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South Korea’s Samsung Asset Management Co. invested in a US exchange-traded fund sponsor to expand its global presence in the market.Samsung s...

South Korea's SK Hynix Inc. is considering forming a consortium with other strategic investors to buy Arm Ltd., a British semiconductor design compa...

Snow Corp., a subsidiary of South Korea’s tech behemoth Naver Corp., has either already invested, or is slated to invest, in 11 companies so f...

South Korea’s activist fund Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI) has decided to sell its stake in Hanjin KAL, the holding compan...

Q Cells, a renewable energy division of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., has clinched a large-scale solar energy project in France, acceleratin...

LG Household & Health Care Ltd. was one of the most coveted shares on the Korean bouse in the past couple of years as the company basked in the ...

CJ ENM Co., South Korea’s entertainment giant, has dropped a plan to carve out its content production business into a new unit in the face of ...

Naver Z Corp. invested in more than eight companies so far this year, according to people familiar with the deals. Naver Z is the operator of Asia...

South Korea’s major retailer Hyundai Department Store Group is set to buy Zinus Inc., a maker of best-selling mattresses in North America for ...

North Asia-focused MBK Partners has closed a $1.18 billion deal to sell its 12.5% stake to New York-based Dyal Capital at an equity valuation of nea...

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top carmaker, invested $21.6 million late last year in startups with promising technologies in non-automaking...

South Korea’s first generation biotech firm Medipost Co. will sell a 30% stake to a private equity consortium, the company announced after W...

Renault Samsung Motors Corp., the South Korean unit of Renault S.A., has dropped Samsung from its name as the French automaker moves to end 22 years...

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. is eyeing the metaverse and robotics as keys to the global tech giant’s future. At the same time, it is ...

Innocean Worldwide Holdings Inc., a South Korean marketing company, will wholly own US media agency joint venture Canvas Worldwide LLC by acquiring ...

New York-based Morgan Stanley Private Equity is slated to sell its entire stake in Jeonju Paper Corp., South Korea's top newsprint producer, and its...

Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea's top mobile messenger app, is in the final stages of talks to buy a controlling stake in SM Entert...

The unexpected death of Nexon founder Kim Jung-ju stoked market speculation about a possible change in its ownership structure and top management, s...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will arrange senior and mezzanine loans for Paris-based PAI Partners to fund its acquisition of Tropicana an...

‘Beyond Korea’ is South Korean tech juggernaut Kakao Corp.’s new vision for the future. Kakao’s new CEO nominee Namkoon...

South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. has acquired Singapore-based electronic waste (e-waste) disposal and recycling company TES Envirocorp Pte. Ltd for $1 ...

LS-Nikko Copper Co., the world’s second-largest electrolytic copper maker, is set to sell an 800 billion won ($670 million) stake in a joint v...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has acquired US-based NEC Energy Solutions to expand its capabilities into the energy storage system (ESS) integration mar...

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest container line, returned to an annual profit for the first time in a decade, boosted by higher freight rates an...

Stockbridge Capital Group LLC, a US real estate investment firm, announced on Feb. 10 that David Park has joined the firm as a managing director. ...

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has increased its stake in South Korea's leading gaming company NCSoft Corp. to become its fourth-...

Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has named Lee Seong-yeong as its new chief investment officer and is in the final stage of the no...

KKR & Co., The Carlyle Group and TPG Inc. have handed in preliminary bids for shares in SK Group's battery unit SK On, which is seeking to raise...

Hyundai Motor Co. will unveil the much-anticipated IONIQ 6, its first all-electric sedan on an exclusive EV platform, in July, to compete with the l...

  Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF) has bought a 5% stake in online game developer Nexon Co., the gaming...