Wanted Japan

South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co. has tapped two Japanese auto experts to accelerate its business in Japan, the company announced on April 27. T...

South Korea’s distilled spirit soju is alluring more young drinkers in Japan, the home of its rival liquor shochu, as K-content such as drama ...

South Korea's top online fashion platform Musinsa is in the last stages of talks to acquire a domestic rival that caters primarily to Japanese shopp...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has acquired a controlling stake in Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese c...

The wider adoption of artificial intelligence around the globe calls for more data in the form of high quality photos, videos, and text. With t...

SEOUL—South Korea’s political division runs so deep now that the country can’t agree where the next president should liv...

South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO and Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd, a leading Australian mining firm, have agreed to restart a long-dormant ir...

Valuence Merger Corp. 1, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), led by South Korean fund managers, has debuted on the Nasdaq, targeting Asian...

Kakao Corp., the No. 1 digital comics platform in Japan, will expand deeper into the neighboring country's comics market by launching a platform whe...

US semiconductor manufacturer Western Digital Corp. announced Tuesday it will raise the price of its NAND flash memory chips by 10%. Earlier ...

Asset managers' track record and risk management are the most important factors for South Korean major limited partners when considering new partnersh...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager with $10 trillion assets under management, named Hiroyuki Shimizu head of institutional in...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has acquired US-based NEC Energy Solutions to expand its capabilities into the energy storage system (ESS) integration mar...

Singapore’s antitrust authority approved the integration of Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., paving the way for South Korea&rsqu...

TOKYO – Hyundai Motor Co. is reentering the Japanese car market after a 12-year hiatus with its latest electric vehicles, as the growing deman...

South Korea's mobile financial platform Toss is evolving from a payment service app into a full-fledged financial service provider, or a super app, ...

Affinity Equity Partners is set to send an investment teaser this week for the planned sale of Burger King’s operations in South Korea and Jap...

South Korea’s MBK Partners said on Jan. 3 that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Dongjin Textile Co. -- a Korean firm that has been s...

South Korea’s leading petrochemical company SK Geo Centric Co. and Japan’s chemicals producer Tokuyama Corp. plan to found a joint ventu...

Affinity Equity Partners has chosen Goldman Sachs as its adviser for the planned sale of its entire stakes in Burger King’s operations in Kore...

South Korea has officially declared its plan to join a mega Trans-Pacific free trade deal, called the CPTPP, following China’s application to ...

Samsung Electronics Co. has officially launched its new set division, which combines its mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single un...

Japanese companies operating in South Korea are making a comeback after being hit hard by a campaign that began in mid-2019 to boycott Japanese prod...

Japan's Aeon Co. has received preliminary bids for its wholly-owned subsidiary of Ministop Korea, which is estimated at around 200 billion won ($170...

MBK Partners has sold Japan's largest golf course operator Accordia Next Golf to SoftBank's Fortress Investment Group for 400 billion yen ($3.5 bill...

Hyundai Motor Co. is considering a return to Japan with electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles after South Korea’s top carmaker r...

Japan: What Does the Current Investing Environment Look Like? Summary of Japan Real Estate  “Work-from-Home” Tre...

South Korean politicians are seeking to delay taxes on gains from cryptocurrency trading by one year as they gear up for the upcoming presidential e...

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top chemical maker, has agreed to set up a joint venture with Japan’s Toray Industries Inc. for the producti...

South Korea's top online portal Naver Corp. launched its e-commerce platform dedicated to Japan last month, taking its first step toward a global on...