overseas and alternative investment
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Korean chipmakers
Doosan Tesna to invest $160 mn in chip testing plant in Korea
South Korea’s Doosan Tesna Inc. will build a semiconductor testing factory in the country with an investment of 220.6 billion won ($159.7 mill...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea’s No. 1 flea market app Karrot expands services across Canada
Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market service provider, is expanding its online used-goods marketplace app Karrot acr...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
BBQ's overseas subsidiary revenue surpasses $72 mn in 2023
Genesis BBQ Group announced on Wednesday that the revenue of its overseas subsidiaries last year reached 110 billion won ($79.1 million), marking a ...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
DN Solutions to build plant, R&D center in India
DN Solutions, the world's third-largest and South Korea's top machine tool manufacturer, said on Tuesday that it will establish a new plant and rese...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS to cut global stocks under GP management, up its direct control
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is set to slash its overseas stocks under global i...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean fashion platform Ably to raise $144 mn from Alibaba, others
Ably Corp., South Korea’s top online fashion platform operator, is set to raise 200 billion won ($144 million) from foreign investors such as ...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
KB Securities downgrades LIG Nex1's investment opinion
KB Securities Co. on Tuesday raised the target price for LIG Nex1 Co. from 195,000 won ($140.4) to 200,000 won amidst a recent significant rise in...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK Group, led by SK Hynix, to invest $77 billion in AI, chips
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, is investing 106.4 trillion won ($77 billion) in artificial intelligence an...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy halts Arizona battery plant building on weak EV sector
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest electric vehicle (EV) cell maker, has suspended construction of a plant in Arizona for batt...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Lotte Chemical's rating outlook cut on worsening financials
South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals maker Lotte Chemical Corp. has taken a hit from a lowered credit-rating outlook of the company and its majo...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Upstage, Amazon to cooperate on AI solutions
Upstage, South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup, announced on Thursday that it signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (S...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Financial, Natixis to manage global private equity fund
South Korea's Woori Bank and Woori PE Asset Management announced on Thursday that they have signed a "strategic business agreement for creating a ...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn
South Korea’s vaccine developer SK Bioscience Co. will acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top 10 vaccine firm IDT Biologika GmbH...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung seeks $3.6 billion in loans from KDB for chip investment
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. seeks to borrow as much as 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion) from the state-run Korea Development Bank t...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean PE funds shrink in 2023 for first time in 7 years
South Korean private equity investments declined last year for the first time since 2016 due to interest rate hikes, high inflation and the Korean w...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Doosan emerges as darling in Korea’s BBB bond market
Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset's US dividend premium fund surpasses $72 mn in net assets
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. announced on Tuesday that the net assets of its Mirae Asset US Dividend Premium Fund, which invests...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea’s travel payment card market competition heats up
Competition in the South Korean travel payment card market intensified as increasing overseas trips and cross-border shopping prompted credit card i...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
HiteJinro invests in table order service startup
HiteJinro Co., South Korea’s largest soju maker, announced on Monday that it invested in a stake in the table order service startup TMR Founde...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang makes alternative flour with wheat bran
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. has engaged in an upcycling business by utilizing wheat bran, previously discarded as a milling byprodu...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea's Handsome opens global flagship store System Paris
South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will open its first global flagship store System and System Homme Paris i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
Value in the middle market: Smaller size means greater potential
Middle market direct lending can mean different things to different lenders and investors. Many, if not most, would agree that companies with over $...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor to produce Genesis cars in Kazakhstan
Hyundai Motor Group will produce Genesis models from its knock-down (KD) plant in Kazakhstan to bolster the South Korean auto giant’s luxury m...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO seeks additional lithium deals from Argentina, Chile
POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, aims to clinch additional deals from Argentina and Chile to secure lith...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai files for 1st overseas unit IPO in India: reports
Hyundai Motor Co.'s Indian unit filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Saturday to raise up to $3 b...
Jun 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asia's largest startup fair NextRise 2024 held in Seoul
The Korea International Trade Association and Korea Development Bank announced on Thursday that the Asia's largest startup fair "NextRise 2024 Seoul...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom invests $10 mn in Perplexity
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it invested $10 million in Perplexity, the US-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
MBK drops out of Air Premia’s Asiana cargo unit takeover bid
Asian private equity firm MBK Partners has dropped out of a plan to back 300 billion won ($217.9 million) for South Korean budget airline Air Premia...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Innotek begins supplying AI chip substrates to Big Tech
LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, is for the first time supplying high-performance chip substrates for AI devices to g...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hana Securities services S.Korean stock investment in Hong Kong
South Korea's Hana Securities announced on Tuesday that it launched a service allowing Hong Kong investors to open its accounts through Hong Kong's ...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 NPS to ramp up shareholder engagement with overseas companies
- 2 Europe looms large as K-beauty brands look to blue ocean; cosmetics stocks rise
- 3 NPS gobbles up Korea’s top 4 financial holding stocks
- 4 US considers withdrawing thousands of troops from South Korea
- 5 KKR sells 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine, recoups $450 million