Celltrion eyes M&A in Europe, $3.3 bn Zymfentra sales: chairman

Celltrion eyes M&A in Europe, $3.3 bn Zymfentra sales: chairman

WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Inc. is accelerating its push to transform into a novel drug developer, going after...

Young rich Koreans set sights on M&As, commercial property deals

Young rich Koreans set sights on M&As, commercial property deals

Young rich Koreans have emerged as big players in South Korea’s asset management market, expanding into M&As and commercial real estate, a...

Samsung releases new Bespoke AI Family Hub product

Samsung releases new Bespoke AI Family Hub product

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday the launch of a new "Bespoke AI Family Hub" refrigerator, designed to offer new AI experiences in everyd...

M&A rebound will drive private credit volume increase: Golub Capital

M&A rebound will drive private credit volume increase: Golub Capital

As the Federal Reserve signaled delays in rate cuts after meeting earlier this month, more investors have adopted for a wait-and-see attitude. Those...

Meritz leaves door open for an M&A, to stay shareholder friendly

Meritz leaves door open for an M&A, to stay shareholder friendly

Meritz Financial Group Inc., boasting the fourth-biggest market capitalization among South Korean financial holding companies, will look into an acq...

Liquidity crisis looms at S.Korea’s M Capital amid project financing debacle

Liquidity crisis looms at S.Korea’s M Capital amid project financing debacle

South Korea's financing and finance leasing firm M Capital Co. is facing a growing risk of liquidity crunch as its attempts to refinance maturing de...

LX International joins UNGC

LX International joins UNGC

South Korean trading firm LX International Corp. announced on Tuesday that it joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) to strengthen its envi...

POSCO Future M publishes responsible minerals report

POSCO Future M publishes responsible minerals report

South Korea's POSCO Future M Co. announced on Tuesday that it released a responsible minerals report detailing establishing a sustainable supply cha...

Honda, POSCO Future M to build cell materials plant in Canada

Honda, POSCO Future M to build cell materials plant in Canada

Japan’s Honda Motor Co. and South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. agreed to build a battery materials plant in Canada where the automaker wil...

Toray Advanced Materials obtains AS9120 certification

Toray Advanced Materials obtains AS9120 certification

Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. announced Wednesday that it attained the AS9120 certification for aerospace industry quality management systems ...

POSCO tightens belts, seeks M&A within 3 years: new chairman

POSCO tightens belts, seeks M&A within 3 years: new chairman

Chang In-hwa, chairman and chief executive of POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, has vowed to take drastic...

Samsung Electronics' key M&A man returns; big deals in the offing

Samsung Electronics' key M&A man returns; big deals in the offing

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker and leading smartphone and electronics maker, has been absent from the mergers and a...

Korea's M&A market poised to bounce back after bleak Q1

Korea's M&A market poised to bounce back after bleak Q1

South Korea’s mergers and acquisitions market is poised to bounce back after a bleak first quarter, with 22.3 trillion won ($16 billion) worth...

Korea's Military Mutual Aid Association starts search for new CIO

Korea's Military Mutual Aid Association starts search for new CIO

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.7 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, said on ...

Shinhan Securities leads M&A of Trench Group

Shinhan Securities leads M&A of Trench Group

South Korea's Shinhan Securities announced on Friday that it participated as the lead underwriter in the merger and acquisition deal of Trench Group...

POSCO Future M named Fortune Asia Future 30

POSCO Future M named Fortune Asia Future 30

South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. has been named Asia Future 30 by the US economic media Fortune on Mar. 27, according to the company on Thursd...

Korea’s POSCO Int’l to work on CCUS, hydrogen businesses

Korea’s POSCO Int’l to work on CCUS, hydrogen businesses

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and resources exploration subsidiary of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., aims to ...

Samsung Elec vies for Johnson Controls' HVAC units

Samsung Elec vies for Johnson Controls' HVAC units

Samsung Electronics Co. has joined the race to buy Johnson Controls International’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) assets wo...

Krafton eyes mega M&A, PUBG franchise deals: Krafton chair

Krafton eyes mega M&A, PUBG franchise deals: Krafton chair

Krafton Inc., South Korea’s gaming behemoth, is gearing up for the second chapter of its business through “mega” M&A deals and...

Goldman Sachs Korea co-head Chung to move to Hyundai Capital

Goldman Sachs Korea co-head Chung to move to Hyundai Capital

Goldman Sachs’ Chung Hyung-Jin, co-head of the Seoul office and the leader of the firm’s investment banking (IB) business in South Korea...

Duty-free shops at Incheon International Airport eager to lure boutiques

Duty-free shops at Incheon International Airport eager to lure boutiques

Duty-free shops at Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main gateway, are fiercely competing to lure luxury brand boutiques to their o...

POSCO Future M to import natural graphite from Africa

POSCO Future M to import natural graphite from Africa

South Korea’s only anode materials producer POSCO Future M Co. will import a maximum 60,000 tons of natural graphite products from Balama Grap...

POSCO International to build motor core plants in Poland, Mexico

POSCO International to build motor core plants in Poland, Mexico

POSCO International Corp., the energy and trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Monday it will build new trac...

POSCO to build world's largest battery cathode plant cluster

POSCO to build world's largest battery cathode plant cluster

GWANGYANG, South Jeolla Province  -- POSCO Future M Co., a battery materials supplier, on Thursday broke ground on its fifth cathode materials ...

Sindoh to tap ex-STIC Investments exec Seo as CEO, spur M&As

Sindoh to tap ex-STIC Investments exec Seo as CEO, spur M&As

Sindoh Co., a leading manufacturer of multi-functional printers in South Korea, is set to tap an investment banking expert as its chief executive. W...

Samsung’s Lee to spur M&As, new growth with ‘lost decade’ behind him

Samsung’s Lee to spur M&As, new growth with ‘lost decade’ behind him

Cleared of wrongdoing charges that shackled his leadership for years, Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee now will actively seek mergers and acquisition...

Naver expands Papago with Arabic translation, boosting global reach

Naver expands Papago with Arabic translation, boosting global reach

South Korea's leading online portal Naver Corp. announced on Friday the addition of Arabic translation capabilities to its AI-driven translation ser...

SK Chemicals targets US medical packaging market

SK Chemicals targets US medical packaging market

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. is targeting the US medical packaging market with its circular recycling materials. Circular recycling is SK Chemical...

Peak views: What lies ahead in 2024?

Peak views: What lies ahead in 2024?

With 2023 at a close, financial markets are at an important junction. Major developed market central banks have paused their rate rises and there ...

Biopharma M&As: Next big thing for South Korean manufacturers

Biopharma M&As: Next big thing for South Korean manufacturers

When Orion Corp., known for its signature snack cake Choco-Pie, announced a $415 million deal to acquire biotech startup LegoChem Biosciences Inc. l...

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