NH Property and Casualty Insurance
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Investment banking
MBK’s Michael ByungJu Kim: Most influential in Korea’s capital market
Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder and partner of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd., has been chosen as the most influential...
Mar 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Lotte Insurance's value rises with long-term care expansion
When South Korean private equity firm JKL Partners acquired a 77% stake in Lotte Insurance Co. for about 730 billion won ($546.3 million) in 2019, m...
Mar 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Korea's NH Investment shortlists 3 CEO candidates
South Korean brokerage house NH Investment & Securities Co. has shortlisted three candidates for its next chief executive as the current CEO Jeo...
Mar 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
NH Investment launches $150 mn real estate fund
South Korea’s NH Investment & Securities Co. said on Wednesday it has launched a 200 billion won ($150 million) real estate fund for insti...
Feb 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Global property market plunge hits Korean financial firms
South Korean financial service companies are seeing increased losses in global real estate amid the commercial property value plunge and concerns ar...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion to deliver three treatments to Peru
South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. announced on Thursday that it will supply three treatments, including its blood cancer drug Truxima (rituximab) t...
Feb 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Kyobo Life CEO Shin Chang-jae: Eccentric, humanitarian entrepreneur
When Shin Chang-jae took the helm of Kyobo Life Insurance Co. in 2000 the South Korean insurance firm was reeling from the aftermath of the 1998 Asi...
Feb 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Lexus tops imported car brands in Korea driver survey
Lexus ranked tops in a customer satisfaction survey of imported-car drivers in South Korea, which also found positive responses to the online purcha...
Feb 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korea’s luxury resort market blossoms despite slow economy
South Korea’s luxury resort market seems to operate out of sync with the economy. High-end operators are opening swanky holiday resorts in Kor...
Feb 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Korean steelmakers mull anti-dumping suit vs Chinese, Japanese firms
Under growing pressure from increased imports of cheap Chinese and Japanese steel products, South Korean steelmakers are considering filing an anti-...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Taeyoung files for debt workout; offers to sell stake in KKR JV
South Korea’s Taeyoung Group, saddled with 5.6 trillion won ($4.4 billion) in debt and loans it has guaranteed, filed for a debt workout progr...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom enters Japan's pet care market
South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. has entered the Japanese pet market using its innovative artificial intelligence (AI) under a tie-up with Japan&r...
Oct 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Forest, NH Securities to cut CO2 emissions in East Timor
South Korea’s SK Forest Co. and NH Investment & Securities on Friday held a launching ceremony for their joint supply of high-efficiency c...
Sep 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Shinhan REITs to buy HSBC's Seoul headquarters at $135 mn
Shinhan REITs Management Co., a real estate investment arm of South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group, is poised to acquire a 65.8% stake in the...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korean exporters jittery as China's slowdown raises red flag
South Korea’s exporting companies are increasingly feeling the heat as its top export market China is sounding alarm bells over the world&rsqu...
Aug 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK chief’s top mission: Soft landing for household debt
South Korea’s central bank chief on Thursday vowed to reduce household debt without causing a severe economic downturn as the Bank of Korea he...
Aug 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean exodus from China funds amid deepening property crisis
South Korean investors’ retreat from Chinese equity funds of nearly 10 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in total principal is accelerating amid dee...
Aug 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion’s Vegzelma listed on prescription of 10 private US insurers
South Korea’s Celltrion Healthcare Co. announced on Wednesday that it has signed contracts with 10 insurance providers in the US to boost the ...
Aug 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea sales set to China to fall for 15th straight mth on property crisis
South Korea’s exports to China are poised to slide for a 15th straight month with an expected deeper drop in August amid a faltering economic ...
Aug 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Hanwha Life sees cumulative profit in 15 years in Vietnam
Hanwha Life Insurance Co.’s Vietnamese subsidiary has reported a cumulative profit in 15 years, marking the first South Korean insurers’...
Aug 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Tokio Marine seeks to sell SE Asia units to S.Korean companies
Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. is seeking to sell its units in Southeast Asia for $1 billion to major South Korean companies looking fo...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Bank teams up with BuildBlock on US real estate services
South Korea's Woori Bank and US real estate platform operator BuildBlock have entered into a strategic memorandum of understanding to bolster overse...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition
Global electric vehicle and battery makers are fiercely competing to secure talent with high salaries and various incentives as their workforces a...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS commits $724 mn to CVC Capital’s ninth PE fund
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, has committed €650 million ($724 million...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea’s KFCC likely to see loss from London-based office investment
South Korea’s Vestas Investment Management Co. is slated to sell off a London-based office tower as the property value has plunged due to rate...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KEPCO strives to drive out birds meant to bring good luck
Magpies, which East Asians believe bring good luck and fortune, are posing a headache for Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), by gnawing at power ...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG AI Research launches patent screening AI
South Korea's think tank LG AI Research has teamed up with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) to develop the world's first patent screen...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon starts fortunetelling, personality test services
South Korea's Naver Webtoon has launched a service combining its content with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a US test of personality type,...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea expands cooperation with Vietnam in intellectual property rights
The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) on Thursday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Intellectual Property Office of Vie...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
NH Property & Casualty Insurance inks MOU with Vietnam's PVI
South Korea's NH Property and Casualty Insurance announced on Wednesday its new comprehensive business cooperation agreement (MOU) with PVI Insuranc...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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