Korea’s Aju to spin off key building material business

Korea’s Aju to spin off key building material business

South Korea’s Aju Group is set to split its parent company into a construction material firm and an investment corporation to enhance its prof...

LIG Nex1 to invest $77 million to expand weapons production facility

LIG Nex1 to invest $77 million to expand weapons production facility

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading South Korean defense company, said on Thursday it will spend 110 billion won ($77 million) on its production facility expans...

SK On inks lithium deal with Australian firm for US tax credit

SK On inks lithium deal with Australian firm for US tax credit

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, has signed a deal with an Australian lithium producer. Securing the core ...

Korea ramen packet maker inks $1 bn battery material deal

Korea ramen packet maker inks $1 bn battery material deal

A South Korean instant noodle packet maker has secured a $1 billion deal to supply battery materials to a joint venture between General Motors Co. a...

Samsung insurers commit $650 mn to Blackstone's alternative assets

Samsung insurers commit $650 mn to Blackstone's alternative assets

South Korea’s Samsung Life Insurance Co. and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. have committed to a $650 million injection in some altern...

Hyundai Rotem signs defense deal with Norway’s Kongsberg

Hyundai Rotem signs defense deal with Norway’s Kongsberg

South Korean arms maker Hyundai Rotem Co. has clinched a strategic partnership with Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS to jointly d...

Aircraft maker KAI: Hanwha Group's new M&A target?

Aircraft maker KAI: Hanwha Group's new M&A target?

Hanwha Group’s agreement to buy a controlling stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) Co. for 2 trillion won ($1.4 billio...

Mirae Asset ends $3 bn IFC deal with Brookfield, seeks deposit refund

Mirae Asset ends $3 bn IFC deal with Brookfield, seeks deposit refund

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co.’s planned purchase of the International Finance Center in Seoul worth 4.1 trillion ($3 billion) from Canada...

Hanwha agrees to buy Daewoo Shipbuilding for $1.4 billion

Hanwha agrees to buy Daewoo Shipbuilding for $1.4 billion

South Korea's leading weapons manufacturer Hanwha Group agreed on Monday to buy a controlling stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering ...

Lotte Card seeks to sell transportation card subsidiary

Lotte Card seeks to sell transportation card subsidiary

South Korea’s credit card company Lotte Card Co. is slated to sell its subsidiary Loca Mobility Corp., the second-largest public transportatio...

Doosan Enerbility wins $383 mn power plant deal from Saudi Arabia

Doosan Enerbility wins $383 mn power plant deal from Saudi Arabia

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Friday it has won a 540 billion won ($383 million) contract to build a combine...

LG Energy in cobalt, lithium deals with three Canadian suppliers

LG Energy in cobalt, lithium deals with three Canadian suppliers

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Friday it has signed battery materials supply deals with three Canadian minerals companies &ndas...

SK's Chey, Zambian president discuss EV battery material deal

SK's Chey, Zambian president discuss EV battery material deal

South Korea’s SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has met with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema to discuss potential mineral deals in core mate...

Samsung Elec to supply 5G telecom equipment to Comcast

Samsung Elec to supply 5G telecom equipment to Comcast

Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s tech behemoth, agreed to supply 5G telecommunication equipment to US media giant Comcast Corp.Samsung s...

Court clears way for Hahn & Co.'s Namyang Dairy deal

Court clears way for Hahn & Co.'s Namyang Dairy deal

Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has won a legal battle against South Korea’s Namyang Dairy Products Co.’s owner family, w...

Battery maker SK On sweetens $1.4 bn fundraising deal

Battery maker SK On sweetens $1.4 bn fundraising deal

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest rechargeable battery maker, has sweetened its deal to attract 2 trillion won ($1.4 billion) in new share ...

Korea defense firms showcase new weapons for record exports

Korea defense firms showcase new weapons for record exports

South Korean defense makers showcased next-generation products with artificial intelligence, robot and stealth functions for the future battlefiel...

Hyundai E&C wins $158 mn order for port facility construction in Kuwait

Hyundai E&C wins $158 mn order for port facility construction in Kuwait

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. announced Tuesday it won a 220 billion won ($157 million) deal from Kuwait to add sev...

Korean won rebounds on estimated $2 bn intervention

Korean won rebounds on estimated $2 bn intervention

The South Korean won rebounded on Friday as the foreign exchange authorities were suspected of selling some $2 billion, showing its determination to...

Ford CEO heads to Korea to discuss EV tax credit with LG Energy, SK On

Ford CEO heads to Korea to discuss EV tax credit with LG Energy, SK On

Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Jim Parley will visit South Korea early next week to meet with chief executives of its battery suppliers LG Energy So...

Seoul pushes for battery recycling to bypass US bill

Seoul pushes for battery recycling to bypass US bill

South Korea will step up policy efforts to promote battery recycling, which might help the country get around the new US bill aimed at keeping elect...

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon faces arrest warrant in South Korea

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon faces arrest warrant in South Korea

A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant to Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency ecosystem that imploded earlier this year. ...

Hyundai Glovis receives $1.6 bn order from global carmaker

Hyundai Glovis receives $1.6 bn order from global carmaker

Hyundai Glovis announced on Wednesday that it received an order worth 2.2 trillion won ($1.6 billion) from a global carmaker, a record-high vehicle ...

SK allots 40% of local spending to non-capital areas

SK allots 40% of local spending to non-capital areas

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, will funnel 67 trillion won ($48 billion), or about 40% of its 2022-2026 do...

S.Korea plans to adopt mandatory pre-disclosure of major insider trading

S.Korea plans to adopt mandatory pre-disclosure of major insider trading

Executives and major shareholders of South Korea’s listed companies will be obligated to disclose their share transaction plans at least 30 da...

SK REIT to raise $550 million in debt for Jongno Tower deal

SK REIT to raise $550 million in debt for Jongno Tower deal

South Korea’s SK REIT Co. has been diversifying funding sources into short-term debt to finance its recent purchases of landmark office buildi...

Broadcom not to force S.Korean tech companies on deals

Broadcom not to force S.Korean tech companies on deals

US chipmaker Broadcom Inc. has pledged to cease putting undue pressure on Samsung Electronics Co. and other South Korean tech companies to sign deal...

Hyundai Motor, KT in $540 million share swap deal for future mobility

Hyundai Motor, KT in $540 million share swap deal for future mobility

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and telecom giant KT Corp. have agreed to expand their future mobility partnership through a 750 billion won...

CalSTRS, Korea's KTCU consider launching 2nd real estate JV

CalSTRS, Korea's KTCU consider launching 2nd real estate JV

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), a retirement fund for South Korean teachers and employees, and the California State Teachers' Retire...

Seoul outshines NY, LA to emerge as Frieze Art's No.2 market

Seoul outshines NY, LA  to emerge as Frieze Art's No.2 market

The Frieze Art Fair’s first Asia exhibition in Seoul attracted big crowds of VIP collectors and general art lovers from across South Korea thi...

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