Big Bet

There was a time when virtually all major South Korean firms were racing to make something big and heavy. Power plants, offshore oil and gas constru...

FiscalNote, a Washington D.C.-based tech firm that uses artificial intelligence and big data to track, predict and analyze regulation and legislatio...

The aviation industry, one of the hardest-hit sectors by the global pandemic, is now whetting the appetite of South Korean private equity firms whic...

South Korean brokerage houses enjoyed a bumper year in 2020 with a record fee income from global derivatives trading, driven by retail investors' ve...

South Korea’s state-funded Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) is undergoing a full-scale digital transformation to expedite inter...

BH Co. is South Korea’s leading manufacturer of flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), an essential component of smartphones, from camera to O...

Samsung Electronics Co. has launched a Big Data Center in a move to improve the use of big data in the development, marketing and sales of smartphon...

Big Hit Entertainment Co., the label behind K-pop sensation BTS, and portal giant Naver Corp. are set to team up with Universal Music Group, the wor...

The K-pop fan community scene is set to heat up even further as South Korea platform giant Naver Corp. joins forces with BTS label Big Hit Entertain...

Big companies listed on South Korea’s major stock market will be required to disclose their business activities related to environmental, soci...

For South Korean stock investors, 2020 may go down in history as the year of The Great Quest for big money, and at the end of their journey they fou...

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) has agreed to invest 300 billion won ($275 million) in South Korea’s leading fried chicken brand B...

Chief executives of banks operating in South Korea have picked the emergence of big technology companies and fintech startups in the credit market a...

Big Hit Entertainment Co., the South Korean entertainment agency behind global sensation BTS, saw its shares drop by as much as 22% on Oct.16, the sec...

Big Hit Entertainment Co., the label behind K-pop boyband sensation BTS, nearly halved its initial gains by the close of its first day of trading Oct....

Hyosung TNC Corp. is experimenting with something that may seem strange in the eyes of some: making recycled yarn from discarded PET bottles, in a pro...

Big Hit Entertainment Co., the label behind global boy band sensation BTS, pulled in 58.4 trillion won ($50.4 billion) with shares oversubscribed by 6...

Big Hit Entertainment Co. has priced its public share offering at the top end of its proposed range at 135,000 won ($115), with bids outnumbering offe...

Global cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) are taking a greater share of South Korea’s serverless computing market, where ...

Big Hit Entertainment Co., behind the K-pop idols BTS, is switching its focus to online concerts, merchandise and character businesses from offline pe...

Big Hit Entertainment Co., home to the seven-member boy band BTS, is set to hold its first official IPO-related conference for South Korean institutio...

South Korea’s big companies such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai often make shareholder-friendly moves to accommodate institutional investors, who fl...

Tech investors are set to be deluged with initial public offerings as South Korea’s big data companies are pushing to list their shares amid a d...

South Korean entertainment company Big Hit Entertainment Co. is expected to raise up to 1 trillion won ($842 million) in its upcoming public offering,...

Samsung Display Co. Ltd. has sold its LCD panel plant in China to China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) for $1.08 billion, withdrawing from the...

A consortium led by NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has been named as a preferred buyer for infrastructure assets worth $400 million in Austra...

Investors are expecting Big Hit Entertainment to pull in the highest subscription demand for public shares during the initial public offering process ...

The Carlyle Group has tentatively agreed to buy $200 million worth of bonds exchangeable into shares in KB Financial Group and the US private equity f...

Biotech startup Bionetix easily surpassed what's known as the "10 billion won hurdle" by raising an additional 10 billion won in funding on Dec. 23. I...

The asset management unit of South Korea’s Hana Financial Group is preparing to launch two new public funds investing in overseas real estate, betting...