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The local government of South Korea’s capital city Seoul this year will launch its own vision fund, dubbed the Seoul Vision 2030 Fund, to inve...

Despite South Korea's Kosdaq stock market growing this month following the "January rally," individual investors in the country are still betting on...

3D content technology startup NdotLight Co. said Wednesday that it has raised 8 billion won ($6.3 million) in Series A funding.IMM Investment, Naver...

As venture capitalists tighten their purse strings amid looming recession fears, only startups with killer products that generate profits are well-p...

South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, lags far behind other countries in attaining unicorn startups in the artificial intellige...

South Korean institutional investors, such as pension funds, mutual aids and corporates, are rushing to money market funds (MMFs) for short-term pro...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, has underperformed its global peers over the past decade in te...

South Korean start-up Una Stella announced on Monday that it has secured 5.5 billion won ($4.4 million) in pre-Series A funding, led by Strong Ventu...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, ranked 10th out of the global 42 state-owned investors by rate...

Hanwha Solutions Corp. said on Monday that its business unit Hanwha Solutions Insight Division has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with S...

South Korean kids learning platform Norit won the monthly pitch competition hosted by D.Camp, a Seoul-based startup accelerator, on Jan. 26.Norit ma...

A-Team Ventures, which runs an online manufacturing platform "Capa," said on Friday that it has raised a Series B funding of 5 billion won ($4.1 mil...

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, on Thursday refused activist funds' requests to spin off and list its ginseng unit wh...

South Korea's retail property technology startup Sweet Spot attracted a Series B investment of 9.5 billion won ($7.7 million) from venture capital a...

NHN Cloud Co., a computer clouding service provider, has raised 150 billion won ($120 million) from South Korea-based IMM Investment, joining the ra...

Silicon Valley was the favorite place for South Korean startups for their global business as more of them were established in other countries for th...

Celltrion Inc. has secured an additional stake in the UK's antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) developer Iksuda Therapeutics.According to Celltrion on Wed...

A Singapore-based activist fund has stepped up pressure on the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G Corp. to reform governance and boo...

Integration Inc., which operates specialized platforms for medical personnel such as Traditional Korean Medicine doctors and dentists, has raised 10...

South Korea’s SM Entertainment Co. will increase the number of outside directors and ban its chief executive from chairing the board as part o...

ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates will invest $30 billion in South Korea across strategic sectors, including the nuclear power, defense, hy...

From now on, companies in South Korea that have raised funds by issuing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) bonds will have to answer questi...

Slush, one of the world’s largest startup events, is set to hold a spin-off meeting in South Korea this year.Slush is a startup and tech event...

South Korea's largest chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a domestic resource circulation start-up Netspa...

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering company, will enter the US battery recycling business by investing in promising startups, C...

Profitable South Korean startups succeeded in fundraising despite an economic downturn as investors sought stable earnings from companies with clear...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups on Monday said it would release the next day its plan for the so-called 2023 Super-gap Startup 1,000+ Project in w...

Lotte Engineering & Construction (E&C) has secured financing of 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion).The company on Monday announced its conclusi...

Alt-A, which provides a transportation system specialized in last-mile roads, said Monday that it has received pre-series A funding from Shinh...

A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...