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The Korea Development Bank (KDB) has decided to invest 80 billion won ($72 million) in the fintech startup Toss via a rights offering. This marks th...

Samsung Electronics Co., the bellwether of South Korea’s main bourse, has returned as the market darling, with foreigners buying heavily on th...

Goldman Sachs Asset Management focuses on middle-market, value-add strategy for infrastructure deals, targeting the sectors undergoing a digital tra...

Hyundai Motor became the key beneficiary of South Korean institutional investors' heavy buying on the local bourse this month as the global chip sho...

A UK-focused real estate debt fund, managed by New York-based BentallGreenOak, has received a combined £170 million ($241 million) in commitme...

South Korea’s leading rental car company Lotte Rental Co. has kicked off an initial public offering process to raise some 400 billion won ($36...

LG Chem Ltd. suffered a broad sell-off on May 26, with more than 4 trillion won ($3.6 billion) of its market cap vanishing in a single trading day, ...

Meet Mr. A, born in the '80s and a self-proclaimed "analog person" who enjoys collecting CDs and artbooks of his favorite painters. But recently, Mr...

South Korea's IGIS Asset Management Co. and Hana Financial Investment Co. have acquired a 49% stake in the headquarters of the US mortgage lender Fa...

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), the battery materials subsidiary of SK Innovation Co., has set a new record for initial public offering demand, briefl...

Seoul-based IMM Private Equity will acquire a 40% stake in South Korea’s SK Lubricants Co., wholly owned by SK Innovation Co., for about one t...

Fashion e-commerce platforms that have become mainstream shopping venues for millennials and Generation Z, or MZers, are seeing their valuations sur...

South Korea-based fintech firm Korea Credit Data (KCD) has raised around 40 billion won ($36 million) from Singapore-based private equity firm Pavil...

Chinese investors trading in digital assets such as bitcoin are reaping decent arbitrage gains in South Korea as the so-called Kimchi Premium has re...

The combined balance of overseas real estate investment funds sold in South Korea saw a drop in their net asset value below the original value by 40...

South Korean tech giant Kakao’s unlisted subsidiaries have posted record-high growth figures for the previous financial year. According to Kak...

Fan-tailored innovation is the crux of the success behind K-pop sensation BTS' label, according to Lenzo (Seok-jun) Yoon, chief executive of Big Hit...

Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. have urged shareholders of LG Corp. to vote against the South...

South Korean vaccine maker SK Bioscience Co. has set a new record for initial public offering demand, raising around 63.6 trillion won ($56 billio...

The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has named new heads of its private equity and absolute return groups this week, following the replacement of ...

Early stage startups are almost always risky ventures, promising but unprofitable, and far from market-ready – often making it challenging to ...

MBK Partners and two leading South Korean conglomerates – SK and CJ groups – have chalked up hefty returns from investments in Chinese l...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has entrusted funds to three overseas alternative investment firms newly hired in the fourth quarter of last year...

South Korea’s online retailer Coupang Corp. is looking to secure a credit line of up to $1 billion from the underwriters of its US initial pub...

South Korean investors in the Drew Las Vegas development project are at higher risk of losing their investment of 300 billion won ($271 million) in ...

For retail investors of Samsung Electronics Co., the stock’s recent drop is reminiscent of the 2018 crash, when individuals who snapped up the...

South Korea’s financial regulator has decided to allow the short selling of large-cap stocks from May 3 despite opposition from retail investo...

Celltrion Inc. and HLB Inc., two leading South Korean biopharmaceutical shares, shot up on Monday as the main bourse’s key index climbed back ...

Financial investors in South Korea's No. 1 food delivery app Baedal Minjok (Baemin) are set to exit in the first quarter of this year, closing t...

Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-Sure) has agreed to provide $3 billion in trade credit insurance to Saudi Arabia to help South Korean companies win o...