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South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to spend 602 billion won ($501.5 million) in building eco-friendly materials plants at one of its pe...

Mastern Investment Management Co., a Seoul-based real estate investment firm, has acquired Alpharium Tower I and II in Pangyo from ARA Asset Manag...

South Koreans are continuing their rush to safer assets with the balance of bank deposits, money market funds (MMFs) and cash management accounts (C...

Kakao Corp. announced Sunday that it plans to launch the European version of its webtoon subscription service in either April or May of this year....

The city of Seoul launched Invest Seoul on Feb. 7, an investment promotion agency (IPA) to attract foreign investment and overseas companies. The ca...

Korea Teachers’ Pension (KTP) has said the rate of return from its investment management in 2021 reached 12%, the highest ever since its inc...

South Korea’s inflation this year is expected to accelerate to an 11-year high, adding to expectations of further interest rate hikes later th...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been solidifying their position in the investment market of Korea for the past years. Individual investors in Sout...

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. and diagnostic kit manufacturer Humasis Co. have signed contracts to supply their jointly-dev...

South Korean AI solutions provider OnePredict is set to begin a 30 billion won ($25 million) funding round. The Seoul-based startup provides in...

SK Inc., the investment-focused holding company of South Korea’s SK Group, is set to pocket a sixfold return from its investment in SES Holdin...

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

Krafton Inc. said it invested $5.4 million in India’s mobile game development studio Nautilus Mobile as the South Korean producer of PlayerUnk...

Samsung C&T Corp. is set to invest up to 85 billion won ($7 million) in US nuclear fission technology provider NuScale Power, LLC. NuScale Power...

South Korea's mobile financial platform Toss is evolving from a payment service app into a full-fledged financial service provider, or a super app, ...

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

Hanwha Defense Co. signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt on Tuesday in a deal worth over 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion.)Of t...

Viva Republica Inc., the operator of fintech platform Toss, is revving up for a pre-IPO. When finalized, the company will become South Korea’s...

South Korea's IMM Investment Corp. has agreed to invest 140 billion won ($120 million) in Iyuno-SDI Group, valuing the world's largest dubbing and s...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s online portal giant, decided to make an additional investment in a web content unit to expand its global webtoon an...

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...

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s top cathode material producer, is under probe by local prosecutors for allegations of insider trading, according ...

Chemical materials producer SKC Co. said on Jan. 26 its consortium has completed an $80 million investment in UK battery materials startup Nexeon ...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and General Motors Co., plan to build the third US electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan with a $2.6 billion investment...

Bain Capital on Thursday agreed to buy a majority stake in South Korea's medical aesthetic device manufacturer Classys Inc. for 670 billion won ($56...

LG Group plans to invest 25 billion won ($21 million) in California-based plant-based food maker Eat Just, Inc. The news follows an announcement by ...

South Korea's Osstem Implant Co., battered by the country's largest-ever embezzlement scandal for a listed company, is now being courted by investme...

Aju Hotels & Resorts Co., a hospitality firm under Korean conglomerate Aju Group, has sold its San Jose-based hotel to an affiliate of US hosp...

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it will spend a record 9.2 trillion won ($7.7 billion) this year to ramp up facilities for electric cars and other...

South Korea is set to reform the local currency market as the country aims to reach MSCI Inc.’s developed market status for its domestic stock...