Deals

Last August, online portal Naver Corp. entered into exclusive talks with Toronto-based Wattpad Corp. to buy a stake in the world’s largest web...

Samsung Electronics Co., sitting on a cash pile of more than 100 trillion won ($90 billion), is actively pursuing mergers and acquisitions, with som...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, plans a bond issue worth as much as 1.26 trillion won ($1.13 billion) in local and ove...

HAAH Automotive Holdings Inc., a US automobile distributor, is planning to inject $250 million into South Korea's Ssangyong Motor Co. to take a 51% ...

Google Inc. is planning to invest around $270 million in Kakao Mobility Corp., the transportation arm of South Korea's No. 1 messaging operator Kaka...

South Korea-based LG Energy Solution has hired KB Securities and Morgan Stanley as the lead managers for its initial public offering, which is antic...

South Korea's state-run bank is considering selling HMM Co., the country's largest container line, to steelmaker POSCO as the shipping industry expe...

South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s Geely Auto Group are looking to set up a joint fund designed to invest in hydrogen and other e...

South Korea-based Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. is planning a trading debut this year, with the proceeds marked for future growth engines to power th...

India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. has pulled out of talks to sell Ssangyong Motor Co. to HAAH Automotive Holdings Inc., a US automobile distr...

South Korea’s SM Group, formerly known as Samla Midas Group, is pushing for an initial public offering of its merchant liner, SM Line Corp., o...

South Korea’s leading mobile app operator Kakao Corp.’s affiliates are set to merge to become a new entity, Kakao Entertainment, heraldi...

South Korean startups invested in by top online portal Naver Corp. are gearing up for debuts on the local bourse amid expectations of a welcome mark...

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is lowering the bar for mergers and acquisitions by including potential rivals, which have yet to en...

LG Electronics Inc. has mandated South Korea’s largest law firm Kim & Chang as the legal advisor for its smartphone division sale, accor...

Vietnam’s largest conglomerate Vingroup is interested in acquiring part of LG Electronics Inc.’s smartphone operation to bolster its hig...

Hana Bank has become South Korea’s first commercial bank to issue foreign currency bonds at a negative yield, raising 500 million euros ($606 ...

South Korea’s portal giant Naver Corp. will acquire Wattpad, the world's largest web novel platform based in Toronto, for 653.2 billion wo...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has completed due diligence on the synthetic rubber operation of JSR Corp., put up for sale by the Japanese...

The $1 billion green bond sale by SK Battery America Inc., a US unit of South Korea’s SK Innovation Co., was nine times oversubscribed at $9 b...

South Korea-based Hyundai Steel Co. received around 2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) worth of orders in Monday's bookbuilding for its green bond issue,...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, is interested in buying Jeju Bank, named for and based on the country's largest island, to secur...

Food delivery giant Delivery Hero SE is facing some time pressure to sell South Korea’s No. 2 food delivery app Yogiyo, estimated at 2 trillio...

Kia Corp., a unit of Hyundai Motor Group, plans to issue green bonds in overseas markets to raise money for future mobility investments, including e...

South Korea’s leading rental car company Lotte Rental Co. has resumed its initial public offering process, despite having earlier postponed ...

Venture capital funds in South Korea have raised their largest-ever amount of 6.6 trillion won ($6 billion) last year, supported by government polic...

Financial investors in South Korea's No. 1 food delivery app Baedal Minjok (Baemin) are set to exit in the first quarter of this year, closing t...

The sale process for Doosan Infracore Co. is gaining traction after it won a legal dispute with financial investors over a case involving the top So...

SK Hynix Inc. is planning to issue $2.5 billion worth of global bonds, the largest amount to be raised in a bond issue by a South Korean company, dr...