POSCO gains huge dividend from Roy Hill mine in H1
When South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO Group acquired a 12.5% stake in Australia’s Roy Hill mine for 1.52 trillion won ($1.2 billio...
Daedong attracts investment from Kakao for smart mobility projects
Daedong Corp., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, has attracted 10 billion won ($7.6 million) from Kakao Mobility Corp. t...
KIC appoints Lee Hoon as CIO and Jung Ho-seok as CRO
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) said on Wednesday it has promoted Lee Hoon, its former head of investment strategy and innovation division, to th...
Samsung Biologics, Samsung C&T extends investment in US biotech firms
The Life Science Fund, jointly launched by Samsung Biologics and Samsung C&T Corp., announced Wednesday it invested $15 million in US biotech fi...
Nongshim posts first operating loss from Korean sales in 24 years
South Korea’s top noodle maker Nongshim Co. has posted a quarterly operating loss from its domestic business – its first loss in 24 year...
Taekwang’s first loss in a decade dampens outlook
Taekwang Industrial Co., a South Korean petrochemical and textile company, reported its first quarterly loss in 10 years amid weakness in its key bu...
SK Group invests $250 mn in Bill Gates’ nuclear reactor firm TerraPower
South Korea’s SK Group said on Monday it invested $250 million in TerraPower, a US venture founded by billionaire Bill Gates. The holdi...
European direct lending offers investment edge: Permira
The direct lending market is garnering investor attention as it has performed well during periods of market volatility. As banks are cautious to t...
Korea's NPS upped alternative investment by 33% in 2021
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea committed 204.4 trillion won ($156.7 billion) to alternative investment as of end-2021, up 32.7% f...
Experts criticize Seoul's quantum computer development efforts
The United States: 4158. South Korea: 50These figures refer to the number of qubits in a quantum computer that each country seeks to develop by 2026...
Korea's small PE firms putting fundraising plans off to 2023
South Korea’s small and mid-sized private equity firms are increasingly postponing fundraising schedules for their project-based funds to the ...
Hanwha Life to spur global real estate investment via US subsidiary
South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. is set to kick off direct investment in overseas real estate via its subsidiary in the US, according t...
Korea Zinc to invest $7.5 billion in green hydrogen, battery materials
Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, plans to spend 9.74 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in renewable energy, green hydrogen...
Specialty finance emerging on resiliency, diversification: M&G Investments
As global investors are seeking ways to protect their investment returns in an inflationary, rising rate environment, some asset managers are eyeing...
SK Geo Centric to build high value-added material plant in China
South Korea’s major petrochemical company SK Geo Centric Co. is set to build an ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) plant in China with a local partne...
Carlyle CEO Lee’s sudden exit puts the PE’s Korea strategy in spotlight
The sudden resignation of The Carlyle Group Inc. Chief Executive Kewsong Lee has not just surprised the global investment community but raised quest...
Hyundai Motor between rock and a hard place over Russia operations
South Korea’s automotive juggernaut Hyundai Motor Co., which has invested heavily in Russia over the last several years, is stuck between a ro...
Naver says no growth sacrifice to cut costs with record sales
Naver Corp., South Korea’s largest online portal, on Friday reported its largest-ever quarterly revenue, led by webtoon and fintech services, ...
Specialty finance emerging on resiliency, diversification: M&G Investments
As global investors are seeking ways to protect their investment returns in an inflationary, rising rate environment, some asset managers are eyeing...
KIC taps investment strategy head Lee Hoon as CIO
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is set to appoint Lee Hoon, the senior managing director and head of the investment strategy & innovation d...
Hyundai Mobis steps up future mobility business
Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s largest auto parts maker, is accelerating its future mobility businesses as well as intensifying open innovat...
Seoul suspends new antitrust bill on trade conflict fears
South Korea has postponed the introduction of a new law aimed at expanding its authority beyond Korean entrepreneurs, people familiar with the matte...
S.Korean startup Time Percent gives power to digital asset investors
South Korean startup Time Percent Corp. was founded a year ago with the specific goal of giving power to the investors of digital assets, rather tha...
China's lockdown slams Korean beauty giants' Q2 earnings
South Korea’s two major cosmetics firms, Amorepacific Corp. and LG H&H Co., posted their second-quarter earnings heavily impacted by Chi...
Vale, two Korean firms to sell JV to ArcelorMittal at a loss
Brazilian mining giant Vale SA and two South Korean steelmakers are selling their joint venture in Brazil at less than half their investment in six ...
Nonferrous metals conglomerate Poongsan to invest $236 mn
South Korean nonferrous metals conglomerate Poongsan Corp. announced it will invest 313 billion won ($238 million) in facilities to manufacture rech...
SK to build first chip packaging plant in US with $22 bn investment
WASHINGTON DC – SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, said on Wednesday it will build its first memory chip packaging fac...
Samsung presents Texas with $200 bn chip investment plan proposition
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, has presented a tax break proposal to the State of Texas as part of its plan to inv...
Development will outperform in post-COVID era: Principal Real Estate
Real estate is in the global investor spotlight amid skyrocketing inflation. However, not all property sectors or locations will offer the same infl...
DigitalBridge names Korean Tae Ahn as Asia capital formation head
DigitalBridge Group Inc., a US digital infrastructure investment firm, announced on July 19 it has appointed South Korean Tae E. Ahn as managing d...
