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The 1994 film “Leon,"  known as “The Professional” in the US, became an iconic film portraying an unlikely friendship betwe...

Samsung Electronics Co. has secured a deal to manufacture Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s new mobile application processor for 5G smartphones, the ...

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. has begun fresh talks with potential buyers for construction affiliate Doosan Engineering & Constru...

Share prices of Hanwha Solutions Corp. and other Hanwha Group units are being re-rated as the companies shift their business focus to the green energy...

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd., the debt-ridden South Korean power plant builder, is set to wrap up the first round of its debt r...

South Korean retail investors, who turn their eyes overseas for higher returns, are heavily buying into US growth stocks amid growing fears of tech st...

Kim Yong-jin, the former second vice finance minister of President Moon Jae-in’s government between mid-2017 and 2018, has been chosen as the Na...

Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd., South Korea’s second-biggest life insurer, has committed around $400 million to KKR & Co.’s new Asia b...

The South Korean government, which recently decided to allow holding companies of conglomerates to run corporate venture capital (CVC) units, needs to...

South Korea’s money supply grew at a quicker pace in June than it has in a decade, as foreign investors, who shunned risky assets just following...

South Korea's economy is likely to shrink less than expected this year, thanks to its successful response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to th...

Samsung Biologics Co. Ltd., the world’s largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO) in terms of capacity, will invest 1.74 trillion won ($...

Samsung Electronics Co. is seen narrowing its chip business revenue with Intel Corp. as the global semiconductor market continues to grow despite the ...

South Korean institutional investors have become the world's first group of investors in a fund related to the Federal Reserve's new Term Asset-B...

Hyundai Motor Group has reached a tentative agreement to build the country’s biggest test-driving center at a new tire testing facility of Hanko...

Pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers in South Korea have indefinitely halted new investments in North America’s midstream asset...

Korea Investment Corporation will open a San Francisco office within the year to improve its deal sourcing capability for technology startups and othe...

Industrial and multifamily real estate sectors are poised to benefit from a growing trend of renting spaces in the long term after supply growth slowe...

The pace of growth in overseas alternative investments by South Korean securities companies has been “too rapid” over the past 18 months and brought t...

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have provided a combined $434 million debt on the construction of Heathrow ...

Ten South Korean institutional investors have committed about $200 million to the Carlyle Group’s first credit opportunities fund which recently raise...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has chosen Dae-yang Park, chief investment officer of the country’s Teachers’ Pension, as new CIO among a dozen app...

Three South Korean financial services firms - NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., its affiliate NH Bank and Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. - ...

The Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-aid Association (SEMA) has appointed Sungmoo Huh, a former alternative investment and strategy head of Seoul...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will aggressively seek equity-type investments such as stocks and private equities for extra returns wi...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has appointed its corporate finance department head Ho Hyun Kim as chief investment officer, succeeding Sung-...

South Korea’s office building market is poised to continue its record-breaking growth, buoyed by heavy money inflows from overseas investors and the c...

The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed Hyo-Joon Ahn, former head of global public market and domestic equity divisions of the $565 billion pensi...

Vingroup JSC, Vietnam’s largest conglomerate, has issued convertible preferred shares to raise $400 million in a private placement to South Korea’s Ha...

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) will put a 14-story office building in Seoul up for sale, in a deal expected to fetch between 550 billion and 60...