TaylorMade sale takes new turn as F&F hires Goldman for bid

F&F Holdings Co., a South Korean fashion retailer and the largest strategic investor in TaylorMade, has entered a head-to-head showdown with Cen...

Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales

Samsung Electronics Co. is on a hiring spree for senior sales managers in its foundry business, offering generous compensation packages, as it goes ...

Greystar hires ex-Samsung SRA manager to launch Seoul office

Greystar Real Estate Partners, the largest housing investment firm in the US, has hired Kang Junghwan, former managing director and head of portfoli...

NPS to mull responsible investment system for alternative investments

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is poised to consider expanding its responsible in...

Samsung lowers bar on hiring foreign talent in South Korea

South Korea’s biggest business group Samsung has sweetened the pot to win the technology talent war by lowering the bar for new hires of forei...

Toss Securities names Richard Hagen as CEO of TSAF

South Korea's Toss Securities said on Tuesday that it has appointed Richard J. Hagen as CEO of its US subsidiary, TSA Financial LLC (TSAF), and plan...

South Korean developers fret over inflow of Indian talent

South Korea is opening its doors wide to Indian developers, causing some concerns that the inflow of highly talented software developers from the So...

Hyundai Motor Group to nurture young talent in Indonesia

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that it held the inaugural ceremony for the first cohort of H-Jump School Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, the...

Korean e-commerce startup funding sharply drops since 2022

South Korean e-commerce companies have seen a sharp decline in series A funding over the past three years amid intensifying competition with Chinese...

AI plagiarism detection startup Muhayu eyes IPO in 2026

South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Muhayu hired Mirae Asset Securities as the lead manager for its initial public offering (IPO) targ...

Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket

Shinsegae Group, South Korea’s retail giant, on Wednesday launched sweeping top-level management overhauls for Gmarket Inc. and SSG.COM. to ti...

Nvidia co-leads Series A round for AI startup Twelve Labs

Global chip giant Nvidia Corp. has co-led a $50 million Series A funding round for Twelve Labs, a South Korean artificial intelligence company speci...

Sandy Floor gets seed round from Kakao Ventures

South Korea’s casual multiplayer game developer Sandy Floor Games announced on Wednesday that it got a seed round investment from Kakao Ventur...

Hyundai Motor aims for next takeoff with $51 billion investment

Hyundai Motor Group plans to spend 68 trillion won ($51 billion) and hire 80,000 new employees over three years as South Korea’s top automaker...

Goldman Sachs Korea co-head Chung to move to Hyundai Capital

Goldman Sachs’ Chung Hyung-Jin, co-head of the Seoul office and the leader of the firm’s investment banking (IB) business in South Korea...

Korea's job growth at 10-month high despite weak youth employment

South Korea’s job increases rose for a second straight month to a 10-month high in January thanks to higher employment of the older, although ...

Samsung Electronics to hire big for AI R&D careers

Samsung Electronics Co. is ramping up its recruitment of experienced professionals across its Device eXperience (DX) and Device Solution (DS) divisi...

Medytox establishes US subsidiary Luvantas

South Korean pharmaceutical company Medytox Inc. announced on Wednesday that its establishment of the US subsidiary Luvantas.The goal is the global ...

S.Korea to allow hiring of foreign workers in hotels, resorts

The South Korean government said on Friday that it would grant the hiring of foreign workers in hotels and resorts from next year.The hotel and reso...

Lotte Group’s 3rd-generation son comes to the fore

Shin Yoo-yeol, the eldest son of Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-Bin, was promoted to lead the group’s new division to be launched within its h...

Middle East, land of opportunity for Korean startups

South Korean startups are accelerating their foray into the Middle East, where oil-rich countries are keen to nurture startups with innovative and d...

Samsung hires Waymo’s autonomous driving design head

YoonJung Ahn, a design head at Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous driving technology unit, is joining Samsung Electronics Co. as executive vice pres...

Hillhouse to up investment in S.Korea with new hires

Hillhouse Investment Management Ltd., one of the largest private equity firms in Asia, is set to create an investment team dedicated to the South Ko...

India, LG’s land of promise with young, rich population

NOIDA, India -- LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, plans to build a new electronics plant in India to cement its dominant...

Samsung to hire experienced foreign staff in R&D

Three affiliates of Samsung Group are looking to hire outstanding foreign researchers.Samsung Electronics Co., Samsung Display and Samsung SDI Co. o...

More Korean FSS retirees find jobs in legal, financial biz

More retirees of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) are snagging new jobs at private companies such as the banks they regulated during their te...

Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition

Global electric vehicle and battery makers are fiercely competing to secure talent with high salaries and various incentives as their workforces a...

Some 100 foreign housekeepers to enter S.Korea in 2023

About 100 Philippine housekeepers will come to work in South Korea this year under a pilot public project to raise the birth rate by reducing the ho...

S.Korea's top four accounting firms to cut hiring 30%

South Korea's top four accounting firms -- Samil PwC, Samjong KPMG, Deloitte Anjin and EY Hanyoung -- are expected to cut hiring this year more than...

Shrinking youth jobs cast shadow over S.Korea’s labor market

Employment in South Korea extended its growth streak in June but its gains slowed for the third straight month, with youth jobs declining for eight ...