South Korea’s Daishin Securities Co. is set to sell its headquarters office to NH-Amundi Asset Management Co. for 660 billion won ($492.6 million) to spur the brokerage house’s investment banking and corporate finance businesses, sources familiar with the matter said
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Renault Korea Motors Co., grappling with a protracted slump without new cars, plans to invest more than 700 billion won ($523 million) by 2027 to transform its auto plant in Busan, South Korea’s No. 1 port city, into an eco-friendly car-manufacturing hub in hopes of rejuven
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South Korea's state-run Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) has signed a $3 billion deal to operate the Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), the Philippines’ main gateway, over the next 25 years.The Korean airport operator and its Filipino consortium par
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South Korea has outstripped Hong Kong and Shanghai as a preferred Asia-Pacific headquarter destination for global companies following Singapore as geopolitical concerns and economic uncertainties in China prompt multinational firms to explore alternative locations, a survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, or AMCHAM Korea, showed.According to the AMCHAM Business Survey 2024 released this month, Korea climbed to the second place from
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Banking & FinanceKorea's BC Card launches Trip.Pass for foreign visitors
South Korea's BC Card announced on Tuesday that it launched a "Trip.Pass Card" and "Trip.Pass QR Payment Service" for foreign tourists with the domestic mobile passport platform company Lord System.The Trip.Pass Card is a debit card that can be used
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Bio & PharmaSamsung invests in BrickBio in US
Samsung Group announced on Tuesday that its Life Science Fund has invested in the US-based antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) and gene therapy technologies company BrickBio.The Samsung Life Science Fund is a venture investment fund jointly formed by Sams
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AutomobilesIL Science enters UK silicon lens market
South Korea's IL Science Co. said on Monday that it signed a contract with the US-based automotive electronics company Polymer Optics to supply an initial 3,000 units to a European motorcycle manufacturer. The agreement follows a memorandum of unders
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EnergyHyundai E&C wins $132 mn biogas facility project
Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Monday that it was selected as the preferred bidder for a private investment project of a metropolitan integrated biogas facility in Gumi City, North Gyeongsang Province, South
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KOREAN INVESTORS
A growing number of private real estate firms are being put up for sale in South Korea amid a prolonged market downturn and increasing delinquencies in property development project finance. Fastfive Co., a co-working space operator, sold a 100% stak
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Goldman Sachs’ Chung Hyung-Jin, co-head of the Seoul office and the leader of the firm’s investment banking (IB) business in South Korea, will resign from the company and become Hyundai Capital chief executive in June, The Korea Economic
Mar 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
South Korean real estate firm Mastern Investment Management is set to sell off Donuimun D Tower, a landmark office building in Seoul, for about 900 billion won ($684 million), people familiar with the matter said on Friday.Mastern will inform its lim
Mar 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. has selected Seoul-based real estate manager ARA Korea Ltd. as the preferred bidder for five-star hotel Conrad Seoul for around 430 billion won ($324.5 million), banking sources said on Thursday.With th
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The commercial real estate (CRE) debt market in Australia has grown rapidly over the last decade. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the market expanded from A$200 billion in 2012 to A$357 billion by 2022, a circa 6% compoun
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M&A
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Investment bankingMBK’s Michael ByungJu Kim: Top investment banker in Korea
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Mergers & AcquisitionsLotte puts Lotte Chemical Titan in Malaysia on market
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AirlinesRace for Asiana's cargo unit heats up with local bidders
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Korean startupsVenture downturn keeps Korean unicorns from acquisitions
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ConstructionDaewoo E&C, Kuwaiti banks sign $250 mn loan agreement
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Private equityTmax Group to draw more than $572 mn to buy back Tmaxsoft
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Private equityEQT sells Shinhan stake in block deal at 30% return
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MARKETS
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EconomyKorea eyes $1.5 bn injection in KDB for chip, battery sectors
South Korea may inject some 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) into Korea Development Bank (KDB) by the end of this month to support the state-run bank's financing plans focused on the chip and secondary battery industries, according to the government on Monday.KDB and other state-owned financial institutes such as Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) and Kor
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Shareholder activismSamsung C&T defeats activist funds in proxy battle
Activist funds arm in arm to demand higher dividends from Samsung C&T Corp. got defeated in a proxy fight against the de facto holding firm of Samsung Group as the lion’s share of its shareholders sided with the company. During Samsung C&T’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Friday, 77% of voting shares gave the nod to the c
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Aerospace & DefenseKASA, Korea’s NASA, embarks on hunt for space talent
South Korea seeking to join the global space power club is set to recruit about 120 local and foreign space experts for the country’s space agency, which will orchestrate national space programs like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US, from May. According to Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT on Thursday
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South Korea has remained muted to a new gold rush fueled by various central banks across the world gobbling up the precious metal, raising concerns that Asia’s fourth-largest economy is one of a handful of nations missing out on the great profit-making opportunity. According to the World Gold Council on Tuesday, total gold holdings by central
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CULTURE & TRENDS
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The Deep DiveKorea faces apple crisis amid climate, demographic change
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Korean gamesPUBG’s Krafton expands in India with localized games
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The KED ViewLabor reform urged in Korea with higher wages than Japan
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The KED ViewDefy convention with long-run plans to upvalue Korean stocks
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