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Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) signed an agreement on Feb. 24 with Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company (SGI) to co-invest in overseas hedge fund...

South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. plans to spend up to 8 trillion won ($6.7 billion) over the next three years on its f...

Asset managers' track record and risk management are the most important factors for South Korean major limited partners when considering new partnersh...

A South Korean court on Thursday ruled in favor of Affinity Equity-led financial investors (FIs) in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., rejecting Kyobo's clai...

City governments, automakers, and tech giants are leading the adoption of robotaxis in major cities throughout South Korea. The Ministry of Lan...

The city of Seoul launched Invest Seoul on Feb. 7, an investment promotion agency (IPA) to attract foreign investment and overseas companies. The ca...

Grade-A office transactions in Seoul hit a record high of 17.1 trillion won ($14.2 billion) in 2021, breaking the 16.6 trillion won record set in 20...

City governments, automakers, and tech giants are leading the adoption of robotaxis in major cities throughout South Korea.  The Ministry of L...

Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has said it signed a contract on Jan. 26. to develop the H1HH1 block in Starlake, a new urban town in no...

Global infrastructure investment firm Antin Infrastructure Partners SA said on Jan. 25 it has appointed Michelle (Min Kyung) Maeng as its new Invest...

South Korea is slated to see a trade deficit for a second straight month in January for the first time since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on ...

The total deal volume of Seoul metropolitan area-based grade-A logistics centers hit a record high of 7.2 trillion won ($6.1 billion) last year. A g...

Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s capital market giant, is set to enter the digital asset business, starting with a digital asset cus...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has named its former Financial Investment Department head Park Man-soo as its new chief investment officer,...

 Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. and a US asset manager acquired a tower of luxury multifamily housing assets in Seaport Boulevard, Bost...

South Korea's leading telecom operator KT Corp. has entered into a strategic alliance with the country's No. 2 lender Shinhan Bank, involving a $370...

Retail conglomerate E-Land Group completed selling its first overseas logistics center in Shanghai for about 1.4 billion Chinese yuan ($2.2 billion)...

  Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C), a construction giant under Hyundai Motor Company, will invest 409.9 billion wo...

GS announced the establishment of a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm Sunday, the first of its kind for a holding company in Korea. The announcem...

Come next year, Korea’s online game developers are poised to release a number of games on blockchain platforms.The companies have lined up the...

Credit Suisse Group AG has appointed two South Koreans as new managing directors (MD) for its Seoul office. Shim Jong-min and Kim Sei-won were promo...

Mirae Asset Global Investment Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, has participated in a $260 million Series B funding for Jokr, a New ...

Korea’s government-backed fund of funds (FOF) management institution announced its latest selection of funds late last month, which would bene...

D.CAMP, Korea’s non-profit foundation focused on helping young entrepreneurs, has joined forces with SK ecoplant Co., Ltd. to find promising...

K-pop artists such as BTS and TWICE are set to resume global live concerts – suspended by the global pandemic for about two years – as c...

Representatives of South Korean auto parts makers on Friday called on the government to increase their financial support of the sector, including ta...

Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) to be set up in Seoul, South Korea from 2022 will receive increased incentives and reduction in office rent, acc...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Nov. 2 announced the promotions of two Korean executive directors in its Seoul office to managing directors (MDs), the b...

Shinhan Financial Group has acquired BNP Paribas Cardif General Insurance, the non-life insurance unit of French banking group BNP Paribas in a move...

EQT Partners, Europe's largest private equity firm, is staffing up its Asia Pacific team with a focus on South Korea, the investment firm said on Mo...