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July 14, 2019 Social affairs

Expressway plans spark safety concerns for Namiseom tourist boats

People living and doing business on Namiseom, a popular tourist site in Gangwon Province, are voicing doubts about plans to build a new expressway to mitigate heavy traffic between Seoul and Chuncheo...

[Herald Interview] Aspiring entrepreneurs discuss startup ecosystem

From a student’s perspective, tech-savvy South Korea might be just the place to make a promising start as an entrepreneur. But it also has its limits, despite the unprecedented level of support and ...

July 2, 2019
Technology
Freelance platform operator Aroundus raises W880m seed funding

Aroundus, a South Korean startup operating a platform that matches freelancers with employers, said on July 1 it has raised 882 million won ($761,700) in seed funding from venture capital investors. ...

July 1, 2019
Technology
Retired MLB pitcher hopes to give back as SparkLabs partner

Retired Major League Baseball pitcher Park Chan-ho is hoping to have a good influence on the South Korean startup ecosystem and give back to society as a venture partner of Seoul-based global acceler...

June 26, 2019
Finance
Entrepreneurs should learn how to hire and fire: Altos Ventures

YEOSU, South Jeolla Province -- For a startup to grow, entrepreneurs should learn how to hire decent staff and fire bad apples, said Han Kim, managing director of Silicon Valley-based venture capital...

June 23, 2019
Finance
S.M. Entertainment pressed to answer activist shareholder’s demands

S.M. Entertainment, South Korea’s largest K-pop powerhouse by market cap, is at a crossroads having to decide on taking action ahead of a deadline issued by an activist investor to merge with another...

June 18, 2019
Music
[Herald Interview] KIS Vietnam to become first foreign brokerage to launch covered warrants in Vietnam

HO CHI MINH, Vietnam -- In Vietnam, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, investors have been searching for ways to hedge risks in times of equity market volatility. Last year, the bench...

June 12, 2019
Finance
Exit Daejeon announces W14.2b startup funding agreement

DAEJEON -- Startups from across South Korea, global startup community leaders and representatives of Daejeon Metropolitan City flocked to Daejeon Convention Center Thursday to mark the end of the thr...

May 23, 2019
Technology
Global startup community leaders take Daejeon by storm

DAEJEON -- All eyes are on Daejeon, South Korea’s fifth-largest metropolitan city, as it moves to put together leaders of the global startup community through Exit Daejeon 2019. The three-day confer...

May 21, 2019
Technology
[EXIT DAEJEON 2019] Chaebol to play key role in hardware renaissance: HAX founder

Cyril Ebersweiler, the founder and managing director of hardware accelerator HAX, is out to create a startup-driven hardware renaissance. And in his view, Korea has much potential. “We’ve been quite...

May 20, 2019
Technology
Startup-driven innovation to take center stage at Exit Daejeon 2019

South Korea’s fifth-largest metropolitan city is poised to host the Global Startup Festival Daejeon 2019 from Tuesday through Thursday as part of its efforts to become a global hub for startup-driven...

May 19, 2019
Technology
EDAF urges Thai startups to go beyond homeland

BANGKOK -- When Kulina launched its algorithm-powered online marketplace in Indonesia in 2016, there were high hopes that the startup could address the country‘s chronic last-mile logistics conundrum...

May 15, 2019
Technology
Seoul-based PEFs likely to acquire Lotte’s financial arms

Two Seoul-based private equity firms have been selected as the most preferred bidders for the respective acquisition of South Korean-Japanese conglomerate Lotte Group’s nonbanking financial arms Lott...

May 3, 2019
Finance
Plug and Play eyes launch in Korea by 2020

Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center plans to launch operations in South Korea by the first half of 2020, according to company officals. Despite the rapid growth in Kor...

May 2, 2019
Technology
Envisaging homegrown unicorn, Korea seeks to fend off foreign investor-led round funding

Venture capitalists in the global startup scene have to pay a hefty price -- hundreds of millions of dollars -- to take part in a later-stage round of investment. In South Korea, one of the nations ...

April 24, 2019
Finance

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