Baby Unicorn 200

South Korea's startup ecosystem has been booming with companies raising over 1 trillion won ($870 million) in the first half of this year -- an all-...

Samsung Electronics Co. has made significant progress in developing a 200-layer vertical or V-NAND flash memory –the industry’s first &n...

POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, said on Wednesday it is spending 230 billion won ($200 million) to build a nickel sulfa...

Nano-X Imaging Ltd. (Nanox), an Israeli startup listed on the Nasdaq last August, has started manufacturing digital X-ray components in South Korea....

South Korea’s chemicals and industrial materials maker Kolon Industries Inc. have added another 15,000 tons of annual capacity in its hydrocar...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has committed 270 billion won ($240 million) to a separately managed account (SMA) focusin...

South Korea's Mastern Investment Management Co. and Kiwoom Securities Co. have completed the acquisition of six last-mile distribution centers in Fr...

South Korea-based artificial intelligence startup Buzzvil is preparing to make a trading debut on the country’s junior bourse Kosdaq in the th...

India is becoming an attractive destination for South Korean startups that are eyeing overseas expansion, given the country's vast population and di...

The valuation of Kurly Inc. has now surpassed 2 trillion won ($1.8 billion).  The operator of South Korea’s online grocery and gourmet fo...

A UK-focused real estate debt fund, managed by New York-based BentallGreenOak, has received a combined £170 million ($241 million) in commitme...

South Korea-based Ably Corporation, the operator of fashion platform Ably, is seeking to raise around 40 billion won ($35.3 million), attracting a p...

South Korea's IGIS Asset Management Co. and Hana Financial Investment Co. have acquired a 49% stake in the headquarters of the US mortgage lender Fa...

Moloco Inc., a data-driven advertising solutions firm, has concluded its Series C funding round, rendering the company a newcomer to the unicorn clu...

The Korea Exchange (KRX) will lower the bar for domestic startups' initial public offerings at home so that they will be dissuaded from joining the ...

South Korea-based Dholic Commerce is an online retail platform that sells Korean fashion items and cosmetics to the Japanese market. The startup is ...

Sendbird, an in-app chat and messaging service provider, has become South Korea's freshest unicorn startup, obtaining an enterprise value of over 1 ...

SmartStudy, a South Korean edtech firm behind global YouTube hits Pinkfong and Baby Shark Dance, has become the country’s 13th unicorn startup...

South Korea’s online content platform KidariStudio Inc. announced on Mar. 31 that its France-based webtoon arm, Delitoon SAS, logged around 10...

E-book platform operator RIDI Corp. has successfully tapped into the US market, fueling anticipation over the possibility of it becoming South Korea...

The Carlyle Group has agreed to buy $200 million worth of new shares in Kakao Mobility Corp. as a pre-IPO investment in the transportation arm of So...

Singapore-based Keppel Investment Management is preparing to sell two office buildings in Seoul, less than two years after it acquired them for arou...

Huge sums of money have been flowing into growth sectors globally, prompting South Korean unicorn companies, or non-listed companies with an enterpr...

Argo Infrastructure Partners and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners were chosen as Korea Post’s new overseas infrastructure investment managers...

Global investment firm J.P. Morgan projects South Korea’s benchmark Kospi will climb to 3,200 next year, up nearly 18% from the current 2,72...

Korea Post’s savings arm plans to select two global direct lending funds focusing on North America and Europe and commit $100 million to each ...

SK Holdings Co., the holding company of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, has become the first Korean company to foray into the targeted protein d...

South Korea’s Hana Alternative Asset Management Co. has decided to exit from two Amazon-leased logistics centers in Poland for around 240 bill...

South Korea-based startup Bucketplace, an operator of home interior app OHouse, has raised $77 million in Series C funding, moving a step closer to ...

Korea Post’s savings arm will select two infrastructure fund houses to invest $200 million in overseas core infrastructure assets, according to ...