GS Retail

A consortium led by global investment firm Affinity Equity Partners is the most likely candidate to acquire South Korea’s second-largest food ...

South Korea-based Interpark Corp., one of the country’s first-generation online retail platforms, is up for sale. According to the invest...

The sale of Citibank Korea’s consumer banking business is gaining traction as potential bidders have started due diligence of the bank, with e...

A consortium led by South Korea’s GS Group is in talks to acquire a controlling stake in Hugel Inc., the country’s top maker of botulinu...

South Korean retail investors, who had largely opposed the regulator’s lifting of the short-selling ban on large-cap stocks from May, are now ...

GS Group has become South Korea’s first business group to purchase carbon-neutral crude oil, in a move to strengthen its ESG efforts.South Kor...

South Korea’s leading oil and gas company GS Energy Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Holdings, and Spain’s largest utility company...

The tussle over the acquisition of eBay Korea is now down to two heavyweight contenders. South Korea’s retail titans Lotte Group and Shinsegae...

Citibank Korea will begin to examine ways to gradually liquidate its consumer banking business as it faces difficulties in selling the retail operat...

Gender-discrimination controversies are rattling South Korean retailers, with two companies recently accused of misandry in publicity campaigns. In...

Woori Financial Group has been selected to acquire Franklin Templeton Investments’ retail fund business in South Korea, less than a month sinc...

Media, telecom, retail and energy industries offer attractive distressed investment opportunities because they are undergoing structural changes cau...

South Korea’s second-largest food delivery app Yogiyo has drawn about 10 preliminary bidders, including retailer Shinsegae and private equity ...

Franklin Templeton Investments' South Korean arm is in talks with a domestic asset management company to sell its retail operations, following Black...

South Korea-based fintech firm Korea Credit Data (KCD) has raised around 40 billion won ($36 million) from Singapore-based private equity firm Pavil...

Citigroup Inc.'s plan to exit from South Korea's retail banking market may invigorate the country's M&A market, with small-sized, non-banking fi...

South Korea’s SK Group has acquired 16.3% of Vincommerce, Vietnam’s top retail business operator, for $410 million as part of a move to ...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, has sold its retail business in South Korea to a small domestic investment firm to concentr...

South Korea's GS Caltex Corp., aiming to become a logistics platform, will invest around 30 billion won ($26 million) in Kakao Mobility Corp. to str...

The daily schedule of this 26-year-old South Korean university student, identified by his surname Ahn, is not too different from that of a typical...

South Korean vaccine maker SK Bioscience Co. has set a new record for initial public offering demand, raising around 63.6 trillion won ($56 billio...

The planned sale of eBay Inc.’s South Korean operations is gathering steam ahead of Coupang Corp.'s US stock market listing this week, with th...

The vice-chairman of South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group, Chung Yong-jin, has a reputation of being an early adopter. He's known to be ...

South Korea’s financial regulator has decided to allow the short selling of large-cap stocks from May 3 despite opposition from retail investo...

Celltrion Inc. and HLB Inc., two leading South Korean biopharmaceutical shares, shot up on Monday as the main bourse’s key index climbed back ...

Lim Il-soon, chief executive of South Korean retailer HomePlus, is stepping down after leading the MBK Partners-owned discount store chain for about...

GS Caltex Corp., a South Korean oil refiner aiming to become a serious logistics player by navigating hard-to-access areas for delivery, is looking ...

For South Korean stock investors, 2020 may go down in history as the year of The Great Quest for big money, and at the end of their journey they fou...

In South Korea, as the saying goes, the stock market is at its peak if a swarm of individual investors go on a buying spree, often leading to heavy ...

Foreign investors sold a record volume of shares on South Korea’s main bourse on Nov. 30, triggering a sharp fall in the main stock index, whi...