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The volume of stock issuance in South Korea declined sharply last year due to the softening stock market. Amid rising interest rates, the amount of ...

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 Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. aims to raise up to $166 million through a listing next month, becoming the country’s first...

Capital-impaired companies can now receive government R&D support as long as they prove their research capabilities.The Ministry of SMEs and Sta...

Slush, one of the world’s largest startup events, is set to hold a spin-off meeting in South Korea this year.Slush is a startup and tech event...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said on Monday that an amendment to the Venture Capital Investment Promotion Act, which will strengthen the disclo...

Millennium Hilton Seoul, founded in 1983, will close down for business on Dec. 31 due to redevelopment plans for the property.The five-star hotel ...

Saving income to buy a house in South Korea has become more difficult and taking longer, according to a report by the Ministry of Land, Infrastruc...

Air Busan Co. recently expanded the number of flights on its Japan routes and continues to resume flights on its Southeast Asian routes. It will now...

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

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has made its first direct investment in an asset management firm, the South Korean sovereign wealth fund said on ...

South Korea’s current account surplus plunged as exports fell for a second straight month, adding to concerns over a slowdown in Asia’s ...

Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia has broken a deal to buy a majority stake in the world’s largest polyimide film manufacturer PI Adv...

The Daol Financial Group is widely expected to let go of its venture capital arm in the midst of a worsening liquidity crunch. The VC firm Daol...

Korea's loan and financing company BNK Capital on Thursday said its subsidiary in Kyrgyzstan, MCC BNK Finance LLC, has launched operations as its si...

Medical data platform operator JNPMEDI Inc. announced on Tuesday that it raised 14 billion won ($10.3 million) in a Series A round. Pavilion Ca...

South Korean conglomerate Eugene Group, one of the largest construction materials suppliers in the country, is planning to acquire local logistics c...

The implosion of the Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX is causing ripple effects around the world, and South Korea is no exception.Seoul-based cry...

South Korea's LG CNS will provide a smart city design for Indonesia's new capital of Nusantara. The company on Tuesday said it signed the day before...

The Seoul branch of the UK-based Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) has made a capital increase of over 20% to raise its capital adequacy r...

When Oaktree Capital Management Co-Founder and Co-Chairman Howard Marks appears on TV, he is often asked whether to embrace a risk-on or risk-off st...

South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities Co., which committed $100 million to Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in J...

South Korea last week completed the process needed to launch a stock market stabilization fund of 10.76 trillion won ($7.6 billion). The timing for ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will expand investments via secondaries and direct lending, its Head of Strategic Alternative Inv...

The global venture capital ecosystem has been contracting since the second quarter of last year, hit by rising inflation and rate hikes. New ...

NEW YORK – Investors should stay in the financial market as rising interest rates have put the values of assets such as stocks and bonds at ap...

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Company is set to put a 100% stake in biofuel manufacturer SK Eco Prime on sale, with Goldman Sachs as a...

South Korea’s airlines, already slammed by a weaker won currency and rising interest rates, are expected to suffer more from global major oil ...

FTSE Russell, a global index provider, added South Korea to the watch list for potential inclusion in its FTSE World Government Bond Index (WGBI), p...

South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...