KDB Life Insurance Co.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Carve-out, bolt-on key themes driving M&As: BDA Partners
Amid escalating market uncertainties, M&As are not just a growth tactic but survival tools for businesses, Euan Rellie, co-founder and managing ...
Jun 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
More LPs tap ex-Samsung Life professionals as CIOs
A number of financial experts who built their careers at Samsung Life Insurance Co. are in the spotlight as more South Korean pension funds and mutu...
Jun 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
Korean LPs join Antares Capital’s $3.5 bn credit fund
A few key institutional investors in South Korea are set to commit up to $300 million to a $3.5 billion private credit fund by US private debt man...
Jun 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, German institutes to jointly research advanced batteries
The world’s second-largest battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. has teamed up with two German research institutes to develop next-generation ...
Jun 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SKC to sell plastic film business to Hahn & Co. for $1.3 billion
SKC Ltd., the chemical materials unit of South Korea’s SK Group, is selling its plastic film business to private equity firm Hahn & Co. fo...
Jun 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK set to buy stake in Bill Gates' TerraPower
SK Innovation Co., South Korea's leading petrochemical company, is planning to buy a stake in TerraPower, a US nuclear power venture founded by Bill...
Jun 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
GEPS taps Samsung Life's alternative investment head as CIO
Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea has named Baek Joo-hyun, former alternative investment head at Samsung Life Insurance Co....
May 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LG Chem receives FDA nod for CUE-102 cancer treatment phase 1 trials
LG Chem Life Sciences, the biopharmaceutical unit of LG Chem Ltd., has received the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval for phase 1 cli...
May 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Online education startup Day 1 Co. completes $28 mn Series D funding
Education content provider Day 1 Company announced Thursday it has completed a Series D funding worth 35 billion won ($28 million.)A number of ventu...
Apr 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
KDB resumes global venture IR event in Singapore
South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) said on Thursday that KDB NextRound, the bank’s venture investment platform, will h...
Apr 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea’s Yoon govt to raise nuclear power to 34% of energy source
South Korea’s incoming government plans to extend the service life of eight more nuclear power plants than originally planned as President-ele...
Apr 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai Motor expands partnership with quantum computing firm IonQ
IonQ and Hyundai Motor Co. announced a new project on Wednesday designed to apply quantum machine learning to image classification and 3D object det...
Apr 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Fortune-telling app receives $4 mn in Altos Ventures-led Series A funding
Chunmyung and Company, the operator of its namesake fortune-telling app, announced on Tuesday it has secured Series A funding worth five billion w...
Apr 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
CJ, Samsung to launch $600 million e-commerce logistics fund
CJ Logistics and an affiliate of Samsung Life Insurance have joined forces to launch a real estate investment fund worth 740 billion won ($600 milli...
Apr 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Hanssem to remodel itself into 'living tech' company
South Korea’s furniture maker Hanssem Co. unveiled its mid-to-long-term business strategy to institutional investors on Friday. During it...
Apr 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kolon Life inks technology transfer deal with Juniper Biologics
South Korea’s pharmaceutical company Kolon Life Science Inc. signed a technology export deal worth up to 723.4 billion won ($589.1 million) wi...
Apr 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. buys Korean food startup in bolt-on deal
Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has acquired a South Korean meal kit provider for 75 billion won ($61 million), a deal expected to bo...
Apr 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors
Healthcare and technology are the preferred sectors for global private equity investment, a survey of South Korea's major asset owners has shown. Co-i...
Apr 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors
Healthcare and technology are the preferred sectors for global private equity investment, a survey of South Korea's major asset owners has shown. Co-i...
Apr 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean PE firm in exclusive talks to buy golf grip brand SuperStroke
South Korea's Daol Private Equity, formerly known as KTB Private Equity, is in exclusive talks to buy the entirety of SuperStroke, a US golf grips m...
Apr 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung’s Life Science Fund invests in US biotech Jaguar Gene Therapy
Samsung Group’s 150 billion won ($124 million) Life Science Fund launched last year has chosen a leading US gene therapy development company a...
Mar 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
NongHyup Life to issue $493 mn in subordinated bonds
NongHyup Life Insurance Co. of South Korea is slated to issue 10-year-maturity subordinated bonds worth 600 billion won ($492.6 million) on March 31...
Mar 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Daewoo E&C jointly creates $400 mn fund for overseas M&As
Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. of South Korea and IMM Investment Global, the Hong Kong-based affiliate of Korean equity firm IMM Investme...
Mar 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Art investment platform operator Yeolmae Co. raises $14 mn in Series B
South Korean startup Yeolmae Company announced Monday it received 17 billion won ($14 million) worth of funds through its Series B round. With the l...
Mar 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Insurers rush to bolster equity capital to boost solvency
South Korea's key insurers are rushing to increase their equity capital ahead of two new solvency regulations set to take effect from Jan. 1, 2023. ...
Mar 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
K Car's evolution into top Korean used car sales platform
When Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. acquired K Car Co. from SK Group in 2018, the No. 1 used car retailer in South Korea controlled ...
Mar 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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War in Ukraine
Korea corp. borrowing costs to rise further on Russia risks
South Korean companies are expected to pay more for fundraising as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has chilled investor sentiment on corporate bo...
Mar 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
KB Life, Prudential Life to complete merger by Jan 2023
The merger of KB Life Insurance Co., an insurer under KB Financial Group Inc. of South Korea, and Prudential Life Insurance Co. of Korea will be c...
Mar 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
BTS returns to Korean stage for 1st time since 2019
SEOUL — In the latest sign that life is going back to something that resembles the pre-pandemic past, BTS is returning to the stage in Seoul.The...
Feb 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
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...
Feb 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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