Private debt

BlackRock, the world's best-known asset manager, has appointed Lee Yoon Pyo as managing director and head of its South Korea operations, effective f...

La Defense Partners is expected to exercise a casting vote over the ongoing management dispute at Hanmi Science Co. after the Seoul-based private eq...

IMM Investment, Korea Investment Private Equity (PE), Corstone Asia, and Paratus Investment have been selected for the Export-Import Bank of Korea's...

Hyosung Chemical Corp. has failed to reach an agreement with a consortium of IMM Private Equity and STIC Investments Inc. to sell its specialty gas ...

Apollo Global Management Inc., a US private equity powerhouse, said on Monday it has opened an office in Seoul to expand its business in the Asia Pa...

LG Electronics Inc.'s push to expand its presence in the burgeoning private 5G network market is poised to gain traction. The South Korean electroni...

South Korea’s household lending market is witnessing a balloon effect as tighter government lending rules for Seoul and its surrounding metrop...

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s largest institutional investor, has selected Koramco Asset Management Co. and Hana Alternati...

South Korean biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. said on Monday its subcutaneous injection formulation for autoimmune diseases, Zymfentra (infliximab), ...

South Korea’s economy was weaker than expected in the third quarter, weighed by lackluster exports, though it improved from the previous quart...

South Korea's private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd. said on Friday it was selected in the "2024 World’s Best Companies" list by international ...

South Korea’s leading brokerage houses are flocking to the debt market as bonds issued by securities companies are in growing demand, industry...

Bain Capital has embarked on the process to sell a majority stake in Classys Inc., a South Korean medical aesthetic device maker. The deal is estima...

Private debt remains attractive for South Korean pension and big asset owners, although they may offer lower yields than before given recent interes...

South Korea's major pension and savings funds see no drastic reshuffle to their portfolios tilted to private debts next year. But they are looking t...

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will aggressively explore early investment opportunities in sectors undergoing AI-driven in...

Foreign investors' appetite for South Korean stocks turned sour with sales of 7.36 trillion won ($5.5 billion) worth of shares on the Korean bourse ...

Korea Zinc Inc. Chair Choi Yun-birm has joined hands with a major local securities firm in a counterattack against MBK Partners Ltd. and the company...

South Korea's Hanwha Systems Co. said on Monday that it signed a mid- to long-term business cooperation memorandum of understanding (MOU) for space ...

South Korea’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter on weaker domestic consumption and investment by private businesses, heightening ex...

Goldman Sachs is set to sell its stake in South Korea’s leading food ingredient wholesaler in an estimated 120 billion won ($89.4 million) dea...

The car rental business resembles financial services. Buying cars with borrowed money, renting them out and eventually selling them to used car de...

Lotte Mart and Lotte Super will launch stores within the outlets of NTUC FairPrice, Singapore’s largest supermarket chain, to sell food produc...

A consortium of IMM Private Equity and IMM Investment has moved a step closer to owning South Korea’s No. 1 landfill company Ecorbit Co. after...

South Korea’s central bank is likely to reduce interest rates in the next three months as inflation is expected to ease amid a slowdown in Asi...

South Korea’s household debt hit a record high in the second quarter as the domestic housing market started to recover and more consumers rush...

SK Group, the second-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is considering selling global leading specialty gas producer SK Specialty Co. for around 4...

Suyi Kim, global private equity head at Canada Pension Plan Investments Board (CPPIB), is set to leave the world’s seventh-largest pension fun...

South Korean fintech companies' customer data transfers to Alipay, a Chinese payment platform, are setting off private data breach alarm bells amid ...

US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...