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Pension funds
NPS hits jackpot with fourth-tallest skyscraper in NYC
New York City boasts the world’s most dazzling skylines and urban night views, attracting a number of global tourists to its observatories.The...
May 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea April inflation hits 13-1/2-year peak; bond yields up
South Korea’s consumer prices in April rose at the fastest pace since the 2008-09 global financial crisis, reinforcing expectations of further...
May 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Why Samsung is so far behind Apple
In October 2012, US tech giant Apple Inc. fired Dominique Oh, the head of its South Korean unit. This was due to Apple's sluggish sales in the home ...
May 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won at 2-year low, adding to inflationary pressure
South Korea’s won currency skidded to the lowest level in more than two years on Thursday, adding to fears over growing inflationary pressure ...
Apr 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
SK beats Hyundai Motor to become S.Korea’s No.2 conglomerate
SK Group, which has SK Inc. as its holding company, is now South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate by asset size – replacing automotiv...
Apr 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Jay Y. Lee absence raises risks for Samsung chip biz
Samsung Electronics Co. is losing its hegemony in the global semiconductor market as a sustained leadership vacuum has kept the world’s top me...
Apr 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Yoon administration to launch strategic committee for semiconductors
President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team announced Thursday it is considering a joint public-private committee that will be in charge o...
Apr 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Kakao Games invests $15 mn in Playable Worlds for global expansion
Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of Korea’s web service giant Kakao Corp., has invested $15 million in US game studio Playable Worlds...
Apr 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korean firewater lures more young Japanese
South Korea’s distilled spirit soju is alluring more young drinkers in Japan, the home of its rival liquor shochu, as K-content such as drama ...
Apr 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Direct lending remains the top PD strategy for Korean LPs
Around 70% of South Korean key asset owners will expand their exposure to global private debt, expecting steady streams of cash flow, according to a r...
Apr 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On bidders weigh growing risks of battery makers
Some of the four shortlisted bidders for South Korea's SK On Co. recently went back to the drawing board to assess the value of the world's No. 5 el...
Apr 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Kakao's game unit behind Odin valued at $2.7 bn before IPO
Lionheart Studio Corp., the firm behind South Korea’s popular mobile game Odin, is preparing to go public as early as this year, with its ente...
Apr 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Samsung Biologics to raise $2.6 bn in rights issue
Samsung Biologics Co., a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and a biotech division under the Samsung Group, is set ...
Apr 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao Piccoma acquires Japan’s cryptocurrency exchange SEBC
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has acquired a controlling stake in Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese c...
Apr 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK seeks to exit Korea’s Lotte Card for over $2.5 bn
MBK Partners is in the early stages of talks with telecom operator KT Corp. and other potential bidders to sell its majority stake in South Korea's ...
Mar 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
Kiturami Boiler bets on chip, battery facility systems
Choi Jin-min, founder and chairman of Kiturami Boiler Co., is one of the few living witnesses in South Korea's boiler history. At the age of 21, he ...
Mar 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, Stellantis to build $4.1 billion battery plant in Canada
The world’s second-largest battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and multinational automaker Stellantis N.V. have agreed to build a $4.1 billi...
Mar 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy considers billion-dollar battery plant in Arizona
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. may build a billion-dollar battery plant in the US state of Arizona to meet growing demand in North Amer...
Mar 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
MBK's $1.2 bn stake sale brings value on par with TPG
North Asia-focused MBK Partners has closed a $1.18 billion deal to sell its 12.5% stake to New York-based Dyal Capital at an equity valuation of nea...
Mar 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung family set to sell $320 mn worth of SDS shares
Samsung Group family is set to sell a 3.9% stake in Samsung SDS Co. worth 390 billion won ($319.5 million) through a block deal. The seller is one o...
Mar 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Display reclaims global top spot in Q4 2021
South Korea’s LG Display Co. regained the top spot in the global display market for TVs in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to tech indus...
Mar 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Hana teams up with British developer Nick Candy in Chelsea bid
South Korea’s Hana Financial Group has joined the race to buy English Premier League club Chelsea in a consortium with British property develo...
Mar 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
GEPS posts 19.4% return from alternative investment in 2021
Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea posted a 8.61% rate of return in 2021, the pension fund announced on March 15. It has ear...
Mar 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Innocean to wholly own US media agency Canvas with 49% stake buy
Innocean Worldwide Holdings Inc., a South Korean marketing company, will wholly own US media agency joint venture Canvas Worldwide LLC by acquiring ...
Mar 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hyundai Heavy targets $2.5 bn Saudi escort ships deal
South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co. targets Saudi Arabia’s project for new escort ships worth up to $2.5 billion. The wo...
Mar 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
President-elect pledges to build S.Korea as 'pivotal' global power
President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledges to build South Korea into what he dubs a global 'pivotal' power that contributes to freedom, peace, and prospe...
Mar 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won nears 2-year low, adds to inflation woes
The South Korean won currency tumbled to its lowest point in almost two years on Friday, adding to inflationary pressure in Asia’s fourth-larg...
Mar 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai accelerates electrification strategy, targets 7% of EV market
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group on Wednesday set out its vision to become a top-tier eco-friendly auto brand by accelerating i...
Mar 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
App-rich LG smart TVs blur lines with smartphones
From home workouts to math and science courses, thousands of apps now available on LG smart TVs are blurring the lines between TVs and smartphones.S...
Feb 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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SK Group head Chey to assume chair post at SK Telecom
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won will assume an additional post as a chairman of SK Telecom Co.The conglomerate’s holding company SK Inc. announ...
Feb 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 NPS-backed new prime office struggles with poor demand
- 2 Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers first voluntary redundancy
- 3 Lotte to cut basic chemicals in portfolios for profitability
- 4 Young rich Koreans: Financially literate, self-directing
- 5 LG Elec logs record Q2 profit on home appliances, car parts