HYBE to raise up to $769 mn, new twist on battle with Kakao for SM
HYBE Co. is tightening the reins in its fight against Kakao Corp. for control of SM Entertainment Co. by raising up to 1 trillion won ($768.6 millio...
JB Financial refuses activist fund's request to increase dividends
South Korea’s JB Financial Group Co. has refused a local activist fund’s request to raise dividend payouts, stressing such a measure wil...
S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...
FADU joins ranks of unicorns as S.Korea’s first fabless chip firm
FADU Technology has become South Korea’s first fabless semiconductor unicorn after successfully raising funds from share sales before its init...
dConstruct Robotics becomes 2nd foreign startup to win at D.Day
South Korea’s decade-old startup pitch competition D.Day has picked Singapore-based mobile robotics application developer dConstruct Robotics ...
Activist fund Tcha Partners calls for Namyang Dairy to buy back shares
Seoul-based activist fund Tcha Partners Asset Management Co. on Monday demanded that South Korea’s Namyang Dairy Products Co. buy back half of...
Bangladesh: Hyundai’s next target for partially assembled Tucson SUV
Bangladesh has long been a tough market for South Korean automakers to break into, given the decades-old dominance of Japanese carmakers such as Toy...
Kakao Brain to launch investment fund for AI startups
Kakao Brain, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Kakao Corp., said on Sunday it plans to set up a fund of up to 10 billion ...
S.Korea’s KT&G engulfed in lawsuit against activist funds
The world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G’s battle against activist investors intensified as a group of funds sued the South Kore...
KAIST, Hyundai sign agreement for high-speed self-driving research
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) announced that it would embark on research into high-speed autonomous driving techn...
KT&G potential target of aggressive activist shareholder
KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is likely to face a tougher battle against activist shareholders as an aggressive hed...
Patty-cooking robotics startup Aniai completes seed funding
Aniai Inc., a foodservice robotics developer founded by a South Korean, said on Feb. 21 it has attracted $3 million via a seed funding round to boos...
Hyundai Dream Tour partners with Air France-KLM for eco-friendly fuel
On Monday, Hyundai Dream Tour, a travel company affiliated with Hyundai Department Store Group, announced a partnership with Air France-KLM to promo...
Korea's NPS, KTCU likely to invest in CVC's ninth buyout fund
South Korea’s key institutional investors are highly likely to invest via European private equity giant CVC Capital Partners’ ninth buyo...
Stock inflows to Korea slow on weak currency, valuation
A weaker South Korean currency and worries about valuation have deterred foreign investors’ appetite for local shares, casting expectations of...
Lexus, Volvo: Koreans' top picks among foreign brands in after-sales service
Lexus, the premium brand of Japanese carmaker Toyota Corp., offers the best after-sales service among imported cars in South Korea, followed by Swed...
Brazil approves Celltrion Pharm’s syringe facility
Celltrion Pharm Inc., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, said on Monday it received certification from Brazil’s health regulator for it...
Lotte Hotel forms new mileage partnership with Singapore Airlines
On Wednesday, Lotte Hotels & Resorts announced its new mileage partnership with Singapore Airlines, marking the hotel group's first international ...
Korean sovereign wealth fund KIC logs record loss in 2022
Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) posted the largest annual loss last year since its inception in 2005, according to its 20...
Activist fund KCGI to sell Osstem stake to UCK, MBK Partners
Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), one of the country’s most aggressive shareholder activists, plans to sell its stake in Oss...
Kakao Pay joins MSCI Korea Index
Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment arm of South Korean tech firm Kakao Corp., has been added to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Kor...
S.Korea doubles undocumented overseas remittance limit to $100,000
South Korea as early as June will double its annual limit on overseas remittance without evidential documents from $50,000 to $100,000.The Ministry ...
Seoul to run $3.9 billion fund for startups over 4 years
The local government of South Korea’s capital city Seoul this year will launch its own vision fund, dubbed the Seoul Vision 2030 Fund, to inve...
Individual investors in S.Korea betting on stock market's decline
Despite South Korea's Kosdaq stock market growing this month following the "January rally," individual investors in the country are still betting on...
S.Korea to allow offshore investors to directly trade won
South Korea is set to allow offshore investors to directly trade the won and extend the operating hours of the local currency market from July next ...
Galleria Dept. Store's sales from foreigners increase 500% for past 6 months
South Korea's department store group Galleria Department Store said on Tuesday that for the past six months (between August last year and January th...
S.Korea-Australia renew $8.1 bn currency swap deal for 5 years
The Bank of Korea (BOK) and the Australian Central Bank have agreed to extend the valid date of the current Australian dollar/won currency swap cont...
Korean won falls on firm US jobs data, new BOJ head report
The South Korean won currency skidded to a four-week low on Monday as stronger-than-expected US employment data renewed expectations that the Federa...
S.Korean institutional investors inject more capital in MMFs
South Korean institutional investors, such as pension funds, mutual aids and corporates, are rushing to money market funds (MMFs) for short-term pro...
NPS lags global peers in 2013-2022 investment returns
South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, has underperformed its global peers over the past decade in te...
