SK Group's PE-funded transformation in the spotlight
SK Group stands out from other South Korean conglomerates in making good use of private equity funds to raise money for business expansion.The count...
Hyundai, Kia refine profile with accolades, higher global rankings
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., the two automaking units of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, have worked for decades to refine their profil...
Korea Investment in $4.4 bn lending group for Tropicana deal
Korea Investment & Securities Co. will arrange senior and mezzanine loans for Paris-based PAI Partners to fund its acquisition of Tropicana an...
LG AI Research: Foundation of group’s long-term future
Artificial intelligence that composes music and creates images, a forecasting model that reduces the development period of customized anticancer dru...
Partners Group wins $620 mn Korean LPs mandate for infra
Some major institutional investors of South Korea have committed a combined $620 million to Partners Group’s third direct infrastructure progr...
Hyundai Motor Group sweeps board at IIHS safety awards
The Hyundai Motor Group once again received more safety awards than any of its counterparts from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)...
BlackRock names new head of institutional investment for APAC
BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager with $10 trillion assets under management, named Hiroyuki Shimizu head of institutional in...
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...
South Korea's working young teeter on brink of debt disaster
As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...
LS-Nikko Copper to sell $670 million JV stake to Korean PEFs
LS-Nikko Copper Co., the world’s second-largest electrolytic copper maker, is set to sell an 800 billion won ($670 million) stake in a joint v...
Samsung SDS joins hands with Amazon for global cloud business
Samsung SDS Co., South Korea’s information technology service company, is set to expand its global cloud service business in cooperation with ...
LG Group improves dividend policy transparency
A growing number of LG Group units have unveiled their dividend policies for the next three years for the first time in their history, as they are d...
How Carlyle aligned interests with Hyundai Motor chair
South Korea's strengthened antitrust rules relating to inter-affiliate trade provided the Carlyle Group with a valuable opportunity to invest in Hyu...
Kia: New king in J.D. Power’s most reliable auto brand rankings
Kia Corp. is the top-ranked automaker in J.D. Power’s 2022 US Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) ahead of General Motor Co.’s Buick as we...
Korea’s Point Mobile expands supply deal with Amazon to offline units
Point Mobile Co., South Korea’s top enterprise handheld devices maker, expanded a supply deal with Amazon.com Inc. to offline units of the wor...
SK Group to establish $835 mn green biz R&D complex
SK Group, South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate, plans to invest more than 1 trillion won ($835.3 million) in a research and development co...
LG Group invests $21 mn in vegan egg maker Eat Just
LG Group plans to invest 25 billion won ($21 million) in California-based plant-based food maker Eat Just, Inc. The news follows an announcement by ...
Hyundai to offer auto finance in France to boost Europe vehicle sales
Hyundai Capital Services Inc., a financial services subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, and CGI Finance, a unit of Societe Generale Group, have launc...
Korea's Mirae Asset to launch digital asset business
Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s capital market giant, is set to enter the digital asset business, starting with a digital asset cus...
Lotte Group beats Shinsegae to acquire Ministop Korea
Lotte Group beat its retail rival Shinsegae Group in a competition to buy South Korea’s fifth-largest convenience store chain Ministop Korea. ...
Lotte Group aims for top spot in metaverse retail space
Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin is known for his obsession with new tech gadgets.He’s one of those early adopters in South Korea of the Ocu...
POSCO to revive India steel mill construction plan
POSCO Co. plans to build a steel mill jointly with India's Adani Group in western India, the South Korean steelmaker said on Thursday, after its pre...
Motional to begin robotaxi dispatch next year
US-based autonomous vehicle company Motional Inc. announced its plans for the commercialization of driverless cars based on the all-electric Hyundai...
Tighter rules on business split-ups may benefit SK Inc.
As South Korean securities regulators are moving to tighten their grip on the growing trend of splitting up businesses and listing the spun-off arms...
SK, Qualcomm discuss cooperation on memory chips
LAS VEGAS – Chief executives of South Korea's energy-to-telecom conglomerate SK Group on Thursday met with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and dis...
Carlyle buys $510 mn stake in Hyundai Glovis
US private equity juggernaut The Carlyle Group Inc. has bought a 10% stake in Hyundai Glovis Co., worth approximately 611 billion won ($510 million)...
Lotte, Shinsegae compete head-on for Ministop Korea
South Korea's two retail heavyweights Lotte and Shinsegae are in head-to-head competition for the country's fifth-largest convenience store chain Mi...
Hyundai Heavy partners with Palantir for big data platform
South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group joined forces with US data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. to set up a big data platfor...
Samsung Group in negotiations to buy Biogen
South Korea's Samsung Group is in negotiations to buy Biogen Inc., a leading US-based drugmaker for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's and ...
CJ Group promotes chairman’s son, signals 3rd-generation succession
South Korea's CJ Group promoted the group chairman's son Lee Sun-ho to a new executive-level position Monday, paving the way for a third-generatio...
