Korea Post to hire two GPs for global infrastructure debt

Korea Post to hire two GPs for global infrastructure debt

  Korea Post, South Korea's state-run postal service agency, said on April 14 that its insurance arm will select two asset managers for a maxi...

Auto shares bounce back with foreigners' net buying

Auto shares bounce back with foreigners' net buying

South Korean auto shares are showing some signs of a rebound after a long downtrend since the second half of last year. Foreign investors have ret...

Kakao Entertainment sets up content ecosystem with M&As

Kakao Entertainment sets up content ecosystem with M&As

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has established its own content ecosystem including crea...

SK Telecom steps up metaverse push with Morph Interactive purchase

SK Telecom steps up metaverse push with Morph Interactive purchase

SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, has made an equity investment in Morph Interactive Co., a local three-dimensional graphics c...

Hyundai’s Chung named auto industry Visionary of the Year

Hyundai’s Chung named auto industry Visionary of the Year

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was named the automobile industry's Visionary of the Year by Newsweek, which credited him for driving tran...

Hyundai to tackle EV rivals head on at New York auto show

Hyundai to tackle EV rivals head on at New York auto show

NEW YORK – Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. are set to fully unveil their redesigned vehicles at the upcoming New York Auto Show ...

High conviction in private credit for a global portfolio  

  High conviction in private credit for a global portfolio  

It seems as though the list of risks to investors is rising. Supply chain imbalances, higher raw material costs, rising interest rates, labor shortage...

Netmarble, NCSoft, Kakao, DoubleUGames on top publisher list

Netmarble, NCSoft, Kakao, DoubleUGames on top publisher list

South Korea’s major tech companies such as Netmarble Corp., NCSoft Corp., Kakao Corp. and DoubleUGames were selected among the world’s m...

South Korean comics platforms dominate global top 10

South Korean comics platforms dominate global top 10

Six manhwa platforms operated by South Korea’s tech juggernauts rank among the top 10 paid digital comics platforms worldwide. Manhwa is ...

Samsung Group hires governance expert for unprecedented reorganization

Samsung Group hires governance expert for unprecedented reorganization

Samsung Electronics Co. has hired a 20-year governance veteran for its much-awaited corporate governance restructuring, according to those familia...

Hanwha breaks ground on howitzer plant in Australia

Hanwha breaks ground on howitzer plant in Australia

South Korea’s Hanwha Defense Co., the world’s top self-propelled howitzer producer, has kicked off the construction of its first oversea...

Naver Webtoon to release three DC comics series from May

Naver Webtoon to release  three DC comics series from May

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the digital comics platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., is slated to intensify its partnership with ...

S.Korea’s top securities firms enjoy high returns on fintech investment

S.Korea’s top securities firms enjoy high returns on fintech investment

South Korea’s startups raked in a record amount of investment last year, thanks to the number of unicorns reaching an all-time high.This was n...

Korea Post to tap two GPs for global PE secondaries

Korea Post to tap two GPs for global PE secondaries

Korea Post, South Korea's state-run postal service agency, said on April 6 its savings arm will choose two asset managers for two closed-end comming...

Samsung sees record first-quarter sales; business outlook murky

Samsung sees record first-quarter sales; business outlook murky

Samsung Electronics Co. likely posted record revenue in the first quarter, driven by brisk sales of memory chips and smartphones. Its shares, howeve...

Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors

Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors

Healthcare and technology are the preferred sectors for global private equity investment, a survey of South Korea's major asset owners has shown. Co-i...

CJ ENM sets up production studio focused on OTT content

CJ ENM sets up production studio focused on OTT content

South Korea’s entertainment giant CJ ENM Co. established a studio specializing in content for over-the-top (OTT) platforms at home and abroad ...

Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors

Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors

Healthcare and technology are the preferred sectors for global private equity investment, a survey of South Korea's major asset owners has shown. Co-i...

Hyundai Motor, Kia rank fifth in global electric vehicle sales

Hyundai Motor, Kia rank fifth in global electric vehicle sales

South Korea’s two largest automakers, Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., ranked fifth in terms of electric vehicle sales, which posted triple-di...

Mirae Asset Global REIT to raise $371 mn for US warehouses

Mirae Asset Global REIT to raise $371 mn for US warehouses

Mirae Asset Global Real Estate Investment Trust Co., a South Korean listed REIT under Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., is set to raise around 450...

KTCU, CalSTRS to launch $505 mn JV for US warehouses

KTCU, CalSTRS to launch $505 mn JV for US warehouses

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

Kakao Piccoma acquires Japan’s cryptocurrency exchange SEBC

Kakao Piccoma acquires Japan’s cryptocurrency exchange SEBC

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has acquired a controlling stake in Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese c...

Korea’s top adult webtoon platform targets global market

Korea’s top adult webtoon platform targets global market

Topco, South Korea’s top adult webtoon platform operator, is targeting the global digital comic market with the goal to expand its business in...

Nexon's new game beats Lineage to top app stores list

Nexon's new game beats Lineage to top app stores list

Nexon Co.'s Dungeon & Fighter Mobile has elbowed out NCSoft Corp.'s Lineage W to rank as the most popular Korean mobile game in the week since i...

Samsung Asset Mgmt. buys 20% stake in US ETF sponsor Amplify

Samsung Asset Mgmt. buys 20% stake in US ETF sponsor Amplify

South Korea’s Samsung Asset Management Co. invested in a US exchange-traded fund sponsor to expand its global presence in the market.Samsung s...

Korea manufacturers see dismal Q1 after stellar profits in 2021

Korea manufacturers see dismal Q1 after stellar profits in 2021

South Korean companies, especially manufacturers, suffered surging commodity prices, a weak won currency and global logistics disruptions in the fir...

MBK sees most productive year ever, returning $5.3 bn to investors

MBK sees most productive year ever, returning $5.3 bn to investors

MBK Partners will be bold in moving into more Asian markets this year, wrote the company's founder and chairman Michael ByungJu Kim, in his annual l...

Kia set to break ground on purpose-built vehicle plant in 2023

Kia set to break ground on purpose-built vehicle plant in 2023

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to break ground on the construction of its first purpose-built vehicle (PBV) plant ne...

Daesang’s first Korean kimchi plant in US up and running

Daesang’s first Korean kimchi plant in US up and running

South Korean food maker Daesang Corp. has completed the construction of a kimchi plant in the US, its first factory outside Asia, which the company ...

Rising global TV prices: A boon and risk for Samsung, LG

Rising global TV prices: A boon and risk for Samsung, LG

Global TV prices rose by a third last year and are expected to continue their uptrend this year, which could be a boon for the world’s two lar...

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