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It may look like David versus Goliath, but Y Combinator-backed Relate has found a sweet spot where it can beat Salesforce in the sales customer rela...

South Korea’s Tmax Group bought back the software making unit it had sold to a local private equity firm two years ago to try to boost synergy...

IGIS Asset Management Co., one of Asia's largest real estate investment firms, is seeking to sell a building backed by South Korea’s National ...

Tridge Co., South Korea’s first agricultural product and food trading platform operator invested in by SoftBank Group Corp., is in financial t...

South Korea’s Hanyang University Foundation has decided to sell 11.3% of common shares and all the preferred stocks it holds in brokerage arm ...

SK Signet Inc., South Korea’s electric vehicle charger manufacturer, joined hands with a local renewable energy startup backed by global asset...

Samsung Group is poised to acquire the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. headquarters building in Seoul for more than 1 trillion won ($724.4 m...

The new chief executive of South Korea’s Gmarket Inc. on Monday pledged to drive the local retail giant Shinsegae Group’s online shoppin...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is seeing little demand for a Seoul-based new prim...

Money-losing SSG.COM, once the most popular online shopping mall in South Korea, is asking some of its employees to volunteer to leave the company f...

US e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. will offer South Korean cosmetics producers one-stop support to enable them to reach millions of customers ...

Shift Up Corp., the South Korean game developer behind the global hit game “Goddess of Victory: Nikke,” could raise up to 435 billion wo...

Marine Innovation Co., a South Korean eco-friendly social venture company sponsored by the country’s top energy firm SK Innovation Co., is par...

SK Group has put its shares in Korea Superfreeze Inc., a cold chain logistics company jointly owned by EMP Belstar and Goldman Sachs, on the market,...

TOKYO – Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, plans to sever technological and system tie...

Bill Gates’ nuclear energy firm TerraPower LLC, backed by South Korean conglomerates SK Inc. and HD Hyundai Co., has broken ground on its firs...

South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...

Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, said on Wednesday it will keep its South Korean affiliate...

LY Corp., the operator of Japan’s popular messenger app Line, is expected not to propose Naver Corp.’s stake sale in its largest stakeho...

The South Korean government said on Monday it will resolutely respond to any “unfair” measures by Tokyo against Naver Corp., which is re...

TOKYO – SoftBank Corp., which runs LY Corp., the operator of the popular mobile messenger app Line in Japan, said on Thursday it is in talks w...

TBILISI, Georgia – The Bank of Korea (BOK) will go back to square one on monetary policy as stronger-than-expected economic growth in the...

Lotte Card Co., South Korea’s No. 5 credit card issuer, has injected $68 million into its Vietnamese unit to expand its business in the Southe...

South Korea’s fledgling mobile carrier Stage X Co. has teamed up with relatively new Japanese mobile company Rakuten Group to crack Korea&rsqu...

South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. and Japan’s SoftBank Corp. will kick off talks this week, during which they are expected to ...

Shinsegae Group could face a legal battle against two private equity firms that are demanding it buy back their combined 1 trillion won ($727 millio...

Kia Corp., the second-largest automaker in South Korea, posted record quarterly profit and revenue for the first three months of this year, backed b...

South Korea's low-cost carrier Air Premia Inc. has teamed up with North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners to win Asiana Airlines Inc.'s ...

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cooperation in measuring social value...

Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market service provider, enjoyed growth in other countries with its Karrot app briefly...