liquidity crunch

South Korea’s cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. will officially launch its customized makeup brand "Tonework" on Tuesday.Tonework precisely...

Samsung Electronics Co., Hyundai Motor Co., SK Hynix Inc., POSCO Holdings Inc., SK E&S, POSCO E&C and SK Siltron have agreed to replace thei...

Lotte Group announced on Friday that it has signed a financial support agreement worth 5 trillion won ($3.8 billion) with four major South Korean ba...

Kurly Inc., South Korea’s leading food delivery platform, has embarked on a new funding round to raise 100 billion won ($76 million) at about ...

Doosan Corp., the holding company of South Korea's Doosan Group, said on Monday that it has entered a joint development agreement (JDA) with US-base...

LINE Corp. and Mizuho Financial Group’s plan to introduce an internet-only bank in Japan has fallen through about five years after they unveil...

South Korea’s KB Financial Group on Monday said it will provide liquidity support for the domestic market for real estate project financing (P...

Lotte Engineering & Construction (E&C) has secured financing of 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion).The company on Monday announced its conclusi...

South Korea’s Daol Financial Group agreed to sell another unit as part of its efforts to raise money in preparations for a possible liquidity ...

South Korea’s SGC Energy Co. recently signed a contract to supply liquid carbon dioxide to a domestic company for 10 years starting January 20...

South Korea's draft proposal on aviation liquid hydrogen fuel tanks was adopted as an international standard at the International Organization for S...

The Daol Financial Group is widely expected to let go of its venture capital arm in the midst of a worsening liquidity crunch. The VC firm Daol...

South Korea’s chemical firm Lotte Chemical Corp. and Air Liquide Korea, the Korean unit of the French company Air Liquide SA, announced on Tue...

Rising gloom over the business environment due to a financial market crunch and weak Korean won has led to nearly half of Korea's firms having no pl...

Lotte Group will replace the head of its construction unit, hit by a liquidity crisis stemming from project financing, to ease investor concerns ove...

SK E&S, the energy affiliate of SK Group, from next year will start domestic output and distribution of up to 30,000 tons of liquid hydrogen ann...

Several corporations have recently sold stocks and real estate apparently to boost liquidity and repay maturing debts amid the "three high" era of h...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will expand investments via secondaries and direct lending, its Head of Strategic Alternative Inv...

South Korea’s central bank joined rescue moves to improve liquidity in the local bond market and alleviate the fallout from a debt default by ...

The global venture capital ecosystem has been contracting since the second quarter of last year, hit by rising inflation and rate hikes. New ...

A three-year-old South Korean fintech company is having trouble raising money through a Series B funding round as investor sentiment on the sector h...

The South Korean government is facing a backlash from the startup and venture capital sectors after slashing next year’s fund of funds budget....

Private equity firms have snapped up South Korean assets over the past two years, driving their valuations near historic highs in the liquidity-driv...

Hit by shrinking liquidity around the globe, startups in South Korea are coming up with different ways to cut costs, most notably in human resources...

Just like its global peers, Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have suffered from the chip shortage that bogged down the entire auto industry for nearl...

South Korea’s biotechnology firms – public and private alike –  are facing increasingly negative financial conditions. T...

As the global chip supply shortage shows signs of easing, South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is working down its order backlog by...

SK Gas Co., a South Korean major liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) provider, and Korean chemicals firm Lotte Chemical Corp. are slated to set up a joint...

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

South Korean real estate investors prefer liquidity and stable payback on investment, as well as investing in debts amid market uncertainty. The lim...