foreign funds

The United Arab Emirates is set to invest a maximum of $1 billion in South Korean startups via a joint venture, as a part of its mid- to long-term p...

Samsung Life Science Fund, managed by Samsung Group’s venture investment arm, has invested in US biotechnology firm Latus Bio Inc. during the ...

Concerns are growing that South Korea’s main stock bourse could be inundated with a huge number of HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. shares next ...

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund, is introducing a new simplified asset allocation guideline under whi...

South Korean brokerage firms expanded their net profits from overseas operations last year, backed by increased gains from their investment banking ...

South Korea saw a record-high number of foreign tourists post-COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2024. The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Spor...

South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. and Japan’s SoftBank Corp. will kick off talks this week, during which they are expected to ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will select domestic general partners (GPs) to manage about 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) worth...

Late last year, when the Korean won traded at 1,288 per dollar, most market analysts and economists predicted that the Korean currency would regai...

CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, announced on Thursday that it will open Olive Young Hongdae Town, a specialty stor...

South Korea's Lotte Department Store announced on Monday that it introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) interpretation service for foreign touri...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, lost 1.66 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in domestic stock ...

Major foreign banks have actively increased staff at their operations in South Korea to offset growing uncertainty in their business in China, grapp...

South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank saw that its subscribers surpassed 10 million. According to the company, it's been two years and...

Daesung Private Equity Inc. in South Korea has become the top local venture capital manager in terms of realized capital gain between 2018 and 2023,...

Wad Corp., the developer and operator of South Korea’s most popular restaurant reservation app Catchtable, is considering offering Catchtable ...

Upstage, South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup, raised about 100 billion won ($72 million) in its latest funding round, which the comp...

Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH) announced on Tuesday that it had issued Brazilian real-denominated bonds worth approximately 270 billion w...

The number of foreign residents in South Korea is expected to rise steadily in the coming years to account for up to 10.1% of the country’s to...

LG Electronics Inc. is seeking to issue dollar-denominated bonds, its first global bond sale in 12 years, according to people with knowledge of the ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is seeing more and more of its former senior managers moving to top-tier domestic law firms. Ther...

South Korea’s casual multiplayer game developer Sandy Floor Games announced on Wednesday that it got a seed round investment from Kakao Ventur...

Linkshops, once touted as a future unicorn candidate in South Korea, declared bankruptcy last month even after garnering 15.4 billion won ($11.4 mil...

Hollys Coffee, a unit of South Korea’s KG Group, is opening its first overseas outlet in Osaka, Japan, riding on the popularity of Korean cult...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.7 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, said on ...

AhnLab Inc., South Korea's information security solutions company, announced on Monday that it signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV)...

Foreign investors gobbled up a record 15.8 trillion won ($11.7 billion) worth of stocks listed in South Korea during the first three months of this ...

The National Tax Service (NTS) of South Korea said on Tuesday that Euroclear Bank SA/NV and Clearstream Banking S.A., two major clearing houses for ...

The number of South Korean firms targeted by activist funds has risen by nearly nine times over the past five years, the largest increase among majo...

K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co.'s founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man is expected to invest up to 10 billion won ($7.5 million) in Mind...