financial firms

In recent years, the content creation industry in South Korea has been a key investment sector for local investment banks. Some major content produc...

South Korea’s leading patient monitoring device maker Mediana Co. is targeting the pet medical industry while seeking an artificial intelligen...

KB Asset Management Co., the investment arm of KB Financial Group in South Korea, said on Friday it has completed a 100% acquisition of North Galaxy...

POSCO Group, which owns South Korea’s largest steelmaker, plans to invest 25 trillion won ($20 billion) to secure a stable supply of key raw m...

Singapore-based private equity firm Affirma Capital has founded an affiliate for private credit management and tapped Kim Seong-mok, a former execut...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and its spin-off SK Square Co. have together invested 50 billion won ($40 million) into a loca...

FADU Technology, a fabless startup that develops architecture for solid-state drive (SSD) controllers and storage products, is seeking to raise 200 ...

IonQ Inc., a US-listed quantum computing firm, has become a new target of short selling-focused Scorpion Capital, taking a hit from the US hedge fun...

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. has acquired a minority stake in US metaverse entertainment and media firm Hyperreal Digital Inc., ...

LG Display Co., a major South Korean display panel maker, plans to drastically cut production of its liquid crystal display panels for TVs, as it fa...

South Korea’s top three general trading companies, LX International Corp., POSCO International Corp. and Samsung C&T Corp. achieved record...

The growing fears of a Beijing lockdown are prompting South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and battery makers, already suffering from...

The incoming Yoon Suk-yeol administration will lend extra support to the startup ecosystem – biotech and artificial intelligence firms in part...

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea’s leading color-coated steel manufacturer, said on Wednesday it has acquired a 15% stake in VSSC Steel Cen...

South Korea’s biopharmaceutical companies are close to commercializing a COVID-19 vaccine and treatment pill as they are on the brink of compl...

Affinity Equity Partners is in the process of raising 700 billion won ($565 million) to recapitalize South Korea's Serveone Co. in an attempt to rec...

SD Biosensor Inc., South Korea’s top manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, said on Friday that it has signed a deal to purchase a 100% stake i...

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korea’s railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday that it has won a demonstration project to b...

Musicow Inc., South Korea's first music copyright trading platform, will come under regulatory scrutiny, after the country's top financial regulator...

IonQ and Hyundai Motor Co. announced a new project on Wednesday designed to apply quantum machine learning to image classification and 3D object det...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world's third-largest pension fund with 948.7 trillion won ($768.9 billion) in assets under man...

Global pension funds are expanding their influence as key shareholders of major companies in South Korea. Some of the world’s largest pensio...

One Store Co., investment firm SK Square Co.'s homegrown app store, is gearing up for an initial public offering to be held in May. The local app st...

Southeast Asia-focused Navis Capital Partners is tapping South Korean companies and private equity firms to sell Texon, a Hong Kong-based footwear c...

Mirae Asset Venture Investment Co. is forecast to rake in more than 400 billion won ($325 million) for its investment in Moloco Inc. Mirae As...

South Korea’s logistics centers are ramping up the financial pressure on real estate investment firms. Previously a favored property type, i...

Biotechnology startups in Europe, backed by South Korea's SK Inc., are speeding up their development of next-generation drug candidates by joining h...

South Korean companies’ production in Shanghai is expected to remain disrupted long on the lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, raising co...

South Korea's SK Networks Co. is looking for an acquisition worth over 1 trillion won ($816 million) to accelerate its shift away from trading and r...

South Korea's LS Group is considering buying an additional stake in LS-Nikko Copper Inc. to boost its stake in the world’s second-largest elec...