SK Eng beats Goldman, Keppel in $846 mn bid for Korean waste treatment firm

SK Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. has beat Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, Singapore’s Keppel Infrastructure Holdings and two ...

Samsung, SK Hynix on toes as US tightens restrictions on Huawei

Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are on guard as the US Department of Commerce toughens its restrictions on Chinese tech co...

Hanwha eyes gains running hydrogen fueling stations for US startup

Hanwha Group may exercise its rights to operate more than 700 hydrogen fueling stations to be built across the US and Canada by US hydr...

SK Bioscience wins COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing order from US firm

SK Bioscience Co. Ltd. has secured a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) order for a new coronavirus vaccine candidate under development by the ...

SK Lubricants up for sale as parent firm bulks up EV battery business

SK Innovation Co. Ltd., the single shareholder of SK Lubricants Co. Ltd., has put the lube base oil supplier up for sale as the parent company seeks n...

SK Hynix joins in $60 mn funding for US chip design startup SiFive

SK Hynix Inc. has recently participated in a $60 million funding for the US semiconductor startup SiFive, SK Hynix said on August 12.Saudi Aramco and ...

Korean telecom giant KT to issue $400 mn dollar bond in August

South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. plans to raise $400 million by issuing a dollar-denominated bond around the end of August, according to inv...

Goldman, Keppel Infrastructure, SK Eng vying for top Korean waste disposal firm

South Korea’s largest waste treatment company EMC Holdings Co. Ltd. has drawn binding bids from Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA) Gr...

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 ...

BTS’ label, SK Biopharm gearing up for billion-dollar IPOs in 2020

Big Hit Entertainment Co. Ltd., the label behind the K-pop boy band BTS and SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. are moving ahead with their planned initial...

NPS sets up $860 mn Vietnam investment fund with SK Group

The National Pension Service (NPS) has launched a 1 trillion won ($860 million) fund with SK Group to invest in Vietnamese companies, through which th...

SK Group, Hillhouse Capital to form $850 mn fund to invest in Chinese start-ups

SK Group will set up a 1 trillion won ($850 million) fund with China’s private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group to invest in Chinese start-up...

KTCU, SK Holdings to launch $1 bn fund for global co-investment

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) will set up a $1 billion joint fund with South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. Ltd. to make cross-border investme...

US gas stations deal secures $130 mn debt from Korea: report

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. committed $130 million to a subordinated debt on a portfolio of 190 gas stations in the US Midwest last wee...

French PE Ardian opens 4th Asian office in Seoul

Paris-based private equity house Ardian has opened a Seoul office as its fourth Asian base, as South Korean institutional investors such as pension fu...

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...

KTB Asset invests in refinanced loan on Union Station

KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested an undisclosed amount in a debt secured on Union Station in Washington D.C. on behalf of three South Korean...

IFM Investors opens Seoul office; upbeat on renewable energy

Australia’s IFM Investors opened its eighth global office in Seoul on Nov. 30, at a time when key South Korean asset owners stressed the importance of...

KIC to open Singapore office to boost Asian alternative investment

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will open its third overseas office in Singapore as early as August in its push for alternative investments in Asia...

China Minsheng Investment to invest in SK Planet

China Minsheng Investment Group, China's largest private-sector investment firm, is mulling an investment of 1.3 trillion won (US$1.13 billion) in Kor...

[Editor's Note] ASK 2016 Summit helps open korean investor's eyes to cat bonds

It was February, 2013 when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer surprised Silicon Valley and business world by forbidding Yahoo staff from working remotely from ho...

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SK Innovation to supply batteries to Hyundai’s IONIQ 7

SK Innovation Co. is set to supply batteries for the IONIQ 7, Hyundai Motor Co.’s large electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) to be unveiled in...

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SK Hynix introduces Gauss Labs-developed AI solution to semicon process (edited)

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has started to improve production efficiency and yield by introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to...

Samsung Electronics opens gaming-focused shopping platform(edited)

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday launched the "Samsung Game Portal" on Samsung.com in Korea, as the South Korean tech giant seeks to strengthen i...

SK Hynix raises $1.5 bn in foreign bonds amid high demand

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, has raised $1.5 billion in foreign currency bonds, with the debt offering four tim...

NO EDIT, NO PUBLISHING. Trump-driven energy boom spurs Korean firms to hike US gas investments

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