Affinity Equity to refinance Serveone to recoup investment

Affinity Equity to refinance Serveone to recoup investment

Affinity Equity Partners is in the process of raising 700 billion won ($565 million) to recapitalize South Korea's Serveone Co. in an attempt to rec...

Samsung Heavy sells undelivered drillships to PEF

Samsung Heavy sells undelivered drillships to PEF

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has sold its four undelivered drillships to a domestic private equity fund for a combined 1.04 trillion w...

Korea’s Yoon govt to raise nuclear power to 34% of energy source

Korea’s Yoon govt to raise nuclear power to 34% of energy source

South Korea’s incoming government plans to extend the service life of eight more nuclear power plants than originally planned as President-ele...

KT showcases AI-powered robots, traffic control program at tech fair

KT showcases AI-powered robots, traffic control program at tech fair

KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications company, unveiled its new digital transformation services using artificial intelligence, big data ...

Koreans poised to be India's first non-resident direct stock buyers

Koreans poised to be India's first non-resident direct stock buyers

South Korean individuals are likely to become the first non-resident direct stock investors in India, after the South Asian country lifted the ceili...

KT taps Vietnam for digital healthcare and AI-powered diagnosis

KT taps Vietnam for digital healthcare and AI-powered diagnosis

KT Corp., a major telecommunications company in South Korea, is set to enter the Vietnamese healthcare market with a pilot telemedicine service an...

Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead

Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead

South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group will cease dawn delivery services for fresh food from this weekend, two years after it jumped into the ...

Creator tech startup Awake Corp. attracts over $892,000 in seed funding 

Creator tech startup Awake Corp. attracts over $892,000 in seed funding 

Awake Corp., a startup that operates platforms to assist online creators, recently attracted 1.1 billion won ($892,473) in seed capital. The total a...

Kakao Piccoma acquires Japan’s cryptocurrency exchange SEBC

Kakao Piccoma acquires Japan’s cryptocurrency exchange SEBC

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has acquired a controlling stake in Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese c...

KTB rebrands with name change as Daol Financial Group

KTB rebrands with name change as Daol Financial Group

Daol Financial Group of South Korea, formerly known as KTB Financial Group, announced on March 25 the change in the company's name. Daol, a Korean w...

Korea shipbuilders aim for strong demand on tougher rules

Korea shipbuilders aim for strong demand on tougher rules

South Korea’s shipbuilders targeted demand for new vessels and ship modification as tougher environmental regulations are scheduled to take ef...

Krafton signs MOU with Solana for blockchain-based games and services

Krafton signs MOU with Solana for blockchain-based games and services

South Korea’s leading game developer Krafton Inc. announced Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with San Francisco-based Solana ...

Korea rises as test bed for global luxury brands

Korea rises as test bed for global luxury brands

South Korea is becoming a test bed for global high-end brands such as Balenciaga, Valentino, IWC and Breitling. The world's top luxury brands, pre...

Naver launches conversational search engine service 

Naver launches conversational search engine service 

South Korea’s internet juggernaut Naver Corp. announced Friday it has launched a conversational search engine service called Knowledge Interac...

Service robot maker Bear Robotics raises $81 mn in Series B

Service robot maker Bear Robotics raises $81 mn in Series B

South Korea’s robotics startup Bear Robotics Inc. announced Wednesday it raised $81 million in Series B funding from venture capital heavywe...

Hyundai eyes LNG ship-to-floating storage unit conversion market

Hyundai eyes LNG ship-to-floating storage unit conversion market

The ongoing war in Ukraine and tougher emission standards are creating a new market for shipbuilders: converting aged liquefied natural gas (LNG) ca...

Korean shipbuilders see material impact from sanctions on Russia

Korean shipbuilders see material impact from sanctions on Russia

International sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are set to have a material impact on South Korea’s three largest shipbuilders, ...

Hyundai Heavy targets $2.5 bn Saudi escort ships deal

Hyundai Heavy targets $2.5 bn Saudi escort ships deal

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co. targets Saudi Arabia’s project for new escort ships worth up to $2.5 billion. The wo...

S.Korean builders, tech stocks rally after election

S.Korean builders, tech stocks rally after election

The South Korean stock market rose across the board on Thursday, reacting positively to the election of former prosecutor generator Yoon Suk-yeol as...

K Car's evolution into top Korean used car sales platform

K Car's evolution into top Korean used car sales platform

When Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. acquired K Car Co. from SK Group in 2018, the No. 1 used car retailer in South Korea controlled ...

Samsung, LG fret over shipping lines’ delivery halt to Russia

Samsung, LG fret over shipping lines’ delivery halt to Russia

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s two major exporters, are jittery about global shipping lines’ decision to...

Korean LPs name their 36 favorite alternative asset managers

Korean LPs name their 36 favorite alternative asset managers

KKR was chosen as the best private equity firm by South Korean institutional investors, a survey shows. Blackstone, Macquarie Asset Management and Are...

Hyundai Glovis aims to top global car transport market

Hyundai Glovis aims to top global car transport market

Hyundai Glovis Co., the world’s second-largest car shipping company, aims to top the industry with an expansion of its fleet, specializing in ...

AI translation service Iyuno SDI chair expects continued surge in demand

AI translation service Iyuno SDI chair expects continued surge in demand

“As demand for over-the-top (OTT) services grows, so will the bid for companies that provide translated subtitles in multiple languages,&rdq...

SK Ecoplant buys e-waste recycling firm for $1 bn

SK Ecoplant buys e-waste recycling firm for $1 bn

South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. has acquired Singapore-based electronic waste (e-waste) disposal and recycling company TES Envirocorp Pte. Ltd for $1 ...

KT provides AI-powered voice recognition service to Mercedez

KT provides AI-powered voice recognition service to Mercedez

South Korea’s top wireless carrier KT Corp. announced Thursday that it has launched an AI-powered voice recognition service for Mercedez-Benz ...

Samsung SDS joins hands with Amazon for global cloud business

Samsung SDS joins hands with Amazon for global cloud business

Samsung SDS Co., South Korea’s information technology service company, is set to expand its global cloud service business in cooperation with ...

KT to join MBK, IMM in Megazone Cloud's $400 mn funding

KT to join MBK, IMM in Megazone Cloud's $400 mn funding

KT Corp., South Korea's No. 2 telecom operator, has decided to invest 130 billion won ($110 million) in Megazone Cloud Corp., the country's largest ...

Genie Music sets itself apart with focus on metaverse, NFTs

Genie Music sets itself apart with focus on metaverse, NFTs

Audio streaming platform Genie Music Corp. has held four metaverse concerts for K-pop singer Jamie Park so far this month. At one point during ...

MBK, IMM to invest over $300 mn in Megazone Cloud

MBK, IMM to invest over $300 mn in Megazone Cloud

MBK Partners and IMM Private Equity will each be investing 200 billion won ($167 million) in Megazone Cloud Corp., the first South Korean business p...

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