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

Kakao Corp. will accelerate its overseas expansion as part of its recently announced reform plan to strengthen fair business practices.Kakao said on...

South Korea's antitrust body has launched an investigation into Kakao Mobility Corp. on allegations of discrimination against taxi drivers not subsc...

SEOUL—South Korea’s app developers can soon sidestep the digital tollway mandated by Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Goog...

As Apple Inc. works to negotiate its way out of its App Store troubles, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the technology titan mig...

The South Korean parliament has passed the world's first bill to banGoogle, Apple Inc. and other app store operators from forcing certain payment sc...

South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp.’s Marvel Future Revolution, a new Marvel IP-based open-world action RPG, has topped the list of Ap...

South Korea-based startup Return Zero is enhancing the quality of life for people through its voice recognition app, Vito, which provides phone call...

A South Korean electric bus maker Edison Motors Co. added the activist fund Korea Corporate Government Improvement Fund (KCGI) as a financial invest...

South Korea’s attempt to prohibit global app store operators from forcing certain in-app payment schemes has hit a bumpy road due to power pla...

Queenit, a South Korea-based fashion mobile platform targeting women in their 40s and 50s, has raised 10 billion won ($9 million) from venture capit...

Shares of SK Materials Co., the industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Group, are hovering around all-time high levels ami...

South Korea is a step closer to stopping app store operators like Google Inc. and Apple Inc. from requiring all digital content purchases from apps ...

SK Materials Co., SK Group’s industrial gas manufacturing arm, will set up a joint venture (JV) with a US battery materials startup Group14 ...

South Korea has taken a major step forward in building the hydrogen economy by forming an extensive green ammonia alliance involving 13 private firm...

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top chemical maker, and Japan’s Toray Industries Inc. will set up a joint venture (JV) for separators, cor...

The Blackstone Group is in discussions with German automotive parts manufacturer Mahle GmbH to make a joint bid for South Korea's Hanon Systems Corp...

Indonesia's online grocery platform HappyFresh will receive another $33 million from South Korean investors, including the Asian startup fund of Nav...

South Korea's initial public offering market in July is expected to see its largest-ever amount of share issues for a single month, worth over 8 tri...

South Korean startup Atlas Labs is making it easier for people to keep track of their phone conversations via Switch, an app that uses artificial in...

Global IT giant Google is facing strong backlash from South Korean game companies angry with having to pay a 30% commission on in-app purchases whil...

South Korea-based mobile financial platform Toss is en route to becoming the country's first fintech decacorn, or a company valued at over $10 billi...

South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. has forged a partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. to supply electric vehicles in Europe fo...

A consortium of three South Korean private equity firms has acquired the domestic operations of the US sportswear brand Spyder for 60 billion won ($...

Gender-discrimination controversies are rattling South Korean retailers, with two companies recently accused of misandry in publicity campaigns. In...

South Korea-based Ably Co., operator of the fashion app Ably, announced on Jun. 2 that it has raised 62 billion won ($55.7 million) in a Series B ex...

Samsung Electronics Co. and Germany’s pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG have made a joint investment in the Berlin-based artificial intelligence (...

South Korea’s steelmaker POSCO has taken another big step in accelerating the industry’s shift toward renewable energy. POSCO said on Ma...

Vision Fund, led by billionaire SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, has decided to invest around $2 billion in South Korea's largest travel platform Yan...

South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja is in negotiations with SoftBank Vision Fund for an investment up to 1 trillion won ($900 millio...