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Alternative investments
Hana Alternative acquires US office building for $201 mn
South Korea’s Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. has acquired an office building in Charlotte, North Carolina, for $201 million. Wells Far...
Feb 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
K-pop labels' revenue model shift to usher in new valuations
South Korean entertainment companies are expanding their scope beyond the music scene and shifting to platform services, ushering in new valuations ...
Feb 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix completes construction of its largest $3.14 bn chip plant
SK Hynix Inc. has completed the construction of its largest chip plant, which will use cutting-edge technology to produce memory semiconductors to m...
Feb 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK Innovation to build 3rd EV battery plant in Hungary for $2.3 bn
SK Innovation Co. will build its third electric-vehicle battery plant in Hungary for $2.29 billion, aiming to grab a greater share of the fast-growi...
Jan 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Serial entrepreneur builds gateway for cloud services
“You see all of these buildings? All of the companies in these buildings will become our clients."These were the words of Lee Han-joo, chief e...
Jan 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Seoul office building transactions at record high in 2020
Brisk investment demand drove office building prices higher in Seoul and its southern neighboring area last year, with their combined transactio...
Jan 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SKC to spend $600 mn to build copper foil plant in Malaysia
South Korea’s SKC Ltd. will build its first overseas plant of copper foils in Malaysia for 650 billion won ($588 million), as the chemical mat...
Jan 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate rebrand
Kia drops Motors from name, unveils roadmap for new EV models
Kia Motors Corp., a unit of Hyundai Motor Group, has dropped Motors from its name, as the company breaks away from its traditional manufacturing-dri...
Jan 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai inks deal to build first overseas hydrogen fuel cell plant in China
Hyundai Motor Co. has signed a contract to build its first overseas hydrogen fuel cell systems plant in China as the South Korean company aims to en...
Jan 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hyundai Glovis, Ulsan Port Authority to build logistics center in Ho Chi Minh City
South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis Co. and a local port authority will build a logistic center in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to use it as a di...
Jan 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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CES 2021
LG Display unveils brighter next-generation OLED TV panel, to add models
LG Display Co., a major South Korean display panel maker, has unveiled a next-generation OLED TV panel that enables brighter and more vivid picture ...
Jan 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai Motor to build first overseas hydrogen fuel cell plant in China
Hyundai Motor Co. will build its first overseas hydrogen fuel cell systems plant in China as the South Korean company aims to enter the world’...
Jan 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SKC to build first overseas copper foil plant in Malaysia
SKC Ltd., a chemical materials maker of South Korea’s SK Group, is planning to more than quadruple its production capacity of copper foils, a ...
Dec 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Joint venture
NPS, Hines set up $1.5 bn build-to-core strategy JV
The National Pension Service has set up a $1.5 billion joint venture with the US-based real estate investment firm Hines for a build-to-core portf...
Dec 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
South Korean police look into fatal crash of Tesla Model X
South Korean police are looking into a fatal crash of a Tesla Inc. electric vehicle after its driver told them it went out of control after sudden a...
Dec 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Denmark’s Orsted to build world’s biggest wind farm off S.Korean coast
Denmark’s Orsted A/S plans to build the world’s biggest offshore wind farm off the west coast of South Korea as the Danish multinational p...
Nov 24, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Chem beats CATL, Panasonic to supply batteries for Tesla’s Model Y SUV
South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. will supply batteries to US electric vehicle giant Tesla Inc. for its latest mid-size SUV Model Y, to be manufact...
Nov 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai’s five-year journey to build a luxury car brand
At Hyundai Motor Co.'s brand launch event held on Nov. 4, 2015, someone made an unexpected appearance on the stage, surprising the crowd. It was curre...
Nov 01, 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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IPO
BTS' Big Hit focuses on sustainable fandom-based business model
Big Hit Entertainment Co., behind the K-pop idols BTS, is switching its focus to online concerts, merchandise and character businesses from offline pe...
Sep 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Offshore production
SeAH Steel to build biggest offshore wind turbine monopile facility in UK
SeAH Steel Holdings Corporation is gearing up to construct the world's biggest monopile facility for offshore wind turbines following a memorandum of ...
Aug 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
POBA eyes distressed assets; reduces office buildings exposure
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will aggressively chase distressed assets to take advantage of the recent market downturn, while scali...
Apr 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
NH Investment, KB Asset buy Dallas building for $370 mn
NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and KB Asset Management Co. Ltd. have acquired an office building in Dallas for $370 million, which represente...
Feb 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Eugene Investment acquires Poland office building for $61 mn
Eugene Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has entered the European real estate market with the purchase of an office building in Warsaw, Poland for ...
Jan 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Meritz Sec buys Brussels building for $1.6 bn; plans REIT IPO
Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has acquired Brussels’ largest building for 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in the single biggest property deal in B...
Dec 27, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investment
Korean firms in all-out effort to sell down Paris office buildings
South Korean brokerage firms are stepping up efforts to sell down their remaining equity investments of around 600 billion won ($518 million) in the P...
Nov 06, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Investment, Samsung SRA to buy Manhattan building for $500 mn
Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. Ltd. have teamed up to buy an office tower in Manhattan from JPMorgan&...
Sep 24, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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JR AMC to buy Hungary office building for $47 mn
JR AMC Co. Ltd., a real estate investment trust in South Korea, has agreed to buy a pre-completed office building in Budapest for 42.3 million euros (...
Jul 23, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hana Fin acquires Prague office building for $147 mn
Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. made a 130-million-euro ($147 million) acquisition in Prague’s office property market in June, just a few months af...
Jul 05, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Public fund of $118 mn launched for Luxemburg building
Korea Investment Management Co. plans to raise 104 million euros ($118 million) from individual investors in June to fund its 275-million-euro purchas...
Jun 21, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)