SK Securities rights offering
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE secures $1.8 bn in container ship orders
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) secured orders for 22 container ships worth a total of 2.54 trillion won ($1.8 billion) ...
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
SK On seals $2.8 bn battery deal with Bezos-backed US EV start-up Slate
SK On Co., the battery subsidiary of South Korea’s energy conglomerate SK Group, has signed a supply agreement worth an estimated 4 trillion w...
Apr 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Kakao shares sink on SK Telecom’s stake sell-off news
Kakao Corp. shares underperformed its peers and the broad market on Friday after SK Telecom Co. sold off its entire stake in the South Korean platfo...
Apr 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK Hynix’s Q1 profit soars on HBM chips, beats Samsung’s overall earnings
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, reported a dramatic surge in first-quarter profits on Thursday, delivering the sec...
Apr 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix makes strides in CXL technology, escalating rivalry
SK Hynix Inc., the leading global high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip provider, has moved faster than its rivals in the commercialization of the next-g...
Apr 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix bets on 3D HBM as next game-changer in AI chip race
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s top DRAM memory chipmaker, aims to redefine the competitive landscape in artificial intelligence memory chips with ...
Apr 18, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Doosan enters race to acquire SK Siltron in strategic semiconductor push
South Korea’s Doosan Group has entered the bidding war for SK Siltron Co., the world’s third-largest manufacturer of semiconductor wafer...
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
US PE firm Miri Capital ups stake in Korea’s STIC Investments
US private equity firm Miri Capital Management LLC said on Tuesday it has raised its stake in STIC Investments Inc. to step up its shareholder activ...
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Innovation E&S, JB Financial team up for renewable energy loans
JB Financial Group Co., the parent company of Jeonbuk Bank and Gwangju Bank, will join hands with SK Innovation E&S Co. and InnerGen Co. to roll...
Apr 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK chairman in Taiwan to deepen ties with TSMC
Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, the parent of SK Hynix Inc., is visiting Taiwan amid the threat of escalating US tariff threats, suggesting the ...
Apr 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix beats Samsung to become global No.1 DRAM maker
SK Hynix Inc. has snatched the crown from Samsung Electronics Co. to become the world’s largest memory chip supplier for the first time since ...
Apr 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Group in talks with Hahn & Co. to sell SK Siltron
SK Inc., the holding company of SK Group, is in talks with Hahn & Co., a South Korean buyout firm, to sell SK Siltron Co., the country’s s...
Apr 08, 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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League table
UBS tops Korea’s buyout deal advisory in Q1 thanks to Lotte
UBS Group AG, the frontrunner in South Korea's M&A market last year, retained the top position in the country's buyout advisory market in the fi...
Apr 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. acquires SK Specialty for $1.8 billion
Hahn & Co., South Korea’s largest private equity firm, has finalized the acquisition of SK Specialty Co., the world’s leading produc...
Apr 01, 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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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix aims to lock in all 2026 HBM orders by mid-2025
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), aims to lock in orders for its entire 2026 HBM output by the end o...
Mar 27, 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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Batteries
SK On to supply 100 GWh of EV batteries to Nissan
SK On Co. has landed a deal to supply nearly 100 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electric vehicle batteries to Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co., which cou...
Mar 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix ships world’s first 12-layer HBM4 samples early
South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix Inc. has begun delivering samples of the world’s most advanced, next-generation high bandwidth memory ...
Mar 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Games
Krafton invests in 10 overseas game startups in 2024
Krafton Inc. invested in 10 overseas game developers in 2024 in search of the next big franchise intellectual property (IP) following its mega-hit t...
Mar 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
BNK's planned acquisition of Hyundai Motor Securities building falters
BNK Asset Management Co.'s bid to acquire the Hyundai Motor Securities building in central Seoul has hit a stumbling block as the main tenant, Hyund...
Mar 14, 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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Stocks
China stock funds outperform US funds in South Korea
Chinese stocks are attracting South Korean investors looking beyond Wall Street amid the downturn in US Big Tech stocks.South Korea’s equity f...
Mar 12, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Trump-driven energy boom spurs Korean firms to hike US gas investments
WOODFORD, Oklahoma – A shale gas field in Woodford, Carter County was bustling with activity on Feb. 25.A team of engineers oversaw the drilli...
Mar 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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