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National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund managing 896.6 trillion won ($690.5 billion) as of end-S...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled for the first time his second child, daughter Ju-ae, who was born in 2013.The Korean Central News Agenc...

South Korean logistics startup VtoV, the operator of optimized delivery service To-Day, raised 9.5 billion won ($7.2 million) from a Series A round....

RIYADH – South Korean firms are accelerating their efforts to win construction projects from Saudi Arabia as the Middle East’s largest e...

South Korea's Hanwha Engineering and Construction (E&C) on Tuesday concluded a business agreement on joint development of offshore wind power in...

The South Korean government, in tandem with the private sector, launched a battery alliance on Tuesday in a bid to support the companies in sourcing...

South Korean mid-sized petrochemical company Jaewon Industrial Co. is looking to attract pre-IPO investment, according to investment banking sources...

The HMG Driving Experience Center, which is set to open on Sept. 16, will offer the general public an opportunity to try out aspects of professional...

South Korea’s e-sports company DRX is aiming to become the first e-sports firm to list on the secondary bourse Kosdaq with its planned 2024 IP...

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, on Wednesday opened the largest driving center in Asia to showcase the performance of its ve...

Kakao Enterprise Corp. is poised to become a private 5G network provider, for use within the parent company Kakao Corp. and for serving outside clie...

The issue of allowing K-pop megaband BTS to fulfill alternative service to active military duty resurfaced again on Thursday, with government offici...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is set for its new Chairman Kim Tae-hyun, a former CEO of state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corp....

Allganize Inc., a Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, recently announced the company will relocate some of its headquarters f...

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are gaining momentum in South Korea’s initial public market on the back of eased regulations and...

KT Cloud Corp., a unit of South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp., plans to spend up to 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) over the next three years t...

South Korea’s leading cloud computing and software services providers are slated to join forces to launch a service for smart working in Korea...

South Korea’s KB Asset Management Co. is set to list its Balhae Infrastructure Fund (Balhae) on the country’s main bourse Kospi in the s...

Kim Jae-young, founder and chief executive of Lionheart Studio Corp., the company behind South Korea’s most popular mobile game Odin, has join...

South Korean startups that exceed $1 billion in valuations, known as unicorns, are pushing back their initial public offering (IPO) dates.The move c...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), the intermediate holding company of the world’s top shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Indust...

South Korea has embarked on a public-private project to bolster communication security for autonomous driving, for which a domestic startup will pla...

Private equity is regarded as an alternative asset class while shares of listed companies are known as traditional assets. This classification may n...

The uninvited visitor to Terraform Labs co-founder and CEO Do Kwon's Seoul residence has been identified by police. An AfreecaTV streamer who g...

Samsung Asset Management Co. is slated to list a blockchain exchange-traded fund on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) in the first half of this year, th...

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team announced Thursday it is considering a joint public-private committee that will be in charge o...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group’s heir apparent Chung Ki-sun has been appointed as a co-chief executive and a registered director of Korea Ship...

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Korea Exchange (KRX) jointly announced a revision to their corporate governance report guidelines on...

South Korea’s battery industry is expected to heat up the initial public offering market later this year as battery materials and equipment ma...