(Photo=Coupang) An executive overseeing South Korean operations at Coupang Inc. left the country shortly before police sought to question him over a major personal data breach, drawing renewed scrutiny to how the New York–listed e-commerce company manages regulatory and governance risks outside the U.S. Harold Rogers, Coupang’s acting chief for Korea, departed South Korea on Jan. 1, one day after

(Photo=Celltrion) Celltrion, the South Korean biotechnology company best known for its portfolio of biosimilar drugs, is asking global investors to rethink how it should be valued as it pivots toward original drug development. Increasingly, that message is being delivered by Seo Jin-seok, the eldest son of founder Seo Jung-jin. At this year’s JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, Celltrion used a main-track presentation

(Photo=SLL) CJ ENM, the South Korean media group behind a growing slate of globally distributed television and film content, is retooling its international strategy in Latin America, turning to Spanish-language dubbing as it seeks to move Korean dramas from subtitle-dependent audiences into the region’s mainstream television market. The shift reflects intensifying competition among global streaming platforms and broadcasters, where non-English

Increasing green arrows showing improvements in the economy or growth of stocks on the stock exchange in South Korea, April 2022, San Francisco, USA South Korea’s National Pension Service reported a sharp increase in the value of its domestic equity holdings in the fourth quarter, driven largely by a surge in shares of semiconductor giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

(Photo=Shinsegae Group) As artificial intelligence workloads push cloud costs higher and expose constraints in computing capacity, attention in the U.S. technology market is increasingly shifting away from applications and toward the infrastructure that supports them. That shift helps explain why Cast AI, a U.S.-based cloud optimization startup, has drawn strategic investment from Shinsegae Group, one of Asia’s largest retail operators.