European structured credit beckons Korean investors with potential for higher returns, defense: M&G Investments

Nearly two decades after the global financial crisis saddled structured finance with a reputation for opacity and risk, the asset class is drawing a...

Foreign private equity firms reshuffle leadership as Korean market cools

A wave of leadership changes is sweeping through global private equity firms in South Korea, as dealmakers rotate across firms and investors respond...

Coupang user traffic returns to pre-data leak levels, but damage claims build

Coupang Inc.’s core business metrics rebounded in March, suggesting South Korea’s dominant e-commerce platform has recovered much of the...

Global buyout firms’ Korea leadership changes spur moves across industry

Global buyout firms have reshuffled their senior leadership in South Korea this year, triggering a series of executive moves across the industry as ...

EQT secures 90% stake in Douzone Bizon through tender offer, aims to take it private

Sweden’s EQT Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms, has secured close to 90% ownership of South Korean software company...

Korean financial watchdog flags multi-billion-dollar private credit exposure; retail risks mount

South Korea’s top financial watchdog has warned that domestic institutions are carrying tens of trillions of won, or multi-billion dollars, in...

Samsung Card takes top spot in S.Korea’s credit card spending

Samsung Card Co. has overtaken Shinhan Card Co. for the first time in South Korea’s personal credit card spending market, extending its lead i...

Wall Street’s Blue Owl-triggered private credit fund run feared to rattle Korea’s financial system

NEW YORK – Fears of a financial fund run on Wall Street’s fast-growing private credit market are beginning to reverberate through South ...

Korea Zinc chief’s advance private bets under regulatory scrutiny for potential breach of governance rules

South Korea’s financial regulators are scrutinizing whether investments by Korea Zinc Inc. effectively supported private bets made earlier by ...

No career ambition, no ego: AI plays devil's advocate at Audax Private Equity

Generative AI is challenging traditional investment theses, acting as a devil's advocate to sharpen decision-making, particularly when it comes to a...

Korea urges securities firms to tighten risk management of private debt funds

South Korea’s top financial regulator on Thursday urged securities firms to tighten risk management for domestic sales of overseas private deb...

Affinity to sell SK Rent-a-Car to secure Korea’s top Lotte Rental

Affinity Equity Partners is set to put SK Rent-a-Car Co. back on the market just 18 months after acquiring the No. 2 car leasing company in South Ko...

Blackpink's DEADLINE sells 1.46 million copies on day of release, sets new K-pop girl group record

After more than three years of waiting, Blackpink fans around the world responded in the only way they know how — in record-breaking numbers.B...

S.Korean president lists private residence in stern statement against property speculation

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has put his privately owned apartment up for sale, reinforcing his administration’s increasingly forceful...

Glenwood PE tops Korea’s private equity rankings as MBK faces backlash

South Korea’s private equity industry suffered a year of sharply diverging fortunes in 2025, with Glenwood Private Equity Co. emerging as the ...

Bain Capital sells 8.25% stake in Classys for $226 million in block trade

Bain Capital LP offloaded an 8.25% stake in South Korea’s medical aesthetics device maker Classys Inc. in an after-hours block trade, raising ...

EQT to spend $1.5 billion on tender offer to take Douzone Bizon private

Sweden’s EQT Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms, has launched a 2.18 trillion won ($1.5 billion) tender offer to acq...

SK Innovation secures large-scale LNG power project in Vietnam

SK Innovation Co. said Thursday that a consortium it formed with Vietnamese partners has secured a $2.3 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) power pr...

Korea's Medipost, success story of tech-focused private equity firms Crescendo, Skylake

Skylake Equity Partners Ltd. and Crescendo Equity Partners Ltd. surprised the South Korean private equity (PE) industry by acquiring Medipost Co., a...

South Korea moves to give private equity investors leeway to replace fund managers

South Korean lawmakers are preparing to introduce legislation that would allow investors in private equity funds to replace fund managers with the a...

Seoul blocks Affinity’s Lotte Rental deal, flags risks of private equity control

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) on Monday blocked Affinity Equity Partners’ acquisition of the country’s largest car re...

Bain Capital launches 2nd tender offer for Echo Marketing ahead of delisting

US private investment firm Bain Capital is pressing ahead with plans to take Echo Marketing Co. private, launching a second tender offer for the Sou...

Seoul court rejects UCK Partners' bid to block ex-employee’s move to rival

A South Korean court has rejected an attempt by UCK Partners to block a former senior employee from joining a rival, a move expected to further inte...

Control of Korea’s 1st home-grown PEF STIC Investments in hands of US firm Miri Capital

Do Yong-hwan, founder and chairman of STIC Investments Inc., has sold his controlling stake in the South Korean private equity firm (PEF) to US-base...

Dongmi Electric, valued at $300 mn, in sale talks as PE firms court transformer makers

Dongmi Electric Ind. Co., a small-sized Korean power transformer maker, is in talks with a private equity firm over the sale of management control a...

MBK’s legal fallout from Homeplus puts Korean PE firms on defensive

Growing legal risks surrounding MBK Partners following the collapse of South Korean retailer Homeplus Co. have prompted homegrown private equity f...

Australia’s purpose-built student housing transforms dormitories into lifestyle hubs

BRISBANE, Australia – On an afternoon in Scape South Bank – Student Accommodation in December, the lobby of the 15-story residence buzze...

Won undervalued, would be surprised if no rebound: Harvard's Kenneth Rogoff

PHILADELPHIA -- The South Korean won is significantly undervalued against the US dollar and is poised for a rebound within the next three years, acc...

Bain Capital to take Andar owner, Echo Marketing, private in tender offer

Bain Capital will launch a tender offer to buy out remaining shareholders of South Korea’s Echo Marketing Co. and delist the company after agr...

SK Nexilis, world's No. 3 copper foil maker, secures $225 million from IMM in unconventional deal

SK Nexilis Co., a global top-three producer of copper foil used in electric vehicle batteries, is set to raise 300 billion won ($225 million) from I...