Baby Unicorn 200

South Korea's two retail heavyweights Lotte and Shinsegae are in head-to-head competition for the country's fifth-largest convenience store chain Mi...

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...

Korea’s first mobility unicorn Socar and an online grocery delivery service operator Kurly Inc. are scheduled to begin the process of an IPO e...

Investment in South Korean startups hit an all-time high in 2021 as the number of new unicorns, unlisted companies with a valuation topping $1 billi...

Cosmax East, which owns and manages Cosmax’s business in China in its entirety, has announced plans to seek listing on the Korea Stock Exchang...

Foreigners bought Kospi 200 futures contracts on “quadruple witching day," the quarterly simultaneous expiration of South Korean options and f...

Foreign investors are poised to extend their buying spree in South Korea’s main stock market to a sixth straight session, spurring hopes for t...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) selected private equity giant Hillhouse Capital Group in the third quarter of this year for its...

Kurly Inc., an operator of South Korea's online grocery delivery service Market Kurly, has raised 250 billion won ($212 million) in pre-IPO funding ...

Korean venture capital firms are ramping up their investments in Korean American-owned startups in the United States, mostly in Silicon Valley.The aim...

South Korea's Bucketplace Co., an operator of the country's largest home interior platform, is seeking to raise about 100 billion won ($85 million) ...

South Korea’s major food company Pulmuone. Co. is slated to expand sales of its in-house developed meat alternatives in the US market. The foo...

South Korea is stepping up efforts to secure diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) such as diversification of supply sources as the shortage of the liquid used...

The South Korean won weakened past the psychologically important 1,200 per dollar mark for the first time in 15 months as growing worries about glob...

The Hydrogen Iron & Steel Making (HyIS) Forum led by the steelmaker POSCO officially opened Oct. 6 in Seoul with more than 1,200 industry partic...

South Korean shipbuilders, which have secured almost 97% of the orders placed for liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers this year, expect to see thei...

Samsung Electronics Co. has become the first company to launch a 200-megapixel mobile image sensor, giving the world’s No. 2 image sensor make...

South Korea-based game developer NPIXEL Co. has become the country’s fastest game company to join the unicorn club after raising 100 billion w...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, is expected to raise foundry prices in the near term as surging demand is outp...

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix sharply rose on Aug. 24 after suffering a continuous sell-off. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index gained for ...

Samsung Group said on Tuesday it will invest a combined 240 trillion won ($206 billion) investment over the next three years in its core businesses in...

Samsung Group will invest a combined 240 trillion won ($206 billion) over the next three years in its core businesses such as semiconductor, display...

Artificial intelligence-based education is similar to self-driving cars, which select the optimal transportation routes for their drivers, according...

Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence startup Moloco Inc. has raised around 173.4 billion won ($148.1 million) in a recent funding round led ...

South Korean unicorn startups are soaking up talent from global investment banks (IBs) and brokerage houses. Junior and senior financial market spec...

Masan Group Corp., Vietnam's leading conglomerate with a diverse range of businesses ranging from food and consumer goods to financial services, wil...

South Korea-based edtech startup SmartStudy, the creator of YouTube's current most-viewed video, Pinkfong Baby Shark Dance, has begun preparations f...

The son of a South Korean manufacturing company's owner, with a Ph.D degree in engineering, has refused to take over his father's business and inste...

Samsung Electronics Co. has onboarded South Korea’s government-led metaverse alliance in a move to strengthen partnership in virtual reality (...

South Korea's entertainment- and food-focused CJ Group has emerged as a darkhorse to buy a controlling stake worth about 300 billion won ($260 milli...