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Financial services companies, including brokerage firms, will be able to participate in South Korea's carbon emission trading market by year's end a...

South Korean government has hosted the first top-level artificial intelligence (AI) roundtable meeting with representatives from the country’s...

Affinity Equity Partners is putting Burger King's operations in South Korea and Japan up for sale, after the US hamburger franchise overtook its big...

London-based private equity firm Permira will maintain its focus on high-quality companies and sector leaders with strong growth potential as valuat...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its US mobility joint venture Motional Inc. on Tuesday unveiled their first autonomous robot...

Kolon will be the next major South Korean business group to join the race in the fast-growing space sector by developing and making light composite ...

The National Pension Service (NPS) is planning to create a new investment team dedicated to private debt and secondaries deals and equity purchases ...

South Korea's Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is setting its sights on overseas office buildings not only in core regions but in its per...

South Korea’s online platform giant Naver Corp. is set to enter the big data-based healthcare industry by investing in ezCaretech Co., a domes...

BlackRock Real Assets, a unit of the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock Inc., has acquired an unspecified stake in Brite Energy Partners ...

South Korea-based over-the-top (OTT) startup Watcha Inc. is ramping up efforts to transform into a comprehensive content data company as it expands ...

Overseas cryptocurrency exchanges are ending their Korean services, including language support as well as trading and payments in Korean won, as Sou...

South Korea’s two largest telecom companies, SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp., have both delivered strong second-quarter results driven by rapid gr...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group is making big steps forward to transform itself as a platform business in the global shipbuilding sector. According t...

South Korean music, entertainment and content firms are undergoing a major transformation in their business model. No longer is their discovery of n...

South Korea's major pension funds have posted robust investment returns above their benchmarks in the first half of this year, driven by double-digi...

A South Korean electric bus maker Edison Motors Co. added the activist fund Korea Corporate Government Improvement Fund (KCGI) as a financial invest...

Kakao Corp. this year has reported the highest second-quarter earnings in company history.Its regulatory filing on Aug. 6 posted an operating profit...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. has become South Korea's first brokerage company to boost its equity capital to 10 trillion won ($9 billion), taking a st...

Hyundai Motor Co. is investing in H2 Mobility Deutschland GmbH & Co., a German operator of hydrogen fueling stations, as the top South Korean au...

Samsung Electronics Co. has onboarded South Korea’s government-led metaverse alliance in a move to strengthen partnership in virtual reality (...

South Korea’s pension funds are increasing co-investment as the COVID-19 is prolonged. They are attempting to solve difficulties in overseas d...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has named Suyi Kim, its Asia head, as the global chief of its private equity business, effective Se...

South Korea's economy reported strong growth on healthy private consumption in the second quarter, keeping expectations of an interest rate hike lat...

Private equity firms registered in South Korea posted their largest-ever amount of both investments and divestments in 2020 which were almost balanc...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association issued a request for proposals to commit $25 million to a global infrastructure fund...

South Korea's Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has recently picked GCM Grosvenor, a US alternative investor, as its new separate account ...

Some of the most cash-abundant firms across different industries in South Korea are issuing large amounts of bonds to raise even more funds amid a l...

The National Pension Service (NPS) will raise exposure to up-and-coming biopharmaceutical, electric vehicle parts, entertainment and gaming companie...

Hyundai Oilbank Co., a South Korean refiner, is selling a majority stake in its wholly owned Hyundai Oil Terminal Co. to a Seoul-based private equit...