K-Unicorn

South Korean biopharmaceutical firms are facing challenges in clinical trials overseas alongside the rising Korean won to the US dollar exchange rat...

Eye of machine vision Machine vision startup iCore Co. is not a stereotypical tech startup founded by recent graduates nor is its description pe...

Korea Credit Data (KCD), a South Korean data solutions provider for small business owners, has become a Korean unicorn, or an unlisted company with ...

South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...

NEW YORK – The chief executive officer of Naver Cloud Park Won-ki said that if South Korean startups using the company’s cloud services ...

South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...

SM Entertainment Co. announced Thursday it is considering terminating the production contract with Like Planning, wholly owned by its founder Lee So...

Come 2025, visitors to South Korea’s resort island of Jeju will be able to hail air taxis while there – thanks to special air routes ded...

Fans of K-pop idols such as boyband sensation BTS and girl group Blackpink will be able to enjoy their live performances through smart TVs at home a...

South Korea’s agriculture and food trading platform Tridge Co. announced Thursday that it raised 50 billion won ($37.4 million) from DS Asset ...

LOS ANGELES -- Toyota Motor Corp., the top global automaker, showcased its sports cars – the GR86 and the GR Supra – at the Los Angeles ...

“Oh! My Gran” was the only South Korean movie to hit the big screen in China in the past year. It was also the first Korean film to be p...

Gourmands in North America will be able to enjoy South Korean fried chicken more conveniently as BB.Q Chicken, the country’s leading franchise...

South Korea’s first mobility unicorn Socar Inc. has cut its IPO price by 18% to push ahead with its stock market debut, according to industry ...

South Korea’s contactless healthcare service app Allacare, launched last year, adheres to its business ethics: direct delivery of prescribed d...

South Korea’s major biopharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing the cell and gene therapy business under a contract drug-making mechanis...

South Korea’s two major cosmetics firms, Amorepacific Corp. and LG H&H Co., posted their second-quarter earnings heavily impacted by Chi...

Five South Korean startups joined the ranks of unicorns in the first half of 2022, the largest such figure for six months. With that, the total...

South Korean fashion e-commerce platform Brandi Inc. has embarked on a 67 billion won ($51 million) funding round, hoping for around 800 billion w...

Kim Jae-young, founder and chief executive of Lionheart Studio Corp., the company behind South Korea’s most popular mobile game Odin, has join...

HYBE Co., the K-pop label best known for BTS, signed an agreement with Walt Disney Company in its first collaboration with an international content ...

Blackpink, the female K-pop idol group, will hold an in-game concert, the first such event by Korean pop artists, in collaboration with Krafton Inc....

Moloco Inc., an AI-powered advertising solutions startup, is set to accelerate its global business with a new executive hire from The Walt Disney Co...

South Korean startups that exceed $1 billion in valuations, known as unicorns, are pushing back their initial public offering (IPO) dates.The move c...

Hit by shrinking liquidity around the globe, startups in South Korea are coming up with different ways to cut costs, most notably in human resources...

Shiftup Co., a South Korean mobile game developer, has joined the ranks of unicorns, or private companies worth $1 billion or more.The studio behind...

K Bank submitted a preliminary assessment request to the Korea Stock Exchange on Thursday, the first step to an initial public offering. The on...

Thanks to what some economists dub a borderless economy, more South Korean startups than ever before are looking beyond the peninsula. Seoul-ba...

South Korea’s car-sharing platform Socar Inc. has estimated its corporate value at up to 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) for an initial public...

South Korean cosmetics giants failed to win over Chinese consumers at the 618 Shopping Festival, one of the largest online annual shopping events in...