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Korea Post’s savings arm plans to select two global direct lending funds focusing on North America and Europe and commit $100 million to each ...

South Korea’s individual pension fund holders are moving their money out of banks and insurance companies into brokerages in pursuit of higher...

The Carlyle Group is in final stages of talks to buy South Korea’s No. 2 bakery chain Tous Les Jours from the country’s food and enterta...

Korea Investment Partners Co. (KIP), South Korea’s largest venture capital firm, is aiming to launch two overseas investment funds next year &...

South Korean exporters are bracing for a tough year with their profits poised to languish, hit by the strong won, amid expectations for a rebound in...

Venture capital investments in South Korea are seeing a speedy recovery after facing a setback earlier this year due to the COVID-19 crisis. Over th...

Steelmaker Dongkuk Steel Mill Co. has become the first South Korean company to develop a reinforcing bar, or rebar, that can withstand 12.2 tons per...

South Korea is set to overtake Japan and become the world’s No. 5 export powerhouse by 2026 on grounds that the country will maintain its cu...

Imported car sales in South Korea are on track to post a record high this year, benefiting from consumption tax cuts aimed at stimulating personal s...

Private equity firms have been leading South Korea’s mergers and acquisitions markets in a broader range of sectors in recent years, represent...

South Korea’s airline restructuring is experiencing some turbulence after an activist group has filed an injunction threatening the proposed m...

The National Pension Service has added KKR and Sydney-based Scape Australia Management to its pool of 54 global real estate investment managers in...

South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) and financial services firms, including Samsung Securities Co., have committed $260 million...

An increasing amount of global funds are flowing into South Korea as advances in COVID-19 vaccine development and a weaker dollar boost investors&rs...

E-Mart Inc., one of South Korea’s largest retailers, saw its annual wine sales exceed 100 billion won ($90.3 million) for the first time as ...

Credit crunch concerns from the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak seem long ago as South Korea-based companies' capital raising nears an all-time ...

Jeju Beer Co., South Korea's No. 1 craft beer maker, is preparing to become the country's first craft brewery to go public, buoyed by the rapid mark...

South Korea’s household debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio has exceeded 100% for the first time, with its debt growing relatively faster...

South Korea should raise its tax on diesel to match the price of gasoline and phase out internal combustion engine cars by 2035 to tackle air pollutio...

South Korea's two semiconductor startups, Fadu Inc. and Mobilint, have emerged as the country's system chip industry dark horses as their competitiv...

Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) has entered the race for a stake in South Korea’s health and beauty franchise CJ Olive Young, beco...

Foreign currency deposits in South Korea have swelled to a record high in November on the back of a weaker dollar, boosting local banks' holdings to $...

South Korean brokerage firms' alternative investments worth over $50 billion will come under tight control, after reckless investment in overseas real...

Korea Post’s savings arm will select two infrastructure fund houses to invest $200 million in overseas core infrastructure assets, according to ...

South Korea joined the world’s biggest free trade regime on Nov. 15 by signing a mulilateral FTA pact that covers 15 countries in the Asia-Pacif...

SK Telecom Co. and online retail giant Amazon.com have agreed to team up in South Korea’s e-commerce market, in a deal that could lead to cross-...

Growing shipping volumes and surging sea freight rates are wreaking havoc on South Korea's shipping companies, reeling from a dire shortage of contain...

South Korea's fiscal deficit in September has pushed the annual shortfall to over 100 trillion won ($89.6 billion) with public debt reaching an all-ti...

The global petrochemical market is grappling with oversupply amid weak demand in the pandemic era, creating a clear divide between winners and losers ...

Wellkeeps Co., a South Korean mask manufacturer, has issued an information memorandum to potential buyers including financial investors and strategic ...