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Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it invested in the Series C funding round of Axiado, a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) security platf...

Global credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) said on Thursday "the introduction and swift revocation of martial law in South Korea ...

Smilegate, the South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, said on Tuesday it invested in the US-based medi...

Chinese online shopping giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has invested 100 billion won ($71.4 million) in South Korea’s top women’s cloth...

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group will invest in the leading domestic robotics company to boost its ailing ste...

HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., a South Korean crude oil refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, is diversifying its business beyond fossil fuel-centered operations...

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. and SK Group’s investment arm SK Square Co. have invested a combined 250 billion won ($179 mi...

South Korea's SM Entertainment Co. partnered with the US-based music label "Gamma." to globally debut its first British K-Pop boy group Dear Alice.A...

South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Wednesday its frozen fried chicken Sobaba Chicken entered Costco stores in the US and Japan.Sobaba Chicke...

South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group will strive to grab the fifth-largest share of the Indian securities market th...

La Defense Partners is expected to exercise a casting vote over the ongoing management dispute at Hanmi Science Co. after the Seoul-based private eq...

IMM Investment, Korea Investment Private Equity (PE), Corstone Asia, and Paratus Investment have been selected for the Export-Import Bank of Korea's...

South Korea plans to restructure the struggling domestic petrochemical industry amid intensifying competition with Chinese rivals and oversupply by ...

Hyosung Chemical Corp. has failed to reach an agreement with a consortium of IMM Private Equity and STIC Investments Inc. to sell its specialty gas ...

South Korean energy and shipbuilding companies are gearing up for a swift advance into the US liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, which is expected ...

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it has signed two drug manufacturing contracts worth a combin...

South Korea's LS Cable & System Ltd. said on Wednesday that it signed a letter of intent (LOI) for offshore wind cooperation with Copenhagen Inf...

South Korea's Hanwha Life Insurance said on Wednesday it signed a stock purchase agreement (SPA) to acquire a 75% stake in Velocity Clearing LLC, ...

South Korea’s logistics companies such as local industry leader CJ Logistics Corp. are expanding their overseas operations to take advantage o...

Glenwood Private Equity on Tuesday signed an agreement to buy three waste management companies from small South Korean business group Bubang for aro...

South Korean drone maker Alux Co. said on Monday its cumulative export contracts with the US and Japan have surpassed 7 billion won ($5 million). Th...

South Korea’s Naver Corp. said on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabia’s National Housing Company (NHC...

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Monday it has signed an initial agreement to supply cylindrical battery cells to Bear Robotics I...

Lunit Inc., a South Korean AI-powered cancer diagnostics company, has partnered with global biopharma giant AstraZeneca plc. to jointly enter the AI...

The lackluster South Korean stock market and softening Korean currency have discouraged local companies from raising money at home and pushed some t...

Salesforce Inc., the world’s top customer relationship management (CRM) platform, is grappling with a major service outage affecting more than...

Samsung E&A Co. said on Friday that it won a contract for the RLP ethylene storage plant construction project in Qatar, valued at 300 billion wo...

South Korea’s SK Siltron Co. has secured a $544 million loan from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to invest in a high-quality silicon carbid...

It can be daunting to do business in a new city in a distant country. But foreign companies seeking to open businesses in South Korea’s capita...

South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. said on Tuesday it tested the All-Photonic Transport Network, a key technology designed to reduce power consumpti...