Korean financial firms launch global IR blitz to woo foreign capital  

Korean financial firms launch global IR blitz to woo foreign capital  

Chiefs of South Korea’s major financial groups – Shinhan, Woori and iM – are ramping up global investor outreach with new sharehol...

Asan Nanum Foundation to hold startup competition in November

Asan Nanum Foundation to hold startup competition in November

The Asan Nanum Foundation announced on Wednesday that it will hold a demo day for “The Chung Ju-yung Startup Competition” on Nov. 7 at C...

KT offers reverse pitches to pick startup partners

 KT offers reverse pitches to pick startup partners

KT Corp. has offered reverse pitches for South Korean artificial intelligence and technology startups to cooperate in the areas where it lacks in te...

Asan Nanum Foundation invites innovators to startup pitch

Asan Nanum Foundation invites innovators to startup pitch

The Asan Nanum Foundation, a nonprofit foundation set up in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung’s death,...

POSCO startup POSCORE wins grand prize at D.Camp All-Star League

POSCO startup POSCORE wins grand prize at D.Camp All-Star League

POSCORE, an in-house startup of South Korean steel giant POSCO Group, won the grand prize during an annual startup demo day hosted Wednesday by star...

P&O Chemicals completes pitch plant for cathode materials

P&O Chemicals completes pitch plant for cathode materials

South Korea's P&O Chemical, a joint venture of POSCO Future M Co. and OCI Holdings Co. completed the pitch plant in Tancheon Industrial Complex,...

Hanwha vice chair pitches submarines to Polish president

Hanwha vice chair pitches submarines to Polish president

Hanwha Group Vice Chairman Kim Dong-kwan is stepping up efforts to win Poland's high-profile submarine project worth an estimated 3 trillion won ($2...

Nanotech startup Deepsmartech crowned at D.Day’s July demo day

Nanotech startup Deepsmartech crowned at D.Day’s July demo day

Nanotech startup Deepsmartech celebrated its victory Thursday at July D.Day, held on Jeju Island, a South Korean resort isle poised to become the co...

POSCO’s Choi traverses Canada, US to pitch for battery material projects

POSCO’s Choi traverses Canada, US to pitch for battery material projects

Choi Jeong-woo, chairman of South Korea’s largest steel group POSCO, is crisscrossing Canada and the US to meet with politicians and business ...

Bredis Healthcare, Tilda win June D.Day, Korea’s oldest startup pitch race

 Bredis Healthcare, Tilda win June D.Day, Korea’s oldest startup pitch race

An early-stage startup by young entrepreneurs who developed a digital diagnostic tool for brain disease and an AI-powered business optimization prog...

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asia with a youth population constituting about one-third of the region’s total population and surging internet penetrat...

BIND wins D.Camp startup pitch race in April, co-sponsored by CJ

BIND wins D.Camp startup pitch race in April, co-sponsored by CJ

BIND Corp. was chosen by investors as the best of the best for its online fashion platform for middle-aged men during South Korea’s major star...

TIMWORK lifts trophy at March D.Camp startup pitch competition

TIMWORK lifts trophy at March D.Camp startup pitch competition

TIMWORK Inc., a South Korean digital construction plan management software developer, won first prize at D.Camp’s March startup pitch competit...

Kids platform Norit wins D.Camp January pitch competition

Kids platform Norit wins D.Camp January pitch competition

South Korean kids learning platform Norit won the monthly pitch competition hosted by D.Camp, a Seoul-based startup accelerator, on Jan. 26.Norit ma...

Deep learning SaaS provider Z.Ai wins at D.Camp pitch competition

Deep learning SaaS provider Z.Ai wins at D.Camp pitch competition

Deep learning-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Z.Ai Inc. won the September pitch competition hosted by Seoul-based startup accelerator D....

POSCO Chem, OCI break ground on EV battery pitch plant

POSCO Chem, OCI break ground on EV battery pitch plant

South Korea’s P&O Chemical is set to build the country’s first high-softening-point pitch manufacturing facilities with 15,000 tons ...

Startup accelerator D.Camp marks 100th demo day

Startup accelerator D.Camp marks 100th demo day

Startup accelerator D.Camp’s demo day event dubbed D.Day celebrated its 100th event on Thursday. The first D.Day event was held in June 2...

Hanwha to supply actuators for Vertical Aerospace's UAM business

Hanwha to supply actuators for Vertical Aerospace's UAM business

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s leading aircraft engine maker, is accelerating the expansion of its urban air mobility (UAM) business.&nbs...

Korean LPs seek different strategies for private equity, debt

Korean LPs seek different strategies for private equity, debt

Key asset owners of South Korea will keep their mid- to long-term plans for alternative asset management despite the current macroeconomic risks, as...

POSCO Chem, OCI to produce previously imported battery material in Korea

POSCO Chem, OCI to produce previously imported battery material in Korea

POSCO Chemical and OCI plan to produce in South Korea a key material for electric vehicle batteries, which has so far been imported.POSCO Chemical s...

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