Korean investors in renewed push for global property deals

South Korea's IGIS Asset Management Co. and Hana Financial Investment Co. have acquired a 49% stake in the headquarters of the US mortgage lender Fa...

SK IE Tech IPO draws record-high demand; brokerage servers down briefly

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), the battery materials subsidiary of SK Innovation Co., has set a new record for initial public offering demand, briefl...

Fashion platforms for MZers attract investors; valuations surge

Fashion e-commerce platforms that have become mainstream shopping venues for millennials and Generation Z, or MZers, are seeing their valuations sur...

Kia raises $700 mn in foreign green bonds

Kia Corp. has issued its first foreign currency ESG bonds worth $700 million to strengthen its investment in electric vehicles and other eco-friendl...

Chinese investors enjoy bitcoin arbitrage gains on Kimchi Premium

Chinese investors trading in digital assets such as bitcoin are reaping decent arbitrage gains in South Korea as the so-called Kimchi Premium has re...

Foreigners return to Korean market; Kosdaq at near 21-year high

Foreign investors, the dominant players on the Korean bourse, are returning as buyers of Samsung Electronics Co. and other blue chips, keeping the m...

Korea's global real estate fund investors brace for losses

The combined balance of overseas real estate investment funds sold in South Korea saw a drop in their net asset value below the original value by 40...

Naver issues $500 million in first foreign debt amid strong demand

South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. has successfully issued its first foreign currency bonds worth $500 million amid strong demand as ...

Proxy advisers ISS, Glass Lewis urge LG shareholders to reject spin-off plan

Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. have urged shareholders of LG Corp. to vote against the South...

BOK posts record 2020 net income on higher foreign asset gains

The Bank of Korea paid the second-highest amount of tax revenue in the country last year, trailing only Samsung Electronics Co., after the South Kor...

Shares of Samsung, Hynix subdued amid foreign selling spree

Foreign investors, the dominant players on the Korean bourse, are dumping leading chipmakers such Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., keeping...

SK Bioscience IPO draws record-high demand from retail investors

South Korean vaccine maker SK Bioscience Co. has set a new record for initial public offering demand, raising around 63.6 trillion won ($56 billio...

Seed investors shy from investing in early stage startups amid pandemic

Early stage startups are almost always risky ventures, promising but unprofitable, and far from market-ready – often making it challenging to ...

China logistics firms yield decent returns for Korean investors

MBK Partners and two leading South Korean conglomerates – SK and CJ groups – have chalked up hefty returns from investments in Chinese l...

NPS adds APG, IFM Investors, Thoma Bravo as managers in Q4

The National Pension Service (NPS) has entrusted funds to three overseas alternative investment firms newly hired in the fourth quarter of last year...

Young, female, foreign: Hyundai Motor Group’s new BOD

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, under its new leader Chung Euisun, is seeking changes on its board of directors, the group's top business d...

Korean investors face $270 mn loss on Las Vegas hotel loans

South Korean investors in the Drew Las Vegas development project are at higher risk of losing their investment of 300 billion won ($271 million) in ...

Samsung investors fret over stock’s fall as analysts see further gains

For retail investors of Samsung Electronics Co., the stock’s recent drop is reminiscent of the 2018 crash, when individuals who snapped up the...

Korea to lift short-selling ban on large stocks; retail investors resist

South Korea’s financial regulator has decided to allow the short selling of large-cap stocks from May 3 despite opposition from retail investo...

Retail investors test Celltrion, HLB shares as Korea’s GameStop

Celltrion Inc. and HLB Inc., two leading South Korean biopharmaceutical shares, shot up on Monday as the main bourse’s key index climbed back ...

Yogiyo sale gains steam as Baemin investors set for Q1 exit

Financial investors in South Korea's No. 1 food delivery app Baedal Minjok (Baemin) are set to exit in the first quarter of this year, closing t...

Korea’s retail investors go West, eye golden ticket for big money

For South Korean stock investors, 2020 may go down in history as the year of The Great Quest for big money, and at the end of their journey they fou...

Korea’s retail investors shed loser image, turn pandemic into bonanza

In South Korea, as the saying goes, the stock market is at its peak if a swarm of individual investors go on a buying spree, often leading to heavy ...

Naver Webtoon taps foreign investors ahead of US listing

Global webtoon (digital comics) platform Naver Webtoon is paving the way to a listing in the US market, reaching out to foreign investors for pre-...

HOLD Naver Webtoon taps foreign investors ahead of US listing

Global webtoon (digital comics) platform Naver Webtoon is paving the way to a listing in the US market, reaching out to foreign investors for pre-...

Korean investors buy Dutch logistics center using drones and smartphones

South Korea’s Kiwoom Securities Co. has acquired a new logistics center in the Netherlands for 180 billion won ($165 million) this year, relyi...

Investors set sights on value stocks as LG Electronics’ shares soar

With South Korea’s stock market indexes at or near all-time highs, finding bargains in the market is a daunting task.Growth stocks such as bat...

Retail investor buying, foreign selling hit fresh highs on Kospi

Foreign investors sold a record volume of shares on South Korea’s main bourse on Nov. 30, triggering a sharp fall in the main stock index, whi...

Global funds flow into S.Korea as investors look to life after COVID-19

An increasing amount of global funds are flowing into South Korea as advances in COVID-19 vaccine development and a weaker dollar boost investors&rs...

S. Korea's foreign currency deposits hit record high on weaker dollar

Foreign currency deposits in South Korea have swelled to a record high in November on the back of a weaker dollar, boosting local banks' holdings to $...