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Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp., South Korea's two online giants, are competing to acquire Munpia Inc., their smaller domestic rival in the web novel ma...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), other state-run savings funds and big companies are expected to pocket decent gains from their...

There's an app where users can shop as if they're video chatting with their friends. How does this work? A seller will introduce products via livest...

Shares of Korean content providers are flying high as platform operators such as Kakao Entertainment Corp. are looking to expand overseas to bask in...

Seoul Semiconductor Co., whose founder and CEO has not cut his hair since 2018 to concentrate on patent lawsuits, has moved up one notch to third pl...

Kia Corp. has issued its first foreign currency ESG bonds worth $700 million to strengthen its investment in electric vehicles and other eco-friendl...

South Korea's No. 1 fried chicken brand Kyochon F&B has inked a master franchise agreement with Dubai-based franchise operator Galadari Brothers...

Foreign investors, the dominant players on the Korean bourse, are returning as buyers of Samsung Electronics Co. and other blue chips, keeping the m...

South Korea-based game developer Krafton Inc., touted as one of this year's hottest initial public offerings, has filed a preliminary listing applic...

South Korea’s lesser-known private equity firm Centroid Investment Partners is among the shortlisted candidates for US sports equipment manufa...

Kakao Corp., South Korea's top mobile messaging app operator, is set to acquire a majority stake in Zigzag, a domestic online fashion platform targe...

The sale of South Korea’s second-largest food delivery app Yogiyo has kicked off with the sell-side issuing an information memorandum to poten...

Semiconductor chips, electric vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) drove the top 100 South Korean companies' spending on research and developme...

South Korea's mobile giant Kakao Corp. is in negotiations to buy the management rights of US-based mobile fiction startup Radish Fiction for around ...

DoubleDown Interactive LLC, a South Korean social casino game publisher, has resumed its Nasdaq listing process, tapping the red-hot US IPO market w...

The Korean Teachers' Credit Union (KTCU) achieved its highest investment return in 11 years of 10% in 2020, led by substantial gains from domestic e...

The 15-month-long family feud over the control of Korean Air Lines Co. has ended with group chairman Cho Won-tae’s win over his sister Cho Hyu...

Shinsegae Group has acquired South Korea's leading online fashion platform from IMM Private Equity, in a transaction estimated at between 250 billio...

South Korea’s top conglomerates have enjoyed their domestic market leadership for decades with a focus on the steel, shipbuilding and petroche...

Korean Air Lines Co. will retain its brand name after absorbing local rival Asiana Airlines Inc. in a span of around two years, with their merged en...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, has sold its retail business in South Korea to a small domestic investment firm to concentr...

South Korea’s online content platform KidariStudio Inc. announced on Mar. 31 that its France-based webtoon arm, Delitoon SAS, logged around 10...

Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, commonly known as Baemin, has joined the 1 trillion w...

KTB Network Co., a South Korean venture capital firm, has pocketed a double-digit return, or 62.5 billion won ($55 million) from the sale of its sta...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) intends to nearly double its average investment size to 100 billion won ($88 million) as ...

South Korea’s major battery makers, which have underperformed the broader stock market since the start of the year, remain opaque as fund mana...

Leading South Korean companies are diversifying their once rubber-stamp boards with a broader pool of professionals and women, alongside the growing...

D.CAMP, the largest non-profit foundation for startups in South Korea, plans to offer enhanced support for local startups' eyeing overseas expansion...

Over the past three months, domestic value stock funds in South Korea saw net outflows of 921.4 billion won ($814 million), with the benchmark Kospi...

South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. has successfully issued its first foreign currency bonds worth $500 million amid strong demand as ...