South Korea to boost fintech fund to 1 trillion won

South Korea's financial authorities have decided to increase the size of the Fintech Innovation Fund from 500 billion won($379 million) to 1 trillion ...

Kyobo Life seeks to transition into financial holding company 

South Korean life insurance behemoth Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is seeking to transition into a financial holding company to expand its business footh...

Dragonfly, CJ ENM sign MOU on content business

Dragonfly said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CJ ENM Co. to cooperate in moving into new content busines...

Private equity juggernauts bid for $758 million worth of KT Cloud shares

A number of private equity giants in South Korea and beyond are bidding for shares worth up to 1 trillion won ($758.2 million) in KT Cloud, a subsid...

Pan Ocean buys 5% of Hanjin KAL from Hoban Construction

Pan Ocean Co., the shipping affiliate of Harim Group, on Tuesday said it bought a 5% stake or 3.3 million shares in Hanjin KAL Corp. in a block deal...

Daol Financial Group to let go of VC affiliate, hit by liquidity crunch

The Daol Financial Group is widely expected to let go of its venture capital arm in the midst of a worsening liquidity crunch. The VC firm Daol...

Blackpink named Entertainer of the Year by Time Magazine

Group Blackpink was selected as "2022 Entertainer of the Year" by TIME, a US weekly magazine. The magazine released a list of the most influential p...

Samsung Heavy sells drillship to Italian offshore drilling company

Samsung Heavy Industries said on Tuesday in a regulatory filing that it has sold a drillship to Saipem, an Italian offshore drilling company, for 29...

LG Uplus poised to acquire homegrown OTT platform Watcha

South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. is slated to acquire homegrown over-the-top (OTT) platform Watcha Inc., investment b...

Hyundai's sales of E-GMP-based EVs exceed 100,000 units in Korea

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group sold more than 100,000 units of electric vehicles (EVs) that adopted Hyundai Motor’s E-GMP, or Electri...

KT&G completes elementary school in Laos with employee donations

KT&G, South Korea's dominant tobacco company,  announced on Monday that along with South Korea's non-profit organization Sharing Culture &a...

Hahn & Co. completes SKC's industrial film unit takeover for $1.2 bn

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. has completed a 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) deal to wholly acquire the industrial film business ...

Nearly half of Korean firms plan no domestic investment next year

Rising gloom over the business environment due to a financial market crunch and weak Korean won has led to nearly half of Korea's firms having no pl...

Hanwha Aerospace to launch 4 more Nuri rockets under $220 mn project

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is planning on four additional launches of the country’s first h...

Delay in Apple Pay approval for South Korea sends VAN co. shares tumbling

The news of US mobile device giant Apple launching its Apple Pay service in South Korea this month sent the share prices of companies that assist th...

VC firms rake in profit of up to 6 times principal from Raemongraein

Venture capital firms that invested in media production company Raemongraein Co. raked in significant profit from the surge in popularity of the TV ...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group proposes blueprint for sustainable marine utilization solution at 2023 CES

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group will participate in CES 2023, the world's largest information technology trade show, to showcase its maritime strateg...

POSCO’s Pohang workers to leave umbrella steel union group

One of two labor unions at Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO will leave its umbrella group, the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU), follo...

Daesang Welllife forms joint venture with Sinopharm Group

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

SK Inc. bulks up green investments to achieve net zero by 2035

SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, is taking preemptive steps to expand its eco-friendly busin...

SK On attracts $1 billion in investment

SK On, the electric battery affiliate of Korea's petroleum, alternative energy and oil exploration corporation SK Innovation, has secured 1.3 trilli...

HYBE and Kakao Games to be released from mandatory escrow this month

The Korea Securities Depository said on Wednesday that 225.5 million shares of a total of 58 listed stocks registered as mandatory escrow will be li...

Korea adopts USB-C as unified connector for phone charging cable

The Korean government has released guidelines on its designation of USB-C as the unified national standard for charging and data transfer connectors...

Blackpink's 'Ice Cream' music video surpasses 800 mn views

K-pop girl group Blackpink’s “Ice Cream” music video exceeded 800 million views on YouTube around 2 a.m. on Nov. 30 local time, it...

Celltrion to seek FDA approval for sale of Remsima SC by year-end

Celltrion Inc. said it has confirmed the effectiveness and safety of Remsima SC in its third-phase global clinical trials, conducted on 438 patients...

Young Poong Precision emerges as key to Korea Zinc control; shares surge

Shares of Young Poong Precision Corp. are flying high as the company is emerging as the key to the control of Korea Zinc Co., which in turn is the c...

Fintech co. Awake Corp. provides financial management tool to creators

South Korean fintech startup Awake Corporation won the hearts and wallets of judges at the D.Day X D.Camp event on Thursday, garnering 20 million wo...

SK expands sustainable food biz with $7.5 mn US investment

SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, has expanded its sustainable food business by investing in a US-bas...

S.Korea to cut coal's share of energy usage to under 20% by 2030

The draft of the Korean government's 10th Basic Plan for Electricity Supply and Demand contains a clause on reducing coal generation's share of nati...

Korea to revise dividend policy to ease ‘Korea discount’ concerns

South Korea plans to revise its stock dividend policy as part of a broader financial market reform to help attract foreign investors and obtain MSCI...