POSCO, Bartlett to set up grain procurement joint venture

South Korea’s POSCO International Corp. plans to invest in Bartlett and Company’s soybean processing company within the year and set up ...

Samsung C&T invests $11 mn in construction robot venture

South Korean construction and engineering company Samsung C&T Corp. has invested 15 billion won ($11.2 million) in the construction robot startu...

S.Korean startups, VC seek money, business opportunities in Japan

South Korean startups and venture capitalists battered by chilled investor sentiment amid rising interest rates and slowing economic growth at home ...

Seoul envisions its own Hudson Yards in the city's east end

Seoul, the capital of South Korea for more than six centuries since the Joseon dynasty, is poised to revamp its city planning for the next century w...

KT to build AI medical R&D innovation zone in Seoul

South Korean wireless carrier KT Corp. will build an innovation valley for medical research and development (R&D) based on artificial intelligen...

Krafton, Naver eye Overdare as S.Korea's answer to Roblox

South Korea's game company Krafton Inc. and Naver Z, a metaverse unit of the country’s portal giant Naver Corp. on Thursday said they will u...

Korea’s fertility startups gain traction with advanced technologies

South Korea’s fertility startups are garnering attention from investors with innovative technologies such as self-testing of ovarian health, s...

Celltrion builds clinical data bank for new biosimilars

The use of data and computing is a new paradigm in the biopharmaceutical industry, reducing the new drug development time and cost, Celltrion Inc. C...

POSCO Holdings to strengthen collaboration with SNU

South Korea's POSCO Holdings Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for comprehensive industry-academia collaboration with Seoul National U...

Hanwha sees higher odds of winning Poland submarine deal

South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean Co. appears to be a step closer to winning a 3.2 trillion won ($2.4 billion) Polish order for submarines, after a s...

Kakao Mobility to build mobility-customized GenAI platform

South Korea's Kakao Mobility has announced a vision to build an evolved platform with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) specialized for mob...

Hana Bank to enter digital asset custody sector with BitGo

South Korea's Hana Bank on Tuesday said it signed a strategic business agreement with BitGo, a Palo Alto, California-based global digital asset cust...

Land use for SK Ecoplant's wind power venture in Canada approved

The green hydrogen Nujio’qonik project in Canada, a venture that South Korea's SK Ecoplant is taking part in, has secured approval to use go...

S.Korea to invest in Korean-owned overseas startups

South Korea will expand startup nurturing programs into overseas venture companies launched by Koreans from next year as the country is stepping up ...

Sapeon completes $45 mn series A funding

Sapeon, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company, announced on Wednesday that it has concluded a Series A funding round, ra...

Hyundai Motor spins off 3 in-house startups in innovative sectors

Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday it has spun off three promising in-house startups, which the South Korean automotive group has nurtured as part ...

LG Uplus’ platform push gains traction with active venture funding  

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, which has joined its two bigger local rivals in a race to expand non-telecom servi...

Mirae Asset Securities exceeds $3 bn in overseas equity

Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Tuesday it owns more than 4 trillion won ($3 billion) of equity capital in overseas operations as of June 30 of t...

KB, Shinhan, Woori improve rankings on Top 1,000 bank list

South Korea’s KB Financial Group, Shinhan Financial Group and Woori Financial Group improved their rankings on the list of the global top 1,00...

Korea taps Greyhound Capital, Headline Asia as venture fund managers

South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced the results of selecting global fund management companies for the year 2023 on Monday. The chos...

Seoul’s slow but enduring push to be Asia’s premier financial hub

It is a long-cherished dream of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, to present itself to the world as Asia’s prime financial hub, but the ...

Lotte Chemical sells off debt-ridden JV to China's Sanjiang

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has divested all shares it owns in Chinese joint venture Lotte Sanjiang Chemical Co., according to people f...

SK Geo Centric, China’s Sinopec mark 10-year alliance

China-Korea Petrochemical, a joint venture (JV) between South Korea’s SK Geo Centric and the Chinese public oil company Sinopec, celebrates it...

SK Pharmteco secures 12 global pharma clients, sets up US R&D center

SK Pharmteco Co., South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has secured 12 global pharm...

With long-gone heyday, Capro clings to stake sale for survival

Once everyone’s darling but now an ugly duckling, Capro Co., South Korea’s sole maker of caprolactam, a nylon raw material, is despera...

Hanwha Aerospace ventures into eco-friendly ship market

South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace Co. announced on Thursday that it has completed the development of a megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage system (ESS)....

KT, LG Elec, Hyundai Elevator join robot-elevator project

A robot freely gets on and off an elevator and moves around a building, doing everything from coffee to parcel delivery and route guidance.This is t...

NPS commits $724 mn to CVC Capital’s ninth PE fund

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, has committed €‎650 million ($724 million...

Hyundai Motor eyes EV charger alliance in US to take on Tesla

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are planning to join BMW, General Motors, Honda Motor, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis to collectiv...

SK E&S, Plug Power to strengthen hydrogen partnership

South Korea's SK E&S Co. and Plug Power, a global hydrogen solutions provider, have reinforced their commitment to accelerating the developmen...