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Top 25 Biotech companies based in South Korea
RevenueBase identified 148 biotech companies headquartered in South Korea as of September 2026 and tracks 3,224 professional contacts across them, including 384 with verified work emails. Seoul is the largest hub.
This list covers biotech companies headquartered in South Korea, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest biotech companies based in South Korea
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 516 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, LOTTE Biologics operates integrated biologics facilities in the United States and South Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) is the only government-funded research institute in Korea dedicated exclusively to biotechnology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Leading Biotechnological & Pharmaceutical Company in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and manufacturing biosimilar products, new protein drugs and bispecific antibodies” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “150 - A joint venture with Sartorius - a German company on a 150 years journey of bioprocessing innovations - and has offered the clients trusted, proven R&D, pre-clinical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LegoChem Biosciences, Inc.(LCB) is a research-based biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative medicines by leveraging our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “VORONOI, a leading biotech in South Korea EGFR-Exon20Ins Lisenced out to ORIC Parmaceuticals in 2020 RET-Fusion Lisenced out to Inno.N in 2021 Anticipated upcoming IPO on KOSDAQ…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GI Innovation is a South Korean bio-venture company, integrating basic science and translational innovation in developing biologics for patients around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Daesang established well-balanced product portfolios with seamless Biotechnology innovation later 1960s, and supplies a variety of ingredients to industrial areas including food…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2008, Qurient takes a pioneering position in the newly emerging biotech industry in Korea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We aim to develop new forms of new drugs, cosmetics and food using Blue-Technology for all life on earth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “info@smlgenetree.com | | SML Genetree is recognized as a premier partner in developing technology and on-time delivery, providing both basic research of molecular biology and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NetTargets provides the most efficient and promising way of drug discovery based on 20+ years of systems biology research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Prazer Therapeutics is a biotech company developing orally available, brain-penetrating small molecule therapeutics with a novel approach to targeted protein degradation (TPD).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Logos Biosystems is the life science solutions of Aligned Genetics, Inc, dedicated to the development and commercialization of innovative technologies to support the life science…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ABION is the Korean drug discovery company with the pioneering spirit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bionsight is a drug discovery company that integrates the power of chemoproteomics and AI technologies to facilitate target identification and off-target profiling within the drug…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “D&D is a clinical-stage global biotech company that focuses on development and commercialization of revolutionary medicines with the potential to change the lives of patients with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mint Venture Partners is a global venture platform dedicated to creating, investing in, and building up startups in the biotechnology and healthcare sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cyrus Therapeutics is a leading biotechnology company that is discovering and developing innovative medicines to conquer chronic or life-threatening diseases with high unmet needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Bereum, we believe the future of gut health will be shaped by microbiome science that is practical, stable, and easy to apply in everyday products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are an AI biotech specializing in drug development based on transcriptomic database.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TiumBio (KOSDAQ: 321550) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics for patients with rare and incurable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: biotech companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names biotech companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of biotech companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name biotech companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Biotech companies based in South Korea at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Korea, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Korea, over 148 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among biotech companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Korea whose own description of what they do matches “biotech companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names biotech companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among biotech companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Korea are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 384 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names biotech companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many biotech companies are there based in South Korea?
RevenueBase identified 148 biotech companies headquartered in South Korea as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Lotte Biologics, headquartered in Seoul, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most biotech companies?
Seoul leads with 47 headquartered companies, followed by Seongnam-Si (14) and Daejeon (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 384 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 148 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.