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CJ Group has completed its pre-IPO placement for CJ Olive Young, the group’s health and beauty brand, with Glenwood Private Equity securin...

CJ Group has selected Glenwood Private Equity as the buyer of a minority stake in South Korea’s No. 1 health and beauty store CJ Olive Young...

Singapore-based biosimilar maker Prestige BioPharma and nine startups are set to make initial public offerings in Seoul to raise at least 640 billio...

D.CAMP, South Korea's largest non-profit foundation for startups, is on the lookout for domestic tech startups with the potential to go big in glo...

42dot, a South Korea-based autonomous driving startup, plans to launch a Level 4 self-driving service in some areas of Seoul next year.The company s...

Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) and five South Korean companies, including four private equity firms, have made final bids for a min...

Chief executives of banks operating in South Korea have picked the emergence of big technology companies and fintech startups in the credit market a...

Global startup accelerator Techstars plans to invest in 30 startups in South Korea, which has a more mature and open-minded venture capital market c...

South Korea's two semiconductor startups, Fadu Inc. and Mobilint, have emerged as the country's system chip industry dark horses as their competitiv...

Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) has entered the race for a stake in South Korea’s health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young, beco...

NEW YORK -- Larry Hite, long-time successful hedge-fund manager who doesn’t believe anyone can predict how the stock market will move, has warne...

South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja has mandated Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. and Samsung Securities Co. to handle its initial public offe...

South Korean companies listed on the tech-heavy Kosdaq market posted one of their best third quarters ever thanks to strong sales related to anti-viru...

Gaudio Lab Inc., backed by SoftBank Ventures, is throwing down the gauntlet to Dolby Laboratories for the three-dimensional (3D) audio market, for whi...

Samsung Electronics Co., alongside global technology giants Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., has invested in an Israeli tech startup to boost venture ca...

Iljin Materials Co., a South Korean battery materials maker, is planning to list its Malaysia-based subsidiary IMM Technology on South Korea’s b...

The National Pension Service and the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) have committed a combined $200 million to technology-focused Thoma Bra...

Hyprsense, a facial motion capture software developer, has been acquired by Epic Games, the creator of international blockbuster game Fortnite, accord...

South Korea's tech giant LG Electronics Inc. announced on Oct. 26 that it has entered into a patent-licensing agreement with Sweden-based Electrolux t...

Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the world’s top smartphone and TV manufacturer Samsung Group, passed away on Oct. 25 at the age of 78, the South Kore...

She's the choreographer of One Million Dance Studio with more than 20 million YouTube subscribers, choreographer of K-pop stars such as Hyo-ri Lee, Gi...

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...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will step up investment in startups and environmental, social and governance (ESG)-themed investment as it aims to ...

South Korea's largest health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young has received preliminary bids from around seven participants including global and dom...

South Korea's fashion and beauty companies are jumping on the environmental, social, governance (ESG) bandwagon to lure more environmentally conscious...

The Korean Teachers' Credit Union (KTCU) has secured returns nearly four times its $37.6 million investment in the US cloud-based platform provider El...

Seo Jung-jin, founder and chairman of South Korea’s biosimilar maker Celltrion Group, said on Oct. 6 that he is in talks with a number of global...

South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja is planning to list on the domestic stock market in 2022, paving the way for Singapore’s GIC...

Hyundai Motor Co. has exported its fuel cell system to non-vehicle startups in Europe, expanding its hydrogen business beyond the automobile industry,...

KB Financial Group's global venture capital fund, which raised 220 billion won ($185.6 million) last year, has wrapped up its investment of about 50 b...