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Korean startups
Fashion platform Ably looks to raise over $20 mn
South Korea-based Ably Corporation, the operator of fashion platform Ably, is seeking to raise around 40 billion won ($35.3 million), attracting a p...
May 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SkyLabs wraps up $20 mn Series B round; eyes 2022 listing
South Korea-based healthcare startup SkyLabs has wrapped up its 22.5 billion won ($20 million) Series B round, with plans to focus on beefing up its...
May 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SoftBank Ventures invests in fashion app targeting middle-aged women
South Korea-based Queenit, a fashion mobile platform targeting middle-aged women, has secured around 5.5 billion won ($5 million) from a pool of hig...
May 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean 20-somethings raising stakes in OTC stocks
A growing number of South Koreans in their 20s are further increasing risk tolerance to stocks, crowding into over-the-counter (OTC) markets, in ant...
Mar 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS inks over $20 bn in overseas alternative investments via partnerships
The National Pension Service (NPS) signed new contracts worth around 23 trillion won ($20.1 billion) abroad in alternative investments last year, de...
Feb 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
NPS to invest in Silver Lake’s $20 bn tech fund
The National Pension Service has decided to invest in a $20 billion technology fund that Silicon Valley-based Silver Lake Partners recently closed, ...
Jan 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Kosdaq at 20-yr high, eyes opportune moment to emerge from bush league
Twenty years ago today, South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq was reeling from the bursting of the IT bubble, with the junior market’s benchma...
Dec 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai Motor says group chief to buy 20% of Boston Dynamics
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun has agreed to take a 20% stake in Boston Dynamics Inc. as part of the South Korean group’s acquisiti...
Dec 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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CFO Insight
S-Oil says at least 20 more years to go for oil-powered cars
The penetration of electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles into the transportation industry will unlikely become a major threat to refiners over the ne...
Nov 23, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Obituary
Samsung chairman, who led tech giant’s leapfrog to global brand, dies, aged 78
Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the world’s top smartphone and TV manufacturer Samsung Group, passed away on Oct. 25 at the age of 78, the South Kore...
Oct 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
BTS may be allowed to delay military service to age 30
South Korea is likely to allow the seven members of boy band BTS to postpone their mandatory national military service by two years until the age of 3...
Oct 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korea’s major companies’ Q2 overseas sales drop 20% due to pandemic
South Korea’s top 100 companies saw their overseas sales shrink by a fifth in the second quarter from the year-earlier period, weighed by the fa...
Sep 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kookmin Bank commits $20 mn to two aircraft junior debt funds
Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s biggest lender, has committed $20 million to two aviation funds to provide junior and mezzanine loans for Airbus and Boein...
Mar 15, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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GEPS to invest $20 mn in dollar-denominated structured notes
The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) will allocate $20 million to US dollar-denominated structured notes based on South Korean credit defau...
Jun 26, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mizuho, Korea's Mertiz to launch $900 mn fund to buy 20 aircraft portfolio from GE
Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. and South Korea’s Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. will set up a fund of about $900 million to acquire a 20 aircraft portfolio fr...
Nov 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean institutions to fund Qantas Airway’s aircraft lease with $20 mn mezzanine loan
A South Korean brokerage firm is raising $20 million in mezzanine debt from two to three domestic institutional investors to finance Australia’s Qanta...
Nov 03, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS, KIC global alternative heads to discuss property, infrastructure outlook in Oct 20 summit
Keymen of major South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service (NPS), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and Korea Post,...
Oct 07, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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- 2 AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A
- 3 Taihan Cable wins $630 mn power grid project in Singapore
- 4 Korean startup scene is gloomy, say 2 out of 5 startup CEOs
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