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Banking & Finance Hana Financial mulls non-banking M&As for growth: CEO

Hana Financial Group, one of South Korea's top five financial groups, is mulling mergers and acquisitions in non-banking sectors in a bid to seize n...

Insurance Kyobo Life, Japan’s SBI to team up on security token, digital finance

South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Group and Japan’s SBI Group have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement to expand th...

Cryptocurrencies Netmarble's Marblex listed on Bitget

Marblex, a blockchain subsidiary of South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp., announced on Tuesday that it has listed its MBX token on the global...

Blockchain SK C&C to build Hana Securities STO system

South Korea's SK C&C announced on Tuesday that it will supply its blockchain service platform ChainZ Security Token (ChainZ ST) to build the sys...

Artificial intelligence KT unveils B2B generative AI service Mi:dm

South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. on Tuesday unveiled Mi:dm, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service for corporate clients, at its Seoul...

Blockchain Mirae Asset teams up with Polygon Labs for tokenized securities

South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities Co. has partnered with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, for financial tokenizati...

Regulations Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

South Korea’s fractional investment market is gearing up for a grand opening after the government earlier this year unveiled security token of...

Fintech S.Korea's Mirae Asset, Hana Financial Group form security token tie-up

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities on Thursday said it signed an agreement with Hana Financial Group on the security token consortium Next Finance...

Blockchain Netmarble unveils Union Tokenomics for Marblex's MBX ecosystem

Netmarble Corp. announced on Thursday that its blockchain subsidiary Marblex has launched the Union Tokenomics, token economic system for the MBX ec...

Fintech KB Securities signs MOU with Korea East-West Power, Hikive

KB Securities Co. announced on Thursday that it had entered into a business agreement with Korea East-West Power Co. and Hikive to collaborate on a ...

Blockchain Korea's Mirae Asset, SK Telecom tie up for security token ecosystem

Mirae Asset Securities Co. and SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top brokerage house and mobile carrier, are set to join hands to establish an eco...

Alternative investments Mirae Asset, music profit-sharing startup take on security token offerings

South Korea's Fingo Company, which runs the music revenue sharing platform Fingo, on Friday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ...

Regulations Korea to legalize security token for fractional investment

South Korea is set to allow all kinds of fractional investments next year through the legalization of a security token (ST), a digital form of tradi...

Cryptocurrencies LUNA 2.0 skyrockets to $30 before losing 80% in first day of trade

The price of LUNA 2.0 (LUNA), the brand-new token of the controversial Terraform Labs Ltd., has been on a tumultuous ride since its debut a couple o...

Korean games Korean game developers scurry to launch P2E versions in 2022

South Korean game developers are scurrying to release their versions of play-to-earn (P2E) games, which have been growing at a rapid pace despite be...

Digital assets Game developers rush to launch their own digital coins

South Korea’s game developers are in a tight race to create their own digital tokens and to build viable ecosystems that utilize these cryptoc...

BTS’ NFT venture hits sour note with fans

SEOUL—When BTS unveiled plans last month to break into the NFT business, the South Korean boy band’s supporters revolted online, threate...

Entertainment DearU’s value nears YG Entertainment after strong Kosdaq debut

Shares of DearU Co., a K-pop fandom platform in South Korea, fell on Thursday, the day after a strong Kosdaq debut, which briefly put the company&...

Private equity MBK sees new opportunities in China's regulatory risk

China's regulatory crackdown on Chinese technology and private education companies is driving up the level of volatility and creating mispricing in ...