overseas startups

Global startup accelerator Techstars plans to invest in 30 startups in South Korea, which has a more mature and open-minded venture capital market c...

South Korea's two semiconductor startups, Fadu Inc. and Mobilint, have emerged as the country's system chip industry dark horses as their competitiv...

South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja has mandated Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. and Samsung Securities Co. to handle its initial public offe...

Gaudio Lab Inc., backed by SoftBank Ventures, is throwing down the gauntlet to Dolby Laboratories for the three-dimensional (3D) audio market, for whi...

Samsung Electronics Co., alongside global technology giants Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., has invested in an Israeli tech startup to boost venture ca...

Hyprsense, a facial motion capture software developer, has been acquired by Epic Games, the creator of international blockbuster game Fortnite, accord...

SK Group and the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) may walk away with handsome gains from their joint investment of 360 billion won ($314 mil...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will step up investment in startups and environmental, social and governance (ESG)-themed investment as it aims to ...

The Korean Teachers' Credit Union (KTCU) has secured returns nearly four times its $37.6 million investment in the US cloud-based platform provider El...

Seo Jung-jin, founder and chairman of South Korea’s biosimilar maker Celltrion Group, said on Oct. 6 that he is in talks with a number of global...

Ahn Hyo-joon, the incumbent chief investment officer at the National Pension Service will see his term extended by one year, the NPS and the Ministry ...

South Korean brokerage firms, having scooped up $20 billion worth of overseas real estate deals over the past three years, are now saddled with $7 bil...

South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja is planning to list on the domestic stock market in 2022, paving the way for Singapore’s GIC...

South Korea’s leading drama producer Studio Dragon Corp. is expected to post handsome earnings in coming years, boosted by a steady stream of jo...

Hyundai Motor Co. has exported its fuel cell system to non-vehicle startups in Europe, expanding its hydrogen business beyond the automobile industry,...

KB Financial Group's global venture capital fund, which raised 220 billion won ($185.6 million) last year, has wrapped up its investment of about 50 b...

South Korea’s top 100 companies saw their overseas sales shrink by a fifth in the second quarter from the year-earlier period, weighed by the fa...

South Korea’s largest internet portal Naver Corp. has committed 110.4 billion won ($93 million) to two Europe-focused startup funds since late l...

South Korean tech heavyweights Samsung SDI Co. and LG Chem Ltd. are expected to expand their market share as they secure hefty energy storage system (...

With a number of high-profile US startups in line for initial public offerings, investors in South Korean startups may be looking to Wall Street for c...

South Korea's parliament looks set to pass new legislation to ban financing on foreign coal power projects, putting all overseas coal-fired plant deal...

Biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. has agreed to develop a tablet-type treatment for autoimmune diseases jointly with the UK biotech startup Intract Phar...

Hanwha Group may exercise its rights to operate more than 700 hydrogen fueling stations to be built across the US and Canada by US hydr...

SK Hynix Inc. has recently participated in a $60 million funding for the US semiconductor startup SiFive, SK Hynix said on August 12.Saudi Aramco and ...

The National Pension Service will set up teams in its overseas offices to directly handle active investments in traditional assets such as equiti...

The initial public offering of JR Global REIT, set to be South Korea’s first listed REIT backed by overseas property, was undersubscribed 0.23 t...

Mirae Asset Financial Group has invested $28 million in Shanghai-based biotechnology startup JW Therapeutics, about a quarter of $100 million financin...

ST Unitas, known for English test and civil service exam preparation classes in South Korea, will receive around 150 billion won ($123 million) in inv...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. has earned a 150% return on a $15 million investment in German biotechnology firm BioNTech SE in nine months, securing $22...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. has led a $23 million investment in Indian food delivery platform Swiggy by South Korean companies in their first investme...