Samsung Life buys 20% of French asset manager Meridiam

Samsung Life buys 20% of French asset manager Meridiam

Samsung Life Insurance, managing 223.1 trillion won ($167.5 billion) in assets, has acquired a 20% stake in Paris-based infrastructure investment fi...

S.Korean LPs to up exposure to private debt, infrastructure in 2023: Survey

S.Korean LPs to up exposure to private debt, infrastructure in 2023: Survey

South Korean institutional investors are eyeing private debt and infrastructure for stable income and to hedge against inflation, a survey by The Kore...

Innocean to cooperate domestic EV charging company for marketing

Innocean to cooperate domestic EV charging company for marketing

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EV...

IGIS, KKR delay plan to set up Seoul-based real estate JV

IGIS, KKR delay plan to set up Seoul-based real estate JV

IGIS Asset Management Co., the largest real estate investment firm in South Korea, and US private equity giant KKR & Co. have indefinitely postp...

SK, Lotte participate in Asia's largest plastic exhibition

SK, Lotte participate in Asia's largest plastic exhibition

Major chemical companies in South Korea, such as SK Geo Centric (formerly SK Global Chemical), Lotte Chemical Corp. and Lotte Fine Chemical, are par...

POSCO International to transform into green company by 2030

POSCO International to transform into green company by 2030

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., on Thursday unvei...

LG shares soar as UK asset manager Silchester raises stake

LG shares soar as UK asset manager Silchester raises stake

LG Corp., the holding firm of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group, saw its share price soar in the local market on Wednesday as...

SK Biopharmaceuticals wins Red Dot award for 2 devices

SK Biopharmaceuticals wins Red Dot award for 2 devices

South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals on Tuesday said two of its self-developed wearable devices won the main prize in the health care category ...

LS Group' corporate value soars as EV battery market grows

LS Group' corporate value soars as EV battery market grows

LS Corp., a holding company of South Korea's LS Group, has seen its enterprise value swell by nearly 1 trillion won ($760 million) over the past yea...

S.Korea's D-Rex Polymer starts making green adhesive

S.Korea's D-Rex Polymer starts making green adhesive

South Korean petrochemical company DL Chemical on Thursday said its subsidiary D-Rex Polymer on April 1 began production of an eco-friendly adhesive...

Energy storage devices firm LS Materials launches IPO process

Energy storage devices firm LS Materials launches IPO process

South Korea’s energy storage devices maker LS Materials Co. began the process for an initial public offering later this year as it aims to dev...

S.Korean carbon trading company EcoEye seeks listing

S.Korean carbon trading company EcoEye seeks listing

South Korean carbon credit trading company EcoEye Co. is preparing for an initial public offering, poised to be the first listing of a firm in the s...

S.Korea's Innocean wins awards in 5 categories at AD Awards of the Year

S.Korea's Innocean wins awards in 5 categories at AD Awards of the Year

Innocean, a global provider of marketing and communication services under the Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it had achieved the m...

S.Korean startup DeepBrain AI unveils 3D virtual human B2B technology

S.Korean startup DeepBrain AI unveils 3D virtual human B2B technology

South Korean AI startup DeepBrain AI has unveiled a 3D virtual human B2B technology that can engage in real-time conversations, display emotional ex...

DB HiTek mulls $780 mn capex in foundry after fabless demerger

DB HiTek mulls $780 mn capex in foundry after fabless demerger

South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co. is mulling about 1 trillion won ($780 million) in capital expenditures to enhance its foundry ...

Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

South Korea's Yanolja Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, announced on Tuesday its partnership with SK Discovery Co. to build a proptech ...

OCI to expand polysilicon line, buy back shares to boost corporate value

OCI to expand polysilicon line, buy back shares to boost corporate value

OCI Co., a leading South Korean chemical and green energy company, plans to significantly increase the size of its upcoming share buyback and cancel...

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

The digital security market is rapidly growing in South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries and amid its soaring labor costs.&nb...

CJ Logistics, IGAWorks team up to boost data value

CJ Logistics, IGAWorks team up to boost data value

CJ Logistics, a South Korean logistics company, said on Thursday that it has signed a business agreement with IGAWorks Co., a big data platform comp...

CJ Group adopts AI-based copywriter for producing marketing content

CJ Group adopts AI-based copywriter for producing marketing content

South Korea's CJ Group on Tuesday said it will develop and run a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) copywriter that automatically produces ma...

KB Financial Group injects $385.6 million into S.Korea’s real estate PF

KB Financial Group injects $385.6 million into S.Korea’s real estate PF

South Korea’s KB Financial Group on Monday said it will provide liquidity support for the domestic market for real estate project financing (P...

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality, a hospitality tech company that provides digital solutions for the hotel and tourism industry, said on Tuesday that it has rebrande...

Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release

Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release

Samsung Electronics Co. is ramping up its marketing efforts for its latest line of high-end TVs, including the 2023 Neo QLED 8K model, with a giant ...

S.Korea's MZers consider income, working time most when job hunting: Survey

S.Korea's MZers consider income, working time most when job hunting: Survey

Members of South Korea's Generation MZ, or people born in the early 1980s to early 2000s, prioritize income and working time when looking for a job ...

S.Korea's Igaworks inks deal with Thai ad agency for data solutions

S.Korea's Igaworks inks deal with Thai ad agency for data solutions

Igaworks, a big data platform company from South Korea, announced on Thursday a strategic partnership and solution supply deal with YDM Thailand, th...

SK IE Technology mulls adding LiBS factory in US, says SKIET president

SK IE Technology mulls adding LiBS factory in US, says SKIET president

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), a global top lithium-ion battery separator (LiBS) player under South Korea’s energy and battery maker SK Innovat...

Korea’s L&F in $2.9 billion deal to supply battery material to Tesla

 Korea’s L&F in $2.9 billion deal to supply battery material to Tesla

South Korea’s leading battery materials maker L&F Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a $2.91 billion deal to supply cathode, a key electric...

POSCO International, Pertamina win gas exploration rights off Indonesia

POSCO International, Pertamina win gas exploration rights off Indonesia

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Thursday ...

Car-sharing platform Humax Mobility begins IPO process

Car-sharing platform Humax Mobility begins IPO process

Humax Mobility, a South Korean car-sharing and parking platform operator, is aiming to become the second mobility service firm to go public in the c...

S.Korea hits historic low fertility rate in 2022, adding to economic woes

S.Korea hits historic low fertility rate in 2022, adding to economic woes

South Korea saw its fertility rate, which has been already the world’s lowest in the past few years, hit its historic low of 0.78 last year, a...

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