Debt financing

South Korean game company Netmarble Corp. announced on Monday that it will partner with Hana Financial Group to develop new financial experiences an...

Real estate debt has gained recognition as a viable investment vehicle for several reasons. Firstly, investors may benefit from the security provide...

Some South Korean institutional investors may see significant losses on their investment in a hotel in the heart of New York as the developer has de...

South Korea’s major banks expect their earnings in the second half to fall on the soaring distressed debts of households and companies due to ...

South Korea is set to bolster support for local fabless companies, which design and sell chips, with an aim to grow the firms into global semiconduc...

South Korea’s central bank chief on Thursday vowed to reduce household debt without causing a severe economic downturn as the Bank of Korea he...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has divested all shares it owns in Chinese joint venture Lotte Sanjiang Chemical Co., according to people f...

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has shortlisted four global investment firms, Blackstone, KKR & Co., Goldman Sac...

The Bank of Korea announced on Friday that it has appointed Ryoo Sang-dae, the current vice president of Korea Housing-Finance Corp., as its new s...

South Korea’s largest investment conference will be held in Seoul Sept. 11-15 with around 100 chief executives from global financial services ...

South Korea’s central bank warned that household lending in the country has leaped to the world’s third highest and could hurt long-term...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw the net value of its traditional assets rise 8.25% in the first half of this year, backed by the strong perfo...

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday kept the door open for another interest rate hike after leaving the policy borrowing cost unchanged for...

The $711 million financing organized by Hyundai Motor Co. and LG Energy Solution Ltd. last year for their battery joint venture in Indonesia has bee...

Singapore-based major real estate firm City Developments Ltd. (CDL) has bought Nine Tree Premier Hotel Myeongdong II from South Korea’s Shinha...

South Korea's Kia Corp. said on Tuesday it has partnered with Hyundai Capital Services, Shinhan EZ General Insurance, the Seoul Taxi Association, Ha...

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

South Korea plans to discuss with Japan the re-establishment of their bilateral currency swap line, said its finance minister on Thursday, as the di...

Affinity Equity Partners’ Seoul office head Sam Lee has left the global investment firm, sources familiar with the matter told The Korea Econo...

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...

South Korea's Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced on Friday that Kim Seong-wook, the ministry's Director of the Office of International Finan...

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities on Thursday said it signed an agreement with Hana Financial Group on the security token consortium Next Finance...

Asia’s private equity giant MBK Partners Ltd. is set to accelerate fundraising for its new fund, which is expected to become the firm’s ...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund with 939 trillion won ($713 billion) in assets as of end...

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...

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

South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co. on Wednesday signed an agreement to join the first-stage, $4.5 billion construction of green hydrogen and ammoni...

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

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