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Hanwha Group Vice Chairman Kim Dong-kwan, the heir apparent of the South Korean energy-to-defense conglomerate, has been named a senior advisor at S...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday it is curtailing chip production after its semiconductor busines...

Investors are readying their return to the stock market in South Korea, encouraged by the rosy outlook for secondary battery stocks, but more retail...

The Korean government has decided to develop electric vehicle batteries that can travel more than 600 km on a single charge and lunar landing vehicl...

Private equity giant MBK Partners focused on defending its portfolio last year, especially Chinese companies during the lockdown, while being active...

South Korea’s Ably Corp., operator of the fashion shopping app Ably, has attracted 50 billion won ($39 million) via venture debt amid the slow...

A South Korean autonomous-driving robot startup Neubility aims to increase supply by almost nine times this year as demand for such machines in the ...

South Korea's Kolon Group announced on Wednesday that Kolon DACC Composite participated in the launch of the first private test launch vehicle in Ko...

LB Investment Inc., a venture capital firm associated with the LG founder's family, has achieved a remarkable competition rate of over 1,000 to 1 fo...

South Korean biotech GI Innovation Inc. is slated to debut on the local public market at less than half of its pre-IPO investment value, facing luke...

South Korean space startup Innospace said on Monday it has launched a suborbital test projectile, the country’s first private launch vehicle, ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is slated to undergo a management reshuffle for the first time since Chief Investment Officer Seo...

South Korea's hypermarket Lotte Mart on Wednesday announced the debut of its integrated private brand (PB) Good Today under its plan to conduct focu...

Individual investors in South Korea this year have made net bond purchases, or the difference between the buying and selling amounts, worth over 7 t...

The value of investments will fluctuate, which will cause prices to fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the original amount they inv...

Tmap Mobility Co., the Korean navigation app company, announced on Tuesday its plan to sell its 30% stake in Grab Geo Holdings, a joint venture esta...

Investors welcomed the end of a fierce month-long battle between HYBE Co. and Kakao Corp. over control of South Korea’s K-pop pioneer SM Enter...

Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of the BTS label HYBE Co., has kicked off his campaign to gather support from institutional investors to take con...

South Korea's SK Networks has identified a startup specializing in AI-based devices and software platforms as a new investment target. The startup, ...

Foreign investors bought more South Korean stocks in February, extending their buying spree to five months.The Financial Supervisory Service of Kore...

SK Incheon Petrochemical, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Innovation Co., on Sunday said it made an equity investment in the eco-friendly sta...

LG Electronics Inc. is seeking to make inroads into the private 5G network market, set to grow rapidly amid accelerated migration to automation in a...

South Korea has started the process to privatize the country’s No. 1 container line HMM Co. by tapping advisors for the sale of the controllin...

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., has made an equity investment in ION Clean Energy Inc., ...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...

Seoul-based activist fund Tcha Partners Asset Management Co. on Monday demanded that South Korea’s Namyang Dairy Products Co. buy back half of...

Affinity Equity Partners has refinanced 170 billion won ($130 million) in debt borrowed to acquire Burger King’s operations in South Korea and...

Many investors are questioning whether private markets will stay bullish amid uncertainty in 2023. The markets will continue to generate interesting...

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is likely to face a tougher battle against activist shareholders as an aggressive hed...

South Korean companies are returning to the local initial public offering market this year, after failing their market debuts last year. But that ha...