EQT Partners to invest $1.4 bn in Korea's No. 2 physical security firm
Sweden’s EQT Partners AB is set to acquire a 36.87% stake in South Korean security services provider SK Shieldus Co. from a consortium led by ...
Dongwon Industries reborn as holdings company after 53 years
Korea's seafood giant Dongwon Industries on Wednesday said its completed merger with Dongwon Enterprise has given their parent Dongwon Group a new h...
Public-private battery alliance launched to source critical minerals
The South Korean government, in tandem with the private sector, launched a battery alliance on Tuesday in a bid to support the companies in sourcing...
S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund
South Korea last week completed the process needed to launch a stock market stabilization fund of 10.76 trillion won ($7.6 billion). The timing for ...
Korea's POSCO gets greener via integrated CO2-free brand
Korea's POSCO has introduced the integrated brand Greenate to symbolize the commitment of the nation's top steelmaker to achieve carbon neutrality b...
Foreign PE firms on hunt for Korea Inc. with strong dollar
Foreign private equity firms have taken advantage of the strong dollar to dominate corporate acquisition deals in South Korea, adding to expectation...
Korea’s 1st export decline in 2 years dims BOK’s big-step rate hike outlook
South Korea’s exports fell for the first time in two years in October, posting a trade deficit for seven months in a row – the clearest ...
Korea's Meritz Group likely to sell off its asset management arm
South Korea’s Meritz Financial Group Inc. is poised to sell off its subsidiary Meritz Asset Management Co., The Korea Economic Daily understoo...
Korea should open retail electricity market for renewables
South Korea on Oct. 26 officially launched the carbon neutrality commission based on laws for green growth, which took effect last March, amid the g...
Korea's SK Chemicals to make chemically recycled food containers
South Korea's SK Chemicals on Tuesday said it has joined forces with Poolinglim P&P to make the nation's first food containers using chemically ...
LG CNS hires new employees based on computer coding skills
LG CNS Co., the information technology service arm of LG Group, is hiring new employees based on computer coding skills regardless of the candidates...
Korea's underwear giant BYC asked to open accounting books
Insider trading without due process.This is what South Korea's Truston Asset Management, the No. 2 stakeholder of underwear giant BYC with 8.13%, ha...
Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) signed an initial agreement for a nuclear power plant in Poland, paving the way to win an expected $30 bill...
EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada
EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, is set to build a plant in Canada with a $704 million investment in a partners...
Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case
It took a whole year for Domino’s Korea to convince the Michigan-based delivery pizza behemoth for an exemption to its corporate guidance of u...
Korea's stock deposits dip to lowest point since July 2020
Monthly average deposits for stock investment in South Korea are poised to drop below 50 trillion won ($35.1 billion) for the first time since July ...
Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte
Peak Bio Co., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, is debuting on the Nasdaq through a merger with US blank cheque company Ignyte Acquisition C...
BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch
South Korea’s central bank joined rescue moves to improve liquidity in the local bond market and alleviate the fallout from a debt default by ...
Energy transition investment needs flexible approach: Ares Management
As energy transition is a new sector in infrastructure compared with other asset types, institutional investors are seeking asset managers highly ex...
Kyobo Life bets on US direct lending, keeps watch on Europe
South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co. focused on US direct lending market this year given the rising probability of a European market recessi...
Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything
HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...
Korea to face more headwinds after Q3 growth hits 1-yr low
The South Korean economy grew at its slowest pace of the year in the third quarter on weak net exports, adding to concerns over a further slowdown i...
Korea Post's insurance arm uses buyout, senior debt as core strategies
Korea Post’s insurance bureau will maintain its core-satellite strategy in private equity and debt investments for both stable revenue streams...
Coupang launches ultra-fast Rocket Delivery service in Taiwan
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s answer to global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, said on Wednesday it has launched its ultra-fast delivery service in...
NPS considers new investment in global real estate
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is open to new investments in overseas real estate, the pension fund’s American real estate...
Hyundai Motor to boost US presence with $5.5 bn new Georgia EV plant
Hyundai Motor Co. broke ground on a $5.54 billion electric vehicle and battery plant in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday, as the top South Korean ...
Korea's $35 bn plan yet to ease Legoland default woes
South Korea’s $35 billion rescue plan provided a temporary painkiller to the domestic bond markets rattled by Legoland Korea developer’s...
Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards
When Penn State University sociology professor Sam Richards introduced Korean pop culture into his lectures three years ago, he compared its power t...
Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal
Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...
Robust consumer spending in South Korea despite economic downturn
A buyer who works for the men's fashion division of a South Korean department store had trouble sleeping ahead of the fall sale that ran from Sept. ...
