Alibaba continues eyeing S.Korean e-commerce M&A

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group is seeking to purchase a major online retail platform in South Korea, one of the world’s largest e-commerce m...

Korea Investment raises $400 mn to expand US assets

Seoul-based brokerage firm Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS) has raised $400 million in new bonds to strengthen its investments in the US ...

SK Square in talks with Qoo10 for joint management of 11Street

SK Square Co., the investment management arm of SK Group, is in talks with Qoo10 Pte. to merge its e-commerce subsidiary 11Street with the Singapore...

Samsung Biologics eyes new drugmaker acquisitions

BARCELONA -- Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization by capacity, is looking for acquisitions of new drugma...

Korea's Harim to divest of Hanjin KAL shares to fund HMM acquisition

South Korea’s poultry processing company Harim Group is set to sell off all its Hanjin KAL Co. shares its affiliate owns to secure capital for...

SK Networks completes acquisition of en-core

South Korean trading firm SK Networks Co. announced on Friday that it has completed the acquisition process of en-core, a leading data solutions and...

Dongwon founder vows to acquire Korea’s top container line HMM

Dongwon Group, South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate, has vowed to acquire HMM Co., the country’s top container ship ...

SKC to acquire 12% stake in US chip packaging startup Chipletz

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemical materials company, said on Monday it will take part in a series B round of investment in Chipletz, a US fabless su...

L'Oréal keeps door open for more K-beauty acquisitions

L'Oréal S.A., the leading global cosmetics maker, is considering more acquisitions and partnerships in the beauty sector of South Korea, the ...

Korea's HMM bidders shortlisted to LX Group, Harim, Dongwon

Bidders for HMM Co., South Korea’s top shipping company, have been shortlisted to LX Group, Harim Co. and Dongwon Industries Co., according to...

Tokio Marine seeks to sell SE Asia units to S.Korean companies

Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. is seeking to sell its units in Southeast Asia for $1 billion to major South Korean companies looking fo...

UBS names Credit Suisse Korea head as vice chair for Asia

UBS Group AG, a global investment bank, appointed Kyungin David Lee, chief of Credit Suisse Group AG’s Seoul branch, as vice chair for Asia an...

Dongwha Pharm to buy Vietnamese pharmacy chain at $30 mn

South Korea's Dongwha Pharm announced on Thursday that it signed an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in Trung Son Pharma, a leading pharmacy chain i...

Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition

Global electric vehicle and battery makers are fiercely competing to secure talent with high salaries and various incentives as their workforces a...

Hanwha Group puts savings bank on market, a clear succession path

Hanwha Group, South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate, has put its non-core financial unit Hanwha Savings Bank up for sale, in a move ...

Korea’s KFCC likely to see loss from London-based office investment

South Korea’s Vestas Investment Management Co. is slated to sell off a London-based office tower as the property value has plunged due to rate...

Affirma Capital’s Korean MD Thomas Shim promoted to partner

Global private equity firm Affirma Capital has promoted Seoul-based Managing Director Min Hyun (Thomas) Shim to partner, investment banking sources ...

Celltrion puts Takeda’s assets up for sale after 3 years

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. has put its Japanese Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.'s primary care assets acquired in 2020 on sale as the biosimilar g...

S.Korean Hanwha to spend $1 bn on US acquisitions, business

South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group plans to invest $1 billion in acquisitions of companies in the US and businesses ...

MLB apparel by Korea's F&F finds favor in China

F&F Co., a South Korean outdoor fashion retailer, has notched a success selling US Major League Baseball (MLB) apparel in China. This comes desp...

Korean Air-Asiana merger hits roadblock in US, Europe

The proposed merger between South Korea’s two largest airlines hit a roadblock in the West as a media outlet reported that the US government i...

S.Korea's i-Sens buys US glucose-measuring device maker for $27 mn

South Korean maker of diabetes-related devices i-Sens Inc. on Wednesday announced its planned acquisition of AgaMatrix, an American manufacturer of ...

Mirae Asset Securities acquires European ETF market maker GHCO

Mirae Asset Securities UK, the UK corporation of South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities, announced on Monday that it has acquired GHCO, a market-makin...

Naver Webtoon targets entertainment business in Japan

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, is targeting the entertainment sector in Japan as it aims to expand its intellect...

PwC’s S.Korean member to focus on SE Asia acquisition deals

Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, the South Korean member firm of global accounting industry leader PwC, aims to focus on overseas acquisition deals of ...

Dongwon Group drops bid to take over McDonald’s Korea

Dongwon Group has canceled its bid to take over McDonald's franchise in South Korea."We reviewed the takeover of McDonald's Korea but our conclusion...

Lotte Biologics to invest additional $48 mn in US plant

South Korea’s Lotte Biologics Co. held a plaque ceremony on Monday to commemorate the acquisition of a pharmaceutical production plant from Br...

S.Korea, Boeing tie up for develop future advanced weapons

The Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) teams up with major US defense contractor Boeing to conduct research and development on...

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...

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...