Korea Institute of Startup

South Korea’s secondary battery makers face a risk from heavy reliance on Chinese raw materials, while the industry has sought measures to ens...

Visiting a car dealer’s stylish showroom to touch, feel and sometimes test drive a car before purchase has for decades been a rite of passage ...

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) on Tuesday announced the blueprint to strengthen its foothold in the United States an...

KT Corp., South Korea's No. 2 telecom operator, has decided to invest 130 billion won ($110 million) in Megazone Cloud Corp., the country's largest ...

Sopoong Ventures Corp. is poised to create a fund worth 10 billion won ($8 million) that specializes in early stage investment, industry insiders sa...

YEOSU, South Jeolla Province -- Yeochun NCC (YNCC) Co., South Korea’s major petrochemical producer, shut down one of its plants on Friday afte...

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

Startups in the pet industry are gaining traction on the back of a rising number of pet owners in South Korea. Industry insiders say several pe...

South Korean companies suffered from surging financing costs as corporate bond yields shot to eight-year highs. Affiliates of major conglomerates wi...

Singapore’s antitrust authority approved the integration of Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., paving the way for South Korea&rsqu...

South Korea’s government bond yields jumped to their highs in almost four years as lawmakers sought to raise a supplementary budget to up to $...

South Korea’s reopening stocks rallied even as the local COVID-19 cases hit record-highs with the spread of the Omicron variant. Investors rai...

Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has named Lee Seong-yeong as its new chief investment officer and is in the final stage of the no...

Point Mobile Co., South Korea’s top enterprise handheld devices maker, expanded a supply deal with Amazon.com Inc. to offline units of the wor...

Korea Post will increase its alternative investment from 13.6 trillion won ($11.3 billion) at the end-2021 to 16.7 trillion won ($13.9 billion) in 2...

The topic of RE100, a multinational campaign to make a full switch to renewable energy by 2050, was brought up last week during a debate among four ...

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...

Online shopping platform Queenit recently received 36 billion won ($30 million) from Kakao Ventures Corp., SoftBank Ventures Korea Corp. and more,...

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....

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...

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...