Valuation

Everybody is aware that investment fever on biotech firms has already cooled due to rising interest rates and concerns over the fizzling economy, an...

South Korean e-book platform Millie’s Library dropped its listing plan on Nov. 8 due to tepid demand from institutional investors, marking the...

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. is undervalued relative to its robust earnings and steady dividend payouts and needs to boost new AI-driven growt...

South Korea’s grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. filed for preliminary IPO screening to Korea Exchange on Sept. 7. The firm is aiming to li...

Samsung Electronics Co. and other major South Korean companies have reduced their plant operations and capital expenditures as weakening demand amid...

South Korean platform operators are feeling cornered following rapid expansion during COVID-19 as growing risks of a global economic recession and r...

Investors are staying away from South Korea’s initial public offering markets as sentiment remains sour on global interest rate hikes, the sus...

Five South Korean startups joined the ranks of unicorns in the first half of 2022, the largest such figure for six months. With that, the total...

South Korean fashion e-commerce platform Brandi Inc. has embarked on a 67 billion won ($51 million) funding round, hoping for around 800 billion w...

Hit by shrinking liquidity around the globe, startups in South Korea are coming up with different ways to cut costs, most notably in human resources...

South Korea’s mobility unicorn Socar Inc. faces controversy over its valuation after the car-sharing startup set the price guidance for its in...

South Korean private equity firms that plan to inject a total of 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) into SK Ecoplant Co. are having a hard time raising t...

Iljin Materials Co., a South Korean supplier of electric vehicle battery materials, has put a majority stake up for sale, which is estimated at arou...

South Korea's grocery delivery app Kurly Inc. has generated a valuation gain of 100 billion won ($80 million) for SK Networks Co., or a triple-digit...

South Korea’s e-commerce startups are enjoying massive hikes in their valuations on the back of robust online spending by millennials and memb...

South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co.'s shares are poised for a rebound. On March 30, the stock rose by 2.55% to 181,000 won ($149.46), 11.73...

Visual effects production startup VA Corporation announced Monday it received 100 billion won ($80.4 million) from private equity fund Paratus Inv...

South Korean petrochemical companies’ stocks rose as investors bought them at a bargain on expectations for Chinese demand recovery despite ri...

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest container line, returned to an annual profit for the first time in a decade, boosted by higher freight rates an...

MBK Partners and IMM Private Equity will each be investing 200 billion won ($167 million) in Megazone Cloud Corp., the first South Korean business p...

A South Korean court on Thursday ruled in favor of Affinity Equity-led financial investors (FIs) in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., rejecting Kyobo's clai...

IMM Private Equity is set to acquire a 1.73 percent stake in Samsung Life Insurance Co., according to investment banking sources on Jan. 27. The sta...

The initial public offering of South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. drew a record 11,500 trillion won ($9.65 trillion) in bids from institutional i...

Hopes for a rebound in South Korea’s entertainment shares emerged as their earnings are expected to improve on new businesses and their valuat...

Megazone Cloud Corp., a leading cloud service provider and the first Korean business partner of Amazon Web Service (AWS), plans to attract 300 billi...

SK Pharmteco, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for pharmaceuticals, is slated to raise 400 billion ($332.2 million) to 6...

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. on Tuesday applied for a preliminary review of its public listing with the Korea Exchange, three years after it canceled th...

 As influencers on YouTube and social media platforms are becoming central to the marketing efforts of companies, South Korean cosmetics brands...

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 ...

Lunit Inc., a South Korean developer of AI-based diagnostic tools for cancer screening, has surpassed 1 trillion won ($841 million) in value in over...