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Food & Beverage Paris Baguette partners with Tottenham Hotspur

South Korean bakery brand Paris Baguette, operated by SPC Group, said on Wednesday it partnered with Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspu...

Entertainment TVing beefs up sports content, narrowing gap with Netflix

TVing, a South Korean over-the-top (OTT) platform, is beefing up its live sports programming and TV series featuring baseball players to catch up to...

League table UBS retains top position on Korea’s M&A advisor list after Ecorbit deal

UBS Group AG remained on the top of the South Korean merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory market as of the end of the third quarter after addin...

Automobiles Hankook Tire extends sponsorship of Europa League for 3 years

Hankook Tire & Technology announced on Tuesday that it extended its official sponsorship contracts with the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa C...

Automobiles Genesis partners with racing legend Jackie Ickx

Hyundai Motor Co. 's premium brand Genesis announced on Thursday that the worldwide racing legend Jacky Ickx will join its official Brand Partner. ...

Korean games China to stop broadcast of S.Korean LoL league

China will stop the official broadcast of League of Legends (LoL) Champions Korea (LCK), according to the South Korean game industry. “There w...

Korean startups 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...

Korean games Faker’s T1 wins League of Legends global championship

South Korea’s video game team T1 led by local hero and professional player Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok won the 2023 League of Legends W...

Future mobility Hyundai, legendary chip architect Jim Keller to make chips for future cars

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Thursday it has partnered with legendary chip architect Jim Keller to jointly develop ...

Culture & Trends Preppy style attracts Korea's Gen Z, Alpha seeking retro trends

A licensed fashion brand from the University of Cambridge has entered South Korea as more young consumers are enthusiastic about the so-called Ivy L...

Korean startups SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league

SentBe, a South Korean fintech startup operating a personal international remittance app of the same name, is readying to play in the bigger global ...

Korean startups dConstruct Robotics becomes 2nd foreign startup to win at D.Day

South Korea’s decade-old startup pitch competition D.Day has picked Singapore-based mobile robotics application developer dConstruct Robotics ...

Electronics LG UltraGear selected as official monitor for League of Legends

LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday that its UltraGear gaming monitor, with enhanced gamer-specific features, has been selected as the official moni...

Cryptocurrencies WeMade signs partnership with Chinese digital asset exchange

WeMade said on Wednesday that it would sign a non-fungible token (NFT) partnership with Zhongchuanyuezhong Cultural Development Co. which operates a...

Advertising & Marketing K League's campaign wins gold prize at International ad festival

The promotional video for the "Dribble-made Route" campaign produced by the Korea Professional Football Association (K League) in partnership with H...

League table NH, KB ranked top S.Korean equity, debt underwriters

Fundraising via initial public offerings and rights issues in South Korea more than doubled to 27.2 trillion won ($23 billion) in 2021 from a year a...

Year-end review Kosdaq: Perennial bush league as blue chips favor Kospi

South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq market has been underperforming the main Kospi market for a couple of decades, raising concerns that the junio...

Mergers & Acquisitions Morgan Stanley tops S.Korea's H1 M&A league table

Morgan Stanley topped South Korea's M&A advisor league table in the first half of this year, working on six buyout deals worth a combined 9.75 t...

League table Morgan Stanley tops Korea's Q1 M&A league table

Morgan Stanley reclaimed its top position in South Korea's M&A advisor league table in the first quarter of this year for the first time in two ...

League table Credit Suisse retains top spot in Korea’s M&A advisory league

Credit Suisse has maintained its top position on South Korea’s M&A advisory league table in 2020, working on most of the high-profile deal...

Korean stock market Kosdaq at 20-yr high, eyes opportune moment to emerge from bush league

Twenty years ago today, South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq was reeling from the bursting of the IT bubble, with the junior market’s benchma...