Korean exodus from China funds amid deepening property crisis  

South Korean investors’ retreat from Chinese equity funds of nearly 10 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in total principal is accelerating amid dee...

Samsung weighs retooling Galaxy S series with Exynos chipsets  

Samsung Electronics Co. is seeking to switch the application processors (APs) of some Galaxy S models to its Exynos chipsets next year to lower its ...

CJ Foodville picks Arges PE as preferred negotiator to attract investment

Arges Private Equity has been chosen as the preferred negotiator for attracting investment in CJ Foodville, the food service subsidiary of South Kor...

Korea taps Greyhound Capital, Headline Asia as venture fund managers

South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced the results of selecting global fund management companies for the year 2023 on Monday. The chos...

Baby Shark to be aired in Indonesia through RTV

South Korea's The Pinkfong Company, popularly known for its "Baby Shark" character, recently inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with RTV, Ind...

Samsung raises $2.2 billion via ASML stake sale for chip investment

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has sold 3.55 million shares in Dutch chip equipment maker ASML Holding N.V. fo...

Blackstone, KKR join race for Korean pension fund's real estate debt

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has shortlisted four global investment firms, Blackstone, KKR & Co., Goldman Sac...

KCGI Asset Management appoints former KIS head as new CMO

South Korea’s KCGI Asset Management, formerly Meritz Asset Management, announced on Friday that it has hired Cho Won-bok, former division head...

Korean game developers look to revive heyday with reboots of old hits

South Korea’s game developers are rushing to remake classic titles to recover profitability by appealing to former fans with hit intellectual ...

Samsung’s latest Galaxy smartphones, watches hit global markets

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest models of its flagship Galaxy series of smartphones, watches and tablets have begun hitting the shelves of the comp...

Preorders for new Galaxy foldable smartphones exceed 1 million

The Samsung Electronics Co. foldable Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 could be the next big thing on the smartphone market.The company on Tuesday said it ...

Samsung leads Apple in smartphone sales, albeit less profitable

Samsung Electronics Co. solidified its position as the world’s top smartphone vendor by volume in the second quarter, widening its sales gap w...

LG Electronics to form $100-million global startup fund

LG Electronics Inc. has committed over $100 million to a startup fund to unearth new technologies in sustainable energy, digital health, artificial ...

NPS commits $724 mn to CVC Capital’s ninth PE fund

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, has committed €‎650 million ($724 million...

S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025

The South Korean government and the private sector will jointly create a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund pool worth more than 8 trillion won ($...

KKR leads $190 mn Series C funding of fashion platform Musinsa

South Korea’s leading fashion platform Musinsa said on Wednesday it has attracted 240 billion won ($189.7 million) in its Series C funding rou...

S.Korea files to revoke PCA ruling in favor of Elliott

South Korea has decided to challenge an international arbitration tribunal’s decision a month ago ordering the Korean government to compensate...

KKR Co-CEO Joe Bae meets NPS, KIC execs in S.Korea

KKR Co. Co-Chief Executive Joseph Bae made a visit to South Korea last week to meet with senior managers of the country’s top limited partners...

Catchtable raises $24 mn in Series D funding

South Korean startup WAD, the operator of a restaurant reservation service platform, has recently raised 30 billion won($24 million) in a Series D f...

NPS commits $163 mn to Macquarie's sixth Korean buyout fund

Macquarie Asset Management is aiming to close its sixth buyout fund in South Korea at a maximum of 1 trillion won ($775.6 million) by the first ha...

Retail investors test EcoPro’s upside as Korea’s GameStop

Shares of EcoPro Co., a South Korean battery materials maker, have skyrocketed this year, rising 848% year to date to break above the 1 million won ...

SK Hynix eyes wastewater facilities sale for $770 mn

SK Hynix Inc. is in talks with its affiliate SK REIT Co. to sell the wastewater treatment facilities within its semiconductor campus in Icheon, Gyeo...

Korean startups feel bite of funding drought in H1

The drought in venture capital funding worsened in South Korea in the first half of this year, taking an especially heavy toll on platform and b...

Samsung unveils global campaign video of Galaxy Z

Samsung Electronics Co. has announced the release of a new global campaign video ahead of the unveiling of the new foldable phone series on July 26....

Kumho Tire signs official sponsorship deal with AC Milan

South Korea's Kumho Tire Co. has signed a sponsorship agreement as the official tire partner with the prestigious Italian football club AC Milan.Kum...

Ontario, S.Korea VC firm to establish $76 mn healthcare fund

Canada's Ontario government has joined hands with a South Korean venture capital firm to establish a fund of 100 million Canadian dollars ($75.6 mil...

Woongjin ThinkBig signs licensing deal with Disney

South Korean educational technology company Woongjin ThinkBig Co. on Tuesday said it signed a licensing agreement with Walt Disney Korea, the domest...

Korean ETFs’ net asset value doubles in 3.5 years

South Korea’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surpassed 100 trillion won ($75.7 billion) in net asset value for the first time on Thursday, 21 ye...

K-drama hitmaker Studio Dragon in crisis as content head resigns

Studio Dragon Corp., a South Korean production company of Netflix hits such as "The Glory" and "Crash Landing on You," said on Monday its co-Chief E...

How North Korea’s Hacker Army Stole $3 Billion in Crypto, Funding Nuclear Program

Last year an engineer working for the blockchain gaming company Sky Mavis thought he was on the cusp of a new job that would pay more money.A recrui...