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South Korea-based energy company SK E&S Co. is pushing to liquidate its assets by carrying out a stake sale in its profitable city gas businesse...

Google Inc. is planning to invest around $270 million in Kakao Mobility Corp., the transportation arm of South Korea's No. 1 messaging operator Kaka...

South Korea’s SK Innovation Co. on Friday posted record sales revenue in its electric-vehicle battery business in the fourth quarter of 2020 a...

South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s Geely Auto Group are looking to set up a joint fund designed to invest in hydrogen and other e...

South Korea’s leading mobile app operator Kakao Corp.’s affiliates are set to merge to become a new entity, Kakao Entertainment, heraldi...

Vietnam’s largest conglomerate Vingroup is interested in acquiring part of LG Electronics Inc.’s smartphone operation to bolster its hig...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has completed due diligence on the synthetic rubber operation of JSR Corp., put up for sale by the Japanese...

South Korea-based LG Electronics Inc. looks to be considering selling off its struggling smartphone division, which has been in the red for 23 con...

Plug and Play (PnP), a Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, will team up with the city of Seoul to invest in South Korean venture firms with sm...

Japan’s JSR Corp. is reaching out to Korean chemical companies to dispose of its synthetic rubber business and focus instead on semiconductor ...

South Korea-based Kakao Enterprise has topped 1 trillion won ($921.5 million) in enterprise value, just a year after its inception in 2019, follow...

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. and game developer NCSoft Corp. are looking to post their best-ever earnings for a second stra...

South Korea's mobile-only bank has wrapped up its $920.5 million rights offering, placing the enterprise value at around 9.3 trillion won ($8.6 ...

Hanwha Solutions Corp. is preparing to raise 1.2 trillion won ($1.1 billion) through rights issues to shore up new growth drivers, particularly it...

S-Oil Corp., 63.4% owned by Saudi Aramco, will more than double its petrochemical production capacity over the next decade to further expand beyond ...

Kakao Games Corp. has injected around 190 billion won ($173 million) into South Korean game company Neptune Corp., pouring in nearly half the proc...

Growth in South Korea’s venture capital investments has been slow relative to the pace of the country’s economic growth, creating an opp...

A decade ago, if you dropped the word "remake" into conversation with someone who worked in the Korean film industry, a discussion might have ensued...

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a series of commercial law revisions designed to limit business owners’ clout and enhance supervisio...

Samsung Electronics Co. has agreed to hand over the business rights for its in vitro diagnostics (IVD) unit to a South Korean bio company as part ...

Venture capital investments in South Korea are seeing a speedy recovery after facing a setback earlier this year due to the COVID-19 crisis. Over th...

South Korea's largest mobile app operator Kakao Corp. is working to merge its content platform affiliates, a strategic move that should boost the en...

SK Holdings Co., the holding company of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, aims to be at the forefront of the country's hydrogen ecosystem as part ...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced a leadership shuffle in its two key businesses – memory chips and foundry – as the South ...

South Korea’s leading platform giant Kakao Corp. has joined hands with China’s tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. to tap into the Chinese ...

South Korea’s leading webtoon (digital comics) platforms are wrestling to secure the No. 1 position in the global market as they work to tak...

South Korean IT heavyweight NHN Corp. and US-based tech giant Intel Corp. have entered into a strategic partnership to boost their presence in the c...

Global tech giant Google’s in-app payment policy has been coolly received by South Korea’s leading platform companies, fueling criticism...

Kakao Mobility Corp., the transportation arm of South Korea's No. 1 messaging operator Kakao Corp., is in talks with global IT giant Google over pot...

DONGHAE, Gangwon Province -- On a winter’s day in Donghae, Gangwon Province, some 250 km northeast of Seoul, LS Cable & System Ltd. wor...