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South Korea’s major content production houses have made a big comeback in the local stock market on Sept. 27 after a period of downhill over t...

Kakao Corp. will accelerate its overseas expansion as part of its recently announced reform plan to strengthen fair business practices.Kakao said on...

SM Entertainment Co., a South Korean music powerhouse, will absorb a music production company wholly owned by its founder and chief producer Lee Soo...

Kakao Corp., which a decade ago was merely a mobile messenger operator, has now grown into one of the largest business groups in South Korea. The in...

South Korea’s two largest telecom companies, SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp., have both delivered strong second-quarter results driven by rapid gr...

South Korean music, entertainment and content firms are undergoing a major transformation in their business model. No longer is their discovery of n...

South Korea’s attempt to prohibit global app store operators from forcing certain in-app payment schemes has hit a bumpy road due to power pla...

South Korea's leading game company Nexon Co. has unveiled a massive lineup of super games in development alongside plans to expand its intellectual ...

South Korea's entertainment- and food-focused CJ Group has emerged as a darkhorse to buy a controlling stake worth about 300 billion won ($260 milli...

South Korea-based YG Entertainment Inc., the label behind popular K-pop girl group Blackpink, is pushing to sell off its profitable golf business in...

South Korea’s e-commerce platform TMON Inc., majority-owned by KKR & Co. and Anchor Equity Partners, will postpone its plans for initial p...

The world of K-pop is globally known for offering a truly wide selection of merchandise items for fans. While balloons were the only goods used by t...

BTS agency HYBE’s founder Bang Si-hyuk will resign from his position as CEO to focus on music production. HYBE said that Bang will remain as c...

As SM Entertainment Co., the label behind the global K-pop phenomenon, is up for grabs in the M&A market, the battle heats up between the countr...

Media, telecom, retail and energy industries offer attractive distressed investment opportunities because they are undergoing structural changes cau...

South Korean entertainment labels are expected to see their earnings momentum back in full swing in the second quarter as popular K-pop groups such ...

Kakao Entertainment Corp. is working to make a trading debut on the domestic bourse in the latter part of this year or in 2022 at the latest. And th...

South Korea’s online platform giant Naver Corp. has invested $150 million in Elang Mahkota Teknologi (Emtek), Indonesia’s largest techno...

South Korea is hitting its stride as an innovator, but it’s an overnight success story over 20 years in the making. Coupang’s $60B IPO t...

South Korea’s leading mobile app operator Kakao Corp.’s affiliates are set to merge to become a new entity, Kakao Entertainment, heraldi...

South Korean game publisher NCSoft Corp. is fueling competition in the online entertainment platform market with the planned launch of its own app, ...

South Korea's game and entertainment companies saw their share prices surge on rising expectations of a return to the Chinese market after a Korea...

South Korea’s largest internet portal Naver Corp. and logistics and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group have signed a 600 billion won ($531 mill...

South Korean entertainment giants, SM Entertainment Co, YG Entertainment Inc, and JYP Entertainment Corporation, are sitting pretty as their share pri...

Naver, a Korean online platform giant, has invested 100 billion won ($83.8 million) in SM Entertainment's subsidiaries SMEJ Plus and Mystic Story in a...

Korea’s platform giant Naver is in talks with SM Entertainment, Korea’s largest entertainment company, to acquire shares worth approximate...

Anchor Equity Partners has invested 209.8 billion won ($170 million) in South Korea’s content and entertainment company Kakao M Corp., just afte...

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has provided 200 million euros ($218 million) in a senior loan to fund KKR & Co.’s $3.4 billion purchase in 2019 ...