Hana Financial, Bain Capital to expand investment in S.Korea

Hana Financial, Bain Capital to expand investment in S.Korea

South Korean Hana Financial Group and the US-based global well-known private equity fund (PEF) Bain Capital plan to strengthen their strategic par...

South Korea’s steel imports from China at 7-year high

South Korea’s steel imports from China at 7-year high

South Korea’s imports of steel products from China climbed to their highest level in seven years despite a decrease in its total steel imports...

Koramco seeks to sell Seoul prime office tower in $272 million deal

Koramco seeks to sell Seoul prime office tower in $272 million deal

South Korea’s Koramco REITs Management & Trust Co. is poised sell a prime office building in Seoul in an estimated 400 billion won ($272 m...

Political crisis ups downside risk to S.Korea’s economy: S&P, Moody’s

Political crisis ups downside risk to S.Korea’s economy: S&P, Moody’s

Global credit rating agencies are warning of looming downward pressure on South Korea’s sovereign credit rating about a month after Asia&rsquo...

BMW retains throne in South Korea’s imported car market

BMW retains throne in South Korea’s imported car market

German luxury carmaker BMW claimed the mantle of top imported car brand in South Korea for a second consecutive year in 2024, beating out rival Merc...

Korean cosmetics beat Chanel, Lancôme to rank top in US, Japan

Korean cosmetics beat Chanel, Lancôme to rank top in US, Japan

South Korea’s cosmetics products, also known as K-beauty, have gained global renown, overtaking French brands such as Chanel and Lancôme...

Hanwha to exit from polysilicon business in US

Hanwha to exit from polysilicon business in US

Hanwha Solutions Corp., the energy unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-financial conglomerate Hanwha Group, will likely withdraw from the polys...

S.Korean securities firms race for IB market leadership

S.Korean securities firms race for IB market leadership

South Korean securities firms have upped the ante in a race to win the country’s investment banking (IB) market this year after aggressive bus...

Hahn & Co. buys SK Enpulse’s chip wafer polishing pad business

Hahn & Co. buys SK Enpulse’s chip wafer polishing pad business

Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has agreed to buy the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads manufacturing division of SK Enpulse C...

Lotte Card Card to launch loans for affiliates in Vietnam

Lotte Card Card to launch loans for affiliates in Vietnam

South Korea's Lotte Card said on Monday it will launch loans for affiliates in Vietnam.Lotte Finance Vietnam, the Vietnamese corporation of Lotte Ca...

Korea’s Shinsegae chairman dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Korea’s Shinsegae chairman dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Chung Yong-jin, the chairman of South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group, held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump, becoming Korea's ...

POSCO to raise up to $691 million as next year’s 1st corporate bond issuer

POSCO to raise up to $691 million as next year’s 1st corporate bond issuer

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group plans to raise up to 1 trillion won ($691 million) in the country’s fi...

Hyosung TNC acquires Hyosung Chemical’s specialty gas unit for $642 mn

Hyosung TNC acquires Hyosung Chemical’s specialty gas unit for $642 mn

Hyosung TNC Corp., a South Korean textile and yarn maker, said on Thursday it will acquire the specialty gas division of Hyosung Chemical Corp. for ...

POSCO Future M develops technology to make electrode rods

POSCO Future M develops technology to make electrode rods

POSCO Future M Co., a battery material and steel manufacturing equipment supplier, said on Thursday it has developed electrode rod manufacturing tec...

BTS Jin to enter liquor business

BTS Jin to enter liquor business

BTS Jin plans to enter Korean traditional liquor business with Baek Jong-won, founder and CEO of The Born Korea Co., the entertainment industry sour...

Samsung C&T, Hitachi Energy to team up for HVDC projects

Samsung C&T, Hitachi Energy to team up for HVDC projects

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sweden's Hitachi Energy to cooperate for high-vol...

Harman to spearhead Samsung’s automotive solutions business

Harman to spearhead Samsung’s automotive solutions business

Samsung Electronics Co. will bolster cooperation in in-vehicle technology with its fully owned US subsidiary Harman International Industries Inc. to...

SK promotes restructuring keymen to SK On, SK Discovery top posts

SK promotes restructuring keymen to SK On, SK Discovery top posts

SK Group on Thursday promoted the keymen of its business overhauls to top posts at intermediary holding company SK Discovery Co. and battery maker S...

CJ OliveNetworks to expand cloud management biz

CJ OliveNetworks to expand cloud management biz

South Korea's CJ OliveNetworks said on Wednesday it will expand its managed service provider (MSP) in the cloud industry, utilizing Naver Cloud and ...

Blackstone, Carlyle, MBK vying for CJ CheilJedang’s bio business

Blackstone, Carlyle, MBK vying for CJ CheilJedang’s bio business

Blackstone, Carlyle Group and MBK Partners have joined the race to purchase the bio business of CJ CheilJedang Corp., the world’s largest prod...

POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business

POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group will invest in the leading domestic robotics company to boost its ailing ste...

Latvian President Rinkēvičs seeks closer ties with S.Korea in bio, defense

Latvian President Rinkēvičs seeks closer ties with S.Korea in bio, defense

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, who is on a four-day working trip to South Korea, said on Friday he hopes for deeper cooperation between the two...

HD Hyundai Oilbank ventures into bioenergy sector as new growth driver

HD Hyundai Oilbank ventures into bioenergy sector as new growth driver

HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., a South Korean crude oil refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, is diversifying its business beyond fossil fuel-centered operations...

Samsung reshuffles top brass; Co-CEO to control memory business

Samsung reshuffles top brass; Co-CEO to control memory business

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 1 memory chipmaker, reshuffled its leadership on Wednesday in a sweeping move as it faces an uph...

BlackRock names Lee Yoon Pyo as head of S.Korea business

BlackRock names Lee Yoon Pyo as head of S.Korea business

BlackRock, the world's best-known asset manager, has appointed Lee Yoon Pyo as managing director and head of its South Korea operations, effective f...

Samsung Electronics, LG Uplus to jointly develop ixi-O AI smartphone

Samsung Electronics, LG Uplus to jointly develop ixi-O AI smartphone

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has joined forces with mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. to unveil an AI smartphone embedded with a high...

Korea mulls raising US oil imports to cope with Trump trade policies

Korea mulls raising US oil imports to cope with Trump trade policies

South Korea, the world’s fourth-largest oil importer, is considering increasing US oil imports to ease potential pressure from President-elect...

Hanwha Life acquires US securities firm Velocity

Hanwha Life acquires US securities firm Velocity

South Korea's Hanwha Life Insurance said on Wednesday it signed a stock purchase agreement (SPA) to acquire a 75% stake in Velocity Clearing LLC, ...

LG Electronics rises to global prominence in HVAC segment, ranks fifth

LG Electronics rises to global prominence in HVAC segment, ranks fifth

LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean home appliance maker, has emerged as one of the world’s top five players in the heating, ventilati...

POSCO shutters wire rod mill in Korea on supply glut

POSCO shutters wire rod mill in Korea on supply glut

POSCO, the world’s seventh-largest steelmaker, said on Tuesday it has shut down a wire rod mill in South Korea as rising exports from China ha...

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