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Rank-and file-employees at Samsung Electronics Co. will call their senior executives without their titles as part of the company’s new human r...

MBK Partners, a leading Asian private equity firm, and Unison Capital Korea agreed on a tender offer to acquire management rights of Osstem Implant ...

K-pop behemoth SM Entertainment Co. said on Jan. 20 it has decided to tap Lee Chang-hwan, the CEO of local activist fund Align Partners Capital Mana...

Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is set to break ground in March on a domestic factory to produce electric purpose-built vehicles (PB...

Asia-focused Orchestra Private Equity agreed on Wednesday to buy a 100% stake in the South Korean operations of fast food chain KFC for around 60 bi...

South Korean private equity firm VIG Partners has acquired a 100% stake in low-cost carrier (LCC) Eastar Jet Co., the asset manager said on Jan. 6. ...

The Law Office of Choi & Lee, a small-sized law firm, became Korea's first law firm to invest in startups. In one of the most difficult times wh...

Hyundai Home Shopping Network Corp., a TV shopping channel operator owned by South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Dec. 26 it will s...

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee embarked on a business trip to Vietnam on Wednesday to attend an opening ceremony for a research and dev...

Private equity giant KKR & Co. is slated to buy a 100% stake in Busan City Gas Co., wholly owned by South Korean energy company SK E&S Co., ...

Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee met with the Chairman of the Management Board of BMW Group Oliver Zipse on Saturday to discuss ways to deepe...

South Korea’s Glenwood Private Equity is set to take legal action against Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Partner over the cancellation ...

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. is set to sell a majority stake in local used-car trading platform K Car Co. as its initial public o...

South Korean private equity firm Curious Partners has recently completed selling an undelivered drillship constructed by Samsung Heavy Industries Co...

Samsung heiress and Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin ranked 85th on The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women selected by Forbes. Lee, who leads Samsung Group's...

Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee is in Abu Dhabi to meet with businesspeople and politicians and tour the Barakah nuclear power plant project in the ...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, has carried out its year-end executive reshuffle, marked by its...

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. has completed a 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) deal to wholly acquire the industrial film business ...

MBK Partners Ltd., alongside Deutsche Bank AG and other four investment firms, has acquired $1.3 billion worth of distressed debts in auto-parts sup...

The Korea Semiconductor Academy was established Thursday with former SK Hynix CEO Seok-hee Lee at its helm.The launch ceremony was held at the Korea...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund managing 896.6 trillion won ($690.5 billion) as of end-S...

The Carlyle Group Inc. announced on Tuesday 32 new partners and 39 new managing directors, effective Jan. 1 of 2023, including two Koreans, Sean (So...

OCI Co., South Korea’s lone polysilicon producer, is set to spin off its chemical units and transform itself into a holding company.On Wednesd...

South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) is poised to accelerate the selling off of its affiliate KDB Life Insurance Co. next week...

South Korean private equity (PE) firms are having trouble fundraising as institutional investors' capital for new investment is drying up amid inter...

Foreign private equity firms have taken advantage of the strong dollar to dominate corporate acquisition deals in South Korea, adding to expectation...

South Korean mobile and online game developer and publisher Com2uS Corp. acquired a whopping 67 billion won ($47 million) worth of SM Entertainment ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is eyeing secondary and deep value strategies, the sovereign wealth fund’s Senior Director of Private Equit...

Samsung Electronics Co.'s leader Jay Y. Lee was promoted as the company's chairman on Oct. 27.Samsung Electronics' board of directors approved the a...

A Singaporean private equity firm has proposed a number of measures to KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, including a sp...