Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

South Korea's Yanolja Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, announced on Tuesday its partnership with SK Discovery Co. to build a proptech ...

Will S.Korean games benefit from China’s deregulation?

China is loosening its grip on foreign online games with approvals on 27 titles, raising hopes that South Korean publishers will expand their presen...

S.Korean LPs name 41 best alternative asset managers

Blackstone, Hamilton Lane, HarbourVest Partners and Audax Private Equity were jointly named the most preferred PE firms by South Korean institutional ...

SK Pharmteco again seeks $382 mn in pre-IPO funding

SK Pharmteco Co., a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is eyeing pre-initial public offering funding again after it dropped...

Korea's Kooksoondang sees its makgeolli exports surpass $10 mn mark

Kooksoondang Co., a South Korean brewery that produces traditional rice-based wines, announced on Tuesday that its exports reached an all-time high ...

LG Elec, Bayada strengthen cooperation on home care medical devices

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Tuesday that it had signed a business agreement with Bayada Home Healthcare, a US-based company specializing in hom...

Apple Pay to shake up S.Korea's digital payment market

The launch of Apple Pay in South Korea on Tuesday is poised to shake up the country’s digital payment market as the sector leader Samsung Pay ...

Korea’s Micro Digital to supply bioreactors to major US firm

Micro Digital Co., South Korea’s only bioreactor maker, is set to ink a supply deal with a major US biopharmaceutical producer to expand its g...

S.Korea's brewery Seoul Jangsu forms marketing tie-up with fashion industry

With South Korea's traditional milky rice wine makgeolli seeing its second heyday centered on the 20- and 30-something crowds, marketing tie-ups tar...

S.Korean biotech GI Innovation's IPO draws tepid market interest

South Korean biotech GI Innovation Inc. is slated to debut on the local public market at less than half of its pre-IPO investment value, facing luke...

Samsung gets $191 million profit valuation from investment in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung Electronics Co. is found to have earned 250 billion won ($191 million) in profit valuation from its investment made two months ago in Rainbo...

Korean ETP market doubles amid increasing distrust of fund managers

South Korea’s exchange-traded product (ETP) market has doubled in four years as more investors preferred their own trades to discretionary inv...

Korean aircraft maker KAI earmarks $3.4 bn in R&D investment by 2032

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, is set to pour 4.5 trillion won ($3.4 billion) into ...

LG Elec to spend over $4 bn on capex in 2023, biggest in a decade

LG Electronics Inc. has decided to go bold to widen the technology gap with its rivals, with its biggest capital expenditure in a decade of more tha...

MBK to acquire Korea’s top FCCL maker NexFlex for $407 mn

MBK Partners agreed to buy NexFlex Co., South Korea’s top flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL) producer, as the leading Northeast Asian priva...

Samsung Biologics to invest $1.5 bn for 5th CDMO factory

Samsung Biologics Co. is slated to inject 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) to build its fifth plant in South Korea. It will be a fast follow-up investm...

Korea EV cell makers unveil new products to expand market

South Korea’s electric vehicle battery makers on Wednesday unveiled prototypes of new products, especially lithium iron phosphate (LFP) models...

ESG: Name of the game in investing, funding amid Korea’s green push

With South Korea’s aggressive green push at both the government and corporate levels, money is flowing back to environmental, social and gover...

LB Investment draws record demand in IPO bookbuild

LB Investment Inc., formerly known as LG Group’s venture capital arm, has attracted the most orders ever for an initial public offering of a S...

Sales of state-sponsored Korean startups up 40% in 2022

South Korean startups sponsored by the government’s information and communication technology acceleration program, dubbed K-Global Project, sa...

S.Korea’s NPS taps investment strategy head as NY office chief

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is slated to undergo a management reshuffle for the first time since Chief Investment Officer Seo...

F&F bets on China's beauty market under MLB brand

F&F Co., a South Korean retailer of Western brands such as Major League Baseball (MLB), has been rapidly penetrating China's cosmetics market, w...

Kolon Industries showcases hydrogen fuel cell materials at Tokyo Expo

Kolon Industries Inc., a Korean manufacturer of chemical and textile products, said on Wednesday that it was exhibiting its hydrogen fuel cell parts...

S.Korea’s jobs in February grow at slowest pace in 2 years

South Korea’s jobs grew at the slowest pace in two years last month partly owing to a slowdown in the country’s manufacturing sector due...

S.Korea's individual investors buy bonds this year worth $5.3 billion

Individual investors in South Korea this year have made net bond purchases, or the difference between the buying and selling amounts, worth over 7 t...

Naver D2SF invests in 3D avatar-based communication startup

Naver's startup-nurturing organization, D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), announced on Wednesday its investment in Goodgang Labs, a company focused on de...

Korea Ginseng Corporation opens new R&D center in California

Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), a leading producer of Korean ginseng products, said on Wednesday that it has opened a new research and development ...

TravelWallet succeeds in attracting $15 mn Series C funding

South Korea's TravelWallet, a global payment service provider, announced on Wednesday that it has raised 19.7 billion won ($15 million) in Series C ...

Korean 3D tech firm Koh Young looks to US medical robot market

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is slated to enter the US me...

Global macro investing to revive for more volatile age: M&G

The value of investments will fluctuate, which will cause prices to fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the original amount they inv...