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League table
UBS tops Korea’s M&A advisor list on Asiana, Affinity deals
UBS Group AG topped the South Korean mergers and acquisitions (M&A) league table in the second quarter as the global investment bank worked on m...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Hyundai Glovis to spend $6.5 billion, seek M&As for expansion
Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday it will spend 9 trillion won ($6.5 billion) throug...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s military fund taps ex-president of Woori Financial as CIO
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, has tapp...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hanwha’s Flexell Space to supply satellite solar cell to Terran Orbital
Flexell Space, an in-house space solar cell-developing startup under South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co., will supply its tandem flexible batteri...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Eugene PE, KDB PE to acquire Boryung Biopharma for $231 million
A consortium of Eugene Private Equity and Korea Development Bank Private Equity will acquire 80% of South Korean vaccine maker Boryung Biopharma Co....
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Financial, Natixis to manage global private equity fund
South Korea's Woori Bank and Woori PE Asset Management announced on Thursday that they have signed a "strategic business agreement for creating a ...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SK Innovation-backed Marine Innovation looks to enter US green market
Marine Innovation Co., a South Korean eco-friendly social venture company sponsored by the country’s top energy firm SK Innovation Co., is par...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn
Affinity Equity Partners will buy a 100% stake in South Korea’s second-largest car leasing company SK Rent-a-Car Co. for 820 billion won ($591...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hyundai E&C to build S.Korea's first nuclear-linked hydrogen plant
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) will lead a consortium to build the nation's first hydrogen production fa...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LG Elec, ChargePoint to collaborate for EV charging
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it had recently signed a business agreement with the No. 1 electric vehicle (EV) charging operator (...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Catering firm Ourhome taps founding family’s eldest daughter as CEO
The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators
Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
PwC's Korean member taps new chiefs, creates finance unit
Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a South Korean member firm of PwC International Ltd., has appointed new chiefs of its key units and created a fi...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
MBK drops out of Air Premia’s Asiana cargo unit takeover bid
Asian private equity firm MBK Partners has dropped out of a plan to back 300 billion won ($217.9 million) for South Korean budget airline Air Premia...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai E&C, KAERI partner to commercialize next-gen reactors
Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Wednesday that it signed a public-private partnership agreement for the so...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korean retail investors’ US stockholdings at record high
South Korean individual investors’ US stockholdings swelled to a record $82.19 billion as of early June amid the US stock market rally, while ...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
S.Korean IT companies partner with K-pop girl groups
South Korean game companies like Krafton Inc. and Nexon Korea Corp., and telecom firms such as SK Telecom Co., are collaborating with K-pop girl gro...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Hyundai, Kia to require stricter ESG compliance from subcontractors
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group plans to require stricter environmental, social and governance compliance from its partners st...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity fails in Lock&Lock tender offer; eyes equity swap
Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners is planning for an equity swap between its new entity and South Korean food container maker Lock&Lock...
Jun 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
CJ Logistics, Libiao Robotics partner to co-work for robotic system
South Korea's CJ Logistics said on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a strategic partnership with global rob...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Shinsegae guarantees PE firms’ SSG.COM exit amid delayed IPO
Shinsegae Inc. and its supermarket chain operator E-Mart Inc. will bring in at least one investor by the end of this year to buy shares in SSG.COM f...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Sampyo Group enters automated robotic parking business
South Korea's SP&Mobility, a robotics unit of Sampyo Group, unveiled its MPSystem on Monday, an automated robotic parking system designed to rep...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS to cut Korean stock allocation to 13% by 2029
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), also the world’s third-largest pension fund, will gradually reduce the proportion of its l...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong
South Korea's Line Games Corp. announced on Friday that it signed a publishing agreement with Vietnam's tech giant VNG for the mobile game The Play ...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KT offers reverse pitches to pick startup partners
KT Corp. has offered reverse pitches for South Korean artificial intelligence and technology startups to cooperate in the areas where it lacks in te...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK shieldus, Yokogawa Electric Korea partner on security business
SK shieldus, the unmanned security subsidiary of SK Group, announced on Wednesday it has signed a business agreement with Yokogawa Electric Korea Co...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech
Webcash Global, an affiliate of South Korea's Webcash Co., announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a business agreement with BC Card Vietna...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
LG Chem, KCC partner to develop eco-friendly paint
South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with KCC Corp. on May 23 to research and develop e...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean brokerage firms seek to raise $1.2 bn in property funds
South Korean brokerage firms are scurrying to raise more than 1.7 trillion won ($1.24 billion) in private equity funds to bet on soured property loa...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC eyes direct lending with high return potential: CEO
Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) seeks opportunities in direct lending for companies that are not cyclically sensitive and g...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)