Korean IPO boom sets record; bubbles burst post debut

South Korea’s initial public offerings in the first half of this year were oversubscribed 1,610 times, the highest-ever rate for a half-year p...
South Korea’s initial public offerings in the first half of this year were oversubscribed 1,610 times, the highest-ever rate for a half-year p...
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Lotte Biologics Co. said on Wednesday it is aiming for 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in annual sales by 203...
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is set to slash its overseas stocks under global i...
Kyobo Life Insurance Co.'s Chairman Shin Chang-jae is internationally recognized for setting the global standard for ethical management after two de...
South Korea is projected to reap more than $100 billion from selling the country’s consumer goods overseas this year. Exports of such products...
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. introduced a solid-state drive (SSD) for on-device artificial intelligence PCs for mass production this year, to e...
Hanwha Solutions Corp., the chemical and renewable energy unit of South Korea’s No. 7 conglomerate Hanwha Group, and Taihan Cable & Soluti...
South Korea's Woori Bank and Woori PE Asset Management announced on Thursday that they have signed a "strategic business agreement for creating a ...
US e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. will offer South Korean cosmetics producers one-stop support to enable them to reach millions of customers ...
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to sell 500 billion won ($359.6 million) in its first perpetual bon...
South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. announced on Tuesday that it obtained Approval In Principle (AiP) for its ship cyber security technology from the world...
South Korea’s Hyundai Steel Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with European customers to sell low-ca...
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest electric vehicle battery maker, is poised to raise $2 billion in global bonds by the end of...
South Korea's general trading company GS Global Corp. announced on Monday that it will launch BYD Company Ltd.'s 1-ton electric truck, the T4K Refri...
It's been just over two years since Innovaid Co. launched Dentlink but the South Korean startup has already pivoted from its earlier local market-ce...
HANOI – Thai Binh, a port city about 120 km southeast of the Vietnamese capital, has long been associated, in people’s minds, with the i...
South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will open its first global flagship store System and System Homme Paris i...
South Korea’s national competitiveness ranking climbed eight notches to its highest-ever 20th thanks to a leap in the country’s business...
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, has teamed up with Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup, for the glo...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic a few years back, social distancing was the rule of life. People stayed at home, with many of them killing ti...
South Korean flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. has tapped Air Incheon, a local airline dedicated to cargo business, as the preferred bidder to acqui...
The Korea International Trade Association and Korea Development Bank announced on Thursday that the Asia's largest startup fair "NextRise 2024 Seoul...
L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics group, announced on Wednesday that it is recruiting digital and innovative technology companies to p...
South Korea logged a current account deficit in April, ending a streak of surpluses for the past 11 months, on seasonal factors such as increased di...
Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s top ride-hailing service provider, on Tuesday introduced the release of its global app, taking on global g...
South Korea plans to build as many as three new nuclear power plants by 2038 and put into operation at least one small modular reactor (SMR) by 2035...
South Korean biotech Bertis Inc. will deliver presentations at the BIO International Convention, one of the world’s largest bio and healthcare...
South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...
Webcash Global, an affiliate of South Korea's Webcash Co., announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a business agreement with BC Card Vietna...
Hyundai Glovis Co., the world’s third-largest car shipping company, is set to introduce an emission reduction system for its vehicle carriers ...