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Korean eyewear startup to again design China's top dept store hall
South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster is slated to design the luxury hall space of the Chengdu branch of SKP, China’s top department sto...
Nov 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SKC to invest $33 mn in British battery materials startup Nexeon
South Korea’s SKC Co. is set to invest $33 million in Nexeon Ltd., a British battery materials maker, for the silicon anode materials business...
Nov 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future Mobility
Korea autonomous driving startup 42dot valued at $434 mn
South Korea’s autonomous driving startup 42dot drew strong interest from investors with its advanced artificial intelligence technology. Strat...
Nov 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix in $492 million Key Foundry deal, doubles foundry capacity
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday it is acquiring a 100% stake in South Korea-based Key Foundry for 5...
Oct 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai, Kia invest in US solid-state battery startup Factorial
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. invested in US solid-state battery startup Factorial Energy in a move to secure various technologies for the next-ge...
Oct 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Naver, Mirae Asset ramp up investment in India’s promising startups
South Korea’s top online platform operator Naver Corp. and brokerage giant Mirae Asset Securities Co. are aggressively investing in promi...
Oct 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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AgTech
AgTech attracts global billionaires’ investment
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Softbank Group founder Masayoshi Son have recently shown a common interest in a surpr...
Oct 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop copyright trading platform Musicow prepares for IPO
Musicow Inc., South Korea's first music copyright trading platform, has embarked on the process to go public on the back of its eye-catching growth ...
Oct 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Yet another Netflix hit lifts Korean content stocks even higher
South Korea’s major content production houses’ stocks rallied again on the success of yet another Netflix hit drama series, My Name.Shar...
Oct 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
DearU: A K-pop fan engagement platform success story
No company would know better than DearU Inc. that powerful fandom can turn into fast money.The South Korean startup that started as a software devel...
Oct 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver's metaverse platform seeks over $40 mn in funding
Naver Z Corp., the operator of South Korea's metaverse platform Zepeto, is in the early stages of talks with investors to raise more than 50 billion...
Oct 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Portrai to revolutionize biopsy quality through AI technology
Biopsy is one of the most used methods to examine a person’s illness, taking a tissue sample of a patient for analysis. Usually, the samples a...
Oct 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative food
SK Inc, STIC invest $55 million in US alternative dairy maker Perfect Day
SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, and private equity firm STIC Investment Inc., have invested a combined 65 billion...
Oct 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Korea’s NFTBank to launch NFT funds this year
The global market of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain-based tokens, which each represent a unique asset such as a piece of art, digital conten...
Sep 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Capstone Partners: Korea's 'guardian angel' for early-stage startups
In 2018, a South Korean food startup GoPizza Co. was on the brink of shutting down. Lim Jae-won, GoPizza's founder, had launched the business with a...
Sep 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea property startup Kasa to launch exchange in Singapore
Kasa Korea Co., a property investment platform, is set to expand its services to help global users invest in real estate in the world by obtaining l...
Sep 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean startup FuriosaAI's Warboy overtakes Nvidia
South Korea-based artificial intelligence semiconductor startup FuriosaAI Inc.'s silicon chip has delivered higher performance than the US-based chi...
Sep 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Exclusive
Cosmetics startup Birdview readies for 2022 listing
South Korea-based Birdview, the operator of leading cosmetics platform Hwahae, is aiming to make a trading debut as early as the first half of nex...
Sep 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korean startup closer to winning Touch ID patent dispute with Apple
South Korea's Firstface Co. has inched a step closer to winning its patent dispute against Apple Inc., after a US federal appeals court ruled in fav...
Sep 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean EV startup makes highest bid for Ssangyong Motor
South Korea's electric vehicle and battery startup EL B&T has offered the highest price of around 500 billion won ($430 million) for debt-laden ...
Sep 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SIA analyzes satellite data for companies, government and ESG
There are about 2,000 satellites in space, orbiting the earth and generating countless images without being confined to geographical boundaries. And...
Sep 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea content platform startup to buy Getty Images unit
A South Korean content platform startup OGQ Corp. is set to take over the world’s leading stock content company Getty Images Inc.’s unit...
Sep 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Laundrygo raises over $40 mn from SoftBank Ventures, Altos Ventures
South Korea’s first contactless laundry service startup Laundrygo has raised 50 billion won ($43 million) in a follow-on investment from inves...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korea VC firms reap big rewards for investing in early-stage startups
When KNet Investment Partners LLC, a South Korean venture capital company, invested 9.9 billion won ($8.6 million) in Krafton Inc. in 2009, the game...
Sep 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Blockbuster startup IPOs curb NPS' VC diversification
South Korean startups' blockbuster initial public offerings over the past year, including Krafton Inc. and HYBE Co., have left the National Pension ...
Sep 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean proptech startup RSquare enters Southeast Asia
South Korea’s online property platform RSquare aims Southeast Asian commercial real estate markets starting from Vietnam.RSquare said on Sept....
Sep 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Biotech
Korea’s bio startup Voronoi inks $324 million deal with Brickell Biotech
Voronoi Inc., a South Korean biotechnology startup, has clinched a $324 million deal to grant Brickell Biotech, a US clinical-stage pharmaceutical f...
Sep 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Iljin Hysolus shares hit ceiling on first day of trading
South Korea’s only mass-producer of hydrogen tube trailers, Iljin Hysolus Co. made a strong debut on Kospi by reaching the price ceiling on it...
Sep 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Real Packing envisions borderless e-commerce ecosystem via videos
South Korea-based startup Real Packing is on a mission to build a trust-based society via its fact-checking video system.Launched in 2016, Real Pack...
Sep 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Parts maker Mando raises profile as investor in future mobility startups
Halla Group’s auto components unit Mando Corp. is rapidly expanding its profile as a startup investor in the future mobility sector.Mando was ...
Aug 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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