Kakao

SEOUL: South Korean K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment is poised to fall under the grip of social media giant Kakao after HYBE, the agency representing boy band BTS, on Sunday (Mar 12) dropped a bid to take control. WHY IS SM ATTRACTIVE? SM,…

SEOUL: Shares in South Korea's Kakao plunged more than 9 per cent on Monday (Oct 17) after a fire at a data centre south of Seoul damaged servers on the weekend, causing an extensive service outage in the country's main chat app. The…

Investors are selling technology stocks in a major Asian economy on regulatory worries just as one of the country’s biggest online payment companies is about to go public. China? No, it’s South Korea. Shares of…