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South Korean venture capital firms are expanding their investment in Southeast Asia,  where startups grow rapidly based on a large population.K...

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) and South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) have invested a combi...

South Korea-based online peer-to-peer lending platform 8Percent has secured 43.5 billion won ($38.3 million) in an investment round led by the Silic...

A growing number of South Korean asset management firms are preparing to launch their own blind pool funds for global real estate investments, which...

South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO is returning even stronger from the pandemic-caused economic slowdown, with an all-time high quarterly ...

Naver Z Corp., the operator of South Korea's metaverse platform Zepeto, is in the early stages of talks with investors to raise more than 50 billion...

KYOTO, Japan - Murata Manufacturing Co., the world's No. 1 producer of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and other electronic components, will e...

Cash-strapped South Korean budget airlines are rushing to raise money in the local stock market on growing hopes for a travel recovery as government...

South Korea’s SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), SK Innovation Co. 's battery material business subsidiary, plans to start commercial operation of ...

Hyundai Mobis Co., the auto parts unit of Hyundai Motor Group, on Thursday broke ground on a hydrogen fuel cell plant, part of its 1.32 trillion won...

ADT Caps Co., South Korea's No. 2 security services provider, is seeking to raise up to 400 billion won ($336 million) from private equity firms ahe...

KKR & Co. and three other private equity firms, shortlisted for SK E&S Co.'s new preferred shares worth 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion), are n...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) will commit $25 million to Paris-based private equity firm Ardian for infrast...

South Korea's Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has picked Han Jong-seok, a former chief investment officer of Meritz Asset Management Co. and eq...

The global market of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain-based tokens, which each represent a unique asset such as a piece of art, digital conten...

South Korean millennials and Gen Zers have become the world's biggest spenders on mobile games with the MZers accounting for over 90% of domestic mo...

SK Innovation Co. and Ford Co. will invest a combined $11.4 billion to build an assembly and battery complex and two additional battery factories in...

The Teachers' Pension in South Korea has extended the term of its Chief Investment Officer Lee Kyu-hong by one year until the end of September 2022,...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), a South Korean retirement fund, is chasing medium-risk, medium-return assets in developed markets with a...

South Korea’s Meritz Alternative Investment Management Co. is set to invest in an office building in Washington DC.Meritz formed a 200 billion...

South Korea’s CJ Cheiljedang Corp. will be sponsoring the Los Angeles Lakers (LA Lakers) as the first global partner of the American basketbal...

Samsung Bioepis Co., a leading South Korean biopharmaceutical company, has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Byoovi...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. successfully went public on Sept. 17 by closing at almost double its IPO price. The stock price closed at 111,500 won (...

Vision Fund, led by SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son, has sold one-tenth of its shares in South Korea's e-commerce platform Coupang Inc. for $1....

South Korea's two banking giants -- KB Financial Group and Shinhan Financial Group -- have invested a combined 80 billion won ($68 million) in a win...

The millennials have become the largest spenders on luxury goods at department stores in South Korea. According to joint research by The Korea Econo...

A Singaporean activist fund has urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell some of its shares in SK Bioscience Co., saying its corporate value h...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. became the third-most subscribed stock in South Korea after its initial public offering drew 1,130 trillion won ($968 b...

South Korea’s leading soju maker HiteJinro Co. has captivated China with its fruit-flavored soju products, gaining much popularity among local...

LG Display Co. will likely raise around 500 billion ($430 million) in new bond issues, more than its planned 300 billion won, to finance the expansi...