ASK 2019 Private Debt

More global investors are turning to the private debt market as bank loans are getting tougher under stricter lending regulations. Among a range of ...

South Korea's energy service, petrochemical and real estate development company Hanwha Solutions Corp. will build H-Techno Valley, an industrial com...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) selected Apollo Global Management, Warburg Pincus and Sweden-based EQT Partners as i...

South Korea’s Woori Global Asset Management Co. and ABL Life Insurance Co. have committed a sizeable amount of capital to a first closing of a...

Global asset manager BlackRock has bought a 30% stake in South Korea’s industrial gas supplier AirFirst Co. for 1.11 trillion won ($860 millio...

South Korea's anemic initial public offering market has forced the country’s startups to become more creative in raising funds as they shift t...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korea has officially requested the US government to review details of the guardrail provisions in the CHIPS and Scien...

Global real estate investors will see the funding gap continue for a while, which creates opportunities for private debt in the sector. The office s...

Investors will spur capital injection in global residential real estate and emerging infrastructure segments such as data centers and energy transit...

South Korean institutional investors find secondaries and private debt attractive amid the darkening economic outlook, chief investment officers (CI...

OpenAI, the world’s most well-known artificial intelligence lab, is tapping South Korean institutional investors for investment at an estimate...

Global investors will find opportunities to increase positions in private debt markets amid high interest rates this year and need to strengthen their...

South Korea has approved a fast-track system that slashes complex administrative procedures for application of private technology to the military&rs...

South Korea, trailing in the global race for quantum technology, will open a new quantum technology-dedicated graduate school with a consortium led ...

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Monday that it has signed an infrastructure fund inve...

South Korean institutional investors, including the world’s third-largest pension fund National Pension Service (NPS), and global asset manage...

Direct lending, which has topped South Korean institutional investors’ private debt strategies for years, has become even more popular amid risi...

Healthcare continued to be the preferred sector for South Korean institutional investors this year as it was last year, a survey found. Meanwhile, the...

South Korean institutional investors are eyeing private debt and infrastructure for stable income and to hedge against inflation, a survey by The Kore...

Private equity firm MBK Partners is set to acquire Pierre Marcolini, a Belgian chocolate brand called "Hermes of Chocolate."MBK bought the South Kor...

Shinhan Financial Group's Chairman Jin Ok-dong is set to embark on his first overseas business trip since taking office as chairman last month. From...

SEOUL—A South Korean official said the government was investigating the circumstances around a leak of highly classified U.S. documents that a...

South Korea’s antitrust body on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC and its regional arms 42.1 billion won ($32 million) for allege...

South Korea’s debt-ridden public enterprises are selling off their stakes in overseas coal mines to improve their financial status and stay in...

GS Group, a South Korean energy-to-retail conglomerate, plans to aggressively invest in startups and venture companies with promising technology &nd...

South Korean career matching platform Saramin (formerly SaraminHR Co.)  said on Tuesday that it has unveiled an AI interview coaching service t...

The Korean government has decided to develop electric vehicle batteries that can travel more than 600 km on a single charge and lunar landing vehicl...

The U.S. and South Korea are both seeking to extradite captured crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon from Montenegro, authorities in the tiny European nation...

Resuming flights from Incheon International Airport to and from Prague, Czech Republic, and Zurich, Switzerland, to expand its air traffic, South Ko...

LINE Corp. and Mizuho Financial Group’s plan to introduce an internet-only bank in Japan has fallen through about five years after they unveil...