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Add to Google Preferred Sources Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC) has secured its first asset management license allowing it to directly establish and manage funds in Singapore. South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced that KVIC’s Singapore subsidiary received final approval for a Capital Markets Services (CMS) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore…

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Korea Venture Investment Corp., the state fund-of-funds manager under the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, has secured an asset management license allowing it to raise and manage funds directly in Singapore. It is the first time the organization has obtained a local asset management license overseas. The approval is expected to accelerate the government’s plan…

Woo beat 25 other finalists at the national final in Seoul to win the title She appeared surprised when her name was announced and said she had not expected to win. “I didn’t expect it at all, so I couldn’t even prepare an acceptance speech,” she said

Korea Venture Investment, the state fund-of-funds manager under the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, is appointing Choi Chul-hoon, head of its Fund Management Division 1, as its new vice president. It marks the first time the company has filled the post through an internal promotion since it was created in 2023.

When South Korea revised its private rental housing law on August 18, 2020, it ended new registration of apartments as either short-term or long-term general private rental housing. Apartments already registered are automatically deregistered once their mandatory rental period ends — and, as it happens, a large number of those periods are now expiring all…

The government said Monday it will significantly expand pilot projects for locally developed autonomous driving artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthen support for deep-tech startups as it seeks to accelerate the commercialization of emerging technologies.

[Sportschosun Lee Ge-eun] After former basketball player and broadcaster Woo Ji-won’s daughter Woo Seo-yoon was named Miss Korea Jin, plastic surgery rumors began swirling around her, and an old interview in which Woo Ji-won’s ex-wife discussed cosmetic procedures is also drawing renewed attention.

Woo Seo-yoon, the daughter of a former national basketball player, has been crowned Miss Korea 2026, with the 22-year-old Tufts University student setting her sights on a career as a global art curator.

The government said Monday it will significantly expand pilot projects for locally developed autonomous driving artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthen support for deep-tech startups as it seeks to accelerate the commercialization of emerging technologies.