growth equity

London-based private equity firm Permira will maintain its focus on high-quality companies and sector leaders with strong growth potential as valuat...

SK E&S Co., the natural gas business unit of SK Group, aims to turn into an eco-friendly company with an enterprise value of 35 trillion won ($3...

Hankook Tire & Technology Co., South Korea’s largest tire maker, said on Tuesday it is collaborating with local leather shoe brand YASE to...

Volatile price changes in iron ore and non-ferrous metals such as lithium and nickel are keeping South Korean companies on their toes for procuremen...

A consortium led by South Korea’s energy-to-construction conglomerate GS Group has acquired the country’s top botox maker Hugel Inc. fro...

South Korea’s online platform giant Naver Corp. is set to enter the big data-based healthcare industry by investing in ezCaretech Co., a domes...

South Korea’s leading hydrogen tank maker Iljin Hysolus Co. will be listed on Kospi on Sept. 3, according to the company’s IPO briefing ...

BlackRock Real Assets, a unit of the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock Inc., has acquired an unspecified stake in Brite Energy Partners ...

Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche have driven the double-digit growth of imported car sales in South Korea in the first seven months of this year, with...

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Co. joined a consortium led by South Korean GS Group to acquire the country’s top bot...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group is making big steps forward to transform itself as a platform business in the global shipbuilding sector. According t...

Hanwha Solutions Corp., the energy unit of chemicals-to-financial conglomerate Hanwha Group, is acquiring a 100% stake in RES Mediterranee SAS, a Fr...

South Korean music, entertainment and content firms are undergoing a major transformation in their business model. No longer is their discovery of n...

South Korea's major pension funds have posted robust investment returns above their benchmarks in the first half of this year, driven by double-digi...

A South Korean electric bus maker Edison Motors Co. added the activist fund Korea Corporate Government Improvement Fund (KCGI) as a financial invest...

Six out of 10 South Koreans believe their children will be financially worse off than their parents, marking the highest number for the country sinc...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. has become South Korea's first brokerage company to boost its equity capital to 10 trillion won ($9 billion), taking a st...

Hyundai Motor Co. is investing in H2 Mobility Deutschland GmbH & Co., a German operator of hydrogen fueling stations, as the top South Korean au...

Hyundai Motor Group reported a near 30% rise in US sales last month, but the growth is decelerating as the world’s second-largest automobile m...

South Korea’s capital city Seoul will set up a walking route full of beauty products, services and interactive programs for visiting tourists....

Kolon Group’s industrial materials maker Kolon Industries Inc. saw a quarterly operating profit over 100 billion won ($87 million) for the fir...

South Korean game company Nexon’s founder Kim Jung-ju has resigned from the chief executive position at NXC Corp., the holding company of Nexo...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has named Suyi Kim, its Asia head, as the global chief of its private equity business, effective Se...

Prices of core raw materials such as lithium and cobalt for electric vehicle (EV) batteries jumped to threaten the global auto industry’s key ...

South Korea's economy reported strong growth on healthy private consumption in the second quarter, keeping expectations of an interest rate hike lat...

South Korean house prices have risen more during the President Moon Jae-in administration than any other as the current government has focused more ...

Private equity firms registered in South Korea posted their largest-ever amount of both investments and divestments in 2020 which were almost balanc...

South Korea’s Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association issued a request for proposals to commit $25 million to a global infrastructure fund...

Debate is heating up over KakaoBank Corp.’s new share value ahead of an initial public offering of the mobile banking unit of South Korea&rsqu...

Some of the most cash-abundant firms across different industries in South Korea are issuing large amounts of bonds to raise even more funds amid a l...