CHA Biotech seeks to resume healthcare unit IPO after affiliates’ merger

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...

CHA Healthcare incorporates Singapore's SMG as subsidiary

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...

Lotte Wellfood expands dairy exports to Vietnam

Lotte Wellfood expands dairy exports to Vietnam

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Thursday that it will increase dairy exports to the Vietnamese market.The products newly exported to V...

Bubble tea chain Gong Cha struggles in its top market of Korea

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...

Yonsei Cream Milk Bread to be launched in Taiwan

Yonsei Cream Milk Bread to be launched in Taiwan

Yonsei Milk, a non-profit social contribution company of South Korea's Yonsei University, announced on Friday that it will export its mega-hit des...

Amorepacific gets certification for memory-enhancing ingredients

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

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 ...

South Korea’s next price cut target to ease inflation; flour prices

South Korea’s next price cut target to ease inflation; flour prices

South Korea urged domestic millers to cut flour prices after demanding a similar move to instant noodle makers to further ease inflationary pressure...

Maeil cracks China’s alternative milk market with Starbucks deal

Maeil  cracks China’s alternative milk market with Starbucks deal

South Korea’s Maeil Dairies Co. has jumped into China’s alternative milk market, worth $17 billion in 2022, by supplying Almond Breeze B...

Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025

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 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

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...

S.Korea sends dairy cows, livestock genetic resources to Nepal

S.Korea sends dairy cows, livestock genetic resources to Nepal

The South Korean government is donating dairy cows and genetic resources for cattle to Nepal.The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on ...

CHA Healthcare buys major Australian fertility center

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...

Tous les Jours, the next K-bakery to lure US customers

Tous les Jours, the next K-bakery to lure US customers

Tous les Jours, South Korea’s second-largest bakery franchise, is rapidly expanding its US business by attracting customers with greater varie...

Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity

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...

Former KIC real estate head to serve as ADQ's chief investment officer

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

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...

Carpenters brew tea from 150-year-old Korean pine trees

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...

Unison Capital agrees to sell Gong Cha to US PEF for $300 mn

Unison Capital agrees to sell Gong Cha to US PEF for $300 mn

South Korea-based Unison Capital Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell milk tea brand Gong Cha to US private equity firm TA Associates for ar...

Unison Capital in final stages of talks to sell Gong Cha to US PEF

Unison Capital in final stages of talks to sell Gong Cha to US PEF

Unison Capital Inc. is in the final stages of negotiations to sell Taiwan-style milk tea brand Gong Cha to US private equity firm TA Associates for ar...

Unison Capital puts bubble tea franchise Gong Cha up for sale

Unison Capital puts bubble tea franchise Gong Cha up for sale

Private equity firm Unison Capital Inc. has put bubble tea franchise Gong Cha on the market, a deal estimated at up to $442 million, as the South Kore...

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