Tag: Investor

In 2025, Korean design platform Miridi achieved a striking paradox. The company announced a record-breaking revenue of 942 billion KRW, a 21% jump from the previous […]

In Pangyo Techno Valley, often called Korea’s Silicon Valley, political hopefuls recently came not just for a photo opportunity — but for a listening tour. At […]

Korea pledged $350 billion in US investment. In return, it received a longer list of complaints. The 2026 National Trade Estimate (NTE) report, released by the […]

Three weeks before the deal closed, OpenAI’s own CEO told staff to cut distractions and focus on the core product. Then the company bought a YouTube […]

A satellite the size of a shoebox is changing the economics of space. In November 2023, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a small Korean micro-satellite […]

As South Korea’s film market tightens, the pressure is shifting upstream. Directors are no longer relying on scripts alone to secure funding. With AI, they can […]

The UK’s first fund of funds with an explicit mandate to invest in female fund managers has announced a first close at £130m. The ‘Women Backing […]

For the first time in over half a century, a crewed spacecraft has left Earth’s orbit pointed toward the Moon. As NASA’s Artemis 2 mission blazed […]

Walk into any hospital ward in Korea, and the clear plastic bag hanging above a patient’s bed barely registers as remarkable. However, that unremarkable bag — […]

Years ago, when I was a minister at the Department of Culture (DCMS), I had a row with my opposite number at the Department of Trade […]