Kakao Ventures

HYBE Co. is tightening the reins in its fight against Kakao Corp. for control of SM Entertainment Co. by raising up to 1 trillion won ($768.6 millio...

A South Korean court on Friday ruled in favor of SM Entertainment Co. Founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man to block the company from sellin...

South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...

South Korea’s HYBE Co. lost its first battle against dominant local mobile platform Kakao Corp. over SM Entertainment Co. as the label behind ...

Kakao Impact, a corporate foundation of Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform company, said on Tuesday it has agreed to work with the...

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will develop an anti-cancer drug that combines oncolytic virus technology with biosimilars un...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, said on Monday it would mobilize all possible countermeasures against HYBE Co. ’s a...

Kakao Brain, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Kakao Corp., said on Sunday it plans to set up a fund of up to 10 billion ...

HYBE Co., the label behind the global sensation BTS, is considering legal action to invalidate an undisclosed deal between SM Entertainment Co. and ...

HYBE Co., the label behind the world’s top boyband BTS, said it does not plan to raise its buying price for SM Entertainment Co., denting hope...

Kakao Enterprise, a leading IT platform business operator in South Korea, recently announced its "Matching 2.0" strategy to enhance the quality of s...

On Tuesday, Kakao Brain, the AI unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced the development of a new text-based motion generation model, called "FL...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, has been fined 25.7 billion won ($20.3 million) for discriminating agai...

Netmarble Corp. announced that the webtoon "MAVE: Another World," based on the virtual girl group, will be available on KakaoPage and Kakao Webtoon ...

SM Entertainment Co., a South Korean music label widely credited as the pioneer of K-pop, has emerged as a new battlefield between HYBE Co., the age...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s No. 1 mobile messenger platform, will launch Korean language-specific, vertically-integrated AI service this year s...

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment arm of South Korean tech firm Kakao Corp., has been added to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Kor...

LS Cable & System Ltd. will spend 67.5 billion won ($53.3 million) to set up a joint venture with Austria’s Hammerer Aluminium Industries ...

South Korea’s game publishers reported dismal quarterly earnings, deepening concerns over their outlook this year amid doubts over measures su...

The local government of South Korea’s capital city Seoul this year will launch its own vision fund, dubbed the Seoul Vision 2030 Fund, to inve...

South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. on Wednesday said its net profit last year reached a record-high 263.1 billion won ($208.6 million), up 28.9% from 202...

South Korean electric vehicle cell makers lost a market share against Chinese competitors last year as they failed to fully benefit from a surge in ...

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., posted a net profit last year for the first time since its ...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

South Korea's two premium ride hailing apps TADA and i.M are considering a merger in a bid to challenge Kakao Mobility Corp., which commands about 9...

South Korea's Kakao Mobility has entered Laos under a plan to use the country as a base for the transportation company's operations in Southeast Asi...

South Korean start-up Una Stella announced on Monday that it has secured 5.5 billion won ($4.4 million) in pre-Series A funding, led by Strong Ventu...

South Korea's transportation company Kakao Mobility on Monday said it concluded a "delivery service business agreement for joint development of the ...

South Korea's venture capital investment last year fell more than 10% from a year ago due to the economic downturn caused by a series of global rate...

A-Team Ventures, which runs an online manufacturing platform "Capa," said on Friday that it has raised a Series B funding of 5 billion won ($4.1 mil...