Kyobo Life’s holding firm plan gains speed with Pavilion Asset acquisition

Kyobo Life’s holding firm plan gains speed with Pavilion Asset acquisition

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. has completed the process to put a South Korea-based alternative asset investment company under its wing, a move that is ex...

KCGI’s ascent to intensify family feud over DB control; DB stocks rally

KCGI’s ascent to intensify family feud over DB control; DB stocks rally

A sibling feud over management control of DB Group is expected to intensify following the ascent of South Korean activist fund Korea Corporate Gover...

MBK Partners eyes China’s local consumption: Letter to investors

MBK Partners eyes China’s local consumption: Letter to investors

Private equity giant MBK Partners focused on defending its portfolio last year, especially Chinese companies during the lockdown, while being active...

Hanwha Life acquires Indonesia's Lippo General Insurance

Hanwha Life acquires Indonesia's Lippo General Insurance

South Korea's Hanwha Life Insurance said on Thursday that it has acquired a 62.6% stake in Indonesian insurer Lippo General Insurance, in collaborat...

SGI Insurance signs MOU with IADB to revitalize guarantee insurance

SGI Insurance signs MOU with IADB to revitalize guarantee insurance

Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company (SGI) announced on Wednesday that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Inter-American Develo...

Kyobo Life chief Shin Chang-jae inducted into insurance hall of fame

Kyobo Life chief Shin Chang-jae inducted into insurance hall of fame

Shin Chang-jae, chief executive and chairman of South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co., has been honored with a prestigious award from the I...

Hahn & Co. puts SK Shipping’s tanker business up for sale

Hahn & Co. puts SK Shipping’s tanker business up for sale

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. is seeking to sell SK Shipping Co.’s tanker division, a business widely seen as the breadwinne...

Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz

Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz

Hankook & Company Co., a South Korean holding company that owns tire and mobility businesses, said on Tuesday that it has acquired the autonomou...

S.Korea kicks off privatization of top container line HMM

S.Korea kicks off privatization of top container line HMM

South Korea has started the process to privatize the country’s No. 1 container line HMM Co. by tapping advisors for the sale of the controllin...

Boryung signs deal with Stendhal to launch hypertension drug in Mexico

Boryung signs deal with Stendhal to launch hypertension drug in Mexico

Boryung, a South Korean pharmaceutical company, said on Monday it had signed a deal with Stendhal SA de CV, a Mexican medical specialty company, to ...

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI

DB Insurance has acquired Vietnam National Aviation Insurance (VNI), Vietnam's 10th-largest property and casualty(P&C) insurance company. With a...

Hyundai Steel co-hosts symposium on low-carbon construction materials

Hyundai Steel co-hosts symposium on low-carbon construction materials

Hyundai Steel has joined hands with the construction industry to increase the recycling of steel byproducts.On Tuesday, the steel maker organized a ...

Binance acquires majority stake in S.Korea's crypto exchange Gopax

Binance acquires majority stake in S.Korea's crypto exchange Gopax

Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange globally, has acquired a majority stake in South Korea's Gopax by purchasing CEO Lee Joon-haeng's 41.2%...

Kyobo Life Insurance speeds up creation of holding company

Kyobo Life Insurance speeds up creation of holding company

South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is set to establish a holding company by the second half of 2024. The major insurer seeks to raise its ...

Hanwha kickstarts localization of 1,000-hp gas turbine engine components

Hanwha kickstarts localization of 1,000-hp gas turbine engine components

A project to lengthen the lifecycle of 1,000-horsepower gas turbine engine core components and materials, which is led by Hanwha Aerospace Co. locat...

Samsung Electronics' life cycle assessment gauges CO2 emission impact from chips

Samsung Electronics' life cycle assessment gauges CO2 emission impact from chips

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday said it set up a life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for semiconductors to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.T...

HK inno.N's K-CAB to get insurance benefits in China

HK inno.N's K-CAB to get insurance benefits in China

South Korea’s 30th novel medicine K-CAB Tab (active ingredient: tegoprazan), a gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) treatment of HK inno.N, ...

Kyobo Life chief says data can overcome uncertain future

Kyobo Life chief says data can overcome uncertain future

Shin Chang-jae, chairman and CEO of South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance, has urged the overcoming of the economic crisis based on leadership of VUCA,...

NPS fund management taps former GEPS CIO Seo as new chief

NPS fund management taps former GEPS CIO Seo as new chief

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world's third-largest pension fund, has tapped Seo Won-joo as the new chief investment officer, a...

Doosan Enerbility to introduce ammonia co-fired power plant in Vietnam

Doosan Enerbility to introduce ammonia co-fired power plant in Vietnam

Doosan Enerbility Co. plans to introduce an ammonia co-fired power plant in Vietnam jointly with South Korean and Vietnamese research institutes.Sou...

Korean confectionery and snack co. Orion enjoys brisk sales in Vietnam

Korean confectionery and snack co. Orion enjoys brisk sales in Vietnam

South Korea’s confectionery and snack maker Orion Corp. is enjoying rapid growth in Vietnam, thanks to brisk sales of the Choco-Pie, a chocola...

SK Broadband develops eco-friendly rechargable remote control

SK Broadband develops eco-friendly rechargable remote control

South Korea's internet service provider SK Broadband has developed a new B tv remote control that can be recharged with significantly reduced chargi...

LG Electronics to open ESG zone at CES 2023 in January

LG Electronics to open ESG zone at CES 2023 in January

South Korean conglomerates, including LG Electronics Inc., will introduce their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) visions and strategies a...

Korean PE firm Hahn & Co to sell used-car platform K Car

Korean PE firm Hahn & Co to sell used-car platform K Car

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...

Dajia Insurance likely to put Korea's ABL Life up for sale again

Dajia Insurance likely to put Korea's ABL Life up for sale again

China’s Dajia Insurance Group Co. seeks to divest of a full stake in its South Korean subsidiary ABL Life Insurance Co. with an estimated valu...

Kyobo Life seeks to transition into financial holding company 

Kyobo Life seeks to transition into financial holding company 

South Korean life insurance behemoth Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is seeking to transition into a financial holding company to expand its business footh...

Samsung Elec names first female president under Chairman Jay Y. Lee

Samsung Elec names first female president under Chairman Jay Y. Lee

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

Hahn & Co. completes SKC's industrial film unit takeover for $1.2 bn

Hahn & Co. completes SKC's industrial film unit takeover for $1.2 bn

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 ...

Blockchain co. Reality Reflection's board to discuss mangement reshuffle

Blockchain co. Reality Reflection's board to discuss mangement reshuffle

The South Korean blockchain ecosystem is facing a string of management disputes, hit by worsening conditions of the global cryptocurrency market.&nb...

Delay in Apple Pay approval for South Korea sends VAN co. shares tumbling

Delay in Apple Pay approval for South Korea sends VAN co. shares tumbling

The news of US mobile device giant Apple launching its Apple Pay service in South Korea this month sent the share prices of companies that assist th...

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