KPop Demon Hunters OST lands at No.6 on Billboard Hot 100
The original soundtrack Golden from Netflix’s hit animated movie KPop Demon Hunters has made chart history, becoming the first track by a virt...
South Korea’s Lee completes cabinet lineup with IT executive, lawmaker
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has tapped an information technology firm executive as culture minister and a ruling party lawmaker as land min...
S.Korea’s leading ERP player Douzone Bizon up for sale; EQT, others in talks
Douzone Bizon Co., South Korea’s leading homegrown enterprise software firm and the country’s No. 2 player in the enterprise resource pl...
S.Korea to have 1st civilian defense minister in decades, career technocrats
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Monday announced a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle, naming a mix of career technocrats, senior lawmakers and &mda...
SK Hynix leads Samsung in customized HBM; lands Nvidia, Microsoft deals
SK Hynix Inc. has secured Nvidia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Broadcom Inc. as key clients of its customized high-bandwidth memory (HBM), positioning ...
Partners Group sees infrastructure secondaries quadrupling to $60 bn
Infrastructure secondaries are gaining momentum as the infrastructure sector attracts investors seeking stable and predictable returns amid heighten...
Kakao Mobility to build smart infrastructure for Saudi Diriyah project
Kakao Mobility Corp., which runs South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app, Kakao T, has clinched a deal to build a future mobility infrastr...
SpaceX’s Starlink, Eutelsat’s OneWeb land in Korea for LEO satellite services
South Korea has officially cleared the way for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet services, granting regulatory approval for SpaceX’s St...
Korea Post to commit $150 mn to mid-cap infrastructure funds
Korea Post will commit $150 million to one or two global asset managers for mid-cap infrastructure equity investments, the postal service agency sai...
Australian infrastructure offers compelling opportunity: QIC
Australia is uniquely positioned to offer a diversified and resilient exposure for infrastructure equity investment, supported by its solid economic...
NPS, KIC step up focus on mid-market infrastructure
The National Pension Service (NPS) and Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) are actively exploring mid-market infrastructure opportunities as they are expec...
POBA bullish on REITs, real estate debts and senior housing
South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is betting big on real estate investment trusts (REITs) and senior housing in the US...
Samsung gears up for foray into space infrastructure industry
Samsung Group is stepping up efforts to venture into the space infrastructure industry, a sector analysts say remains a blue ocean where South Korea...
Hamilton Lane invests in IMM infrastructure fund in secondary deal
Global private market investor Hamilton Lane Inc. has acquired a stake in Seoul-based alternative investment firm IMM Investment’s infrastruct...
KIC discusses post-US tariff infrastructure strategy with pension funds
The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) on Tuesday discussed infrastructure investment opportunities and risks in the wake of the US government&rsquo...
Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal
Hyundai Rotem Co. has won a 420 billion won ($301 million) order to build autonomous electric trains for Taiwan’s Taichung Metro, adding to a ...
Korea's science ministry picks 10 AI, digital startups to back global growth
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT on Thursday announced that it has selected 10 startups founded by Koreans in a program to support th...
RedotPay lands in Seoul with crypto cards
RedotPay, a Hong Kong-based blockchain fintech company, has arrived in South Korea with its cryptocurrency-based payment cards and is poised to disr...
ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK
ABL Bio Inc., a South Korean biotech company, will license out its proprietary blood-brain barrier shuttle platform, called the Grabody-B, to UK-bas...
S.Korea courts active funds for $140 bn treasury issuance
South Korea’s finance ministry will hold its largest-ever investor relations (IR) event for global institutional investors at the end of this ...
S.Korean investors name their 33 favorite alternative asset managers
Blackstone and HarbourVest Partners are South Korean institutional investors’ preferred private equity firms, according to a survey by Korea I...
Middle East: New land of opportunity for Korean medical devices
South Korea is making inroads into the Middle East's medical device market dominated by the US and Europe, aiming to leverage the region’s str...
Korean pension funds raise bets on infrastructure, global stocks
South Korean pension funds are raising their bets on infrastructure and global stocks, while reducing exposure to the domestic stock market on a dow...
Fleetune continues evolving for smarter route optimization
Fleetune Inc., a South Korean transportation management service (TMS) platform-developing startup, is gearing up for a big leap next year with relen...
E-Land manages New Balance’s record $689 mn in Korean sales
South Korea’s retail giant E-Land Group has achieved 1 trillion won ($689 million) in Korean sales of the global sports footwear and apparel b...
Korea bags Romanian project to refurbish nuclear reactor
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) on Thursday inked a final agreement with Romania’s Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) to r...
South Korea’s economic system remains resilient: finance minister
The South Korean economy is solid, and the government will take “bold and swift’’ actions if needed to stabilize Asia’s four...
Asan Nanum to offer Silicon Valley residence to Korean startups
The Asan Nanum Foundation, a South Korean startup accelerator program operator, said on Thursday it will open a residency space for Korean venture f...
IFM Investors bets big on infrastructure investing: Gee-Grant
IFM Investors, a global investment manager owned by Australian pension funds, is looking to infrastructure as the fastest-growing asset segment for ...
E-Land sets sights on Vietnam as its next China, to open 10 outlets by 2025
South Korea’s retail giant E-Land Group has set its sights on Vietnam as its next target market after China, planning to open 10 outlets there...
