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Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange globally, has acquired a majority stake in South Korea's Gopax by purchasing CEO Lee Joon-haeng's 41.2%...

SK Bioscience Co., a biopharmaceutical arm of South Korea's SK Group, announced it has received a BBB rating in its latest environmental, social, an...

Hanwha Precision Machinery, a manufacturing solution affiliate of South Korea's Hanwha Group, participated in the IPC APEX EXPO 2023 held in San Die...

K-pop behemoth SM Entertainment Co. said on Jan. 20 it has decided to tap Lee Chang-hwan, the CEO of local activist fund Align Partners Capital Mana...

A Singapore-based activist fund has stepped up pressure on the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G Corp. to reform governance and boo...

South Korea’s SM Entertainment Co. will increase the number of outside directors and ban its chief executive from chairing the board as part o...

When it comes to the banking sector's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts, an industry veteran says the success depends on the chief...

South Korean life insurance behemoth Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is seeking to transition into a financial holding company to expand its business footh...

The South Korean blockchain ecosystem is facing a string of management disputes, hit by worsening conditions of the global cryptocurrency market.&nb...

The Carlyle Group Inc. announced on Tuesday 32 new partners and 39 new managing directors, effective Jan. 1 of 2023, including two Koreans, Sean (So...

South Korea’s central bank is likely to raise interest rates by only 25 basis points this week as its won currency may have bottomed out, easi...

South Korea's top science and technology university has invented the world's first printed circuit board (PCB) that bends and stretches like rubber ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is eyeing secondary and deep value strategies, the sovereign wealth fund’s Senior Director of Private Equit...

Samsung Electronics Co.'s leader Jay Y. Lee was promoted as the company's chairman on Oct. 27.Samsung Electronics' board of directors approved the a...

US investment firm Principal Global Investors LLC has recently opened a Seoul office to strengthen the firm’s existing client relationships in...

Global investors are eyeing infrastructure as the asset class is inflation-protected, providing strong downside protection in times of high volatili...

South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...

Hanwha Solutions Corp., the energy and petrochemical arm of the Hanwha Group, is revving up for wide-ranging corporate restructuring to strengthen i...

LOS ANGELES, California -- Netflix mega-hit Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk each bagged an Emmy trophy Monday night in Los ...

SK Hynix Inc.’s board of directors is actively involved in the South Korean chipmaker’s management from the stages of strategy formulati...

Elon Musk’s successful bid to buy out the social media platform Twitter for around $44 billion is a kind of deal unlikely to happen in South K...

The Hyundai Motor Group once again received more safety awards than any of its counterparts from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)...

The pandemic has brought logistical real estate and infrastructure into the spotlight driven by long-term underlying e-commerce trends. It is advant...

Online game developer Nexon Co. has completed a $400 million investment in AGBO, a US entertainment company founded by Avengers film series co-direc...

Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang is looking to tap into the country’s mid-range fashion market. The company is now reversing the ...

The European Union’s expected objection to the combination of the world’s two largest shipbuilders – Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. ...

Young-joon Ryu and Min-soo Yeo, slated as Kakao Corp. co-CEOs come March Korea’s largest mobile messenger provider Kakao Corp. is slated ...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Nov. 2 announced the promotions of two Korean executive directors in its Seoul office to managing directors (MDs), the b...

South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. has acquired Moho Film, a domestic production company owned by Park Chan-wook, one of the co...

SK Group will undergo a major governance reform with significant empowerment of the board of directors in making key management decisions. The group...