POSCO Hancock rights offering
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Steel
POSCO raises ship steel prices as Korea's tariffs curb supply
POSCO Holdings Inc. has raised second-quarter prices of thick plates used in vessels amid concerns over tighter supply after South Korea levied anti...
Apr 28, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
KT&G eyes overseas M&A after rejecting activist fund's offer
KT&G Corp., South Korea’s dominant tobacco and ginseng producer, is seeking to acquire a Japanese ginseng company after dismissing a 1.9-t...
Apr 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Future M to make spherical graphite as it cuts dependence on China
POSCO Future M Co., South Korea’s leading battery materials maker, is set to manufacture spherical graphite – a critical material for ba...
Apr 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO to invest in Hyundai Steel’s Louisiana plant
South Korea’s top steel maker POSCO has decided to invest in Hyundai Steel Co.'s first overseas plant in Louisiana and collaborate on research...
Apr 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO eyes investment in Hyundai Steel’s US plant
POSCO, the world’s seventh-largest steelmaker, is seeking to invest in smaller rival Hyundai Steel Co.'s first overseas plant in the US, in ex...
Apr 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO eyes deeper steel, energy ties with global peers
POSCO Group, South Korea’s steelmaking giant, will further bolster its competitiveness in the global steel market and energy value chains thro...
Apr 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Aerospace slashes planned rights offering size to $1.6 billion
Hanwha Aerospace Co., a leading South Korean defense company, said on Tuesday it plans to slash the size of its proposed rights offering to 2.3 tril...
Apr 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Asia Property to buy WeWork building in Seoul
Seoul-based real estate investment firm Asia Property has been picked as the sole preferred bidder for an office building currently occupied by cowo...
Apr 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Strong momentum in non-US markets, digital real estate: Principal AM CEO
It is time to shift focus toward non-US markets after years of stellar performance of US assets driven by the robust world’s No. 1 economy, sa...
Apr 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hanwha gears up for 3rd-generation leadership with chairman’s stake gift
South Korea’s chemical-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn will hand over half of his holdings in the conglomerate&rs...
Apr 01, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea eyes laws akin to US AMPC to offer subsidies for its battery makers
South Korea, home to global top battery makers such as LG Energy Solution Ltd., SK On Co. and Samsung SDI Co., is seeking to enact laws that would l...
Mar 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Aerospace plans record $2.5 bn rights offering for plant expansion
Hanwha Aerospace Co., a leading South Korean defense company, said on Thursday it is raising 3.6 trillion won ($2.5 billion) in new capital through ...
Mar 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO to sell entire stake in Nippon Steel, ending equity ties
POSCO Holdings Inc. has decided to sell its entire stake in Nippon Steel Corp., according to industry sources on Wednesday, marking the end of their...
Mar 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Samsung SDI to raise $1.4 bn in rights offering for facility expansion
Samsung SDI Co. will issue new shares worth 2 trillion won ($1.4 billion), its first rights offering in two decades, to fund bold facility and R&...
Mar 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Samsung to invest $10 million in US-based C2N Diagnostics
Samsung Group companies will jointly invest $10 million in C2N Diagnostics LLC, a U.S.-based company specializing in blood-based Alzheimer’s d...
Mar 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Mirae Asset launches world’s 1st passive target-date ETF
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. is set to introduce the world’s first passive target-date exchange-traded fund (ETF) this month to attract ...
Mar 05, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea’s top property asset manager IGIS Asset’s controlling stake up for sale
South Korea’s top real estate asset management firm IGIS Asset Management Co. plans to sell a controlling stake owned by the heirs of the comp...
Feb 28, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Kyobo Life’s Shin in talks with Affinity, GIC over exits below purchase price
Kyobo Life Insurance Co., South Korea’s third-largest life insurer, is in talks with some of its financial investors (FIs) to help them exit f...
Feb 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Microsoft CEO Nadella seeks AI alliance with Hyundai, POSCO, Shinhan, KT
Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Satya Nadella is seeking to forge an artificial intelligence alliance with major South Korean companies...
Feb 11, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korean firms cut IPO prices, volumes amid bearish sentiment
South Korean companies are relaunching attempts to go public with lower valuations and fewer shares amid continued sour investor sentiment.CK Soluti...
Feb 05, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
POSCO seeks $1 bn restructuring amid weak steel, battery materials sectors
South Korea’s POSCO Holdings Inc. said on Monday it plans to sell 61 unprofitable and non-core assets to raise 1.5 trillion won ($1 billion) a...
Feb 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
South Korea’s alternative data pioneer KED Aicel in full force
South Korea’s leading alternative data service provider Hankyung Aicel Inc. is poised to transform companies' and investors’ business an...
Feb 03, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Neubility, Samsung C&T offer robot delivery service
South Korea's autonomous robot startup Neubility and Samsung C&T Corp. said on Wednesday that they began to offer door-to-door delivery in apa...
Jan 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Macquarie kicks off sale of DIG Airgas estimated at over $3.4 billion
Macquarie Asset Management has embarked on a process to sell off its 100% stake in South Korea’s third-largest industrial gas producer DIG Air...
Jan 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korean entertainment powerhouse K Wave Media to debut on Nasdaq in Feb
K Wave Media Ltd., an umbrella entity of South Korean entertainment companies, is set to go public on the Nasdaq next month in a bid to raise money ...
Jan 12, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Regulator denies reporting MBK to prosecutors over Korea Zinc
A senior Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) official on Thursday denied a report that the regulatory body has referred MBK Partners and Young Poong...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Zinc chair reported to prosecutors over rights issue
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has reported Korea Zinc Inc.'s Chairman Choi Yun-birm and its board of directors to prosecut...
Jan 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
POSCO’s new bond sale seven times oversubscribed
South Korean steelmaker POSCO’s new bond issue for 500 billion won ($343 million) was seven times oversubscribed, which may encourage the comp...
Jan 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Catchtable to offer restaurant reservation service in Japan
Wad Corp., the developer and operator of South Korea’s most popular restaurant reservation app Catchtable, launched the beta service for off...
Dec 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
Korea debt financing faces woes as $34 bn in corporate bonds mature in H1
South Korea’s financial markets will see nearly 50 trillion won ($34 billion) in corporate bonds mature in the first half of next year —...
Dec 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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