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Mobile point-of-sale (POS) system maker Payhere Inc. announced Tuesday it received 10 billion won ($8.4 million) in Series A funding from Softbank V...

South Korean asset manager Hyundai Investments Co., fully owned by Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co., has said it acquired a Brussels-based ...

South Korean venture capital firms and online giants are flocking to startups in India, a country with the world's second-largest population and low...

Hyundai Engineering Co., a construction unit of South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group, is spending 400 billion won ($336 million) to build a plant to pr...

South Korea’s KB Investment Co. and US venture capitalist Strong Ventures LLC have invested in Stan World, a K-pop metaverse platform operator...

South Korea’s Tiger Alternative Investors Co. has liquidated its structured fund backed by shares of US-based business development companies...

With stock and cryptocurrency fevers subsiding amid a monetary tightening bias, South Koreans are moving their money back to safe assets, as banks s...

South Korea’s construction conglomerate GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) said on Dec. 16 it has become the first Korean constr...

An activist fund has again urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell part of its stake in SK Bioscience or buy back treasury shares and cancel ...

South Korea's current account surplus in October narrowed by 40% from a year earlier, with the rapid rise in crude oil and raw material prices offse...

South Korea's brokerage companies are jumping into the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) market, outmaneuvering asset management firms, as ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) and global real estate investment firm LaSalle Investment Management Inc. have agreed to acquir...

Some major South Korean institutional investors have committed to Switzerland-headquartered global asset manager Partners Group's Secondary 2020 Fun...

Virtual realms known as the metaverse that have become the hot topic for tech companies also are winning a new fan base among investors.SoftBank Gro...

Mirae Asset Global Investment Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, has participated in a $260 million Series B funding for Jokr, a New ...

Korea’s government-backed fund of funds (FOF) management institution announced its latest selection of funds late last month, which would bene...

Korea Venture Investment Corp. plans to invest $58.2 million or about 69 billion won in 10 funds around the globe. The government-backed fund o...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea selected Toronto-based Polar Asset Management Partners Inc. as a new mandate of hedge fund managers in t...

South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments Inc. said on Nov. 30 it will invest 1.1 trillion won ($843.1 million) to expand Korean elecfoil ...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) Investment Management said on Nov. 29 it earned 67.4 trillion won ($56.5 billion) return for the first ...

Korea Post, South Korea's state-run postal service agency, said its savings arm will select two asset managers of an open-end commingled blind poo...

South Korea’s builder Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C). is set to join the small modular reactor (SMR) business in...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw as many as 10 professionals of its alternative investment division resign from the South Korean sovereign wea...

SK On Co., one of South Korea's top three rechargeable battery makers, plans to raise around 3 trillion won ($2.5 billion) in a pre-IPO share sale n...

Teton Capital Partners, a US-based activist fund, has taken legal action to block IMM Private Equity from exercising its management rights over Hans...

South Korea's largest insurance company Samsung Life Insurance Co. and state-run postal savings and insurance agency Korea Post’s insurance ...

South Korea's leading resale platform Bungaejangter Inc., also known as Bunjang, will raise 83 billion won ($70 million) in fresh funding at a valua...

Netflix's original South Korean drama series Hellbound topped the platform’s global chart within a day of its Nov. 19 release, much faster tha...

South Korea's Doosan Group on Friday inked an agreement to sell a majority stake in Doosan Engineering & Construction Co. (Doosan E&C) to a ...

South Korea’s construction conglomerate GS Engineering & Construction Co. said on November 17 that it has selected Korean private equity...