appears set to up its investment in solid-state batteries, a game changer in the electric vehicle sector, as South Korea’s top c...

Affinity Equity Partners has refinanced 170 billion won ($130 million) in debt borrowed to acquire Burger King’s operations in South Korea and...

Many investors are questioning whether private markets will stay bullish amid uncertainty in 2023. The markets will continue to generate interesting...

KT Corp. has joined hands with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) to export its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, as wel...