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Korean startups
Korean restaurant startup GFFG raises $23 million in Series A round
South Korean lifestyle hospitality startup Good Food For Good (GFFG) announced Monday that it raised 30 billion won ($23.2 million) in Series A roun...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Nexon named preferred bidder for 50% of office tower from KTCU
Gaming giant Nexon Co. is set to acquire a 50% stake in the Autoway Tower, an office building in Seoul's Gangnam business district, from the Korean ...
Nov 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Behind the Scenes
Corporate restructure inevitable at Smilegate as founder faces divorce
South Korea's fifth-richest man Kwon Hyuk-bin and his wife Lee Hwa-jin appear to be headed for divorce, according to industry insiders on Monday.&nb...
Nov 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Education giant Kyowon to showcase animated film 'Georanger'
South Korea’s education behemoth Kyowon Co. said it will unveil an animated film featuring its own characters, in a move to kickstart its inte...
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada
EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, is set to build a plant in Canada with a $704 million investment in a partners...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin is not money: South Korean court
A South Korean court judged that Bitcoin, the world’s leading virtual currency, is not money and therefore the cryptocurrency is not subject t...
Oct 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea rejects patent claims for AI-invented products
South Korea’s intellectual property office has rejected patent applications that claimed an artificial intelligence system as their inventor, ...
Oct 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean conglomerates increase AI R&D hubs overseas
South Korean conglomerates are increasingly looking overseas as bases of their artificial intelligence research centers to build strong networks wit...
Sep 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
IGIS Asia, Quadreal to form JV for warehouse development in Korea
IGIS Asia Investment Management Pte., the Singapore-based subsidiary of South Korea’s largest real estate manager IGIS Asset Management, and V...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea's NPS upped alternative investment by 33% in 2021
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea committed 204.4 trillion won ($156.7 billion) to alternative investment as of end-2021, up 32.7% f...
Aug 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
US private equity giant Apollo making inroads into Korea
Apollo Global Management Inc., a US private equity powerhouse, is set to launch a credit business in South Korea, aiming for the local private lendi...
Aug 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
US private equity giant Apollo to make inroads into Korea
Apollo Global Management Inc., a US private equity powerhouse, is set to start the credit business in South Korea, aiming for the local private lend...
Aug 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Korean DL E&C to enter SMR biz with Canada’s Terrestrial
South Korea’s construction company DL E&C Co. is set to make inroads into the small modular reactor (SMR) business for future growth ...
Jul 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
IGIS, KKR to buy Shinhan Investment HQ for $487 mn
A consortium led by South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. and US private equity giant KKR & Co. is set to acquire Shinhan Investment Cor...
Jul 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LG Magna to spend $78 mn on China capacity expansion
LG Magna e-Powertrain Co. will invest $78 million in its Chinese plant of electric vehicle parts to meet growing demand in the world’s largest...
Jun 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Retailers rely on property redevelopment as earnings sag
South Korea’s large retailers are keen on redeveloping their decades-old stores into modern residential and commercial complexes as a way out ...
Jun 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Tour sees turnaround on higher property value
South Korea's Lotte Tour Development Co. has decided to book 568 billion won ($440 million) in valuation gains from its stake ownership of the land ...
Jun 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
South Korean tech juggernauts turn their characters into NFTs
South Korea’s tech behemoths are turning the companies’ characters into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with the aim of creating an intellect...
Jun 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai Engineering, USNC to build micro reactor in Canada
Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC)...
Jun 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medipost acquires Canada’s OmniaBio for CDMO business
Medipost Co., a South Korean biotechnology company, has acquired a 39.6% stake in OmniaBio Inc., a Canada-based cell and gene therapy contract devel...
May 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO, GM JV inks battery materials supply deal worth $16 bn
South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. and General Motors Co. on Friday agreed to set up a joint venture that will supply about 20 trillion won ($16...
May 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
Korean real estate investors look to secure liquidity post-pandemic
South Korean real estate investors prefer liquidity and stable payback on investment, as well as investing in debts amid market uncertainty. The lim...
May 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
NH-Amundi sells Yuanta's Seoul office to Capstone for $242 bn
South Korea’s NH-Amundi Asset Management Co. said on Monday that it completed selling Yuanta Securities Co.’s Korean headquarters to C...
May 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
73% of LPs to ramp up global warehouse investment
Key asset owners of South Korea are eyeing logistics centers and multifamily housing for real estate investing while planning to reduce exposure to ho...
Apr 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, Stellantis to build $4.1 billion battery plant in Canada
The world’s second-largest battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and multinational automaker Stellantis N.V. have agreed to build a $4.1 billi...
Mar 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Korea's new asset managers survive with competitive edge
Most new asset management firms in South Korea end up lagging the competition due to their smaller sizes. They suffer from operating losses ...
Mar 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte invests in Canada's edible insect food company
South Korea's Lotte Confectionery Co. has invested around 10 billion won ($8 million) in Canada’s edible insect protein producer Aspire Food G...
Mar 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea's president-elect Yoon vows deregulation, tax cuts
Former prosecutor general Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday was elected South Korea's next president, pledging drastic deregulation and investor-friendly m...
Mar 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Actis names Scott Choi as its first Korean partner
Private equity firm Actis LLP has promoted its Seoul office Chief Executive Scott Choi as a partner, the company said on March 7. Choi is the first ...
Mar 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chem, GM to build $400 mn battery material plant in Canada
South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. and US top automaker General Motors Co. decided to build a battery material plant in Canada.POSCO Chemical an...
Mar 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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