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Kakao Pay Corp., the digital settlement platform unit of South Korea’s top messaging app operator Kakao Corp., has slashed its initial publi...

Leading private equity firms, including Bain Capital, KKR & Co. and MBK Partners, appeared to have turned to an exit mode in South Korea this ye...

A consortium led by South Korea’s energy-to-construction conglomerate GS Group has acquired the country’s top botox maker Hugel Inc. fro...

Shares in global carmakers such as Hyundai Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. are tumbling. The automotive chip shortage is expected to deteriorate fu...

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top chemical maker, said on Thursday it is spending 2.6 trillion won ($2.2 billion) to strengthen its green busine...

Shares of South Korea’s two largest chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – are slumping on a bearish industry ou...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. has become South Korea's first brokerage company to boost its equity capital to 10 trillion won ($9 billion), taking a st...

Global carmakers such as Stellantis N.V., BMW, Ford Motor Co. and Hyundai Motor Group surprised investors with strong earnings despite the automotiv...

Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd. will invest $1.1 billion in an electric vehicle (EV) battery cell factory in Indonesia to capture As...

South Korea was picked as one of the two most attractive emerging markets along with China thanks to the country's fast digitization and low vulnera...

Ssangyong Motor Co., the debt-ridden South Korean unit of India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. now in court receivership, has decided to sell it...

The global auto industry is rapidly making a full-fledged shift towards electric vehicles (EVs), with the world’s five major market players, i...

Jeju Air Co., South Korea’s largest low-cost carrier (LCC), seeks to raise some $175 million in new shares to boost its capital base, raising ...

South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. is making innovations in its electric vehicle manufacturing processes. The company on July 1 reve...

The preliminary bidding to acquire South Korea’s auto parts supplier Hanon Systems Corp. has drawn overseas-based bidders only, with the stron...

The Korean Teachers' Credit Union has committed $100 million to Harrison Street Real Estate Capital's new flagship fund that is aiming to raise $1.5...

Bain Capital is set to pocket about 100 billion won ($90 million) in profits in two years from its equity financing of the South Korean CJ Group's $...

Secondary private equity deals have been the fastest-growing segment of the private equity market for several years and this year, they could exceed...

The National Pension Service has gained exposure to timberland and the European mid-market tech sector in the first quarter of this year, adding two...

South Korea’s wind tower manufacturer CS Wind Corp. has acquired full ownership of the world’s largest tower manufacturing facility loca...

Goldman Sachs Asset Management focuses on middle-market, value-add strategy for infrastructure deals, targeting the sectors undergoing a digital tra...

A private debt fund managed by Madison Capital Funding, a US middle-market lender, has received a combined $460 million in commitments from seven So...

LG Electronics Inc. is expanding its overseas production facilities as the South Korean home appliance giant is shifting gears toward new growth dri...

The National Pension Service (NPS) and the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) have committed $600 million in aggregate to GLP Capital Partners' Nort...

Sculptor Capital Management is a leading alternative asset manager with capabilities across multi-strategy, credit and real estate. Sculptor has...

Non-traditional real estate assets such as cell towers, parking lots and marinas will likely provide significant investment opportunities to debt in...

POSCO Chemical Co., the secondary battery materials unit of POSCO, plans to ramp up its cathode production by building new plants in Europe and the ...

Bain Capital has agreed to invest around 400 billion won ($360 million) in South Korea’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software d...

Netmarble Corp., a South Korean mobile game developer, has acquired a majority stake in Kung Fu Factory, a US independent game company, for an undis...

Competition is heating up among domestic and foreign private equity firms hoping to invest in T Map Mobility Co., a mobility spin-off of South Korea...