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Lionheart Studio Corp., the firm behind South Korea’s popular mobile game Odin, is preparing to go public as early as this year, with its ente...

Awake Corp., a startup that operates platforms to assist online creators, recently attracted 1.1 billion won ($892,473) in seed capital. The total a...

Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has acquired a South Korean meal kit provider for 75 billion won ($61 million), a deal expected to bo...

Environmental initiatives such as RE100 and high Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards are not just for conglomerates anymore, accor...

Morgan Stanley Private Equity has acquired a South Korean dietary supplements maker Life & Bio Co., in its first Korean buyout deal in eight yea...

DB HiTek Co., one of South Korea’s leading foundry chipmakers, was once an ugly duckling in the industry, reeling under heavy debt and snowbal...

South Korea’s venture capitalists put record high investments into startups last year. Thanks to positive returns on investments, a number o...

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...

South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co.'s shares are poised for a rebound. On March 30, the stock rose by 2.55% to 181,000 won ($149.46), 11.73...

South Korea's SK Hynix Inc. is considering forming a consortium with other strategic investors to buy Arm Ltd., a British semiconductor design compa...

Choi Jin-min, founder and chairman of Kiturami Boiler Co., is one of the few living witnesses in South Korea's boiler history. At the age of 21, he ...

South Korea's Kurly Inc. on Monday applied for a preliminary review of its initial public offering, the Korea Exchange said, as the operator of groc...

South Korean startup Yeolmae Company announced Monday it received 17 billion won ($14 million) worth of funds through its Series B round. With the l...

South Korea's outbound direct investment in 2021 soared 32.8% from the year previous to a record-high $75.9 billion, led by financial investors and ...

Naver Z Corp. invested in more than eight companies so far this year, according to people familiar with the deals. Naver Z is the operator of Asia...

“The first joint venture with the Seoul National University seal of approval” is how artificial intelligence startup SNUAI Lab Co. des...

Jobis & Villains, the operator of artificial intelligence-powered accounting platform 3.3, announced that it recently acquired video messenger s...

South Korean startup Twelve Labs announced Sunday it secured $5 million in a seed round from Index Ventures.On its website, the venture capital firm...

Goldman Sachs has divested of its stake worth 75 billion won ($62 million) in South Korea's cosmetics startup GP Club Co. without a profit due to de...

Scores of South Korean initial public offerings slated for the first half of this year have been delayed after the bourse operator carried out a lar...

South Korea’s first generation biotech firm Medipost Co. will sell a 30% stake to a private equity consortium, the company announced after W...

South Korea’s biotechnology startup Voronoi Inc. scrapped its plan to go public this month. The new drug developer announced Wednesday it...

South Korea’s robotics startup Bear Robotics Inc. announced Wednesday it raised $81 million in Series B funding from venture capital heavywe...

LIG Nex1 Co., South Korea’s major defense exporter, plans to set up a $80.5 million venture investment fund with Eugene Investment & Secur...

Heads of South Korea’s leading venture capital firms say domestic startups have entered a phase of overvaluation. The Korea Economic Dail...

Visual effects production startup VA Corporation announced Monday it received 100 billion won ($80.4 million) from private equity fund Paratus Inv...

South Korea’s venture capital firm Translink Investment and non-profit organization Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs agreed to launch ...

The share prices of the world’s two largest memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. each have room to rise by about 50% ov...

South Korea’s AI education startup Riiid has made it onto Fast Company's annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Since 20...

Convenience stores are hotbeds for South Korean IT companies to test their artificial intelligence (AI) technology.That is because the establishment...