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South Korea-based online peer-to-peer lending platform 8Percent has secured 43.5 billion won ($38.3 million) in an investment round led by the Silic...

A growing number of South Korean asset management firms are preparing to launch their own blind pool funds for global real estate investments, which...

Naver Z Corp., the operator of South Korea's metaverse platform Zepeto, is in the early stages of talks with investors to raise more than 50 billion...

KYOTO, Japan - Murata Manufacturing Co., the world's No. 1 producer of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and other electronic components, will e...

Cash-strapped South Korean budget airlines are rushing to raise money in the local stock market on growing hopes for a travel recovery as government...

ADT Caps Co., South Korea's No. 2 security services provider, is seeking to raise up to 400 billion won ($336 million) from private equity firms ahe...

KKR & Co. and three other private equity firms, shortlisted for SK E&S Co.'s new preferred shares worth 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion), are n...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) will commit $25 million to Paris-based private equity firm Ardian for infrast...

South Korea's Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has picked Han Jong-seok, a former chief investment officer of Meritz Asset Management Co. and eq...

The global market of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain-based tokens, which each represent a unique asset such as a piece of art, digital conten...

In 2018, a South Korean food startup GoPizza Co. was on the brink of shutting down. Lim Jae-won, GoPizza's founder, had launched the business with a...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), a South Korean retirement fund, is chasing medium-risk, medium-return assets in developed markets with a...

South Korea’s Meritz Alternative Investment Management Co. is set to invest in an office building in Washington DC.Meritz formed a 200 billion...

Vision Fund, led by SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son, has sold one-tenth of its shares in South Korea's e-commerce platform Coupang Inc. for $1....

South Korea’s pharmaceutical conglomerate Celltrion Group has made its very first step in reforming corporate governance structure by merging ...

South Korea's two banking giants -- KB Financial Group and Shinhan Financial Group -- have invested a combined 80 billion won ($68 million) in a win...

A Singaporean activist fund has urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell some of its shares in SK Bioscience Co., saying its corporate value h...

LG Display Co. will likely raise around 500 billion ($430 million) in new bond issues, more than its planned 300 billion won, to finance the expansi...

SK Ecoplant Co., formerly known as SK Engineering & Construction Co., is in advanced stages of talks with a consortium of South Korea-based IUM ...

When KNet Investment Partners LLC, a South Korean venture capital company, invested 9.9 billion won ($8.6 million) in Krafton Inc. in 2009, the game...

South Korean startups' blockbuster initial public offerings over the past year, including Krafton Inc. and HYBE Co., have left the National Pension ...

South Korean software and ICT conglomerate Hancom Group will be the first private company in the country to launch a micro-satellite, or a satellite...

South Korean government will spend 6.3 trillion won ($5.4 billion) next year in supporting the state-designated Big 3 industries: future vehicles, n...

South Korea's Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is setting its sights on overseas office buildings not only in core regions but in its per...

A consortium led by South Korea’s energy-to-construction conglomerate GS Group has acquired the country’s top botox maker Hugel Inc. fro...

Innovating industrial plants is often a difficult decision-making process for companies because changing a single piece of equipment requires a thor...

The sale of Citibank Korea’s consumer banking business has hit a stumbling block as the South Korean unit of Citigroup Inc. postponed its boar...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will commit $400 million to two multi-asset funds this year, in its first investment in th...

South Korea’s No. 1 online flea market operator Danggeun Market Inc. has increased its valuation to $2.6 billion as it raised $153 million fro...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a $14 billion savings arm of South Korean small business owners, is planning to further reduce the proportion o...