SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Korea Motors said Tuesday an affiliate of China’s Geely Holding Group will invest in the company as part of their parent firms’ agreement signed early this year to develop an environment friendly vehicle. Geely Automobile Holdings, China’s largest privately-owned automotive group, will acquire a 34.02 percent stake in [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — In tandem with the government’s pursuit of carbon-neutral policies and the business community’s embracing of the environment, social and governance (ESG) management trend, investment is flooding into startups in the ESG sectors. Domestic startups attracted 11.7 trillion won (US$9.51 billion) in investment last year, more than tripling from a [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s leading taxi-hailing firm, said Thursday that it will invest 50 billion won (US$41 million) to support its business partners to spearhead shared growth. The investment is part of a 300 billion-won fund created by its parent firm, internet giant Kakao Corp., to support small [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Wednesday it will spend 300 billion won (US$246 million) over the next five years to support small business partners. The project, as part of its long-term strategy named Beyond Korea, is aimed at assisting business owners so [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Lubricants Co., a unit under South Korean conglomerate SK Group, said Wednesday it has purchased a stake worth US$25 million in a U.S. immersion cooling system provider as part of its push for green business. The investment in Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), a Texas-based company, will help the [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest more than 20 trillion won (US$16.4 billion) in data, network and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors over the next three years in a bid to help nurture future-oriented industries, the finance minister said Friday. Along with fiscal spending, the government plans to provide support for [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a major electronics parts maker in South Korea, said Monday it will invest about 300 billion won (US$245 million) to expand flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) circuit boards manufacturing capacity at its plant in Busan. This move came after the company decided to invest about 1.3 [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Siltron Co., a semiconductor material producer under South Korea’s SK Group, said Wednesday it will build a new wafer production plant amid the global semiconductor shortage. The company plans to spend nearly 1.05 trillion won (US$847.8 million) over the next three years to build a plant that can [...]
Paris, France, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeito Capital (“Jeito”), a leading independent private equity firm dedicated to biotech and biopharma, today announces that it has co-led an investment of €80 million in Precirix, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing precision radiopharmaceuticals in oncology. The Belgian biotech company was created in 2014 as a spin-off from the Vrije Universiteit [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and ICT unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, said Wednesday it has invested US$11 million in a U.S. flat panel satellite antenna developer, as it advances its push for space communications technologies. The latest funding for Kymeta Corp., located in the Washington state, [...]