DWS APAC real estate Steven Kim
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Asset management
Market volatility creates opportunities for secondary buyers: Stafford
Equity and bond portfolios' shrinking assets are major challenges currently faced by global investors in terms of asset allocation. But the situatio...
Nov 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
Kim Jong-un appears with daughter in public for first time
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled for the first time his second child, daughter Ju-ae, who was born in 2013.The Korean Central News Agenc...
Nov 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Seoul more expensive than Tokyo for expats due to high real estate costs
TOKYO — The monthly rent of a commercial building in Seoul has surpassed that of Tokyo for the first time.The rent for an office building in t...
Nov 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea's NPS to get partial tax refund on US real estate sales
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is set to receive a tax refund of 30 billion won ($22.4 million) from the US Internal Revenue Ser...
Nov 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Select Korean companies seek to raise cash reserves
Several corporations have recently sold stocks and real estate apparently to boost liquidity and repay maturing debts amid the "three high" era of h...
Nov 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
KBIZ eyes value-added, senior loans for real estate
The Korea Federation of SMEs (KBIZ) bet on value-added and senior loans in global real estate investment this year, the institutional investors&rsqu...
Oct 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
NPS considers new investment in global real estate
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is open to new investments in overseas real estate, the pension fund’s American real estate...
Oct 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
Teachers' Pension continues focus on global residential, logistics
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension (TP) will continue its focus on residential and logistics in global real estate investments next year, t...
Oct 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Principal opens Seoul office to intensify client relationships
US investment firm Principal Global Investors LLC has recently opened a Seoul office to strengthen the firm’s existing client relationships in...
Oct 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
IGIS names fixed income expert Jang as head of equity, debt
IGIS Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest real estate investment firm managing $46.5 billion in assets as of end-2021, said on Tuesday ...
Oct 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Korea’s Aju to spin off key building material business
South Korea’s Aju Group is set to split its parent company into a construction material firm and an investment corporation to enhance its prof...
Sep 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
CalSTRS, Korea's KTCU consider launching 2nd real estate JV
The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), a retirement fund for South Korean teachers and employees, and the California State Teachers' Retire...
Sep 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
Ukraine war gives North Korea reasons to draw closer to Russia
SEOUL—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created an opportunity for North Korea, which has strengthened its ties with Moscow and beco...
Sep 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS' new chairman Kim Tae-hyun to start 3-year term
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is set for its new Chairman Kim Tae-hyun, a former CEO of state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corp....
Sep 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hanwha's heir apparent promoted as group's vice chair
South Korea’s Hanwha Group promoted its petrochemical and energy unit Hanwha Solutions Corp. CEO Kim Dong Kwan as the group’s new vice c...
Aug 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Com2uS announces plans to build real-life-like metaverse platform
South Korea’s Com2uS Studios, the creator of the popular game Summoners War, said on Thursday it will unveil a real-life-like metaverse platfo...
Aug 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
North Korea dismisses South Korea’s move to improve ties as ‘absurd dream’
SEOUL—South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol sought to shake up frothy inter-Korean ties on Monday with what he called an “audacious plan....
Aug 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea's NPS upped alternative investment by 33% in 2021
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea committed 204.4 trillion won ($156.7 billion) to alternative investment as of end-2021, up 32.7% f...
Aug 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Hanwha Life to spur global real estate investment via US subsidiary
South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. is set to kick off direct investment in overseas real estate via its subsidiary in the US, according t...
Aug 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea's Vestas launches second $231 mn European warehouse fund
South Korea’s Vestas Investment Management Co. has created a 300 billion won ($231.2 million) blind pool fund for Europe-based logistics cente...
Aug 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Korean firms rush to sell real estate to raise cash
South Korean companies are selling real estate and subsidiaries to raise cash as accelerating inflation, rising interest rates and the soft won all ...
Jul 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Development will outperform in post-COVID era: Principal Real Estate
Real estate is in the global investor spotlight amid skyrocketing inflation. However, not all property sectors or locations will offer the same infl...
Jul 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
DigitalBridge names Korean Tae Ahn as Asia capital formation head
DigitalBridge Group Inc., a US digital infrastructure investment firm, announced on July 19 it has appointed South Korean Tae E. Ahn as managing d...
Jul 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Korean gaming entrepreneur Kim Jae-young joins billionaire ranks
Kim Jae-young, founder and chief executive of Lionheart Studio Corp., the company behind South Korea’s most popular mobile game Odin, has join...
Jul 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Commercial real estate market in Seoul shrinks in H1 2022
The commercial real estate market in Seoul slowed this year, according to a report by South Korean online property platform RSquare. The sum of the ...
Jul 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Korean firms eye alternative assets for safer investments, survey finds
South Korean corporates are increasingly eyeing alternative assets seeking downside protection amid interest rate hikes and equity and bond price dr...
Jul 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Residential, urban logistics in Europe are attractive: Patrizia
Despite a number of global market uncertainties, there is value in real assets where rental income grows faster than inflation, Mahdi Mokrane, head ...
Jun 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
North Korea missile tests drawing tougher response from US, South Korea
SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea are responding to North Korea’s unprecedented number of missile tests this year with a greater show of ...
Jun 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean firms increase share in domestic office market
The International Finance Center in Seoul (IFC Seoul) drew interest from only six bidders at the end of last year, and Singapore-based ARA Korea was...
Jun 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Virtual humans expand territory in real world
Virtual humans are taking an active part in the real world, expanding their influence in various sectors such as advertising, music, commerce and ed...
May 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)