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SebitChem Co., South Korea’s secondary battery recycling company, is seeking an initial public offering, taking advantage of investors’ ...

In South Korea, the list of early stage startups that garnered more than 5 billion won ($3.8 million) in the last 12 months looks slightly different...

South Korean startups that exceed $1 billion in valuations, known as unicorns, are pushing back their initial public offering (IPO) dates.The move c...

South Korean fabless startup Rebellions Inc. received a 30 billion won ($23 million) extension to its Series A funding from telecom giant KT Corp.KT...

As economic uncertainties grow amid rate hikes and inflation, South Korean institutional investors are eyeing direct lending for safer investment an...

South Korea’s shares on Friday rebounded after tumbling in the previous two straight sessions, outperforming their peers in Asia, but few expe...

Amid escalating market uncertainties, M&As are not just a growth tactic but survival tools for businesses, Euan Rellie, co-founder and managing ...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the investment holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, and SK On Co., the battery unit of SK Innovation Co.,...

Some major securities firms in South Korea are having difficulties with overseas alternative assets they have yet to sell down. The brokerage firm...

LB Investment has submitted a preliminary assessment request to the Korea Stock Exchange, the first step to an initial public offering. It chose Mir...

South Korean private equity firms that plan to inject a total of 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) into SK Ecoplant Co. are having a hard time raising t...

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s aerospace manufacturer, has agreed to join forces with Lockheed Martin Corp. to enter the...

South Korea’s Hanwha Corp. discussed on June 10 its ESG activities in the first half of this year and is set to announce plans for enhancing s...

Vertical service providers are dominating South Korea’s venture business ecosystem, in a study of the country’s early stage startups by ...

Major institutional investors in South Korea have a largely positive outlook on infrastructure amid the macroeconomic risks, such as inflation and...

South Korean real estate investors prefer liquidity and stable payback on investment, as well as investing in debts amid market uncertainty. The lim...

South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung has unveiled a plan to invest 450 trillion won ($355 billion) over the next five years in strategic sec...

Dongwon Group, South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate, is changing the merger ratio of its two major affiliates, accepting a...

Cryptocurrency investors in South Korea have threatened to file a class action lawsuit against co-founders of the disgraced blockchain platform oper...

The value of Luna, the cryptocurrency linked to stablecoin TerraUSD, now hovers just above $0. Just a week ago, its market capitalization was around...

One Store Co., South Korea's homegrown app store, on Wednesday canceled its initial public offering on the Korea Exchange, after its shares failed t...

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. will make its foray into the small modular reactor (SMR) market by joining the US-based NuScale Power in buildin...

South Korean leading security services provider SK Shieldus Co. has scrapped its plan to go public this month. Its bookbuilding gained tepid investo...

IonQ Inc., a US-listed quantum computing firm, has become a new target of short selling-focused Scorpion Capital, taking a hit from the US hedge fun...

South Korea’s incoming administration seeks to export 10 nuclear power plants by 2030 as President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to rescind the ...

South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group has picked Vietnam’s e-commerce startup Tiki as its first strategic partner in the Southeast Asian count...

Investment rights for dozens of Korean calves, worth a combined 10 million won ($7,900), sold out within one minute after each of the three investme...

South Korea’s retail investors are increasingly more bullish in startups than in manufacturing or retail firms. The Ministry of SMEs an...

NH Investment & Securities Co. has set up its affiliate incorporated in London, the South Korean major brokerage house announced on April 27. ...

Foreign investors’ holding rate in South Korea’s main bourse Kospi has plunged to the lowest level since 2010. The investors have dispos...