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South Korean institutional investors, including banks, insurers and securities companies, have yet to fully benefit from recent declines in bond yie...

Seoul Guarantee Insurance Co. (SGI) has slashed its target valuation by about 40% in a renewed attempt to go public on the South Korean stock exchan...

South Korean stocks are expected to bounce back in the new year as their extremely low valuation following investors’ massive sell-offs in 202...

K Bank, a South Korean online lender, is making a fresh attempt to list on the Korean stock market in February 2025 as bitcoin’s record-breaki...

Panmnesia, a South Korean fabless startup specializing in compute express link (CXL) technology, said on Tuesday it raised 80 billion won ($57 milli...

Kbank, a South Korean online bank, is preparing to list on the main bourse Kospi at an estimated value of up to 5 trillion won ($3.8 billion) in the...

MBK Partners’ planned sale of Homeplus Express, the supermarket chain of South Korean hypermarket operator Homeplus, has hit a snag as potenti...

Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund (MKIF) has signed an agreement to buy a 40-megawatt (MW) data center from Seoul-based IGIS Asset Management Co. ...

KB Securities Co. on Tuesday raised the target price for LIG Nex1 Co. from 195,000 won ($140.4) to 200,000 won amidst a recent significant rise in...

Wefun, a Seoul-based startup operating an office maintenance, repair and operation (MRO) platform, plans to go public next year after successfully r...

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Naver Corp. plans to list shares of Los Angeles-based affiliate Webtoon Entertainment Inc. on t...

South Korean fabless artificial intelligence chip startup Rebellions Inc.’s plan to co-develop the next-generation AI chip with the world&rsqu...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, saw the amount of listed local shares it owns rise...

On Nov. 20, HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier, issued new 200 million shares after its two largest shareholders -- Korea Development ...

Koreans are piqued by banks raking in extraordinarily handsome profits and handing out generous bonuses amid the high-interest rate environment that...

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) is eyeing infrastructure and private debt in the era of higher-for-longer interest rates, while m...

Samsung Electronics Co. is not keen to invest in SoftBank’s British chip design unit Arm, the valuation of which seems too high, according to ...

Global top ultracapacitor player LS Materials Co. is expected to go public in South Korea this year, which would mark the first LS Group company IPO...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has slashed the target prices of South Korean top cathode stocks, namely EcoPro BM Co. and POSCO Future M Co., by nearly ha...

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemical materials company, is slated to buy a controlling stake in semiconductor chip test maker ISC Co., in a deal estima...

Increased rates will impact global real estate deals and slash property values, according to major institutional investors in South Korea. The US of...

OpenAI, the world’s most well-known artificial intelligence lab, is tapping South Korean institutional investors for investment at an estimate...

Doosan Corp., the holding company of South Korean plant-to-machinery conglomerate Doosan Group, is slated to attract $200 million for its hydrogen f...

South Korean individual investors have been chasing shares in EcoPro group, the country’s major electric vehicle battery materials manufacture...

South Korea’s debt-ridden public enterprises are selling off their stakes in overseas coal mines to improve their financial status and stay in...

Kurly Inc., South Korea’s leading food delivery platform, has embarked on a new funding round to raise 100 billion won ($76 million) at about ...

SK Pharmteco Co., a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is eyeing pre-initial public offering funding again after it dropped...

Samsung Electronics Co. is found to have earned 250 billion won ($191 million) in profit valuation from its investment made two months ago in Rainbo...

LB Investment Inc., formerly known as LG Group’s venture capital arm, has attracted the most orders ever for an initial public offering of a S...

FADU Technology has become South Korea’s first fabless semiconductor unicorn after successfully raising funds from share sales before its init...