Corporate restructuring
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Banking & Finance
Korean banks post significant H1 profit drop at overseas operations
South Korea’s top four banks saw a significant drop in their overseas earnings in the first half as they focused more on domestic businesses s...
Sep 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Financial launches $75 mn PF restructuring support fund
South Korea's Woori Financial Group has launched a 100 billion won ($74.96 million) project financing (PF) restructuring support fund.This marks the...
Sep 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Lotte to restructure bio business to focus on CDMO
South Korea’s retail-to-chemical conglomerate Lotte Group will restructure its bio business to focus on the profit-making medicine bio develop...
Sep 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
LVMH, OpenAI, LG deepen ties with S. Korean startups
South Korean startups and established corporations are seeking to deepen their partnerships to ensure win-win outcomes, by tapping into funds and ot...
Sep 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
KT&G to sell Korean office tower to Pebblestone for $90 mn
KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is set to sell an office tower in South Korea to a local asset manager for an estimat...
Aug 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK seeks sale of specialty gas unit for around $3 bn
SK Group, the second-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is considering selling global leading specialty gas producer SK Specialty Co. for around 4...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Yanolja to restructure affiliates to boost profit before Nasdaq IPO
South Korea’s top travel and accommodation booking platform operator Yanolja Co. is seeking to streamline and restructure its affiliates to bo...
Aug 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
Korean firms rush to sell bonds with yields at over 2-yr low
South Korea’s corporate bond markets are having an unusually busy summer as companies are rushing to sell debts to lock in lower interest cost...
Aug 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG CNS gears up for 2025 IPO with $5.1 billion in enterprise value
LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, is gearing up for an initial public offering early next year, o...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
NHN unveils new corporate identity
South Korea's NHN Corp. unveiled a new corporate identity (CI) on Thursday in celebration of its anniversary and announced that it would be uniforml...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
LG Display cuts vendors’ stakes, axes jobs for turnaround
LG Display Co., the world’s top manufacturer of large-size organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, reduced stakes in its vendors while cut...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Doosan Robotics to merge with Doosan Bobcat by early 2025
Doosan Robotics Inc. will complete a merger with Doosan Bobcat Inc. by early next year, a move aimed at prodding Bobcat to take an active role in ex...
Jul 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hanwha Group to expand stock compensation to team chiefs
South Korea’s No. 7 conglomerate Hanwha Group will expand its restricted stock units (RSUs) to encourage employee interest in the company&rsqu...
Jul 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK Ecoplant to merge tech unit for group restructuring
SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, is set to merge a profit-making technology subsidiary of the ...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Rebellions, Igloo partner for AI-based security
South Korea’s fabless AI chip startup Rebellions Inc. announced on Tuesday that it partnered with AI-based security operations and analysis pl...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
POSCO seeks restructuring for $1.9 bn injection in battery materials
POSCO Holdings Inc. aims to raise its corporate value through an ambitious scheme that entails securing 2.6 trillion won ($1.9 billion) through rest...
Jul 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Lotte to halve basic chemicals in portfolio for profitability
South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals manufacturer Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to more than halve its basic chemicals business by 2030 in its por...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028
South Korea’s leading mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp., which is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence chip by the end of this year, ai...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
AhnLab launches integrated cloud service corporation
South Korea's AhnLab Inc. announced on Monday that it launched an integrated corporation named AhnLabCloudMate to oversee its cloud operation and ...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korean banks to cut corporate loans for profitability
South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...
Jun 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Hanwha Life Financial Services gets A+ credit rating
South Korea's Hanwha Life Financial Services said on Tuesday it received an A+ (Stable) credit rating from Korea Ratings, becoming the first domes...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Ecoplant's Wayble Decarbon gets GIS certification
South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. announced on Friday that its corporate carbon management platform Wayble Decarbon has obtained the country's first gre...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Doosan Bobcat to buy ex-sibling Mottrol for $178.6 million
Doosan Bobcat Inc., a major compact construction machinery and equipment maker under South Korean conglomerate Doosan Group, will buy back its forme...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Securities sees wealth management assets surpass $43.6 bn
South Korea's KB Securities announced on Wednesday that its wealth management assets surpassed 60 trillion won ($43.6 billion) this month.This is fi...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Kookmin to revive Indonesian banking arm through digitalization
KB Bukopin, the Indonesian banking arm of South Korea’s Koomin Bank, extended its losing streak through the first quarter of this year, weighe...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
WeWork closes major office in Seoul for restructuring
Coworking space operator WeWork Inc. is slated to shut down a major office in Seoul, once one of the largest WeWork offices in Asia, in September ...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Celebrity-run food chain operator TheBorn Korea files for IPO review
TheBorn Korea Inc., a leading South Korean food and beverage group operated by TV celebrity and chef Paik Jong-won, has filed for a preliminary revi...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK embarks on business overhaul to focus on mainstays
South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group has embarked on a reshuffling process to focus on core units such as semiconductors and bat...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Korea's golf apparel market shrinks as golf boom fizzles
The heyday of South Korea’s golf apparel market seems to be over with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millennials and Generation Z, who had ...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)