Korea Air Force logistics management
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M&As
CJ Logistics, NPS eyeing to sell Chinese logistics unit
South Korea’s leading logistics firm CJ Logistics Corp. and the National Pension Service have reached out to logistics companies and global priv...
Oct 08, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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CJ Logistics, NPS eye sell-off of Chinese logistics unit
South Korea’s leading logistics firm CJ Logistics Corp. and the National Pension Service have reached out to logistics companies and global priv...
Oct 08, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Korea Investment acquires California-based office building worth $86 mn
Korea Investment & Securities Co. has acquired a luxury office building in Orange County, California valued at around 100 billion won ($86 million...
Oct 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s biggest fried chicken brand aims to raise up to $61 mn in Nov. IPO
Kyochon F&B, South Korea’s No. 1 fried chicken franchise operator, plans to raise up to 71.3 billion won ($61 million) in an initial public ...
Oct 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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League table
Credit Suisse lead-manages Doosan Group’s restructuring deals
Credit Suisse handled three restructuring deals worth a combined 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) for South Korea’s Doosan Group and 1.5 trillion w...
Oct 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cafe-goers' bucketlist
Gangneung, South Korea’s coffee capital
Wanna come to Gangneung for a sip of tasty coffee?For some 20 years, Gangneung has been the city of coffee for many Koreans.Located on the other side ...
Sep 30, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Heavy Industries
Korea’s Hanjin Heavy up for sale, preliminary bidding by Oct. 26
Creditors of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. will put the cash-strapped South Korean shipbuilder up for sale next month as the lenders ...
Sep 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Kakao Pay set to be Korea's first mobile-payment fintech to go public
Kakao Pay Corp. is set to become South Korea’s first mobile-payment fintech company to go public as the company kicks off preparations for an in...
Sep 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Foreign cloud service providers led by Amazon, MS play big in Korea
Global cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) are taking a greater share of South Korea’s serverless computing market, where ...
Sep 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tourism
The four best time travels in Korea; Jeonju, Gunsan, Gochang, Buan
Jeonju A trip to the Joseon Dynasty with over 500 years of history!Young people wearing beautiful hanbok walk among traditional Korean houses se...
Sep 24, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s mobile banking app KakaoBank to push for 2021 IPO
KakaoBank Corp., the mobile banking arm of South Korea’s online messaging app operator Kakao Corp., is planning an initial public offering next ...
Sep 23, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Korea’s tractor and farm machinery maker envisions smart mobility firm
Daedong Industrial Co., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, aims to transform into a smart mobility company, applying a...
Sep 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt
Korea’s ESG corporate bond issues on course to top $5 bn in 2020
South Korean companies’ issues of environmental, social and governance (ESG) bonds have almost doubled to 5.7 trillion won ($4.9 billion) so far...
Sep 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio
S. Korea to grow green biotech industry to $10.6 bn by 2030; nurture talent
The South Korean government said on Sept. 21 that it will triple the size of the country’s green biotechnology industry over the next decade and...
Sep 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
S. Korea’s big companies rattled by retail investors’ growing influence
South Korea’s big companies such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai often make shareholder-friendly moves to accommodate institutional investors, who fl...
Sep 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Outbound investments
South Korea's real estate FDI climbs 7.3% in Q2
South Korea's outbound direct investment in real estate continued to grow in the second quarter, up 7.3% year on year, despite sharp falls in the...
Sep 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Air seeks to sell 73-story skyscraper amid financial woes
Korean Air Lines. Co. is reaching out to overseas investors to gauge their interest in acquiring Wilshire Grand Center, a landmark building in Los Ang...
Sep 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vechicle
Urgent need to expand Korea's EV charging infrastructure: lobby group
It is critical that the South Korean government and carmakers swiftly move to increase local charging stations for electric vehicles and secure raw ma...
Sep 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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National Pension Service
NPS to cease paying management fees for Korean PEF project funds
The National Pension Service has decided to stop paying management fees for project funds to be launched by South Korean private equity firms, after r...
Sep 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Restructuring
Korean Air to lend $950 mn to US hotel unit for debt repayment
Korean Air Lines Co. will provide $950 million in loans to its fully owned US hotel operator which has $900 million in debt maturing this month, the c...
Sep 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
SK sells 4.6% in Asian logistics property developer ESR for $408 million
South Korea’s SK Corp. has sold part of its stake in ESR Cayman Ltd., an Asian logistics real estate developer, for 480 billion won ($408 millio...
Sep 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech
S. Korea's Kakao Work to rival Slack, messenger platform apps
Kakao Enterprise Corp., the artificial intelligence service unit of South Korea’s Kakao Corp., has launched a business messenger platform to com...
Sep 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s car-sharing platform becomes 12th unicorn following $42.5 mn injection
South Korea’s leading car-sharing platform Socar Inc. has become the country's 12th unicorn valued at around 1.1 trillion won after re...
Sep 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real Estate
Korea Investment near $120 mn deal to buy student housing in Texas
Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. is close to acquiring a new student housing building near the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for...
Sep 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio
Korea rises as production hub for coronavirus treatments; darling of global pharmas
South Korea is emerging as a global production base for coronavirus vaccines and medicine thanks to its comprehensive production facilities alongside ...
Sep 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech
Korea’s big data companies eye IPOs as investors flush with cash
Tech investors are set to be deluged with initial public offerings as South Korea’s big data companies are pushing to list their shares amid a d...
Sep 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt
Export-Import Bank of Korea sells $500 mn euro bonds with negative yield
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) has issued euro-currency bonds worth $500 million at a negative interest rate, the bank said on Sept. 15, less...
Sep 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Teachers' savings fund to invest $85 mn in Amazon logistics center in US
The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will invest 100 billion won ($85 million) in a pre-completed logistics center leased to Amazon.com in D...
Sep 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign bond
South Korea sells $827 mn worth of euro-currency bonds with negative yield
The South Korean government has issued euro-denominated bonds worth 700 million euros ($827 million) at a negative interest rate, becoming the first n...
Sep 10, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Mirae Asset named preferred negotiator for 3 Amazon-leased logistics centers in US
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. has been named the preferred negotiator to acquire three logistics centers in the US leased to American retail gian...
Sep 09, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)