Korean import car market

Elon Musk’s successful bid to buy out the social media platform Twitter for around $44 billion is a kind of deal unlikely to happen in South K...

South Korea’s biopharmaceutical companies are close to commercializing a COVID-19 vaccine and treatment pill as they are on the brink of compl...

South Korea’s two well-known accelerators FuturePlay and Bluepoint Partners are preparing for initial public offerings, buoyed by record high ...

South Korea's Hana Financial Investment Co. has become the second-largest shareholder in Vietnam's BIDV Securities after buying a 35% stake in the V...

LG Chem Ltd. has become the first South Korean company to buy renewable energy on a long-term basis as part of an effort to make a full switch to re...

Kyungdong Navien Co. revealed on Sunday that overseas sales account for more than 60% of its total sales on the back of strong exports to the United...

South Korea’s Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki reiterated the country will take reform measures such as the extension of the local currency's trad...

The merger between South Korea's two largest air carriers – Korean Air Lines Co. Asiana Airlines Inc. – may face a tough challenge in th...

Affinity Equity Partners is in the process of raising 700 billion won ($565 million) to recapitalize South Korea's Serveone Co. in an attempt to rec...

SD Biosensor Inc., South Korea’s top manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, said on Friday that it has signed a deal to purchase a 100% stake i...

Education content provider Day 1 Company announced Thursday it has completed a Series D funding worth 35 billion won ($28 million.)A number of ventu...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant online platform, will focus on cutting costs and reducing new hiring to improve profitability as its disap...

South Korean universities have become hotbeds for promising startups. Leading the trend are two of the country's best-known higher education ...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. will supply its semiconductor package substrate to Apple Inc. for the US tech giant’s next-generation M2 process...

South Korea's food and beverage giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on April 21 began shipment of its new Hetbahn instant rice products for US consumers from...

South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) said on Thursday that KDB NextRound, the bank’s venture investment platform, will h...

Cosmax Inc., a major South Korean original design manufacturer (ODM) for L'Oréal and other global cosmetics giants, is strengthening its ma...

South Korea’s distilled spirit soju is alluring more young drinkers in Japan, the home of its rival liquor shochu, as K-content such as drama ...

Chunmyung and Company, the operator of its namesake fortune-telling app, announced on Tuesday it has secured Series A funding worth five billion w...

South Korean individuals are likely to become the first non-resident direct stock investors in India, after the South Asian country lifted the ceili...

Global pension funds are expanding their influence as key shareholders of major companies in South Korea. Some of the world’s largest pensio...

One after another, South Korea’s household name conglomerates are establishing corporate venture capital (CVC) firms under their holding compa...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has announced its foray into the non-fungible token market in partnership with Meta Kongz, an NF...

Around 70% of South Korean key asset owners will expand their exposure to global private debt, expecting steady streams of cash flow, according to a r...

One Store Co., investment firm SK Square Co.'s homegrown app store, is gearing up for an initial public offering to be held in May. The local app st...

A consortium led by LG Energy Solution Ltd., the global No. 2 electric vehicle battery maker, will invest $9 billion in a battery value chain in Ind...

Sales of leisure vehicles in South Korea, primarily sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and minivans, exceeded half of domestic finished car sales in the ...

South Korean shipbuilders’ shares stood high in the subdued local stock market as strong order books stoked predictions of earnings improvemen...

SEOUL—Jeong Bo-ram’s new fascination has him chasing mass-produced pastries, delivery trucks—and his childhood memories.His targets ...

With the rise of electric vehicles globally, South Korea’s major oil refiners are jockeying to become leading suppliers of lubricants and cool...