private equity investors

Seoul-based STIC Investments, the third-largest shareholder in South Korea's HYBE Co., sold its remaining shares in the label behind BTS, in a block...

Samsung Life Insurance Co. has drawn attention from South Korean pension and savings funds with its $90 million purchase last month of a stake in Sa...

In South Korea, just like any other major economies, the stock market has been a mine of gold even for small investors, who enjoyed hefty gains from...

South Korea’s art market is facing the biggest boom since the global financial crisis, drawing wealthy investors and art enthusiasts alike. Se...

South Korea-based mobile financial platform Toss is en route to becoming the country's first fintech decacorn, or a company valued at over $10 billi...

The recent asset price rises in South Korea, in particular in the equities and real estate markets, have been too rapid, even considering an expecte...

South Korean retail investors, who had largely opposed the regulator’s lifting of the short-selling ban on large-cap stocks from May, are now ...

South Korea’s coal power companies are facing tighter scrutiny for debt financing as they are increasingly shunned by financial investors amid...

Secondary private equity deals have been the fastest-growing segment of the private equity market for several years and this year, they could exceed...

Kakao Corp. is now the third most valuable company in Korea, after Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.Kakao’s market cap on June 15 surp...

South Korea’s luxury handbag maker Simone Acc. Collection Ltd., 30% owned by US private equity firm Blackstone, has kicked off a process to li...

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co. is set for a successful rights offering as the defense and air mobility unit of Hanwha Group has garnered str...

The Korea Development Bank (KDB) has decided to invest 80 billion won ($72 million) in the fintech startup Toss via a rights offering. This marks th...

South Korea's Shinhan REITs Management Co. is poised to invest $93 million to buy a pre-completed fulfillment center in New Mexico, under a long-ter...

Samsung Electronics Co., the bellwether of South Korea’s main bourse, has returned as the market darling, with foreigners buying heavily on th...

Goldman Sachs Asset Management focuses on middle-market, value-add strategy for infrastructure deals, targeting the sectors undergoing a digital tra...

Hyundai Motor became the key beneficiary of South Korean institutional investors' heavy buying on the local bourse this month as the global chip sho...

A UK-focused real estate debt fund, managed by New York-based BentallGreenOak, has received a combined £170 million ($241 million) in commitme...

South Korea’s leading rental car company Lotte Rental Co. has kicked off an initial public offering process to raise some 400 billion won ($36...

South Korean companies have posted their best-ever quarterly sales and operating profits, emerging from a year-long slump caused by the global COVID...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit is set to secure 600 billion won ($530 million) from South Korea-based private equity firm Anchor Equity Partners....

Meet Mr. A, born in the '80s and a self-proclaimed "analog person" who enjoys collecting CDs and artbooks of his favorite painters. But recently, Mr...

South Korea's IGIS Asset Management Co. and Hana Financial Investment Co. have acquired a 49% stake in the headquarters of the US mortgage lender Fa...

CVC Capital Partners has appointed Chris Rhee, a former partner of Affinity Equity Partners, as its Seoul office head and global partner, according ...

A Twosome Place is poised to be South Korea's first listed coffee chain as its owner Anchor Equity Partners has kicked off the process of its initia...

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), the battery materials subsidiary of SK Innovation Co., has set a new record for initial public offering demand, briefl...

Seoul-based IMM Private Equity will acquire a 40% stake in South Korea’s SK Lubricants Co., wholly owned by SK Innovation Co., for about one t...

Fashion e-commerce platforms that have become mainstream shopping venues for millennials and Generation Z, or MZers, are seeing their valuations sur...

Chinese investors trading in digital assets such as bitcoin are reaping decent arbitrage gains in South Korea as the so-called Kimchi Premium has re...

The National Pension Service has bowed to pressure from retail investors to raise the upper limit for domestic stock purchases, after it was blamed ...