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Venture capital
S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025
The South Korean government and the private sector will jointly create a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund pool worth more than 8 trillion won ($...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Fabless FADU taps institutional demand to raise about $151 mn
FADU Technology, the first unicorn in South Korea’s semiconductor sector, has embarked on a process to raise up to 193.8 billion won ($151 mil...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KKR leads $190 mn Series C funding of fashion platform Musinsa
South Korea’s leading fashion platform Musinsa said on Wednesday it has attracted 240 billion won ($189.7 million) in its Series C funding rou...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
S.Korea files to revoke PCA ruling in favor of Elliott
South Korea has decided to challenge an international arbitration tribunal’s decision a month ago ordering the Korean government to compensate...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pre-IPOs
SK Pharmteco to raise $500 mn in pre-IPO, aims for 2025 listing
SK Pharmteco Co., South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is set to raise $500 millio...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
KKR Co-CEO Joe Bae meets NPS, KIC execs in S.Korea
KKR Co. Co-Chief Executive Joseph Bae made a visit to South Korea last week to meet with senior managers of the country’s top limited partners...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Catchtable raises $24 mn in Series D funding
South Korean startup WAD, the operator of a restaurant reservation service platform, has recently raised 30 billion won($24 million) in a Series D f...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Everon attracts $39 mn thanks to hot VC demand for EV charging
Everon, one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle charging infrastructure and management service providers, raised 50 billion won ($39 m...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
NPS commits $163 mn to Macquarie's sixth Korean buyout fund
Macquarie Asset Management is aiming to close its sixth buyout fund in South Korea at a maximum of 1 trillion won ($775.6 million) by the first ha...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Retail investors test EcoPro’s upside as Korea’s GameStop
Shares of EcoPro Co., a South Korean battery materials maker, have skyrocketed this year, rising 848% year to date to break above the 1 million won ...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Hynix eyes wastewater facilities sale for $770 mn
SK Hynix Inc. is in talks with its affiliate SK REIT Co. to sell the wastewater treatment facilities within its semiconductor campus in Icheon, Gyeo...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
S.Korea’s SKC seeks to sell fine ceramic business for $307 mn
SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemicals maker, is seeking to sell its fine ceramic business for an estimated 400 billion won ($307 million) as the unit o...
Jul 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korean startups feel bite of funding drought in H1
The drought in venture capital funding worsened in South Korea in the first half of this year, taking an especially heavy toll on platform and b...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Ontario, S.Korea VC firm to establish $76 mn healthcare fund
Canada's Ontario government has joined hands with a South Korean venture capital firm to establish a fund of 100 million Canadian dollars ($75.6 mil...
Jul 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean ETFs’ net asset value doubles in 3.5 years
South Korea’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surpassed 100 trillion won ($75.7 billion) in net asset value for the first time on Thursday, 21 ye...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK E&S eyes business split-up to raise up to $1. 5 bn
South Korea’s SK E&S Co. is seeking to split up its business to raise up to 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion), according to people with knowle...
Jun 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Chem produces single-crystal cathodes; to raise $1.5 bn in bonds
LG Chem Ltd. has begun mass production of high-nickel cathode materials made with a single crystal structure for the first time in South Korea, whic...
Jun 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
How North Korea’s Hacker Army Stole $3 Billion in Crypto, Funding Nuclear Program
Last year an engineer working for the blockchain gaming company Sky Mavis thought he was on the cusp of a new job that would pay more money.A recrui...
Jun 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC's private equity senior director Ahn to move to Mubadala
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC)’s senior director for private equity is set to move to Mubadala Investment Co., a sovereign investor based ...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
LG Energy’s 1st bond issue draws record $3.6 bn in bids
LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s first bond issue was 10 times oversubscribed on Thursday, drawing a record 4.7 trillion won ($3.6 billion) in bids for a S...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
SK supports memorial monument honoring Korean War figures
South Korea's SK Group announced on Thursday its support for the construction of a memorial monument honoring the late Colonel William E. Weber and ...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low
Shares of CJ CGV Co., South Korea’s top multiplex cinema chain, hit the lowest level since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on Wednesday as...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea's Doosan Enerbility sells Bobcat stake in $214 mn block deal
South Korea’s major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. has sold a minority stake in Doosan Bobcat Inc., its construction equipment unit...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's ToolGen develops gene-edited cow for artificial blood
South Korean genome editing developer ToolGen Inc. has teamed up with Lartbio Technology, a Seoul-based transgenic animal development company, to de...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Lotte affiliates’ credit ratings downgraded all at once
The ratings of Lotte's subsidiaries have been downgraded en masse. Lotte Chemical Corp., the group's cash cow, was cut to AA from AA+.NICE Investors...
Jun 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
POSCO to raise steel plant safety with robots
POSCO Research Institute, a think tank under South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO Group, on Sunday said it signed an agreement with Withrobot an...
Jun 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Lotte Shopping to raise $785 mn from Korean banks for ESG push
Lotte Shopping Co., the retail arm of South Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate Lotte Group, will tap 1 trillion won ($784.4 million) from two of the...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding’s cumulative orders near 200 vessels
Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding Co., a unit of South Korean shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai, announced on Wednesday th...
Jun 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Hyundai Group chief calls on PE firm help to defend against Schindler
South Korea’s conglomerate Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun is seeking money from a local private equity firm to defend the management ...
Jun 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has slashed the target prices of South Korean top cathode stocks, namely EcoPro BM Co. and POSCO Future M Co., by nearly ha...
Jun 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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