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Corporate bonds
Hanwha Life Financial Services gets A+ credit rating
South Korea's Hanwha Life Financial Services said on Tuesday it received an A+ (Stable) credit rating from Korea Ratings, becoming the first domes...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK puts shares in Goldman-backed Korea Superfreeze on market
SK Group has put its shares in Korea Superfreeze Inc., a cold chain logistics company jointly owned by EMP Belstar and Goldman Sachs, on the market,...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis
Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, is entering the liquefied natural gas transportation business wit...
Jun 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs
South Korea’s promising beauty and healthcare device startups are looking to go public on the domestic bourse to scale up after gaining popula...
Jun 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korea Zinc speeds up separation from Young Poong in management feud
South Korea’s largest zinc smelter Korea Zinc Co. is accelerating its efforts to terminate its decades-long business relations with parent You...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project
Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-Sure) announced that it will leverage medium- and long-term financial support to assist domestic companies in partici...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn
Affinity Equity Partners will buy a 100% stake in South Korea’s second-largest car leasing company SK Rent-a-Car Co. for 820 billion won ($591...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affirma Capital seeks to sell entire stake in both SeAH FS, S&G Holdings
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...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Hyosung Chemical receives negative credit rating outlook
South Korean credit rating agency NICE Investors Service Co. (NICE) downgraded Hyosung Chemical's credit rating outlook from stable to negative on W...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Catering firm Ourhome taps founding family’s eldest daughter as CEO
The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kyobo Life gets Moody's A1 credit rating for 10 consecutive years
South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Tuesday that it has received an A1 (stable) insurance financial strength rating from Moody's Rat...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Spaceflight venture Innospace eyes July Kosdaq IPO
South Korean spaceflight startup Innospace, which fired the country’s first private launch vehicle last year, aims to list on the Kosdaq in Ju...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division
South Korea's SK Networks Co. plans to split off its auto management division SpeedMate and its trading unit.The board of directors approved the pla...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities
More South Korean information technology companies are seeking engineers with business capabilities as artificial intelligence is expected to take o...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion
South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom invests $10 mn in Perplexity
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it invested $10 million in Perplexity, the US-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Dim outlook for Korean biotech firms’ rights offerings
South Korea’s bio and tech-heavy Kosdaq-listed Shaperon Inc. raised 12.7 billion won ($9.2 million) from its latest rights offering, selling o...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Transys to export EV drive systems to CEER
Hyundai Transys Inc., an auto parts affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it signed a contract to supply a 3 trillion won ($...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Q Capital named K-drama maker Chorokbaem's preferred bidder
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...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK-backed TerraPower breaks ground on nuclear power plant in US
Bill Gates’ nuclear energy firm TerraPower LLC, backed by South Korean conglomerates SK Inc. and HD Hyundai Co., has broken ground on its firs...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam
Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
France's Archimed seeks to delist aesthetic laser maker Jeisys
French private equity firm Archimed SAS, managing around €7 billion ($7.5 billion) in assets as of end-May, plans to secure a controlling stake...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharm mulls acquiring firms, drug sales rights in US
SAN DIEGO, California -- South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. is considering acquiring firms in the US, or the sales rights to some of thei...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China row
SAN DIEGO – Samsung Biologics Co. is enjoying a stream of contract development and manufacturing order inquiries from big pharmaceutical compa...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity fails in Lock&Lock tender offer; eyes equity swap
Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners is planning for an equity swap between its new entity and South Korean food container maker Lock&Lock...
Jun 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Nvidia co-leads Series A round for AI startup Twelve Labs
Global chip giant Nvidia Corp. has co-led a $50 million Series A funding round for Twelve Labs, a South Korean artificial intelligence company speci...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Monalisa, Ssangyong C&B sold to Indonesia's APP
South Korea's hygiene products company Monalisa and Ssangyong C&B, known for its toilet paper brand Codi, will be sold to Indonesia's paper comp...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea’s non-financial firms rush to issue perpetual bonds
Perpetual bond offerings by non-financial firms in South Korea are poised to hit new records this year as many companies have flocked to the hybrid ...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
CJ Logistics, Libiao Robotics partner to co-work for robotic system
South Korea's CJ Logistics said on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a strategic partnership with global rob...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Shinsegae guarantees PE firms’ SSG.COM exit amid delayed IPO
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...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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