Korea’s car-sharing platform becomes 12th unicorn following $42.5 mn injection
South Korea’s leading car-sharing platform Socar Inc. has become the country's 12th unicorn valued at around 1.1 trillion won after re...
Singapore's ride-sharing giant Grab raises $200 mn from STIC Investments
Grab Holdings Inc., a Singapore-based technology company, has raised $200 million from South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments Inc., the fir...
Kakao Games shares hit upper limit for two consecutive days, further fueling IPO hype
Kakao Games Corp. shares reached the daily upper limit for the second consecutive day on Sept. 11, pushing the company to the third place on KOSDAQ wi...
Celltrion rebuts JP Morgan’s heavy downgrade; shares rebound from sharp fall
South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. on Sept. 10 rebutted J.P. Morgan’s massive downgrade of its target price for the biopharmaceutical company. T...
Hanwha Solutions, affiliates’ shares soar on Green New Deal, defense
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 to wrap up first-round restructuring with $1.1 bn new share sale
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...
Samsung Life shares rally as governance issue looms on likely stake sale
Shares of South Korea’s largest life insurer, Samsung Life Insurance Co., have rallied in recent sessions on expectations that the company will ...
Doosan Heavy shares rally as investors look beyond financial woes
Shares of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd., a South Korean power plant builder, jumped to their highest level in more than two year...
K-pop market remains bullish as entertainment shares soar
South Korean entertainment giants, SM Entertainment Co, YG Entertainment Inc, and JYP Entertainment Corporation, are sitting pretty as their share pri...
Korean EV battery makers' shares tumble on Morgan Stanley downgrade
Shares of South Korea’s three leading electric-vehicle (EV) battery makers LG Chem Ltd, SK Innovation Co. and Samsung SDI Co. fell 5% on August ...
SK to invest $300 million in ChinData Group by joining in pre-IPO share sale
SK Corp. is investing $300 million (360 billion won) in Chinese data center operator ChinData Group as the South Korean company seeks to benefit from ...
TPG, online portal Naver eyeing Korean drama producer’s pre-IPO share sale
The US private equity firm TPG Capital and South Korea’s top Internet portal Naver Corp. have participated in preliminary bidding for a pre-IPO ...
Carlyle to invest $415 mn in KB Financial, betting on share rebound
The Carlyle Group has tentatively agreed to buy $200 million worth of bonds exchangeable into shares in KB Financial Group and the US private equity f...
Elliott sells off over $1 bn shares in Hyundai Motor, two affiliates in two yrs
Elliott Management Corp. has disposed of all its shares in three key units of the Hyundai Motor Group, currently worth $1.5 billion, after its nearly ...
Affinity Equity-led group to exercise put option on $1.8 bn Kyobo Life shares
A consortium led by Affinity Equity Partners will push ahead with exercising their right to sell shares in South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co. Ltd....
Mirae Asset, SK Sec buy German property in share deal
Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and SK Securities Co. Ltd. have recently closed a purchase of an office building leased to a department of the German fede...
Korea insurer buys shares in Lending Club, sees P2P loans as new alternative
South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a 4.1% stake in U.S. Lending Club Corp., the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, for ar...
K-pop stars earn huge capital gain from stock options
Executives and employees of top K-pop agencies such as SM Entertainment Co. and YG Entertainment Inc. are expected to earn huge capital gains from the...
