3rd largest pension fund

A private fund for US real estate managed by South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. has seen huge losses amid the tumble of the offi...

Asia’s private equity giant MBK Partners Ltd. is set to accelerate fundraising for its new fund, which is expected to become the firm’s ...

South Korea is embroiled in a heated debate on a program to recruit domestic helpers from Southeast Asia at lower rates than those paid to their Kor...

GOHEUNG, SOUTH KOREA -- South Korea launched its homegrown space rocket on Thursday, making its first achievement to send a satellite for com...

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), a global top lithium-ion battery separator (LiBS) player under South Korea’s energy and battery maker SK Innovat...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest battery maker, has confirmed it will receive a 1.2 trillion won ($908.7 million) investment for a minorit...

Markets today are in the midst of a shift as interest rate hikes are nearing their end and economic growth is challenged. Other changes in demogra...

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners has put Golfzon County Co., the biggest golf course operator in South Korea, on sale at an estim...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund with 939 trillion won ($713 billion) in assets as of end...

CrystalGenomics Inc., South Korea’s first-generation biopharma venture company, will sell new shares worth 58 billion won ($44 million) in a b...

Foreigners reported a record purchase of South Korean shares despite a global economic slowdown, as money moved from the US and Europe into emerging...

Senior officials of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and other major sovereign funds of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met with executives ...

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemical materials company, is slated to buy a controlling stake in semiconductor chip test maker ISC Co., in a deal estima...

Global real estate investors will see the funding gap continue for a while, which creates opportunities for private debt in the sector. The office s...

South Korea will aid the reconstruction of Ukraine, which is at war with Russia, through loans worth $130 million from the Economic Development Coop...

South Korea's Kumho Petrochemical Co. and Idemitsu Kosan Co., a Japanese refining and petrochemical company, announced on May 17 that they have sign...

The world’s two leading smartphone makers Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. employ different management strategies for their surplus mone...

Doosan Corp., the holding company of South Korean plant-to-machinery conglomerate Doosan Group, is slated to attract $200 million for its hydrogen f...

Hyundai Motor Co. in the first quarter controlled over half of the global market for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) powered by hydrogen thanks t...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. will invest 200 billion rupees ($2.45 billion) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu over the next d...

The three-month saga over the control of the K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. early this year was a painful lesson about activist funds: Don&rsquo...

TOKYO – Major business lobby groups of South Korea and Japan have created a partnership fund of 200 million yen ($1.5 million) to accelerate i...

The number of young workers in South Korea fell for a sixth straight month in April to its lowest point in more than two years, deepening concerns t...

A three-party consortium including South Korea’s LS Cable & System Ltd. has won a 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) deal to build high-voltage...

One Store Co., a South Korean homegrown app store, is slated to attract more than 200 billion won ($151.3 million) as its 100 billion won loan, whic...

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Monday that it has signed an infrastructure fund inve...

Amorepacific Group, South Korea’s cosmetic giant, announced on Thursday that Chairman Suh Kyung-bae has donated a 2.5% stake to his second dau...

Defense, healthcare and semiconductor materials companies have been the main investment targets of global funds such as Fidelity and Morgan Stanley ...

Global real estate investment funds managed by South Korean financial services firms have swelled by more than 14 times to 72 trillion won ($5.4 bil...

A South Korean private equity firm leading shareholder activism against SM Entertainment Co. is mired in controversy as it has surfaced that it sold...