private equity investments

South Korea-based venture capital firm STIC Ventures has recently invested $2 million in a Vietnamese logistics startup EcoTruck, a move aimed at bo...

Samsung Group, Hyundai Motor Group, SK Group and LG Group, companies unofficially accompanying South Korean President Moon Jae-in on his state visit...

South Korean companies have posted their best-ever quarterly sales and operating profits, emerging from a year-long slump caused by the global COVID...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is diversifying into electric vehicle raw materials and hydrogen businesses as new growth drivers, moving a...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit is set to secure 600 billion won ($530 million) from South Korea-based private equity firm Anchor Equity Partners....

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), an $11 billion savings fund for South Korean military officers and personnel, said on Monday it has name...

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 LG Group will spend about 120 billion won ($106 million) over the next three years to establish a massive high-performance compu...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has earmarked over 1 trillion won ($900 million) for new real estate investments overseas ...

Hyundai Motor Group will pump $7.4 billion into its US operations by 2025, with a focus on future mobility segments, including electric vehicles (EV...

The Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) is keeping an eye on cryptocurrencies as some famed hedge fund managers began investing in the virtual asset, but i...

The Netherlands-based ASML Holding N.V., the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor equipment, will be joining the South Korean government-...

Samsung Electronics Co. will invest 171 trillion won ($151 billion) by 2030 to take over the global foundry leadership from its archrival TSMC. The ...

South Korea-based Queenit, a fashion mobile platform targeting middle-aged women, has secured around 5.5 billion won ($5 million) from a pool of hig...

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemical and battery maker, said on Tuesday it is investing 150 billion won ($134 million) in an incubator...

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...

CVC Capital Partners has appointed Chris Rhee, a former partner of Affinity Equity Partners, as its Seoul office head and global partner, according ...

Veteran value investor Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital Management co-founder and co-chairman, will give a keynote speech on the topic of "Investing in t...

A Twosome Place is poised to be South Korea's first listed coffee chain as its owner Anchor Equity Partners has kicked off the process of its initia...

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. and Mirae Asset Group have agreed to launch a 100 billion won ($90 million) joint venture-capital fund to he...

South Korea-based venture capital firm DSC Investment announced on Apr. 27 that it has acquired a 6.5% stake, valued at around 6.5 billion won ($5.8...

Second-tier chipmakers have been ramping up investment to boost their footing in the industry as they expect chip demand to gradually increase in li...

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...

SK Group will enter the fast-growing electric vehicle (EV) charger market by acquiring a majority stake in South Korea’s industrial charger ...

Samsung Electronics Co., the only South Korean company invited to a special White House meeting on the global semiconductor shortage, is likely to f...

The National Pension Service has bowed to pressure from retail investors to raise the upper limit for domestic stock purchases, after it was blamed ...

Iyuno-SDI Group, a South Korean content localization firm, has received $160 million in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, a follow-on investment ...

South Korea’s online platform giant Naver Corp. has invested $150 million in Elang Mahkota Teknologi (Emtek), Indonesia’s largest techno...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit, which operates Japan’s largest webtoon platform Piccoma, is in talks to attract as much as 500 billion won ...

South Korea’s SK Group is expected to pocket at least a tenfold return from its investment in electric vehicle battery startup SES as the batt...