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South Korea’s central bank chief sent a strong indication of tightening later this year after the Bank of Korea (BOK) left its monetary policy...

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’s Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol has released a non-fungible token (NFT) based on his legendary winning match against AlphaGo, an artif...

CVC Capital Partners has appointed Chris Rhee, a former partner of Affinity Equity Partners, as its Seoul office head and global partner, according ...

Jay Y. Lee, the heir of Samsung Group, has bolstered his grip on South Korea’s largest conglomerate by inheriting half his late father’s...

The Samsung Group heirs' announcement that they will donate some 23,000 pieces of art and cultural artifacts collected by the late Chairman Lee Kun-...

Samsung Group heirs, including Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, have tentatively agreed to donate more than half of the late Lee Ku...

The late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s lavish art collection is driving South Korea’s art circle to pressure lawmakers to amend the cou...

Affinity Equity Partners, a global private equity firm, is set to acquire the entire stake of South Korea’s top recruitment portal JobKorea &n...

Local and foreign private equity firms are among the final bidders for the entire stake of South Korea’s top recruitment portal JobKorea &ndas...

When SK Hynix Inc. announced a $9 billion all-cash deal to acquire Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip business in mid-October of last year, the ma...

CVC Capital Partners, TPG Capital and Affinity Equity Partners are among 10 preliminary bidders for the entire stake of South Korea’s largest ...

This is the final piece of a four-part series that will delve into Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s New Management initiative that charted Samsung's cours...

This is the third in a four-part series that will delve into Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s New Management initiative that charted Samsung's course in b...

This is the first of a four-part series that will delve into Chairman Lee Kun-hee’s New Management initiative that charted Samsung's course to b...

Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, credited with transforming South Korea’s small television maker into a global tech giant, passed away on Oct. 25 a...

Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the world’s top smartphone and TV manufacturer Samsung Group, passed away on Oct. 25 at the age of 78, the South Kore...

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, currently in Vietnam, has toured its smartphone, TV and other electronics plants there, as the compa...

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee met with Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Oct. 20 to discuss ways to strengthen bus...

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee is visiting Vietnam, where he is widely expected to meet Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to seek more...

On Oct. 8, the same day Samsung Electronics Co. surprised markets with forecast-beating quarterly earnings estimates, its Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee fle...

The Carlyle Group has been growing its presence in South Korea after sealing a string of investment and business deals with top Korean financial servi...

Affinity Equity Partners and Baring Private Equity Asia will likely invest a combined 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) in new shares of Shinhan Financial...

A joint venture between Japan’s top messaging app provider Line Corp. and internet portal Yahoo Japan Corp. has been christened A Holdings and L...

Kewsong Lee, co-chief executive officer of the Carlyle Group, has been appointed as the US private equity group’s chief executive officer after ...

Medit Corp., a South Korean 3D scanner maker, has drawn preliminary bids from nine private equity firms, including KKR & Co., the Carlyle Group, A...

A consortium led by Affinity Equity Partners will push ahead with exercising their right to sell shares in South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co. Ltd....

The court has dismissed the request by the prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant to Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong. This will be a bi...

Baring Private Equity Asia (PEA) has resumed the sale process of South Korea’s No. 4 package delivery company, and authorized two private equity firms...

The ruling Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung on Wednesday was elected as South Korea's next president, pledging heavy government spending such as cas...