Korea's VC investment tops ₩10 trillion in nine months, a four-year high
KED Global · 2026-10-01
VC investment in South Korean startups reached ₩10 trillion ($7.4B) in the first nine months, crossing that mark for the first time since the 2022 boom. AI chips, biotech and healthcare (about ₩2 trillion) and robotics led, and average deal size more than doubled.
Vocabulary
Read source ↗- deal sizethe value of an individual investment deal
- oversubscribedmore investor demand than the amount offered
- deep-techstartups built on hard scientific or engineering advances