China’s ByteDance invests $42 mn in Korea’s KidariStudio

China’s ByteDance invests $42 mn in Korea’s KidariStudio

China’s ByteDance Ltd., the developer of video-sharing social networking service TikTok, announced Friday that it invested 48 billion won ($42...

Behind the eye-popping numbers of LG Energy's IPO

Behind the eye-popping numbers of LG Energy's IPO

The initial public offering of South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. drew a record 11,500 trillion won ($9.65 trillion) in bids from institutional i...

Microsoft $69 bn bet spurs Korea game makers' search for metaverse deals

Microsoft $69 bn bet spurs Korea game makers' search for metaverse deals

South Korea’s game developers are expected to seek more acquisitions of the metaverse and non-fungible token (NFT) companies for new profit so...

Squid Game’s mega-hit spurs Netflix to release record K-content

Squid Game’s mega-hit spurs Netflix to release record K-content

Netflix Inc. plans to release 10 additional Korean-language originals this year as the smash success of Squid Game has impelled the world’s to...

Scandal-hit SillaJen faces higher delisting risk

Scandal-hit SillaJen faces higher delisting risk

South Korea's SillaJen Inc., once the largest stock on Kosdaq by market value, faces a higher risk of being kicked out of the country's junior stock...

Korea's Mirae Asset to launch digital asset business

Korea's Mirae Asset to launch digital asset business

Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s capital market giant, is set to enter the digital asset business, starting with a digital asset cus...

Materials, parts makers drive Korea's 2021 M&A boom

Materials, parts makers drive Korea's 2021 M&A boom

Materials, components and equipment makers drove South Korea's mergers and acquisitions market to a record high last year, with smaller deals involv...

STIC injects $168 mn in pre-unicorn Musicow

STIC injects $168 mn in pre-unicorn Musicow

Music copyright trading platform Musicow Inc. has attracted a 200 billion won ($167.9 million) investment from Korea’s private equity firm STI...

Affinity to send teaser for Burger King Korea, Japan sale

Affinity to send teaser for Burger King Korea, Japan sale

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...

Lotte Group beats Shinsegae to acquire Ministop Korea

Lotte Group beats Shinsegae to acquire Ministop Korea

Lotte Group beat its retail rival Shinsegae Group in a competition to buy South Korea’s fifth-largest convenience store chain Ministop Korea. ...

S.Korea’s defense exports to top $10 billion

S.Korea’s defense exports to top $10 billion

South Korea’s defense exports hit a record last year as key local makers such as LIG Nex1 Co., Hanwha and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI...

Lotte acquires Chicago-based hotel for $36 mn K-style rebrand

Lotte acquires Chicago-based hotel for $36 mn K-style rebrand

Hotel Lotte Co., retail conglomerate Lotte Group’s luxury hotel operator, completed the acquisition of Kimpton Hotel Monaco in Chicago for $...

Korea’s defense companies emerge as coveted growth stocks

Korea’s defense companies emerge as coveted growth stocks

South Korea’s defense companies have been regarded as typical domestic stocks with their share performances broadly linked to the size of the ...

Creditors to unveil new plans next week to sell DSME

Creditors to unveil new plans next week to sell DSME

Creditor banks of South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) are mulling new ways to find a new owner of the debt-ridden ...

Hyundai Heavy, DSME merger falls through on EU veto

Hyundai Heavy, DSME merger falls through on EU veto

The European Commission on Thursday vetoed the combination of the world’s two largest shipbuilders Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shi...

Bank of Korea may hike rates this week to curb inflation, household debt

Bank of Korea may hike rates this week to curb inflation, household debt

South Korea’s central bank is almost certain to raise interest rates on Friday to curb inflation and household debt as the US Federal Reserve ...

LG Energy IPO fever lifts Korea’s battery stocks

LG Energy IPO fever lifts Korea’s battery stocks

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, attracted a record $9.65 trillion demand for South Korea’s largest-ever initia...

Coupang to shake up Korea’s logistics industry landscape

Coupang to shake up Korea’s logistics industry landscape

South Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is looking to tap into the country’s logistics industry, shaking up the sector, while market...

LG Energy takes on CATL as it prepares for Korea’s largest-ever IPO

LG Energy takes on CATL as it prepares for Korea’s largest-ever IPO

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has vowed to outrival the world’s top battery player CATL as the South Korean company is preparing for the country&rsq...

Edison Motors and Ssangyong Motor ink takeover deal

Edison Motors and Ssangyong Motor ink takeover deal

Ssangyong Motor Co. has finally found a new owner. South Korea’s bankruptcy court approved Ssangyong Motor Co. and electric carmaker Edison Mo...

CICC to form up to $3.3 bn funds for bio, chips in Korea and others

CICC to form up to $3.3 bn funds for bio, chips in Korea and others

CICC Capital, a private equity firm of China's largest investment bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC), will create funds with a comb...

GS launches corporate VC firm

GS launches corporate VC firm

GS announced the establishment of a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm Sunday, the first of its kind for a holding company in Korea. The announcem...

Korea Zinc to ditch low-key strategy to go beyond metal

Korea Zinc to ditch low-key strategy to go beyond metal

South Korea's two non-ferrous metal product leaders Korea Zinc Inc. and Poongsan Corp. are tipped to report their record earnings in 2021, after str...

Korean won touches 18-month low as Fed may raise rates sooner

Korean won touches 18-month low as Fed may raise rates sooner

South Korea’s won currency hit a 1-1/2-year low as the US Federal Reserve signaled the central bank may raise interest rates sooner than expec...

Lotte, Shinsegae compete head-on for Ministop Korea

Lotte, Shinsegae compete head-on for Ministop Korea

South Korea's two retail heavyweights Lotte and Shinsegae are in head-to-head competition for the country's fifth-largest convenience store chain Mi...

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build battery metal JV in Korea

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build battery metal JV in Korea

South Korea’s top chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. will partner with China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. to launch a battery material joint ve...

Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity

Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity

CHA Biotech, South Korea’s stem cell therapeutics developer, is set to expand its biomaterials contract development and manufacturing organiza...

Export-Import Bank of Korea eyes $3 bn global bond sale

Export-Import Bank of Korea eyes $3 bn global bond sale

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) is planning to sell up to $3 billion worth of new global bonds this week, tipped to be the largest-ever bond...

Former K-pop dancer turns to AI for personal training services

Former K-pop dancer turns to AI for personal training services

When Dia Kang first moved to Silicon Valley in October 2016 to create a dance app to learn K-pop moves, there was no worldwide pandemic. By Jan...

Convergence, metaverse, green: Korea Inc.’s themes at CES 2022

Convergence, metaverse, green: Korea Inc.’s themes at CES 2022

South Korea’s major companies are showcasing robots, mobility and the metaverse rather than cutting-edge models of their conventional products...

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