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NCSoft Corp., South Korea's leading game developer, will dip its toes into the realm of the blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFT) by releasing pl...

South Korea’s conglomerate SK Group said on Nov. 11 that it agreed to invest $340 million in The CrownX, a retail platform of Masan Group Corp...

South Korea's Bucketplace Co., an operator of the country's largest home interior platform, is seeking to raise about 100 billion won ($85 million) ...

CJ Cheiljedang Corp., a key subsidiary of South Korea’s food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group, said on Monday it is acquiring Batavia B...

Global asset managers will see great opportunities in the European non-performing loan market amid challenges facing the EU banking industry, such...

Lineage W, developed by South Korea’s NCSoft Corp., has swiftly reclaimed the top spot in the country's mobile gaming market just three days s...

As South Korea loosened social distancing measures for a gradual return to normal life this week, investors are rekindling their interest in travel ...

KKR & Co. has signed an agreement to buy 2.4 trillion won ($2 billion) worth of newly-issued preferred shares in SK E&S Co., the US private ...

Unlike Hawaii and Las Vegas, there is one thing missing on Jeju Island, South Korea's top tourist destination: premium outlets.The island hosted 15 ...

SEOUL—North Korea has the capacity to make more base ingredients for nuclear bombs than previously believed, according to new research, sugg...

HYBE Co., the label behind BTS, is expected to launch non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for assets of the world’s top boy band alongside the operator...

The Teachers' Pension in South Korea has started direct investment in overseas stock markets this year and will further increase direct management t...

South Korea’s CJ Group, which operates the country’s largest food and beverage company CJ Cheiljedang Corp. as well as entertainment gia...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is looking for a new chief investment officer (CIO) as the term of current CIO Jang ...

Sartorius AG, German laboratory equipment and raw material maker, is slated to invest $300 million in the next three years to build a plant in South...

When South Korean menswear brand Wooyoungmi had the highest sales in the men’s fashion hall of Paris-based luxury department store Le Bon Marc...

Founded in 2006, Vibrant Capital Partners is a leading alternative credit investment manager. The firm is majority owned by active partners and ...

Song Jae-yong, a leader of the new business taskforce team at South Korea’s CJ ENM Co. went to New York in 2013 to have business meetings for ...

“It was not like an M&A negotiation but rather an audition by Lee Soo-man,” said a source at a company that is looking to buy a stak...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has achieved an average 9.65% return on investments as of the end of August, driven by overseas equity divestment...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) plans to keep increasing private equity investment for mid- to-long term asset allocation, Choe Hyung D...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will seek out general partners (GPs) that have expertise in corporate workouts, add-on investments and a ...

South Korea’s largest container liner HMM Co. suffered a tumble in its stock prices despite the rosy outlook on the global shipping industry a...

South Korea’s top online platform operator Naver Corp. and brokerage giant Mirae Asset Securities Co. are aggressively investing in promi...

South Korea’s economy expanded slower than expected in the third quarter on sluggish private consumption and capital expenditures offset healt...

Citibank Korea has decided to close its consumer banking operations in phases, the bank said on Monday, after its attempt to find a buyer of the bus...

Shares in Samsung Engineering Co., a leading South Korean plant builder, have skyrocketed about 90% year to date, far outstripping the average rise ...

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s top cathode producer, plans to set up factories in the US and Europe to expand its business in the global marke...

Industrial properties in the US will likely continue to outperform other types of real estate, driven by significant rental growth in the e-commerce...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled the industry’s highest-performing DRAM with a data speed capabl...