International Institute for Management Development
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Banking & Finance
NH Investment selected as UN GCF manager
South Korea's NH Investment & Securities announced on Thursday that it was selected as the first Asian securities firm to manage the Climate Tec...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung Asset publishes brokerage ISA guidebook
South Korea's Samsung Asset Management announced on Thursday that it newly published the KODEX Brokerage ISA Investment Guidebook for individual inv...
Jul 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
TeamSparta acquires Weplanet
South Korea's coding education startup TeamSparta Inc. said on Thursday that it acquired the domestic software development firm Weplanet to expand i...
Jul 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Kakao Games to raise $203 mn in bonds convertible to Krafton shares
Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is set to issue an estimated 280 billion won ($203.2 million) wort...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
A North Korean Diplomat Managed a Rare Defection: A Flight Out of Cuba
SEOUL—A North Korean diplomat posted in Cuba defected to South Korea with his family late last year, officials said this week, a rare esc...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
BofA eyes its 1st Korean IPO management with K Bank deal
Bank of America Corp. (BofA) is quickly expanding its presence in the South Korean initial public offering market, where J.P. Morgan and Citigroup G...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia reveals teaser of Tasman development process
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, released One More Round, a teaser video series of its first pickup truck The Kia Tasman.&nb...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS commits $723 mn to MBK, 3 other managers for Korean PEs
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, has hired four investment firms – MBK Partne...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanyang Securities up for sale; in talks with KCGI, Woori
Hanyang Securities Co., a small South Korean brokerage firm, has been put on the market as its parent Hanyang University Foundation scrambles to kee...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lotte Dept. Store introduces AI for internal operations
South Korea's Lotte Department Store announced on Sunday that it will introduce artificial intelligence (AI) across all internal operations, aiming ...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI, Sungkyunkwan Univ. to develop battery engineer
Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, will establish a Department of Battery Engineering at Sungkyunkwan Uni...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Energy Solution acquires anti-bribery certification
South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced on Thursday that it achieved ISO 37001 certification, an international standard for anti-bribery man...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
SK Securities becomes lead IPO manager for 1st time since 2018
SK Securities Co., formerly a unit of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, is expanding its presence in the domestic equity capital mark...
Jul 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Coupang opens Rocket Growth seller website
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, announced on Tuesday that it opened a dedicated website for sellers (sell.coupang.com...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
POSCO International completes Korea’s first non-state-run LNG terminal
POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Tuesday i...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics
Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, will accelerate its inroads into developing markets grappling with inadequate cancer diagn...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Innovation gets MSCI ESG's leader rating
South Korean oil refiner SK Innovation Co. secured an AA rating in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment by Morgan Stanley Capi...
Jul 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
AI to drive Mirae Asset's next-phase growth: chairman
Mirae Asset Group is a pioneer in South Korea’s mutual fund industry. It launched the country’s first equity mutual fund in the wake of ...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI plagiarism detection startup Muhayu eyes IPO in 2026
South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Muhayu hired Mirae Asset Securities as the lead manager for its initial public offering (IPO) targ...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS to cut global stocks under GP management, up its direct control
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is set to slash its overseas stocks under global i...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
South Korean brokerages woo super-rich to make them even richer
South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, have largely built their wealth through hard work, savings and ...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea’s Hanwha, Doosan to develop fighter jet engines
Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s top defense manufacturer, and Doosan Enerbility Co., a major local power plant builder, are set to develop...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Kyobo Life CEO’s ethical management earns global recognition
Kyobo Life Insurance Co.'s Chairman Shin Chang-jae is internationally recognized for setting the global standard for ethical management after two de...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
LG Elec launches CLOi robot subscription service
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Monday that it launched its Robot as a Service (RaaS) with CLOi robots starting this month.Business-to-business (B2...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s military fund taps ex-president of Woori Financial as CIO
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, has tapp...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Naver Whale features in Renault Korea vehicles
South Korea’s homegrown web browser Whale, developed by Naver Corp., will be installed in Renault Korea cars. Naver Cloud announced on Friday...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix develops SSD for AI PCs to be mass-produced this year
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. introduced a solid-state drive (SSD) for on-device artificial intelligence PCs for mass production this year, to e...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Eugene PE, KDB PE to acquire Boryung Biopharma for $231 million
A consortium of Eugene Private Equity and Korea Development Bank Private Equity will acquire 80% of South Korean vaccine maker Boryung Biopharma Co....
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Financial, Natixis to manage global private equity fund
South Korea's Woori Bank and Woori PE Asset Management announced on Thursday that they have signed a "strategic business agreement for creating a ...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn
South Korea’s vaccine developer SK Bioscience Co. will acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top 10 vaccine firm IDT Biologika GmbH...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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