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Travel & Leisure
S.Korea's golf course market doubles in value over 10 years
The value of South Korea's market golf course market now equals 98.5% of Japan's.The Korea Leisure Industry Institute (KLII) on Thursday released a ...
Dec 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
CJ OliveNetworks develops factory big data solution
South Korea's IT service management firm CJ OliveNetworks Co. Ltd. said on Wednesday that it has developed a real-time database (RTDB), a data manag...
Dec 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LS Cable inks $159 mn Taiwan submarine cable supply contract
LS Cable & System Ltd., South Korea’s top wire and cable producer, signed a formal contract worth 150 million euros ($159 million) to supp...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
K League's campaign wins gold prize at International ad festival
The promotional video for the "Dribble-made Route" campaign produced by the Korea Professional Football Association (K League) in partnership with H...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Microdisplays poised to emerge in growing XR market
The slowly growing extended reality (XR) market next year is expected to explode as global big tech companies get ready to launch augmented (AR) and v...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Private equity juggernauts bid for $758 million worth of KT Cloud shares
A number of private equity giants in South Korea and beyond are bidding for shares worth up to 1 trillion won ($758.2 million) in KT Cloud, a subsid...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
LG Uplus poised to acquire homegrown OTT platform Watcha
South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. is slated to acquire homegrown over-the-top (OTT) platform Watcha Inc., investment b...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
DWS taps Steven Kim as APAC real estate asset management head
German asset management giant DWS Group said on Dec. 5 that it has appointed DWS Asset Management Korea’s Director Steven Kim (Kim Sang-wook) ...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Mispriced risk in EU, UK real estate brings appealing opportunities: Abrdn
European real estate prices are adjusting, creating mispriced risk amid current market turbulence. This brings attractive opportunities for investor...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Arts
Yeolmae and Company emerges as major player in secondary art market
South Korean startup Yeolmae and Company, which operates ArtnGuide, has recently emerged as a significant player in the art market.ArtnGuide is an o...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS posts 7% investment loss in Q1-Q3 as equities, bonds plunge
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...
Nov 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Market volatility creates opportunities for secondary buyers: Stafford
Equity and bond portfolios' shrinking assets are major challenges currently faced by global investors in terms of asset allocation. But the situatio...
Nov 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Nexon named preferred bidder for 50% of office tower from KTCU
Gaming giant Nexon Co. is set to acquire a 50% stake in the Autoway Tower, an office building in Seoul's Gangnam business district, from the Korean ...
Nov 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Korea's SK Inc. revs up power semiconductor value chains via M&As
SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, is ramping up its value chain of third-generation semicondu...
Nov 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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AgTech
Food giant Nongshim exports two container units of smart farm to Oman
Nongshim Co., a South Korean food and instant noodle manufacturer, announced on Wednesday that it is slated to export a smart farm system to Oman, a...
Nov 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
KEB Hana secures 6% stake in Onmind, part of SK Square's porfolio
SK Square Co. announced on Monday that Onmind Inc., one of its portfolio companies, raised 2 billion won ($1.5 million) from KEB Hana Bank. The...
Nov 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Seoul more expensive than Tokyo for expats due to high real estate costs
TOKYO — The monthly rent of a commercial building in Seoul has surpassed that of Tokyo for the first time.The rent for an office building in t...
Nov 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea's NPS to get partial tax refund on US real estate sales
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is set to receive a tax refund of 30 billion won ($22.4 million) from the US Internal Revenue Ser...
Nov 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean PE firms struggle with fundraising on illiquidity
South Korean private equity (PE) firms are having trouble fundraising as institutional investors' capital for new investment is drying up amid inter...
Nov 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea's SKT aims for $32 bn in corporate value via AI tech by 2026
South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. is aiming to quadruple its corporate value, currently around 11 trillion won ($7.9 billion), b...
Nov 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
[ASK 2022] Unlocking Value in European Mid-Market Infrastructure
Infracapital invests in, builds and manages a diverse range of essential infrastructure to meet the changing needs of society and support long-te...
Nov 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung Elec's brand value rises to $87.7 billion
Samsung Electronics' brand value has broken the $80 billion mark. Korea's flagship company saw such value grow in double digits for the second ...
Nov 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Select Korean companies seek to raise cash reserves
Several corporations have recently sold stocks and real estate apparently to boost liquidity and repay maturing debts amid the "three high" era of h...
Nov 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
KBIZ eyes value-added, senior loans for real estate
The Korea Federation of SMEs (KBIZ) bet on value-added and senior loans in global real estate investment this year, the institutional investors&rsqu...
Oct 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
KIC sees secondary and deep value investments as attractive
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is eyeing secondary and deep value strategies, the sovereign wealth fund’s Senior Director of Private Equit...
Oct 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
NPS considers new investment in global real estate
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is open to new investments in overseas real estate, the pension fund’s American real estate...
Oct 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
Teachers' Pension continues focus on global residential, logistics
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension (TP) will continue its focus on residential and logistics in global real estate investments next year, t...
Oct 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea's Samsung Biologics signs $296 mn CMO deal with GSK
South Korea’s Samsung Biologics Co. has signed a $296.1 million deal to supply biopharmaceutical products to UK-based multinational pharma gia...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Keppel completes Korean waste treatment firm takeover for $530 mn
Singapore-based Keppel Infrastructure completed the acquisition of South Korea’s leading waste management company EMK Co. for 760 billion won ...
Oct 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
S.Korea to widen tech gap with global shipbuilding rivals
South Korea, the world’s largest shipbuilding country, will expand its production of high-value-added specialized vessels, such as liquefied h...
Oct 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Xiaomi to open first offline store in S.Korea with premium products
- 2 Loss-making Lotte Chemical to sell water treatment unit to Synopex
- 3 Google to invest $100 mn in Gentle Monster in smart glasses push
- 4 Growth equity portfolio largely shielded from policy headwinds: Summit
- 5 Naver Financial seeks to acquire S. Korean real estate data platform Asil