CHA Biotech seeks to resume healthcare unit IPO after affiliates’ merger
CHA Biotech Co., South Korea’s leading stem cell therapeutics developer, plans to resume an initial public offering of CHA Healthcare Co., a m...
Prices are not high enough? Trees don't grow to the sky
The S&P 500 index just experienced its best two-year streak since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, with the hype surrounding artificial intel...
CHA Healthcare incorporates Singapore's SMG as subsidiary
South Korea's CHA Healthcare Co., CHA Biotech's overseas medical business affiliate incorporated Singapore's SMG as a subsidiary. CHA Healthcare an...
Korean IPO boom sets record; bubbles burst post debut
South Korea’s initial public offerings in the first half of this year were oversubscribed 1,610 times, the highest-ever rate for a half-year p...
Bubble tea chain Gong Cha struggles in its top market of Korea
Global leading bubble tea franchise Gong Cha Global Ltd.’s South Korean affiliate, which owns the beverage chain’s Japanese and Taiwanes...
Samsung, Henckels co-develop AI Combo detergent course
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with the global household and industrial goods company Henckels AG to introduce a d...
Amorepacific gets certification for memory-enhancing ingredients
South Korea's Amorepacific Corp. announced on Thursday that it has received New Excellent Technology (NET) certification from the Ministry of Agricu...
Kombucha tea brands lure investors as diet drink market grows
South Korea’s medium-sized electronics components maker Phoenix Rising PTE Ltd. has agreed to invest 3 billion won ($2.3 million) in domestic ...
Wine bubble bursts in S.Korea as whisky frenzy grows
The South Korean fever for wine has cooled, with its imports down in the first half for a second straight year as the popularity of whisky among you...
S.Korean semiconductor industry faces sharp decline: report
The Korea Development Institute (KDI), a renowned government-affiliated economic think tank in South Korea, disclosed on Sunday that the domestic se...
Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025
CHA Healthcare Co. operating nearly 90 hospitals and infertility treatment centers across the world, is set to pave the way for South Koreans' inves...
Cha Biotech sells eye-cell technology to Japan's Astellas for $32 mn
Cha Biotech, a South Korean biotechnology company, said on Thursday that it agreed to sell its technology for developing eye-cell therapies to Astel...
Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business
Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...
Kosdaq listings number 129, highest since 2002 IT bubble
Depression in equity markets in the wake of global rate hikes this year has not prevented Korean companies from rushing into Kosdaq, South Korea's m...
Korean unlisted stock bubble bursts as interest rates rise
Kurly Inc., Dunamu Inc. and other major South Korean unlisted stocks plunged as the fallout on asset prices from rising interest rates extended into...
Risks of restructuring rise in Korean platform sector
South Korean platform operators are feeling cornered following rapid expansion during COVID-19 as growing risks of a global economic recession and r...
CHA Healthcare buys major Australian fertility center
South Korea’s medical center operator CHA Healthcare Co. said on Monday it has acquired the management rights of Fertility Specialists of West...
Nine out of 10 VC heads in S.Korea say startups overvalued: Survey
Heads of South Korea’s leading venture capital firms say domestic startups have entered a phase of overvaluation. The Korea Economic Dail...
Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity
CHA Biotech, South Korea’s stem cell therapeutics developer, is set to expand its biomaterials contract development and manufacturing organiza...
Moody's sees low risk of burst in S.Korean property bubble
South Korea's real estate prices have risen at a rapid pace over the past two years, but that would not indicate an increased risk of loan defaults ...
Former KIC real estate head to serve as ADQ's chief investment officer
Cha Hoon, the former head of real estate investment at Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is moving to Abu Dhabi’s state holding firm Abu Dhab...
Real estate investment head resigns from KIC
The head of real estate investment at Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has resigned from the South Korean sovereign wealth fund. Cha Hoon, appoint...
Korean politicians seek to delay crypto taxation as another bubble looms
South Korean politicians are seeking to delay taxes on gains from cryptocurrency trading by one year as they gear up for the upcoming presidential e...
DearU: A K-pop fan engagement platform success story
No company would know better than DearU Inc. that powerful fandom can turn into fast money.The South Korean startup that started as a software devel...
Travel bubble triples Koreans’ trips to Saipan
A travel bubble between South Korea and Saipan more than tripled visits of residents in the Asian country to the main island in the Northern Mariana...
BOK ratchets up warning over asset price bubble, private debt
The recent asset price rises in South Korea, in particular in the equities and real estate markets, have been too rapid, even considering an expecte...
KB Investment CEO says VC boom shouldn't be dismissed as mere bubble
South Korea-based venture capital firms are likely to see rankings shift once the glory days of lucrative exits in a liquidity-driven market are gon...
Korea’s venture capital firms poised to grow, no bubble seen in market
Growth in South Korea’s venture capital investments has been slow relative to the pace of the country’s economic growth, creating an opp...
Legendary trader Larry Hite sees tech bubble, says Tesla yet to prove value
NEW YORK -- Larry Hite, long-time successful hedge-fund manager who doesn’t believe anyone can predict how the stock market will move, has warne...
Carpenters brew tea from 150-year-old Korean pine trees
GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- Gangneung, on the coast east of Seoul, is famously known as a coffee destination — but there's actually another d...
