small and middle-sized businesses

South Korea’s major companies are rushing to secure cash to fund new business. Some have sold or securitized property, while others issued n...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is investing 4.4 trillion won ($3.8 billion) in hydrogen projects by 2030 to foster the business as a new g...

South Korea's traditional banks, led by KB, Shinhan, Hana and Woori, will need to strengthen their online platforms as KakaoBank, the country's lead...

South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO is emerging stronger from the pandemic-caused economic slowdown, with a record quarterly profit on robu...

SK Global Chemical (SKGC), a petrochemical subsidiary of SK Innovation Co., plans to build a plastic waste recycling plant in South Korea to extract...

Samsung Electronics Co.’s light-emitting diode (LED) business, which was almost on the verge of a shutdown due to its sluggish performance, is...

Samsung Electronics Co. said its operating profit in the second quarter likely surged more than 50%, beating market expectations, thanks to its heal...

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. expects to post significant revenue growth in its home appliance business in the second quarter, driven by p...

LG Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group, is investing 100 billion won ($88 million) in Kakao Mobil...

BTS agency HYBE’s founder Bang Si-hyuk will resign from his position as CEO to focus on music production. HYBE said that Bang will remain as c...

Multinational biopharmaceutical companies have dominated the world’s diagnostics market for years. However, the coronavirus pandemic, which st...

South Korea’s construction firm Jungheung Construction Co., in a move to strengthen its global foothold, is buying its much larger-sized rival...

The sale of Citibank Korea’s consumer banking business is gaining traction as potential bidders have started due diligence of the bank, with e...

South Korea-based diagnostic kit maker Seegene Inc. has developed a mobile diagnostic and testing lab that offers a one-stop solution for COVID-19 t...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and Grab Holdings Inc. have agreed to strengthen their partnership in mobility services to accelerate the ad...

“Just give us three weeks. We’ll offer a price by then.”This conversation took place in early March. A senior executive from retai...

South Korea-based Line Plus Corp. is set to become the country's first large business group to allow employees to work from home permanently. T...

South Korea’s major banks are rushing to Singapore as the city-state is emerging as a new financial hub in Southeast Asia, replacing the tradi...

Coupang Corp. has executed changes in leadership roles to focus more on overseas ventures. The company has entered Japan and Singapore this year. So...

South Korea’s leading oil and gas company GS Energy Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Holdings, and Spain’s largest utility company...

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun is in the United States seeking business opportunities in one of the South Korean automotive group’s...

Samsung Electronics Co. will commercialize a wearable robot for healthcare by the end of this year as the South Korean tech giant is delving into th...

The telecom companies in South Korea, one after another, are taking bold steps outside their traditional turf of mobile business.  They are eng...

Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new multi-chip that integrates high-performance DRAM and NAND flash memory chips into a single compact packag...

South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank Co. is seeking to list its shares on the local bourse next year, according to its parent Hyundai Heavy Industri...

The Nature Holdings, a South Korean importer of popular apparel brands such as National Geographic, Jeep, NFL and Vera Wang, has been chosen as the ...

The recent decision by Barbour, the British lifestyle brand under J. Barbour & Sons Ltd., to transfer the rights to sell its products in South K...

South Korea-based venture capital firms are likely to see rankings shift once the glory days of lucrative exits in a liquidity-driven market are gon...

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co. is set for a successful rights offering as the defense and air mobility unit of Hanwha Group has garnered str...

The global chip shortage is impacting South Korea’s COVID-19 test device makers. They are paying up to 10 times the normal price of semiconduc...