Korea Post to invest in overseas data centers and warehouses

Korea Post to invest in overseas data centers and warehouses

Korea Post will increase its alternative investment from 13.6 trillion won ($11.3 billion) at the end-2021 to 16.7 trillion won ($13.9 billion) in 2...

Daewoo consortium to develop building complex in Hanoi new town

Daewoo consortium to develop building complex in Hanoi new town

Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has said it signed a contract on Jan. 26. to develop the H1HH1 block in Starlake, a new urban town in no...

Kospi melts as Fed, LG Energy spur foreign selling

Kospi melts as Fed, LG Energy spur foreign selling

South Korean stocks lost ground with the main index entering a bear market on Thursday as foreign investors intensified their selling after the US F...

Antin hires Michelle Maeng for Korean fund investor relations

Antin hires Michelle Maeng for Korean fund investor relations

Global infrastructure investment firm Antin Infrastructure Partners SA said on Jan. 25 it has appointed Michelle (Min Kyung) Maeng as its new Invest...

Korea to reform FX market to join MSCI developed markets

Korea to reform FX market to join MSCI developed markets

South Korea is set to reform the local currency market as the country aims to reach MSCI Inc.’s developed market status for its domestic stock...

Lazard seeks to sell off fraud-hit Osstem Implant

Lazard seeks to sell off fraud-hit Osstem Implant

Lazard Asset Management has tapped multiple professional investors in South Korea to sell off its shares in Osstem Implant Co, worth $165 million, t...

NPS approves POSCO's split into holding firm, steelmaker unit

NPS approves POSCO's split into holding firm, steelmaker unit

The National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea, the largest shareholder of POSCO Co., has given its nod to the steelmaking giant’s plan to spli...

S.Korea's Jan. bond issues on track for record $6 bn

S.Korea's Jan. bond issues on track for record $6 bn

South Korean companies are ramping up their local bond issuances to finance expansion into low-carbon and contactless platform businesses, with stro...

Behind the eye-popping numbers of LG Energy's IPO

Behind the eye-popping numbers of LG Energy's IPO

The initial public offering of South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. drew a record 11,500 trillion won ($9.65 trillion) in bids from institutional i...

Presidential candidates vow to legislate digital assets

Presidential candidates vow to legislate digital assets

Ahead of the 20th presidential election slated for March 9, candidates from both parties have vowed to legislate and systemize digital assets if ele...

Vegan foodmaker Organica attracts funding from China's CITIC

Vegan foodmaker Organica attracts funding from China's CITIC

Plant-based food company Organica Corp. has attracted investment from China’s alternative investment firm CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd. This mar...

One in 10 Koreans rushes for LG Energy shares ahead of $8.6 billion IPO

One in 10 Koreans rushes for LG Energy shares ahead of $8.6 billion IPO

The world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. has set a new record for initial public offering demand, wit...

STIC injects $168 mn in pre-unicorn Musicow

STIC injects $168 mn in pre-unicorn Musicow

Music copyright trading platform Musicow Inc. has attracted a 200 billion won ($167.9 million) investment from Korea’s private equity firm STI...

Kospi in lethargic trade ahead of LG Energy debut

Kospi in lethargic trade ahead of LG Energy debut

South Korea's benchmark stock index Kospi declined to its lowest closing level in one and a half months on Monday, moving in the opposite direction ...

Mirae Asset’s global ETFs top 100 trillion won mark

Mirae Asset’s global ETFs top 100 trillion won mark

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co.’s global equity-traded funds (ETFs) topped the 100 trillion won mark, for the first time in the South Korea...

LG Energy IPO fever lifts Korea’s battery stocks

LG Energy IPO fever lifts Korea’s battery stocks

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, attracted a record $9.65 trillion demand for South Korea’s largest-ever initia...

Baillie Gifford, Allianz increase holdings in 3D tech firm Koh Young

Baillie Gifford, Allianz increase holdings in 3D tech firm Koh Young

Global asset managers are increasing shareholdings in Koh Young Technology Inc., Korea’s leading 3D image measurement tech firm listed ...

LG Energy sets new IPO record with $9.65 trillion investor demand

LG Energy sets new IPO record with $9.65 trillion investor demand

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, has set a new record for an initial public offering with demand for its sha...

Korean investors inject $1.2 bn in Australian PPP

Korean investors inject $1.2 bn in Australian PPP

Korean investors have injected around A$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) with a 32-year maturity through senior loans for A$11.1 billion ($8 billion) in t...

Investors prepare loss claim for Osstem's fraud case

Investors prepare loss claim for Osstem's fraud case

Minority investors are preparing to file a class-action lawsuit against Osstem Implant Co., which on Monday revealed itself the victim of the larges...

Self-driving car stocks to lead auto sector shares in 2022

Self-driving car stocks to lead auto sector shares in 2022

Self-driving car-related shares failed to draw attention last year as investors focused on electric vehicles and the autonomous vehicle value chain ...

Kosdaq: Will January effect occur in 2022?

Kosdaq: Will January effect occur in 2022?

South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq index tends to rise every January as many Korean retail investors rush to dump their stocks just before the ex...

Germany's ZF to invest in Korean self-driving startup

Germany's ZF to invest in Korean self-driving startup

Germany's car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen is in the final stages of negotiations to invest around 20 billion won ($17 million) in StradVision, a ...

Kosdaq: Perennial bush league as blue chips favor Kospi

Kosdaq: Perennial bush league as blue chips favor Kospi

South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq market has been underperforming the main Kospi market for a couple of decades, raising concerns that the junio...

Korea’s IPO market renews record highs

 Korea’s IPO market renews record highs

South Korea’s initial public offering market continues to rewrite history this year. More than 20 million people have participated in the...

Coupang’s share price rebounds as market digests lockup release

Coupang’s share price rebounds as market digests lockup release

Shares of Coupang Inc., widely seen as the South Korean version of global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, are staging a rebound as the market is grad...

Kyobo Life eyes 2022 IPO to end feud with investors

Kyobo Life eyes 2022 IPO to end feud with investors

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. on Tuesday applied for a preliminary review of its public listing with the Korea Exchange, three years after it canceled th...

[Discussion] Think twice before heavy inflation hedge: NYLIM

[Discussion] Think twice before heavy inflation hedge: NYLIM

November’s inflation print, while mostly in line with market expectations, was staggeringly high. Headline inflation increased ...

Metaverse emerges as promising yet uncertain new world for investors

Metaverse emerges as promising yet uncertain new world for investors

Virtual realms known as the metaverse that have become the hot topic for tech companies also are winning a new fan base among investors.SoftBank Gro...

NPS adds Warburg Pincus as real estate asset manager in Q3

NPS adds Warburg Pincus as real estate asset manager in Q3

The National Pension Service added New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC to its pool of 58 global real estate investment manager...

Hanwha Systems to compete with LIG Nex1 for Korean version of Iron Dome NH, KB Securities, Kookmin Bank, Kim & Chang lead capital markets in H1 From G-Dragon to Ibuki: Dongmyo emerges as global fashion hotspot Hyundai helps Korean economy most with $265 bn contribution South Korea issues €1.4 billion in largest-ever euro bond sale