S.Korea's household assets rise to record high in 2022

S.Korea's household assets rise to record high in 2022

Average household net assets in South Korea in 2022 increased 10% to a record 456 million won ($350,000) from a year earlier, while it took longer...

KT, Amano Korea join hands to develop smart parking solutions

KT, Amano Korea join hands to develop smart parking solutions

South Korean telecom operator KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a business agreement with parking control system specialist Amano K...

S.Korean LPs name 41 best alternative asset managers

S.Korean LPs name 41 best alternative asset managers

Blackstone, Hamilton Lane, HarbourVest Partners and Audax Private Equity were jointly named the most preferred PE firms by South Korean institutional ...

Apple Pay to shake up S.Korea's digital payment market

Apple Pay to shake up S.Korea's digital payment market

The launch of Apple Pay in South Korea on Tuesday is poised to shake up the country’s digital payment market as the sector leader Samsung Pay ...

Korea’s Micro Digital to supply bioreactors to major US firm

Korea’s Micro Digital to supply bioreactors to major US firm

Micro Digital Co., South Korea’s only bioreactor maker, is set to ink a supply deal with a major US biopharmaceutical producer to expand its g...

Korea's LifeSemantics establishes health functional food subsidiary

Korea's LifeSemantics establishes health functional food subsidiary

Digital healthcare company LifeSemantics Co. has entered the health functional food business by creating a new subsidiary, NutraSemantics. The South...

LG Electronics showcases new products in Dubai

LG Electronics showcases new products in Dubai

LG Electronics Inc. held a two-day event in Dubai to unveil its latest products and solutions for the Middle East and African markets.The South Kore...

BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT

BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT

South Korea's BC Card on Sunday said it applied for a domestic patent for a non-fungible token (NFT) that can verify a user's asset details using bl...

BC Card signs contracts for Indonesia's digital payment project

BC Card signs contracts for Indonesia's digital payment  project

BC Card Co., a South Korean credit card company, said on Friday it has signed two contracts to provide digital payment services for Indonesia’...

LS Electric unveils smart factory solutions

LS Electric unveils smart factory solutions

South Korea’s LS Electric Co. on Wednesday said it has unveiled its future factory automation solutions for the digital transformation era at ...

Korea's AI startup Quantit attracts $23 mn Series A investment

Korea's AI startup Quantit attracts $23 mn  Series A investment

South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) company Vaiv Company Inc. announced on Tuesday that Quantit, its fintech subsidiary, has received a 30 bi...

Mirae Asset, music profit-sharing startup take on security token offerings

Mirae Asset, music profit-sharing startup take on security token offerings

South Korea's Fingo Company, which runs the music revenue sharing platform Fingo, on Friday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ...

S.Korea's NPS likely to log 8.2% loss for 2022, record-low return

S.Korea's NPS likely to log 8.2% loss for 2022, record-low return

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is expected to post a negative return of 8.2% for 2022, according to its preliminary report on Th...

GC Biopharma introduces candidates for treating blood coagulation disease

GC Biopharma introduces candidates for treating blood coagulation disease

South Korea's GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Tuesday that it had entered into an agreement to transfer assets with Catalyst Biosciences, a US-based...

S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022

S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...

Inflation casts shadow over S.Korea NPS' hedging strategies

Inflation casts shadow over S.Korea NPS' hedging strategies

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), with 920.4 trillion won ($694.6 billion) in assets as of November 2022, faces growing concerns o...

Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology

Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology

Kakao Impact, a corporate foundation of Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform company, said on Tuesday it has agreed to work with the...

Hyundai Steel's sustainability report wins gold prize in US

Hyundai Steel's sustainability report wins gold prize in US

South Korea's steelmaker Hyundai Steel announced Sunday that its integrated report 2022 Beyond Steel has been recognized for its excellence by a wor...

Korea’s LG CNS to enhance digital channel biz with Adobe

Korea’s LG CNS to enhance digital channel biz with Adobe

South Korea’s largest cloud computing service provider LG CNS Co. joined hands with US computer software company Adobe Inc. to improve its dig...

KT’s global digital push deepens with Singtel partnership

KT’s global digital push deepens with Singtel partnership

KT Corp. has joined hands with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) to export its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, as wel...

S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle

S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle

Internal conflict is growing at South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management over the company's de facto restructuring of its fund management in the wake o...

Network usage fees likely to take center of debate at MWC2023

Network usage fees likely to take center of debate at MWC2023

Major participants in the mobile world congress (MWC) 2023 such as Google Inc. and Netflix Inc. are expected to discuss telecommunications network f...

POSCO ICT to be rebranded as POSCO DX for digital transformation

POSCO ICT to be rebranded as POSCO DX for digital transformation

POSCO ICT Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Sunday that it will rebrand itself as POSCO D...

LG Electronics expedites global B2B push with signage displays

LG Electronics expedites global B2B push with signage displays

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s electronics giant, is betting big on digital signage displays as part of its global B2B push to offset weak...

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...

Igaworks partners with Vietnam’s Clever Group to supply data platform

Igaworks partners with Vietnam’s Clever Group to supply data platform

South Korean big data platform company Igaworks said on Thursday it has signed a contract and strategic alliance deal with Vietnam’s largest m...

AIMMED’s Somzz ushers in digital therapeutic device market in Korea

AIMMED’s Somzz ushers in digital therapeutic device market in Korea

South Korea’s health and drug safety authority has cleared Somzz to treat patients with sleep disorders, a dynamic move that is expected to vi...

Zigbang signs agreement with Saudi's National Housing Company

Zigbang signs agreement with Saudi's National Housing Company

On Monday, South Korean proptech company Zigbang announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia's National Housing Company with the goal of digitalizing ...

Samsung Asset Management's bond-type ETF assets exceed $7.9 billion

Samsung Asset Management's bond-type ETF assets exceed $7.9 billion

Investment in South Korea is pouring into bond-type exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under the anticipation that interest rate hikes end this year. Such...

S.Korea's banks see deposits plummet $35.5 billion in Jan

S.Korea's banks see deposits plummet $35.5 billion in Jan

Banks in South Korea last month saw deposits plummet over 45 trillion won ($35.5 billion) from the previous month due to a decline in deposit intere...

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