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Korea Teachers’ Pension (KTP) has said the rate of return from its investment management in 2021 reached 12%, the highest ever since its inc...

South Korean AI solutions provider OnePredict is set to begin a 30 billion won ($25 million) funding round. The Seoul-based startup provides in...

SK Inc., the investment-focused holding company of South Korea’s SK Group, is set to pocket a sixfold return from its investment in SES Holdin...

South Korea's mobile financial platform Toss is evolving from a payment service app into a full-fledged financial service provider, or a super app, ...

Hanwha Defense Co. signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt on Tuesday in a deal worth over 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion.)Of t...

Viva Republica Inc., the operator of fintech platform Toss, is revving up for a pre-IPO. When finalized, the company will become South Korea’s...

Chemical materials producer SKC Co. said on Jan. 26 its consortium has completed an $80 million investment in UK battery materials startup Nexeon ...

South Korea’s biotechnology startup Voronoi Inc. plans an initial public offering in March to raise up to 130 billion won ($108.4 million).Vor...

SK Hynix Inc., South Korea’s major chipmaker, decided to make an additional investment in a US chip design startup SiFive in order to secure s...

Plastics rise as Korean SMEs’ main export Many Korean small and medium enterprises performed exceptionally amid the economic recovery in 2021...

ICONIQ Capital, a US family office backed by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has invested 50 billion won ($42 million) in Smartscore, a South ...

Stonebridge Ventures Inc., South Korea’s most profitable venture capital firm, plans to establish a fresh fund of $168 million, the largest in...

Startup accelerator FuturePlay is pushing ahead with an initial public offering. The decision follows similar moves by Korean venture capital and ac...

At first glance, ETERN!TY is similar to other K-pop bands – dancing to upbeat music and the female members donning pink tennis outfits. W...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has named its former Financial Investment Department head Park Man-soo as its new chief investment officer,...

South Korea's leading telecom operator KT Corp. has entered into a strategic alliance with the country's No. 2 lender Shinhan Bank, involving a $370...

Artificial intelligence-powered image analysis company Alchera Inc. is working with PG&E (The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in t...

Logistics service provider Mesh Korea Co. plans to raise 200 billion to 300 billion won ($168.6 million to $253 million) in its upcoming rights is...

SoftBank Group Corp. is investing $146 million in South Korea’s artificial intelligence company Qraft Technologies, Inc. The investment includ...

South Korea’s SK Networks Co. said on Tuesday it joined a $15 million in Series B-2 funding for US healthcare startup LVIS Corp.LVIS, headquar...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) posted a 7.6% rate of return as of October 2021, according to a preliminary data report by its in...

South Korea’s retail investors on Tuesday dumped 3.16 trillion won ($2.7 billion) worth of shares on the country’s two main stock market...

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 ...

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

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...

South Korean steelmakers, led by POSCO Co., are rolling up their sleeves to secure metal scrap as they are shifting into less carbon-intensive steel...

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...

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, has reorganized its overseas units, reducing the number of business sectors to five from nine,...

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 ...