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South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is looking for a new chief investment officer (CIO) as former CIO Ahn Hyo-joon’s term ended...

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. is facing increasing concern over its growth strategies centered on business expansions throug...

Global investors are eyeing infrastructure as the asset class is inflation-protected, providing strong downside protection in times of high volatili...

South Korea’s petrochemical firm Lotte Chemical Corp., which signed a 2.7 trillion won ($1.9 billion) deal to acquire the world’s fourth...

Korea Credit Data (KCD), a South Korean data solutions provider for small business owners, has become a Korean unicorn, or an unlisted company with ...

South Korea’s cloud service provider NHN Cloud Corp. is eyeing 1.1 trillion won ($776 million) corporate value via a new stock issuance, marki...

Samsung Electronics Co. set up a task force team dedicated to increasing its shareholder value last month, according to industry sources on Oct. 4. ...

SILICON VALLEY – Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday it will adopt the industry’s most advanced 1.4-nanometer chip production technol...

NEW YORK – The chief executive officer of Naver Cloud Park Won-ki said that if South Korean startups using the company’s cloud services ...

South Korean cryptocurrency investors appear willing to take more risks than their global counterparts, balancing their portfolios between market le...

Warehouse development projects in South Korea, which boomed amid COVID-19, are facing challenges such as suspension of construction projects and ban...

LG Uplus Corp., the third-largest mobile carrier in South Korea, is slated to increase its corporate value to 12 trillion won ($8.6 billion) by 2027...

Samsung Group’s four heirs to the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee have seen their group company shareholdings shrink by a combined 11 trillion won (...

Shares in South Korea’s Hanjin KAL Co. have wiped out one-third of its value in the past two weeks after one of its major shareholders, once a...

Nongshim Co., South Korea’s No. 1 instant noodle brand, is looking to buy a domestic food supplement maker for up to $50 million, which would ...

Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading arm of Samsung Group, has joined forces for the clean hydrogen businesses with South Korean comp...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea had an 8% negative return during the first half of 2022, its investment management arm announced on Au...

Private equity firms have snapped up South Korean assets over the past two years, driving their valuations near historic highs in the liquidity-driv...

Kakao Corp. is looking to add display advertising to South Korea’s largest messaging app KakaoTalk, as well as the fintech apps developed by i...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) said on Wednesday it has promoted Lee Hoon, its former head of investment strategy and innovation division, to th...

POSCO International Corp., the trading unit of Korean steel giant POSCO, will merge with its unlisted affiliate POSCO Energy Co. to reinforce its en...

South Korea’s first mobility unicorn Socar Inc. has cut its IPO price by 18% to push ahead with its stock market debut, according to industry ...

South Korea’s major petrochemical company SK Geo Centric Co. is set to build an ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) plant in China with a local partne...

The sudden resignation of The Carlyle Group Inc. Chief Executive Kewsong Lee has not just surprised the global investment community but raised quest...

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. on Thursday unveiled plans to bolster its open chat and advertising businesses to a...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is set to appoint Lee Hoon, the senior managing director and head of the investment strategy & innovation d...

South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Group is set to purchase autonomous driving startup 42dot, intensifying the automaker’s competi...

South Korean startup Time Percent Corp. was founded a year ago with the specific goal of giving power to the investors of digital assets, rather tha...

South Korea’s over-the-top (OTT) platform Watcha Inc. is in talks with some companies to sell off its shares, according to investment banking ...

MBK Partners, one of Asia's largest private equity firms, is in exclusive talks to acquire Korea’s top online education company MegastudyEdu C...