founder Kim Beom soo

HYBE Co., the music label behind K-pop sensation BTS, is poised to acquire a controlling stake in its South Korean rival SM Entertainment Co. with m...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

Kim & Chang, South Korea's leading law firm, is poised to expand into Indonesia, joining the race among major legal firms seeking a foothold in ...

German asset management giant DWS Group said on Dec. 5 that it has appointed DWS Asset Management Korea’s Director Steven Kim (Kim Sang-wook) ...

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

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled for the first time his second child, daughter Ju-ae, who was born in 2013.The Korean Central News Agenc...

South Korea's fifth-richest man Kwon Hyuk-bin and his wife Lee Hwa-jin appear to be headed for divorce, according to industry insiders on Monday.&nb...

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 Korean mobile and online game developer and publisher Com2uS Corp. acquired a whopping 67 billion won ($47 million) worth of SM Entertainment ...

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

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

Institutional investors gathered momentum for shareholder activism in South Korea not only to boost their values but also to improve corporate gover...

SM Entertainment Co. announced Thursday it is considering terminating the production contract with Like Planning, wholly owned by its founder Lee So...

A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant to Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency ecosystem that imploded earlier this year. ...

The wife and two daughters of Nexon’s late founder Kim Jung-ju have inherited all his shares in the game developer’s holding company NXC...

SEOUL—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created an opportunity for North Korea, which has strengthened its ties with Moscow and beco...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is set for its new Chairman Kim Tae-hyun, a former CEO of state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corp....

South Korea’s Hanwha Group promoted its petrochemical and energy unit Hanwha Solutions Corp. CEO Kim Dong Kwan as the group’s new vice c...

SEOUL—South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol sought to shake up frothy inter-Korean ties on Monday with what he called an “audacious plan....

Hyundai Motor Group will redirect the core functions of its Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) division and AIRS Company to its recently acquired se...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group will set up an artificial intelligence research center in the Boston area to develop AI-driven robotics tech...

South Korea’s over-the-top (OTT) platform Watcha Inc. is in talks with some companies to sell off its shares, according to investment banking ...

Kim Jae-young, founder and chief executive of Lionheart Studio Corp., the company behind South Korea’s most popular mobile game Odin, has join...

Krafton Inc. founder and chairman Chang Byung-gyu is a rare example of a serial entrepreneur in South Korea – a country dominated by family-ow...

Amid escalating market uncertainties, M&As are not just a growth tactic but survival tools for businesses, Euan Rellie, co-founder and managing ...

TagHive Inc. is an education technology startup building a bridge between South Korea and India. The company’s founder and CEO Pankaj Aga...

Maye Musk, the mother of Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk, has been named the global ambassador for South Korea’s Ceragem Co., a manufacturer of therm...

SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea are responding to North Korea’s unprecedented number of missile tests this year with a greater show of ...

Terraform Labs' founder and CEO Do Kwon has reemerged on Twitter, after making his account private for a couple of days. Two weeks after Terra&...

Just a few years back, fashion startups in South Korea rarely saw the need for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The same was true for the so-c...