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Air Busan Co. recently expanded the number of flights on its Japan routes and continues to resume flights on its Southeast Asian routes. It will now...

Everybody is aware that investment fever on biotech firms has already cooled due to rising interest rates and concerns over the fizzling economy, an...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has made its first direct investment in an asset management firm, the South Korean sovereign wealth fund said on ...

South Korea’s current account surplus plunged as exports fell for a second straight month, adding to concerns over a slowdown in Asia’s ...

Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia has broken a deal to buy a majority stake in the world’s largest polyimide film manufacturer PI Adv...

The Daol Financial Group is widely expected to let go of its venture capital arm in the midst of a worsening liquidity crunch. The VC firm Daol...

Korea's loan and financing company BNK Capital on Thursday said its subsidiary in Kyrgyzstan, MCC BNK Finance LLC, has launched operations as its si...

Medical data platform operator JNPMEDI Inc. announced on Tuesday that it raised 14 billion won ($10.3 million) in a Series A round. Pavilion Ca...

South Korean conglomerate Eugene Group, one of the largest construction materials suppliers in the country, is planning to acquire local logistics c...

The implosion of the Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX is causing ripple effects around the world, and South Korea is no exception.Seoul-based cry...

South Korea's LG CNS will provide a smart city design for Indonesia's new capital of Nusantara. The company on Tuesday said it signed the day before...

The Seoul branch of the UK-based Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) has made a capital increase of over 20% to raise its capital adequacy r...

When Oaktree Capital Management Co-Founder and Co-Chairman Howard Marks appears on TV, he is often asked whether to embrace a risk-on or risk-off st...

South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities Co., which committed $100 million to Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in J...

South Korea last week completed the process needed to launch a stock market stabilization fund of 10.76 trillion won ($7.6 billion). The timing for ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will expand investments via secondaries and direct lending, its Head of Strategic Alternative Inv...

The global venture capital ecosystem has been contracting since the second quarter of last year, hit by rising inflation and rate hikes. New ...

NEW YORK – Investors should stay in the financial market as rising interest rates have put the values of assets such as stocks and bonds at ap...

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Company is set to put a 100% stake in biofuel manufacturer SK Eco Prime on sale, with Goldman Sachs as a...

South Korea’s airlines, already slammed by a weaker won currency and rising interest rates, are expected to suffer more from global major oil ...

South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...

A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant to Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency ecosystem that imploded earlier this year. ...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, will funnel 67 trillion won ($48 billion), or about 40% of its 2022-2026 do...

Back in August 2000, a fraternity of domestic business magnates’ children and startup entrepreneurs named V-Society was founded. The frat...

Tikehau Capital, a Paris-headquartered global alternative asset management group, is working hard to expand growth and its operating capacity in Asi...

The South Korean government is facing a backlash from the startup and venture capital sectors after slashing next year’s fund of funds budget....

Iljin Materials Co.’s sale process has reached a deadlock as its Chief Executive Heo Jae-Myeong is holding to its price to sell a controlling ...

Gourmet food delivery platform Kurly and Golfzon County have won preliminary approval for their initial public offerings set for this year.The Korea...

DigitalBridge Group Inc., a US digital infrastructure investment firm, announced on July 19 it has appointed South Korean Tae E. Ahn as managing d...

Geekble, operator of the YouTube science channel of the same name, has raised 5 billion won ($3.8 million) in bridge investment, the company said on...