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LG Group plans to invest 25 billion won ($21 million) in California-based plant-based food maker Eat Just, Inc. The news follows an announcement by ...

South Korea’s biotechnology startup Voronoi Inc. plans an initial public offering in March to raise up to 130 billion won ($108.4 million).Vor...

Naver Corp. is ramping up its recruitment of global talent in artificial intelligence. The South Korean tech giant announced Monday that it h...

ICONIQ Capital, a US family office backed by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has invested 50 billion won ($42 million) in Smartscore, a South ...

China’s ByteDance Ltd., the developer of video-sharing social networking service TikTok, announced Friday that it invested 48 billion won ($42...

The field of ribonucleic acid (RNA) therapeutics, once considered an unexplored area, is now the most coveted sector in the global biotech industry....

South Korea’s internet juggernaut NAVER Corp. is gearing up to enter the NFT business – through its affiliate LINE Corp.LINE NEXT, a ven...

Stonebridge Ventures Inc., South Korea’s most profitable venture capital firm, plans to establish a fresh fund of $168 million, the largest in...

Kurly Inc. CEO Sophie Kim had her first quarrel with her husband while waiting two hours in line to get into the parking lot of Costco.Reminiscing...

Kurly Inc. Sophie Kim...

Startup accelerator FuturePlay is pushing ahead with an initial public offering. The decision follows similar moves by Korean venture capital and ac...

Music copyright trading platform Musicow Inc. has attracted a 200 billion won ($167.9 million) investment from Korea’s private equity firm STI...

At first glance, ETERN!TY is similar to other K-pop bands – dancing to upbeat music and the female members donning pink tennis outfits. W...

SK Networks Co. announced Friday it has invested $20 million in California-based biotech startup MycoWorks. The general trading arm of South ...

South Korea’s DoubleU Games Co. announced Friday that its subsidiary DoubleDown Interactive LLC invested $1.5 million in North Carolina-base...

Baby Shark became the first video to reach more than 10 billion views on YouTube on Jan 13. This milestone follows the same video becoming the most-...

Artificial intelligence-powered image analysis company Alchera Inc. is working with PG&E (The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in t...

Logistics service provider Mesh Korea Co. plans to raise 200 billion to 300 billion won ($168.6 million to $253 million) in its upcoming rights is...

US-based autonomous vehicle company Motional Inc. announced its plans for the commercialization of driverless cars based on the all-electric Hyundai...

AmazeVR Inc. received a total of $15 million from leading South Korean venture capital firms. The virtual reality platform allows users to experie...

SoftBank Group Corp. is investing $146 million in South Korea’s artificial intelligence company Qraft Technologies, Inc. The investment includ...

South Korea’s SK Networks Co. said on Tuesday it joined a $15 million in Series B-2 funding for US healthcare startup LVIS Corp.LVIS, headquar...

EONE-DIAGNOMICS Genome Center Co. ( EDGC ) announced this week it would participate in AI Human Metaverse Project consortium – along with seven ...

When Dia Kang first moved to Silicon Valley in October 2016 to create a dance app to learn K-pop moves, there was no worldwide pandemic. By Jan...

NAVER Corp.’s startup accelerator D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) has made an additional investment into data pipeline solutions provider Cloa, the ...

Mobile point-of-sale (POS) system maker Payhere Inc. announced Tuesday it received 10 billion won ($8.4 million) in Series A funding from Softbank V...

South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq market has been underperforming the main Kospi market for a couple of decades, raising concerns that the junio...

Korean investment firm SK Square Co. Ltd. has invested approximately 35 billion won ($29.5 million) into homegrown agriculture tech startup Greeln...

2021 has been a heyday for Korea’s startup ecosystem – especially for the VCs that invest in it. In the first three quarters of this ye...