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Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) has won a 348 billion won ($308 million) deal to build six vessels, bringing its total sh...

South Korea-based venture capital firm STIC Ventures has recently invested $2 million in a Vietnamese logistics startup EcoTruck, a move aimed at bo...

Samsung Group, Hyundai Motor Group, SK Group and LG Group, companies unofficially accompanying South Korean President Moon Jae-in on his state visit...

South Korea’s Halla Group is joining the race for the purchase of auto parts supplier Hanon Systems Corp. -- a deal, if reached at the top end...

KKR & Co. has attracted a combined $400 million from the National Pension Service and Korea Post for its latest flagship fund that raised $18.5 ...

South Korea-based Ably Corporation, the operator of fashion platform Ably, is seeking to raise around 40 billion won ($35.3 million), attracting a p...

South Korean battery maker SK Innovation Co. and Ford Motor Co. have agreed to launch a 6 trillion won ($5.3 billion) joint venture to support the U...

Naver Corp., South Korea's top online portal, is in talks with the country's retail giant Shinsegae Group about a joint bid for eBay Korea -- a deal...

SD Biosensor Inc., South Korea's largest manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, has applied for an initial public offering to raise up to 1.3 trillion ...

The sale process of a near-70% stake in South Korean auto parts supplier Hanon Systems Corp. has kicked off, attracting a pool of strategic investor...

South Korea-based Queenit, a fashion mobile platform targeting middle-aged women, has secured around 5.5 billion won ($5 million) from a pool of hig...

South Korea’s asset market is showing signs of overheating as households take out fresh loans at a record pace to invest in initial share sale...

Korea Post's insurance arm has committed €80 million ($97 million) to a new flagship fund of Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners that rais...

South Korea’s leading craft beer maker Jeju Beer Co. aims to be among the country's top four breweries by the end of 2022, planning to use its...

South Korea ranks 11th in global export market shares with 69 top-ranked items -- reaching an all-time high In 2019, South Korean products ranked 1...

The lifting of South Korea's short-selling ban on large-cap stocks on Monday could be blamed for the recent heavy outflows from US-listed exchange-t...

CVC Capital Partners has appointed Chris Rhee, a former partner of Affinity Equity Partners, as its Seoul office head and global partner, according ...

Cosmetics industry sees continued export growth for two straight decades K-beauty has emerged as a global trend, thanks to the development of innov...

South Korea’s major companies are looking for merger and acquisition opportunities in the rechargeable battery materials sector, which is grow...

Sejong University in Seoul, South Korea has unveiled a cultured meat prototype for the first time in the country.Cultured meat is an alternative pro...

Hanwha Total Petrochemical Co., a 50:50 joint venture between Hanwha Group and the French oil giant Total SE, has become the company with the larges...

At the Hyundai Pusan New Port Terminal (HPNT), one of the largest terminals in South Korea’s southeastern port city of Busan, 12 quay cranes a...

The Korea Exchange (KRX) will lower the bar for domestic startups' initial public offerings at home so that they will be dissuaded from joining the ...

South Korea’s top web portal operator and search engine Naver Corp. aims to overtake Google Inc.’s Chrome as the top web browser in the ...

Korea Superfreeze Co., 24.95% owned by Goldman Sachs PIA, will spend 2.5 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in building six cold storage facilities in Sout...

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Evercore Inc., a New York-based boutique investment banking advisory firm, is joining hands with Morgan Stanley to co-manage the sale of a majority ...

Jang Dong-hyun, chief executive of SK Inc., formerly known as SK Holdings Co. made a rare public remark during a March shareholder meeting, saying t...

South Korea’s industrial nitric acid sector, currently led by Hu-Chems Co. with around a 90% market share, will see a change in the competitiv...

Described as "South Korea's first space-set blockbuster," Netflix's film Space Sweepers is receiving considerable viewership globally, joining a gro...