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Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) aims to increase alternative investment to 25% of its total investment by 2025 as well as rank among the world's ...

SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier, has tapped its e-commerce arm's chief executive and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Lee Sang-h...

When Dia Kang first moved to Silicon Valley in October 2016 to create a dance app to learn K-pop moves, there was no worldwide pandemic. By Jan...

South Korea’s MBK Partners said on Jan. 3 that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Dongjin Textile Co. -- a Korean firm that has been s...

SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. are poised to go head to head in manufacturing chips for artificial intelligence. The telecom giants will utilize their...

South Korea’s pension funds sold a net 24.5 trillion won ($20.6 billion) worth of Kospi and Kosdaq stocks this year, the largest annual ne...

NAVER Corp.’s startup accelerator D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) has made an additional investment into data pipeline solutions provider Cloa, the ...

Telecommunications giant KT Corp. announced concrete plans to launch its artificial intelligence infrastructure business by joining forces with indu...

Germany's car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen is in the final stages of negotiations to invest around 20 billion won ($17 million) in StradVision, a ...

Mobile point-of-sale (POS) system maker Payhere Inc. announced Tuesday it received 10 billion won ($8.4 million) in Series A funding from Softbank V...

Korean investment firm SK Square Co. Ltd. has invested approximately 35 billion won ($29.5 million) into homegrown agriculture tech startup Greeln...

South Korean asset manager Hyundai Investments Co., fully owned by Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co., has said it acquired a Brussels-based ...

2021 has been a heyday for Korea’s startup ecosystem – especially for the VCs that invest in it. In the first three quarters of this ye...

South Korean venture capital firms and online giants are flocking to startups in India, a country with the world's second-largest population and low...

Hyundai Engineering Co., a construction unit of South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group, is spending 400 billion won ($336 million) to build a plant to pr...

South Korea’s KB Investment Co. and US venture capitalist Strong Ventures LLC have invested in Stan World, a K-pop metaverse platform operator...

South Korea’s Tiger Alternative Investors Co. has liquidated its structured fund backed by shares of US-based business development companies...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, the world’s largest shipbuilder, is set to showcase its latest and next-generation mobility technology related...

Nexen Tire Corp., Korea’s third-largest tire maker, has made an undisclosed amount of equity investment in ANRA Technologies, a US urban air m...

With stock and cryptocurrency fevers subsiding amid a monetary tightening bias, South Koreans are moving their money back to safe assets, as banks s...

An activist fund has again urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell part of its stake in SK Bioscience or buy back treasury shares and cancel ...

South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment Corp. has bought the world’s top Asian fantasy web novel platform Wuxiaworld, based in the US, to expa...

South Korea’s top chemical manufacturer LG Chem Ltd. and its battery affiliate LG Energy Solution Ltd. have acquired a combined 2.6% stake in ...

LG Corp.'s artificial intelligence research institute unveiled what it dubs a “supergiant AI” on Tuesday.The big reveal was for EXAONE, ...

Meta fashion, a combination of fashion, metaverse, and NFT, is becoming a global trend. The MZ generation, as those in their 20s and 30s are ca...

SK Gas Co., the top liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) company in South Korea, has invested in Series B funding for C-Zero Inc., a California-based start...

South Korea's brokerage companies are jumping into the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) market, outmaneuvering asset management firms, as ...

Come next year, attending meetings as a hologram version of yourself is set to become more common.Metaverse startup DoubleMe plans to commercialize ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) and global real estate investment firm LaSalle Investment Management Inc. have agreed to acquir...

Some major South Korean institutional investors have committed to Switzerland-headquartered global asset manager Partners Group's Secondary 2020 Fun...