Institute for Urban Strategies

SK Telecom Co. is poised to show off its latest services at this year’s World IT Show slated for three days from April 20. At the large...

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) plans to build the country's first landing area for urban air mobility (U...

Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea posted a 8.61% rate of return in 2021, the pension fund announced on March 15. It has ear...

South Korea will tighten its eligibility requirements for institutional investors to bid for initial public offerings, a move aimed at cooling the o...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group on Wednesday set out its vision to become a top-tier eco-friendly auto brand by accelerating i...

South Korean institutional and retail investors sharply raised their risk appetite last year, gobbling up Nasdaq-listed technology stocks such as Te...

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...

As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...

Stockbridge Capital Group LLC, a US real estate investment firm, announced on Feb. 10 that David Park has joined the firm as a managing director. ...

Korea Post will increase its alternative investment from 13.6 trillion won ($11.3 billion) at the end-2021 to 16.7 trillion won ($13.9 billion) in 2...

The pandemic has brought logistical real estate and infrastructure into the spotlight driven by long-term underlying e-commerce trends. It is advant...

South Korean stocks lost ground with the main index entering a bear market on Thursday as foreign investors intensified their selling after the US F...

Netmarble Corp. unveiled detailed plans for a hawkish entry into the blockchain and metaverse industries on Thursday. The mobile game developer...

The initial public offering of South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. drew a record 11,500 trillion won ($9.65 trillion) in bids from institutional i...

South Korea's benchmark stock index Kospi declined to its lowest closing level in one and a half months on Monday, moving in the opposite direction ...

Hotel Lotte Co., retail conglomerate Lotte Group’s luxury hotel operator, completed the acquisition of Kimpton Hotel Monaco in Chicago for $...

LG Household & Health Care Ltd.’s shares have been flying high since its market debut in 2001, and have more recently basked in the global...

South Korea's two non-ferrous metal product leaders Korea Zinc Inc. and Poongsan Corp. are tipped to report their record earnings in 2021, after str...

Nexen Tire Corp., Korea’s third-largest tire maker, has made an undisclosed amount of equity investment in ANRA Technologies, a US urban air m...

Just a couple of years ago, the prevalent market view on the cybersecurity industry was that it would go downhill rather than prosper as public orga...

Mortgage loan growth at banks in South Korea slowed to near a four-year low in November, on the back of tightened lending rules and an interest rate...

Some major South Korean institutional investors have committed to Switzerland-headquartered global asset manager Partners Group's Secondary 2020 Fun...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea selected Toronto-based Polar Asset Management Partners Inc. as a new mandate of hedge fund managers in t...

The National Pension Service added New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC to its pool of 58 global real estate investment manager...

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday appointed its strategy chief Cho Joo-wan as the company's new chief executive officer, in a major resh...

South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments Inc. has invested $20 million in Vietnam’s e-commerce giant Tiki Corporation’s serie...

Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) to be set up in Seoul, South Korea from 2022 will receive increased incentives and reduction in office rent, acc...

South Korea’s conglomerate SK Group said on Nov. 11 that it agreed to invest $340 million in The CrownX, a retail platform of Masan Group Corp...

MBK Partners is in talks to buy management rights of two e-commerce platforms listed on South Korea's Kosdaq market in a package deal, according to ...