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South Korea's headline inflation edged up for the first time in three months in July amid signs of a recovery in consumer sentiment, but still remaine...

Korea Post’s insurance arm is looking for one or two real estate debt managers to invest $200 million in mezzanine debt, for which it is plannin...

The initial public offering of JR Global REIT, set to be South Korea’s first listed REIT backed by overseas property, was undersubscribed 0.23 t...

South Korea's exports have plunged 16.6% during the second quarter, hitting the lowest record in 56 years since the fourth quarter of 1963 when it fel...

KB Securities Co. Ltd. has claimed damages arising from the alleged breach of contract over an Australian real investment fund after it returned 90.4 ...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) left the benchmark rate unchanged at a record low of 0.5% as expected on July 16, citing the slowing economy and the overheate...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...

SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. made a strong market debut on the Korea Exchange, as the country's IPO market has been gaining steam with newly listed ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is preparing to launch a joint fund with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to invest i...

Prudential Financial Inc.’s 2.3 trillion won ($1.9 billion) sale of its South Korean unit dominated the country’s M&A advisory market ...

Koh Young Technology Inc., a 3D inspection device maker in South Korea, has commercialized a neurosurgical robotics system for the second time in the ...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has beefed up investments in private debt and venture capital funds by adding Antares Capital Advisers and Insight ...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) has nearly doubled the size of its planned new bond sale in Australia to A$700 million ($460 million) on stron...

Vickers Venture Partners, a Singapore-based venture capital firm, is tapping South Korean institutional investors in the second round of fundraising t...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is shifting away from a defensive stance to put its increased cash to work as the asset price declines...

Korea Post’s insurance arm plans to select two global private equity funds to invest up to $200 million in private equity secondary markets in 2...

Morgan Stanley Private Equity has pocketed around 19 billion won ($16 million) in gains by cashing out a portion of its shares in a South Korean mask ...

Middle market-focused Unison Capital Inc. stood out in South Korea’s buyout market in 2019 with two lucrative exits and two startup acquisitions...

KKR & Co. has sold a modern logistics facility it had developed in a South Korean port in a transaction estimated to be worth more than 200 billio...

Credit Suisse arranged five buyout deals worth 5.2 trillion won ($4.4 billion) for SK Group’s units in 2019, which represented half of its M&...

South Korean institutions, including pension funds and insurance companies, poured a record 12.5 billion euros ($14 billion) into Europe’s real ...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has abolished Korea-focused teams under the three investment divisions of private equity, real estate and infrastru...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have acquired the entire equity interest of three wind farms in Finl...

US-based Greystar Real Estate Partners and Germany’s Patrizia AG have won a $100 million mandate from Korea Post to invest in the housing sector...

South Korea’s first Europe-focused real estate investment trust (REIT) is poised to go public on the domestic stock market in early 2020 to rais...

Twenty-four South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union and the Public Offic...

Macquarie Group has approached MBK Partners to acquire Daesung Industrial Gases Co. Ltd. and offered around 2.5 trillion won ($2.2 billion) for full o...

Back in 2017, the idea of launching a startup to make artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors prompted many blank stares. It was a fight that coul...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has acquired five US student housing for $250 million, in the first direct investment by a South Korean fir...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. have teamed up to buy an office tower in Manhattan from JPMorgan&...