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The valuation of Kurly Inc. has now surpassed 2 trillion won ($1.8 billion).  The operator of South Korea’s online grocery and gourmet fo...

A UK-focused real estate debt fund, managed by New York-based BentallGreenOak, has received a combined £170 million ($241 million) in commitme...

SoftBank Group founder and CEO Masayoshi Son’s salary more than halved last year, according to the group’s regulatory filing on May 28.T...

Samsung Electronics Co. and Germany’s pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG have made a joint investment in the Berlin-based artificial intelligence (...

The National Pension Service (NPS) and the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) have committed $600 million in aggregate to GLP Capital Partners' Nort...

HYBE Co., the music and entertainment agency behind BTS, on Jun 1-2 will open the subscription for its rights issue shares worth 445.5 billion won (...

Singapore’s sovereign growth fund GIC Private Ltd. plans to acquire a 30% stake in Starbucks Korea for about 800 billion won ($710 million) fr...

SK Bioscience Co. has secured additional funding for phase III clinical trial of GBP510, its COVID-19 vaccine candidate jointly developed with the I...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) has won a 348 billion won ($308 million) deal to build six vessels, bringing its total sh...

South Korea’s Halla Group is joining the race for the purchase of auto parts supplier Hanon Systems Corp. -- a deal, if reached at the top end...

KKR & Co. has attracted a combined $400 million from the National Pension Service and Korea Post for its latest flagship fund that raised $18.5 ...

South Korean fintech startup Toss is seeking to raise 200 billion won ($177 million) in fresh funding, which would almost treble its valuation to 8 ...

Hyundai Motor Group’s small and compact sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are posting strong sales in fast-growing economies including India and R...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), an $11 billion savings fund for South Korean military officers and personnel, said on Monday it has name...

South Korea's Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS), Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) and Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) ar...

Woori Financial Group has been selected to acquire Franklin Templeton Investments’ retail fund business in South Korea, less than a month sinc...

SK Innovation Co., a major South Korean oil refiner and battery maker, has returned to an operating profit in the first quarter, boosted by gains in...

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemical and battery maker, said on Tuesday it is investing 150 billion won ($134 million) in an incubator...

South Korea’s Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol has released a non-fungible token (NFT) based on his legendary winning match against AlphaGo, an artif...

South Korea’s biosimilar and pharmaceutical companies are looking at a growing chance of emerging as a global hub for manufacturing vaccines f...

South Korea-based food tech company Sir.LOIN Inc. is seeking Series B funding in the range of 10 billion won as industry watchers project the startu...

Lee Do-yoon, a former chief investment officer of South Korea's Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA), has been named as CIO of the Yellow Umbrella M...

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. and Mirae Asset Group have agreed to launch a 100 billion won ($90 million) joint venture-capital fund to he...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. is set to launch a 1 trillion won ($900 million) blind pool fund to invest in US logistics facilities, into which...

South Korea’s cosmetics giant Amorepacific Group reported a sharp turnaround in revenue and operating profit for the first quarter of 2021.The...

South Korea-based metaverse platform Anipen has raised 8.5 billion won ($7.6 million) from VC firms, including Partners Investment and Union Investm...

South Korea’s major companies are increasingly adopting corporate storytelling as a means of rebranding their identities.As the companies enjo...

Franklin Templeton Investments' South Korean arm is in talks with a domestic asset management company to sell its retail operations, following Black...

Actress Youn Yuh-jung has made history by becoming the first Korean actor to win an Oscar at the Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles Sunday night.&n...

Korea Transportation Asset Management (KOTAM) has raised $185 million from five domestic institutional investors to commit to BlackRock's new renewa...