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South Korea is set to scrap a plan to impose a tax on gains from financial investments – a scheme slated to be introduced early next year &nda...

South Korea's KB Asset Management Co. said on Friday it plans to list its KB Balhae Infrastructure Fund. Launched in 2006, KBIF focuses on so...

SK Nexilis Co., the world’s largest copper foil maker, is in the final stage of negotiations to sell its thin film manufacturing division to A...

KB Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s largest financial holding group, is set to use its excess capital for share buybacks and dividends next...

Bain Capital has embarked on the process to sell a majority stake in Classys Inc., a South Korean medical aesthetic device maker. The deal is estima...

UK-based activist fund Palliser Capital Ltd. is calling on SK Square Co., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK G...

Singapore-based investment management firm Flashlight Capital Partners Pte. (FCP) has offered to buy South Korean tobacco maker KT&G Corp.'s gin...

A leadership change in Brand X Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top leggings brand Xexymix, is spawning speculation that a management cont...

Samsung Group Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Sunday inspected Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.’s production facilities for multilayer ceramic capacitors ...

UBS Group AG remained on the top of the South Korean merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory market as of the end of the third quarter after addin...

Korea Zinc Inc. said on Wednesday it will buy back shares for 3.1 trillion won ($2.4 billion) with the backing of Bain Capital to counter MBK Partne...

South Korean companies rushed to issue foreign currency bonds after the US Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the first time in more than fo...

South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. established the HD Hyundai Hope Foundation (tentative name) to support the families of victims of major industrial acci...

Mastern Investment Management Co., South Korea's real estate investment firm, said on Monday that its US subsidiary Mastern America LLC signed a mem...

Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his early 20s when he co-founded Radish Fiction Inc., a US-based mobile fiction platform, in ...

South Korean startup Lee Mobility announced on Tuesday that it got a seed round investment from Bluepoint Partners, a domestic early-stage venture c...

South Korea’s financial watchdog agency said on Sunday it has found that Woori Financial Group, the country's fourth-largest financial holding...

South Korean online marketplace operators are struggling to attract investors amid deteriorating profitability and the financial turmoil facing dome...

South Korea’s Sapien Semiconductors Inc. is a lesser-known startup outside of the chip industry. However, it is a little giant in the fabless ...

Lee Jae-hyun, who has led one of Samsung Securities Co.'s investment banking divisions for two years, has recently expressed his intention to quit, ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Thursday visited India for the wedding of Anant Ambani — the youngest son of Asia’s riche...

South Korea is seeking to revoke an international tribunal’s ruling in April that its government must pay US-based Mason Capital Management LL...

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday it will spend 9 trillion won ($6.5 billion) throug...

Affirma Capital, a Singapore-based buyout private equity firm, is seeking to sell its entire stake in both South Korean steel tube maker SeAH FS and...

The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the ...

South Korea’s BNK Capital announced on Friday that it established a microfinance organization in Uzbekistan the previous day.Since entering Ca...

Seoul-based private equity firm Q Capital Partners seeks to buy a 39.3% stake with management rights in South Korean drama series producer Chorokbae...

Carlyle Group, Temasek-backed Keppel Corp., Gaw Capital Partners, and a consortium of IMM Investment and IMM Private Equity have been selected as fi...

Shinsegae Inc. and its supermarket chain operator E-Mart Inc. will bring in at least one investor by the end of this year to buy shares in SSG.COM f...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will scale up its collateralized loan obligation (CLO) business with New York-based investment firm Anchorage ...