Shinhan Life Insurance

Daesang Life Science Corp., a South Korean health foods maker, has signed an initial agreement with China’s Sinopharm International to launch ...

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...

A number of financial experts who built their careers at Samsung Life Insurance Co. are in the spotlight as more South Korean pension funds and mutu...

A few key institutional investors in South Korea are set to commit up to $300 million to a $3.5 billion private credit fund by US private debt man...

Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea has named Baek Joo-hyun, former alternative investment head at Samsung Life Insurance Co....

LG Chem Life Sciences, the biopharmaceutical unit of LG Chem Ltd., has received the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval for phase 1 cli...

South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group has picked Vietnam’s e-commerce startup Tiki as its first strategic partner in the Southeast Asian count...

South Korea’s incoming government plans to extend the service life of eight more nuclear power plants than originally planned as President-ele...

CJ Logistics and an affiliate of Samsung Life Insurance have joined forces to launch a real estate investment fund worth 740 billion won ($600 milli...

South Korea’s pharmaceutical company Kolon Life Science Inc. signed a technology export deal worth up to 723.4 billion won ($589.1 million) wi...

South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group is intensifying its online car sales business through partnerships with online platforms. The group&rs...

Samsung Group’s 150 billion won ($124 million) Life Science Fund launched last year has chosen a leading US gene therapy development company a...

NongHyup Life Insurance Co. of South Korea is slated to issue 10-year-maturity subordinated bonds worth 600 billion won ($492.6 million) on March 31...

South Korea's key insurers are rushing to increase their equity capital ahead of two new solvency regulations set to take effect from Jan. 1, 2023. ...

New York-based Morgan Stanley Private Equity is slated to sell its entire stake in Jeonju Paper Corp., South Korea's top newsprint producer, and its...

South Korean companies are expected to pay more for fundraising as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has chilled investor sentiment on corporate bo...

The merger of KB Life Insurance Co., an insurer under KB Financial Group Inc. of South Korea, and Prudential Life Insurance Co. of Korea will be c...

SEOUL — In the latest sign that life is going back to something that resembles the pre-pandemic past, BTS is returning to the stage in Seoul.The...

Some major institutional investors of South Korea have committed a combined $620 million to Partners Group’s third direct infrastructure progr...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) signed an agreement on Feb. 24 with Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company (SGI) to co-invest in overseas hedge fund...

A South Korean court on Thursday ruled in favor of Affinity Equity-led financial investors (FIs) in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., rejecting Kyobo's clai...

Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) of South Korea has named Huh Jang, former head of investment at DB Insurance Co. as its new chief inve...

Korea’s ABL Life Insurance Co. has participated in Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP, a $460 million fund managed by Hon...

IMM Private Equity is set to acquire a 1.73 percent stake in Samsung Life Insurance Co., according to investment banking sources on Jan. 27. The sta...

A Korean consortium led by IGIS Asset Management Co. and Shinhan Global Investment Banking (GIB) has signed a contract with a US asset manager to se...

South Korea's leading banks began to reap the rewards of their efforts to become regional players in Asia, with their aggressive investments in Viet...

Japan's mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo has sold all its shares in KT Corp., worth 437.5 billion won ($370 million), to Shinhan Bank which formed a...

South Korea's leading telecom operator KT Corp. has entered into a strategic alliance with the country's No. 2 lender Shinhan Bank, involving a $370...

Retail conglomerate E-Land Group completed selling its first overseas logistics center in Shanghai for about 1.4 billion Chinese yuan ($2.2 billion)...

Samsung SRA Asset Management Co. has named its former managing director (MD) and chief investment officer Chung-Keun Kim as its new chief executive,...