Korea’s reliance on semiconductor chips increases economic vulnerability: FKI

South Korea’s heavy dependence on semiconductor chips and its concentration on the US and China for exports pose a greater risk to the export-or...

Hanon Systems eyes top spot in world’s car thermal management system market

Hanon Systems Corp., a South Korean auto parts maker, said on Wednesday it aims to become the world’s top supplier of automotive thermal and ene...

Korean shipyards retake global top spot in July with pricey LNG vessels

South Korean shipbuilders replaced their Chinese rivals to take the top spot in the global order book last month, thanks to their supremacy in buildin...

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...

Korean dramas push cultural content exports beyond $10 billion

Korean dramas are becoming a worldwide phenomenon as they rise steadily to become one of Korea's major exports - even in countries that harb...

Korea’s EV battery trio, led by LG Chem, emerge as market’s top picks

South Korea’s three electric-vehicle battery makers have become the local market’s top picks as their combined market capitalization nearl...

Samsung inches closer to Intel as chip market posts Q2 growth despite pandemic

Samsung Electronics Co. is seen narrowing its chip business revenue with Intel Corp. as the global semiconductor market continues to grow despite the ...

Foreigners’ Jan-May Korea apartment purchases top $1 bn on buying spree

Foreign investors have stepped up apartment purchases in South Korea in recent years, adding fuel to the already heated residential property market wh...

Carlyle raises $600 mn for infra credit fund with top Korean banking groups

The Carlyle Group has raised $600 million for an infrastructure credit fund in South Korea jointly with two domestic financial services firms to lend ...

JPMorgan tops Korea’s H1 M&A advisor list with Prudential deal

Prudential Financial Inc.’s 2.3 trillion won ($1.9 billion) sale of its South Korean unit dominated the country’s M&A advisory market ...

NH Investment joins in $10.1 bn Abu Dhabi deal for $1.3 bn stake

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. will invest about 1.6 trillion won ($1.3 billion) in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) gas pipeli...

Equity-linked securities weigh on top Korean brokerage firms

About 48 trillion won ($39 billion) of outstanding equity-linked securities (ELS) issued by South Korean brokerage companies has put their sector lead...

Mirae Asset invests $150 mn in US meat substitutes maker

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has signed a share purchase agreement to invest $150 million in Impossible Foods Inc., a meat substitutes prod...

NPS' 2019 investment return at 10-yr high on equities, fixed incomes

The National Pension Service (NPS) reported a preliminary 11% return on investments in 2019, its best annual result in a decade, supported by double-d...

Macquarie tipped to buy Korea’s top industrial gas producer for $2.2 bn

Macquarie Group has approached MBK Partners to acquire Daesung Industrial Gases Co. Ltd. and offered around 2.5 trillion won ($2.2 billion) for full o...

AI chip venture set to challenge Nvidia, Intel, Google

Back in 2017, the idea of launching a startup to make artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors prompted many blank stares. It was a fight that coul...

[Survey] Transport remains top pick for Korean LPs’ 2020 infra investment

South Korean institutional investors will continue to increase their allocations to overseas infrastructure next year, and transport facilities such a...

Cosmetics firm tops list of Korea’s profitable PE deals

The 300-billion-won ($263 million) equity investment in a South Korean cosmetics firm by a consortium of Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs in 2016 was th...

Morgan Stanley tops 2018 Korea’s M&A advisory firm list

Morgan Stanley led South Korea’s merger advisory services market in 2018, accounting for 8.6 trillion won ($7.7 billion) worth of takeover deals, ...

GS EPS-Mirae Asset consortium buys 10% stake in US gas power plant

A consortium of South Korean power producer GS EPS Co. Ltd. and Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. has agreed to buy a 10% stake in a New Jersey-based gas po...

Hyundai Motor hires Goldman, top law firm to fend off Elliott’s reform call

Hyundai Motor Group has bolstered the roster of its advisors with the addition of Goldman Sachs and US law firm Latham & Watkins LLP to step up fi...

KEB Hana arranges $280 mn loan to Ritz-Carlton New York’s top owner

KEB Hana Bank has arranged a $280 million syndicated loan to the biggest owner of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manhattan from a pool of South Korean fi...

[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Debt, Europe remain at top of Korean LPs’ property deals

Top South Korean institutional investors will remain focused on property-backed debt and Europe for real estate investment in 2018 because of valuatio...

KKR makes pre-IPO investment in Korean car parts makers in $940 mn deal

Private equity firm KKR & Co. has signed an agreement to buy a stake in a South Korean automotive parts maker and acquire a copper foil unit to be...

[Survey] Direct lending, mezzanine at top of Korean LPs’ private debt strategies

South Korea’s leading asset owners are planning to expand private debt investment this year in pursuit of medium risks and medium returns, setti...

[ASK 2017 SUMMIT Panel Talks] Korean insurers seek co-investment, top-tier GPs

South Korean insurance companies are looking for co-investment in overseas alternatives with general partners, and leaning towards larger GPs in the i...

ABCP issues backed by Chinese bank deposits seen to top corporate bond sales in Korea

South Korean pension and savings funds are piling into short-term notes backed by time deposits at Chinese banks, lured by higher deposit rates from C...

Top Korean investors to meet UK asset managers in London on July 22

Sang-Hyun Yoo, the new global alternative division head of the National Pension Service (NPS) and senior managers of other top South Korean instit...

NPS’ stock concentration in Samsung, top conglomerates deepens in H1, 2016

The units of the Samsung Group made up a quarter of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) Korean stock holdings in value in the first half of this year...

[Editor's Note]Top Korean investors' views on Brexit

The National Pension Service, the world’s 3rd largest pension scheme, has just finished its “beauty contest” to select general partners to manage dome...