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Axiom Space Inc., which is developing the world’s first commercial space station, is seeking to raise $500 million from South Korean investors...

Vertex Venture Holdings, a venture capital unit of Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, expects the recent global downturn to offer investment...

LG Electronics Inc.’s artificial intelligence head Lee Hyun-chul flew to Seattle this week to lure AI talent from Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.c...

TagHive Inc. is an education technology startup building a bridge between South Korea and India. The company’s founder and CEO Pankaj Aga...

SK Gas Ltd., South Korea’s leading liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supplier, is poised to sell its stake in an operator of the Eurasia Tunnel in...

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. have invested a combined $115 million in Series B funding for Overair Inc., a Califo...

South Korea’s leading webtoon production startup Kenaz was taken over by a domestic hedge fund as it aims to reduce dependence on major platfo...

MBK Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in Asia, is in talks with the country’s top mobile platform Kakao Corp. to acquire share...

LB Investment has submitted a preliminary assessment request to the Korea Stock Exchange, the first step to an initial public offering. It chose Mir...

SV Investment, a South Korean venture capital and private equity firm, is looking to launch a $100 million bio fund in the US as a growing number of...

LG Uplus Corp., the mobile network arm of LG Corp., is poised to strengthen its business-to-business (B2B) operations by utilizing its artificial in...

A few key institutional investors in South Korea are set to commit up to $300 million to a $3.5 billion private credit fund by US private debt man...

KT Corp., a South Korean telecom giant, plans to invest nearly $10 billion in its digital platform sector by 2026 as it aims to focus on the industr...

LG Group announced Thursday it will invest 150 billion won ($119 million) into 300 startups through 2025.The conglomerate hosted Superstart Brand ...

South Korea has embarked on a public-private project to bolster communication security for autonomous driving, for which a domestic startup will pla...

High-yield bonds generally create greater yields than other funds, but low-quality bonds are vulnerable to economic downturns and the firms’ c...

South Korea’s smaller webtoon platforms are targeting the world’s digital adult comics market, in which industry leaders Naver Corp. and...

South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp. is set to enter the local smart building market with its cloud-based 5G networks and artificia...

South Korea's early stage startups raised a record amount of funding in the last 12 months.Even though venture capital firms at home and abroad are ...

South Korea’s online platform giant Kakao Corp. plans to shift its focus to an interest-based platform from its existing acquaintance-based me...

QMIT Inc., the operator of athlete management platform plco, announced Tuesday that it raised 3 billion won ($2.4 million) in Series A round funding...

South Korea’s leading fabless startup Rebellions Inc. announced Friday it raised 62 billion won ($50 million) in Series A or the first round o...

Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund is discussing the sale of Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. to a South Korean textile business group....

South Korea’s Kakao Mobility Corp. will begin providing drivers for door-to-door auto transport from as early as mid-June, according to tech i...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced Wednesday it has selected 60 promising startups to which it will provide financial assistance and expert...

Vertical service providers are dominating South Korea’s venture business ecosystem, in a study of the country’s early stage startups by ...

Hyundai Motor Group and the group’s social contribution foundation will create a domestic startup fund to invest a total of 100 billion won ($...

The sale of South Korea’s landmark office Alpharium Tower has been completed for 1.02 trillion won ($827.3 million), marking a record-high pri...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, has adjusted its five-year asset allocation plan to enh...

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp., is struggling to raise money as surging inflation and ri...