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Banking & Finance
Hana Financial partners with Line to launch digital bank in Indonesia
Naver Corp.’s Japan-based messaging app affiliate Line Corp. is rapidly expanding its digital banking business in Asian countries outside Kore...
Jun 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kakao enters insurance sector for synergy with its online platforms
Kakao Corp.’s ambition to become an insurer is gradually becoming a reality. The platform giant’s application to start an insurance busi...
Jun 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Metaverse makes digital nomads the new norm
It’s been about four months since Lee Seul, a manager at real estate app Zigbang, worked from the company office in Gangnam, one of South Kore...
May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2021 Interview
Sculptor Capital bets on non-traditional real estate
Non-traditional real estate assets such as cell towers, parking lots and marinas will likely provide significant investment opportunities to debt in...
May 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Digital currency
Naver joins Korean central bank's digital currency initiative
South Korea’s platform giant Naver Corp. is taking the leap into the digital currency platform market with its plans to participate in the Ban...
May 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
KOTRA to lead trade digitalization with AI, big data
South Korea’s state-funded Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) is undergoing a full-scale digital transformation to expedite inter...
Mar 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG launches AI research think tank for digital transformation
LG Electronics Inc. has launched LG AI Research, an artificial intelligence think tank dedicated to securing AI technology, to further aid the gro...
Dec 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Companies listed on tech-heavy Kosdaq score high in Q3 on pandemic
South Korean companies listed on the tech-heavy Kosdaq market posted one of their best third quarters ever thanks to strong sales related to anti-viru...
Nov 19, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Big Hit scores second-highest IPO subscription ever at $50.4 bn
Big Hit Entertainment Co., the label behind global boy band sensation BTS, pulled in 58.4 trillion won ($50.4 billion) with shares oversubscribed by 6...
Oct 06, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korean digital wallet operator raises $173 mn from foreign VC firms
Viva Republica Inc., the operator of South Korea's popular digital wallet Toss, has raised its largest single fundraising worth $173 million from...
Aug 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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k-webtoon
How Korean platform giants disrupted the digital comics market with webtoons
South Korean webtoons (mobile and digital comics) are taking over the digital comics markets in Japan and the US. Market watchers claim it is&nbs...
Aug 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private Equity
Korean biotech fund reaps triple-digit return on two Nasdaq-listed firms
South Korea’s $25 million biotechnology-themed fund, launched by Meritz Securities Co. Ltd., has earned triple-digit returns on its 2.7 billion ...
Jan 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean fund set to log double-digit return from sale of German tower
South Korean institutional investors, including the Teachers’ Pension and insurance companies, are set to reap a profit of more than €106 million ($12...
May 23, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SPIKE. NO EDIT HERE. Hyundai Motor Group to adopt digital twin technology
Hyundai Motor Group plans to adopt digital twin, a technology that allows the automaker to make a digital replica of a real car for simulation not...
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