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Just a few years back, fashion startups in South Korea rarely saw the need for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The same was true for the so-c...

“We had the overseas market in mind from the get-go,” global fabric sale platform SwatchOn’s CEO Lee Woo-seok told The Korea Econo...

Cryptocurrency investors in South Korea have threatened to file a class action lawsuit against co-founders of the disgraced blockchain platform oper...

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...

For the first time, South Korea’s startup accelerator D.Camp has opened an office in the port city of Busan. The joint effort between D...

The value of Luna, the cryptocurrency linked to stablecoin TerraUSD, now hovers just above $0. Just a week ago, its market capitalization was around...

CJ Group, one of South Korea’s largest family run conglomerates, or chaebol, is venturing into the fandom platform business with a 22.4 billio...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and its spin-off SK Square Co. have together invested 50 billion won ($40 million) into a loca...

FADU Technology, a fabless startup that develops architecture for solid-state drive (SSD) controllers and storage products, is seeking to raise 200 ...

South Korea’s retail investors are increasingly more bullish in startups than in manufacturing or retail firms. The Ministry of SMEs an...

South Korea’s startup accelerator Klim Ventures announced Tuesday it has secured 5.5 billion won ($4 million) worth of bridge capital. ...

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

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...

A South Korean bio startup is aiming for a Nasdaq listing, deeming that the country’s exchange sets the bar too high for an initial public off...

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

South Korean biotech and pharmaceutical companies are expanding their footholds in the global space medicine market. Boryung, formerly Boryung Pharm...

IonQ and Hyundai Motor Co. announced a new project on Wednesday designed to apply quantum machine learning to image classification and 3D object det...

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

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

CJ Logistics and an affiliate of Samsung Life Insurance have joined forces to launch a real estate investment fund worth 740 billion won ($600 milli...

Mirae Asset Venture Investment Co. is forecast to rake in more than 400 billion won ($325 million) for its investment in Moloco Inc. Mirae As...

South Korea’s e-commerce startups are enjoying massive hikes in their valuations on the back of robust online spending by millennials and memb...

NCSOFT Corp. unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) conversation dataset it developed with Korea University’s research center on Thursday....

Awake Corp., a startup that operates platforms to assist online creators, recently attracted 1.1 billion won ($892,473) in seed capital. The total a...

Six manhwa platforms operated by South Korea’s tech juggernauts rank among the top 10 paid digital comics platforms worldwide. Manhwa is ...

President and co-CEO of Hanwha Solutions Corp. Kim Dong-kwan met with heads of major blockchain venture capital firms while visiting the United Stat...

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is one step closer to including foreign nationals to its list of owner-cum-heads of conglomerates ...

Environmental initiatives such as RE100 and high Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards are not just for conglomerates anymore, accor...

South Korea’s Kurly Inc. nearly doubled its on-year losses on higher costs last year -- raising market controversy over its listing -- as the ...