Valuation gains

Hyosung Group, founded in 1966, is a textile and chemicals conglomerate that currently stands as the 26th-largest business group in South Korea. Unt...

FiscalNote, a Washington D.C.-based tech firm that uses artificial intelligence and big data to track, predict and analyze regulations and legislati...

Fashion e-commerce platforms that have become mainstream shopping venues for millennials and Generation Z, or MZers, are seeing their valuations sur...

Chinese investors trading in digital assets such as bitcoin are reaping decent arbitrage gains in South Korea as the so-called Kimchi Premium has re...

South Korea’s Hankook Tire & Technology Co. plans to divest of its 19.5% stake in Hanon Systems Corp., an auto parts maker, in a move that...

South Korea’s top online fashion retailer Musinsa has raised another 130 billion won ($115 million) from Sequoia Capital and IMM Investment, g...

The Bank of Korea paid the second-highest amount of tax revenue in the country last year, trailing only Samsung Electronics Co., after the South Kor...

South Korean startups' combined valuation has topped 170 trillion won ($150 billion), accounting for nearly half of the country's junior bourse Kosd...

For retail investors of Samsung Electronics Co., the stock’s recent drop is reminiscent of the 2018 crash, when individuals who snapped up the...

SK Bioscience Co., a spin-off of SK Chemicals Co.'s vaccine division, is set to list on the South Korean stock exchange on March 18 to raise up to $...

South Korea’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has set up an exclusive team to oversee the initial public offering process for its affili...

South Korean entertainment companies are expanding their scope beyond the music scene and shifting to platform services, ushering in new valuations ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) earned a combined $42 million in gains between 2019 and 2020, representing 60% of its cumulative earnings since i...

South Korea-based Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. is planning a trading debut this year, with the proceeds marked for future growth engines to power th...

South Korea’s leading rental car company Lotte Rental Co. has resumed its initial public offering process, despite having earlier postponed ...

Financial investors in South Korea's No. 1 food delivery app Baedal Minjok (Baemin) are set to exit in the first quarter of this year, closing t...

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has flagged that its fourth-quarter operating profit likely rose by nearly a third from a yea...

South Korea’s three major electric vehicle battery makers have grown significantly over the past year, securing spots on the world’s top...

South Korean bourses on Wednesday wrapped up this year's trade at their highest levels of the year, rising the most among major equity markets and b...

Private equity firms have been leading South Korea’s mergers and acquisitions markets in a broader range of sectors in recent years, represent...

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. said Thursday its operating profit and sales jumped to their all-time highs in the third quarter...

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO) in terms of capacity, posted an operating profit of 200.2 b...

Alternative asset values have risen to burdensome levels due to strong demand, but the Teachers’ Pension in South Korea will continue to increas...

SK Group and the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) may walk away with handsome gains from their joint investment of 360 billion won ($314 mil...

Hyundai Motor Co. is taking the lead in the South Korean government drive to push the hydrogen economy as one of the country’s new growth engine...

Big Hit Entertainment Co., the label behind K-pop boyband sensation BTS, nearly halved its initial gains by the close of its first day of trading Oct....

The South Korean won leapt to its highest close in eight months against the dollar on Sept. 18, powered by foreign investors’ week-long stock bu...

South Korea’s leading last-mile delivery startups have put their shares or management rights up for sale, riding on the surging demand for deliv...

Kookmin Bank has increased its stake in Bank Bukopin to become the largest shareholder in the medium-sized Indonesian lender, as it works to boost its...

Hanwha Group may exercise its rights to operate more than 700 hydrogen fueling stations to be built across the US and Canada by US hydr...