Deals

On Jan. 19, SM Entertainment Co. founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man received a 17-page document written by South Korea’s largest la...

SM Entertainment Co., a South Korean music label widely credited as the pioneer of K-pop, has emerged as a new battlefield between HYBE Co., the age...

Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), one of the country’s most aggressive shareholder activists, plans to sell its stake in Oss...

HYBE Co., the music label behind K-pop sensation BTS, is poised to acquire a controlling stake in its South Korean rival SM Entertainment Co. with m...

InnoGene, which is seeking to be listed on the Kosdaq market at the end of this month, said on Wednesday that it has confirmed its offering price at...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is gearing up for its largest-ever corporate bond issue in South Korea at lower-th...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

Dongwon Industries Co. will discuss a deal with McDonald’s Corp. to buy the latter’s Korean operations in hopes of riding on the renewed...

MBK Partners, the largest private equity firm in Northeast Asia, is set to acquire Japanese senior nursing care service company Unimat Retirement Co...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...

South Korea's K Bank has withdrawn its highly anticipated plan to hold an IPO this year in the judgement of a lower corporate value due to the slugg...

Croda International Plc., a British specialty chemicals company, is set to acquire South Korean bio materials producer Solus Biotech Co. for some 35...

South Korea's two premium ride hailing apps TADA and i.M are considering a merger in a bid to challenge Kakao Mobility Corp., which commands about 9...

South Korean real estate firm Bluecove Investment has signed an agreement to acquire five-star hotel Grand Hyatt Seoul for more than 700 billion won...

South Korean companies are making renewed pushes to go public this year even at the expense of reduced IPO values.Zaram Technology Inc., a chip desi...

South Korea's top petrochemical firms raised 2.6 trillion won ($2.1 billion) via corporate bond sales and rights offering earlier this month to gird...

MBK Partners, a leading Asian private equity firm, and Unison Capital Korea agreed on a tender offer to acquire management rights of Osstem Implant ...

South Korea’s Woori Financial Group is set to acquire Daol Investment Co., a venture capital arm of the liquidity-strapped Daol Financial Grou...

South Korea’s Hyosung Group and its longtime rival Kolon Group in the fiber, textile and petrochemical businesses are poised to give up their ...

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. aims to raise up to $166 million through a listing next month, becoming the country’s first...

KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, and its Cambodian local subsidiary KB Daehan Specialized Bank, acquired the Southeast Asi...

Asia-focused Orchestra Private Equity agreed on Wednesday to buy a 100% stake in the South Korean operations of fast food chain KFC for around 60 bi...

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have agreed to invest a combined $964 million in K...

Pacific Alliance Group (PAG), a Hong Kong-based alternative investment firm, joined the bidding on Jan. 10 to acquire a 100% stake in South Korean h...

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. has raised $1 billion in sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) to become the world's first memory chipmaker to issue ...

South Korean private equity firm VIG Partners has acquired a 100% stake in low-cost carrier (LCC) Eastar Jet Co., the asset manager said on Jan. 6. ...

South Korea's top steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc. is expected to issue won-denominated unsecured bonds worth up to 700 billion won ($553.9 million) t...

South Korea’s Daol Financial Group agreed to sell another unit as part of its efforts to raise money in preparations for a possible liquidity ...

South Korea’s move to privatize container shipping line HMM Co. to recover taxpayer money is gaining traction as government officials start lo...