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Kakao Corp. founder and chairman Brian Kim said on Monday that he will step down from the tech giant’s board of directors, following a series ...

Private equity firm Actis LLP has promoted its Seoul office Chief Executive Scott Choi as a partner, the company said on March 7. Choi is the first ...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager with $10 trillion assets under management, named Hiroyuki Shimizu head of institutional in...

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won will assume an additional post as a chairman of SK Telecom Co.The conglomerate’s holding company SK Inc. announ...

Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) of South Korea has named Huh Jang, former head of investment at DB Insurance Co. as its new chief inve...

Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has named Lee Seong-yeong as its new chief investment officer and is in the final stage of the no...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has named its former Financial Investment Department head Park Man-soo as its new chief investment officer,...

South Korea's two retail heavyweights Lotte and Shinsegae are in head-to-head competition for the country's fifth-largest convenience store chain Mi...

Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. has named its former managing director (MD) and chief investment officer Chung-Keun Kim as its new chief executive,...

Cha Hoon, the former head of real estate investment at Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is moving to Abu Dhabi’s state holding firm Abu Dhab...

Naver Corp. has chosen Choi Soo-yeon, 40, to lead the top online platform in South Korea, in the 22-year-old company's most dramatic top management ...

“We know which companies to buy after playing the games a few times.”More and more South Korean game developers are pursuing mergers and...

The head of real estate investment at Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has resigned from the South Korean sovereign wealth fund. Cha Hoon, appoint...

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has vowed to spend $26 billion, or half of the group’s planned investment in the US by 2030, on electric vehicl...

The infrastructure investment head and real estate investment head at South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), are leaving the world&rs...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has achieved an average 9.65% return on investments as of the end of August, driven by overseas equity divestment...

The National Pension Service (NPS) will increase strategic investments with leading global institutional investors to boost overseas alternative inv...

A number of clear trends will play out for alternatives in the future, notably digitization, customization, and values-based investing, Goldman Sach...

Kwon Young-soo, the No. 2 leader of South Korea's LG Group, will be appointed as the chief executive officer of LG Energy Solution Ltd. next month, ...

South Korea's main stock index has fallen below the psychologically important 3,000 points for the first time in nearly seven months, with investors...

South Korean companies are emerging as big buyers in the global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) markets. They are actively looking for future gro...

BTS will travel to Los Angeles in November for its first live concert since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. BTS said on Sept. 28 on its offic...

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. will name Jun Park, a top manager of Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co., as the new head of its South K...

South Korea's electric vehicle and battery startup EL B&T has offered the highest price of around 500 billion won ($430 million) for debt-laden ...

The race to become the lead underwriter for the IPO of Shinsegae Group’s e-commerce brand SSG.COM is getting fierce. A total of nine instituti...

The Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) on Tuesday replaced its infrastructure and real estate investment heads, in a senior management reshuffle fol...

The rising inflationary risk in the US, fueled by strong recovery from the pandemic-induced slowdown, is likely to be short-lived and modest, and in...

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) has clocked 50 million downloads on Google Play in about 1-1/2 months after the game’s launch, its deve...

South Korean unicorn startups are soaking up talent from global investment banks (IBs) and brokerage houses. Junior and senior financial market spec...

Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest strategic focus is setting up its own ecosystem of devices ranging from mobile phones, home appliances to TVs...