SoftBank Ventures Asia

The South Korean economy is solid, and the government will take “bold and swift’’ actions if needed to stabilize Asia’s four...

Smilegate, the South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, said on Tuesday it invested in the US-based medi...

HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., a South Korean crude oil refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, is diversifying its business beyond fossil fuel-centered operations...

South Korean accelerators (ACs) are turning to Southeast Asia and the Middle East market to support startups and expand their reach.ACs, companies t...

South Korea's SM Entertainment Co. partnered with the US-based music label "Gamma." to globally debut its first British K-Pop boy group Dear Alice.A...

South Korean private equity firms (PEF) Corstone Asia and Q Capital Partners plan to sell Norang Tongdak, the Korean-style fried chicken franchise.&...

South Korea's HMM Co. said on Friday that it will introduce two 7,700 TEU (1 TEU equals one 20-foot container) container ships powered by liquefied ...

South Korea plans to restructure the struggling domestic petrochemical industry amid intensifying competition with Chinese rivals and oversupply by ...

Bering Lab Inc., a South Korea-based artificial intelligence technology-powered translation startup with specialties in legal, financial and intelle...

South Korea’s logistics companies such as local industry leader CJ Logistics Corp. are expanding their overseas operations to take advantage o...

South Korea’s Naver Corp. said on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabia’s National Housing Company (NHC...

Salesforce Inc., the world’s top customer relationship management (CRM) platform, is grappling with a major service outage affecting more than...

Samsung E&A Co. said on Friday that it won a contract for the RLP ethylene storage plant construction project in Qatar, valued at 300 billion wo...

Matin Kim, a rising designer brand in South Korea, will open its first offline store in Japan in the first half of next year, joining other Korean i...

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s answer to global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, posted its highest quarterly sales in the third quarter and swung to...

MBK Partners’ takeover bid for Korea Zinc Inc. aims to improve corporate governance and shareholder value at the world’s largest lead an...

LG Electronics Inc., the world's largest home appliance maker, will foray into the food waste disposer market in the first quarter of 2025, heraldin...

South Korean game developer DevSisters Corp. said on Friday that it signed a publishing agreement with Vietnamese game company VNG Games for "Cookie...

SK Group on Friday launched the merged entity between SK Innovation Co. and liquefied natural gas supplier SK E&S Co., a key step in the energy-...

South Korean trading company SK Networks Co. has joined forces with Malaysian conglomerate Sunway Group to work together on future growth sectors su...

For startup accelerators that nurture promising young entrepreneurs, identifying a soon-to-be-unicorn, or a company valued at over $1 billion, in ...

South Korea's online giant Naver Corp.'s startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) said on Friday it started to discover and invest i...

South Korean venture capitalists’ appetite for foreign entrepreneurs shows no sign of waning as they continue to look for better returns overs...

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is considering ac...

South Korean pension funds and insurance companies are raising their bets on real estate as they diversify their US and Europe-focused portfolios in...

U.S. sandwich franchise Jimmy John's will open a store in Gangnam, Seoul, in October, the company announced on Thursday.This will be Jimmy John's fi...

South Korea led the game score in East Asia with 90.06 out of 100 during the first half of this year, followed by China with 85.64 and Japan with a ...

Hyundai Motor Co.'s Indian subsidiary said on Wednesday it is set to launch its initial public offering, the largest listing in the country, next we...

Nearly half of South Korean startups hold negative views on the country’s startup ecosystem, citing the prolonged startup funding winter and t...

South Korea's Naver Pay announced on Wednesday that it partnered with Hana Bank’s global payment network subsidiary, GLN International, to lau...