Surging dividend outflows to hit Korea's current account balance, won

Dividend payments of foreign companies operating in South Korea have nearly doubled and the repatriation of profit to their headquarters is expected...

CJ, Samsung to launch $600 million e-commerce logistics fund

CJ Logistics and an affiliate of Samsung Life Insurance have joined forces to launch a real estate investment fund worth 740 billion won ($600 milli...

Kolon Life inks technology transfer deal with Juniper Biologics

South Korea’s pharmaceutical company Kolon Life Science Inc. signed a technology export deal worth up to 723.4 billion won ($589.1 million) wi...

Samsung to work with Western Digital on next-gen storage technology 

Samsung Electronics Co. and Western Digital Technologies Inc. announced Wednesday the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to coll...

Samsung’s Life Science Fund invests in US biotech Jaguar Gene Therapy

Samsung Group’s 150 billion won ($124 million) Life Science Fund launched last year has chosen a leading US gene therapy development company a...

NongHyup Life to issue $493 mn in subordinated bonds

NongHyup Life Insurance Co. of South Korea is slated to issue 10-year-maturity subordinated bonds worth 600 billion won ($492.6 million) on March 31...

AI startup InterMinds builds Smart Stores with conglomerates

Convenience stores are hotbeds for South Korean IT companies to test their artificial intelligence (AI) technology.That is because the establishment...

Hyundai, Iveco to cooperate on commercial vehicles

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, and Iveco Group NV, Italia's truck maker, have agreed to join hands on their commercial vehicl...

Samsung Smart Monitor M8 available in S.Korea

The new Samsung Smart Monitor M8 is now available for sale in South Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Sunday.The product can stream serv...

KB Life, Prudential Life to complete merger by Jan 2023

The merger of KB Life Insurance Co., an insurer under KB Financial Group Inc. of South Korea, and Prudential Life Insurance Co. of Korea will be c...

BTS returns to Korean stage for 1st time since 2019

SEOUL — In the latest sign that life is going back to something that resembles the pre-pandemic past, BTS is returning to the stage in Seoul.The...

KIC boosts hedge fund investing with Seoul Guarantee Insurance

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) signed an agreement on Feb. 24 with Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company (SGI) to co-invest in overseas hedge fund...

South Korea's working young teeter on brink of debt disaster

As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...

KT provides AI-powered voice recognition service to Mercedez

South Korea’s top wireless carrier KT Corp. announced Thursday that it has launched an AI-powered voice recognition service for Mercedez-Benz ...

Seoul court upholds Affinity's Kyobo Life valuation

A South Korean court on Thursday ruled in favor of Affinity Equity-led financial investors (FIs) in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., rejecting Kyobo's clai...

Korea’s 2021 current account surplus misses BOK forecast

South Korea’s current account surplus last year missed the central bank’s forecast as higher raw materials prices boosted imports of Asi...

ABL Life co-invests in Everbright’s infra fund with 13% return

Korea’s ABL Life Insurance Co. has participated in Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP, a $460 million fund managed by Hon...

Korea’s record trade deficit stirs capital outflow fears

South Korea reported the largest trade deficit on surging raw material prices in January, string worries that capital outflows from Asia’s fou...

LG Energy: Will joining indices rescue stock from its plunge?

  LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, will gain quick entry to two MSCI indices in mid-February as well as join Ko...

IMM to buy Samsung Life stake once owned by Jay Y. Lee's sister

IMM Private Equity is set to acquire a 1.73 percent stake in Samsung Life Insurance Co., according to investment banking sources on Jan. 27. The sta...

Doosan Robotics eyes $10 bn cobot market 

A robot with a humanoid arm is busy at work transporting parts inside Doosan Robotics’ manufacturing plant in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province.&n...

LG Energy takes on CATL as it prepares for Korea’s largest-ever IPO

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has vowed to outrival the world’s top battery player CATL as the South Korean company is preparing for the country&rsq...

Hyundai Motor to showcase gamut of mobility tech at CES 2022

Come January, Hyundai Motor Co. will showcase the whole gamut of mobility technology at CES 2022.On Thursday, the automaker released a teaser photo ...

Kyobo Life eyes 2022 IPO to end feud with investors

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. on Tuesday applied for a preliminary review of its public listing with the Korea Exchange, three years after it canceled th...

Korea’s MedPacto, Merck plan phase 3 trials of colorectal cancer drug

MedPacto Inc., a South Korean biotechnology company that develops therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases, has agreed with global drugmaker ...

LG unveils multimodal ‘supergiant AI’ with unprecedented parameters

LG Corp.'s artificial intelligence research institute unveiled what it dubs a “supergiant AI” on Tuesday.The big reveal was for EXAONE, ...

S.Korea's Oct c/a surplus down 40% on oil price rises

South Korea's current account surplus in October narrowed by 40% from a year earlier, with the rapid rise in crude oil and raw material prices offse...

Costa Rican president: His family K-drama fans, seeks joint production

Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada has praised South Korean movies such as the Oscar-winning Parasite and drama series such as Squid Game...

Kyobo Life resumes IPO push amid protracted dispute with investors

Kyobo Life Insurance Co., South Korea’s third-largest life insurer, is resuming its push for an initial public offering amid a protracted lega...

KTCU values working-level opinions for alternative investment

“The South Korean stock markets have barely risen since early this year, while the markets in Japan and Taiwan are hitting highs. I believe Ko...