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Aerospace & Defense
SpaceX’s Starlink, Eutelsat’s OneWeb land in Korea for LEO satellite services
South Korea has officially cleared the way for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet services, granting regulatory approval for SpaceX’s St...
May 30, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2025
Korean pension funds, insurers seek customized investment vehicles
South Korean institutional investors are increasingly interested in separately managed accounts (SMAs) that offer customized strategies, as well as ...
May 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Centroid to divest control of TaylorMade as exit strategy, drops IPO plan
Centroid Investment Partners, a South Korean private equity firm, has confirmed plans to divest its controlling stake in US sports equipment manufac...
May 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air, Delta to buy 25% stake in Canada’s WestJet for $550 million
Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s largest full-service carrier, and its joint venture partner Delta Air Lines Inc. will acquire a 25% stake ...
May 11, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea’s GEPS to commit $143 million to foreign mid-cap buyout funds
The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS), one of South Korea’s top three public pension programs, will commit up to 200 billion won ($1...
May 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang’s Q1 revenue up; quarterly dip signals rising competition
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, extended its year-on-year sales growth with an 11.1% increase to post $7.9 billion in...
May 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics bags $514 mn CMO contract from US pharma
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO), said on Monday it has secured a $5.14 million order from...
Apr 28, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
S.Korea’s medical tourism thrives on weak currency
Foreign visitors to South Korea jumped nearly 20% early this year, largely driven by a sharp depreciation in the country’s currency value agai...
Apr 18, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS breaks into US smart city market
LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, has won its first public-sector smart city contracts in the US,...
Apr 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
US PE firm Miri Capital ups stake in Korea’s STIC Investments
US private equity firm Miri Capital Management LLC said on Tuesday it has raised its stake in STIC Investments Inc. to step up its shareholder activ...
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy bags 1-GWh ESS battery deal from Poland’s PGE
LG Energy Solution Ltd. will supply 1 gigawatt-hour of energy storage system (ESS) batteries to a state-owned utility company in Poland in a deal ex...
Mar 26, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Baemin, Yogiyo see record transaction drops in Feb amid Coupang's rise
South Korea’s top and third-ranked food delivery apps, Baedal Minjok (Baemin) and Yogiyo, saw their biggest-ever monthly drops in transaction ...
Mar 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air to finalize $32.7 bn deals with Boeing, GE Aerospace
Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s top full-service carrier, is set to soon finalize $32.7 billion deals with Boeing Co. and GE Aerospace for...
Mar 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
MBK chairman to leverage own funds to pay Homeplus suppliers
Michael ByungJu Kim, the co-founder, partner and chairman of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm (PEF) MBK Partners Ltd., is expected to leve...
Mar 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Bank partners with Hyundai Mobis for loan services to suppliers
Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s top auto parts maker, has partnered with the country’s biggest lender Shinhan Bank to help its partners...
Mar 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Meritz drops bid for troubled MG Non-Life Insurance; Liquidation looms
Meritz Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s second-most valuable financial holding firm, has dropped its bid to acquire financial distressed MG...
Mar 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility bags $200 mn Qatar power plant EPC deal
Doosan Enerbility Co. has clinched an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a gas-fired power plant from Qatar in a consortiu...
Mar 05, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
S.Korean investors name their 33 favorite alternative asset managers
Blackstone and HarbourVest Partners are South Korean institutional investors’ preferred private equity firms, according to a survey by Korea I...
Feb 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Seoul Private Equity seeks to buy Winia under court receivership
Seoul Private Equity has signed a conditional agreement to buy Winia Co., a home appliance manufacturer under court receivership, through a stalking...
Feb 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
EQT targets healthcare, technology, business service providers in Korea
EQT, the largest private equity firm in Europe, is setting its sights on healthcare, technology companies and business service providers in South Ko...
Feb 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
LG companies flock to debt, equity markets to raise $2.8 billion
Companies under South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group scrambled to sell shares and bonds to raise 4 trillion won ($2.8 billion) e...
Feb 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Hanmi Semiconductor to retire $90 mn treasury shares in May
Hanmi Semiconductor Co. on Thursday announced a plan to retire 130.0 billion won ($90 million) worth of treasury shares in May, marking its largest-...
Feb 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE bags $371 mn LNG bunker ship order
The outlook for South Korean shipbuilders’ liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering ship construction looks bright as the global LNG-powered ship...
Feb 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
South Korea’s alternative data pioneer KED Aicel in full force
South Korea’s leading alternative data service provider Hankyung Aicel Inc. is poised to transform companies' and investors’ business an...
Feb 03, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On bags $1.8 billion EV battery deal with Nissan
Loss-making SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest battery maker, has hit the jackpot with a $1.8 billion deal to supply electric vehicle batter...
Jan 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Coupang Eats starts food delivery service in Japan
Coupang Eats, a food delivery app operated by South Korea's No. 1 e-commerce platform Coupang Inc., launched its first overseas service in Japan.Acc...
Jan 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon invests in Japan's Number Nine
South Korea's Naver Webtoon said on Thursday that its Japanese service operator Line Digital Frontier invested in Number Nine, a webtoon studio in J...
Jan 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Neubility, Samsung C&T offer robot delivery service
South Korea's autonomous robot startup Neubility and Samsung C&T Corp. said on Wednesday that they began to offer door-to-door delivery in apa...
Jan 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
K Bank drops 2025 IPO in 3rd Kospi listing cancellation
K Bank, a South Korean online lender, said on Wednesday it has again canceled its initial public offering plan amid the languid stock market an...
Jan 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
South Korea’s forex reserves drop to 5-year low in 2024
South Korea’s foreign exchange reserves shrank to a five-year low at the end of last year after the country’s foreign exchange authoriti...
Jan 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders this week ahead of G7 summit
- 2 Korea to allow non-profits to buy bad consumer loans
- 3 LG to drive future growth in emerging markets with battery prowess
- 4 South Korean President Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba seek closer ties
- 5 Naver Ventures to plant flag in Silicon Valley with TwelveLabs bet