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Leadership & Management
Ex-US Congressman Drew Ferguson to head Hyundai's Washington office
Hyundai Motor Group has appointed former Republican Congressman Drew Ferguson as head of its Washington office, a strategic move designed to bolster...
Apr 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai, Palantir chiefs discuss AI shipyard, defense technology
Chung Kisun, executive vice chairman of the world’s largest shipbuilder HD Hyundai Co., has met with Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies I...
Mar 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor taps ex-CPPIB private equity head Suyi Kim for board role
Hyundai Motor Co. has tapped Suyi Kim, former private equity head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Benjamin Tan, an ex-portfo...
Feb 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
South Korean IPO market headed into winter after pitiful LG CNS debut
Companies in South Korea are expected to refrain from seeking initial public offerings for a while after the country’s much-anticipated new bl...
Feb 11, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Blackstone zooms in on hotels, warehouses in Korea
The global real estate market is poised for a recovery, led by industrial warehouses, residential facilities and data centers benefiting from declin...
Jan 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Capital raising
Korean firms halt bond, share issues despite tighter liquidity
South Korean companies are postponing bond issues and initial public offerings on chilled investor sentiment in the aftermath of President Yoon Suk ...
Dec 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
BlackRock names Lee Yoon Pyo as head of S.Korea business
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...
Nov 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2024
KIC bets on AI-driven value creation: CEO
Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will aggressively explore early investment opportunities in sectors undergoing AI-driven in...
Oct 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2024
NPS bullish on real estate in low interest era: chairman
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will raise exposure to residential housing and data centers to take advantage of lower interest r...
Oct 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung chip head vows drastic revamp after flagging weak Q3 earnings
Jun Young-hyun, vice chairman and head of Samsung Electronics Co.'s semiconductor business, on Tuesday vowed to take drastic steps to improve profit...
Oct 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CJ Olive Young, Musinsa rivalry heats up in Brooklyn of Seoul
South Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young Corp. is turning up the heat against Musinsa to contain the rise of the country’s No. 1 on...
Sep 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
CPPIB global private equity head Suyi Kim to leave
Suyi Kim, global private equity head at Canada Pension Plan Investments Board (CPPIB), is set to leave the world’s seventh-largest pension fun...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
NCSOFT taps ex-Pearl Abyss US head to lead N.America unit
NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s major gaming company, said on Monday it has appointed Jin Jeonghee, former head of the US operations of local riva...
Aug 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung’s new chip leader calls for restoring competitiveness
It is urgent to restore Samsung Electronics Co.'s competitiveness in the semiconductor business, the chip division’s new head said in his firs...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Goldman Sachs taps ex-Morgan Stanley MD as Korea co-head
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said on Monday that it has appointed Ahn Jae-hoon, former managing director at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as country co-h...
Jul 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Samsung Securities’ IB head to quit amid talent outflow
Lee Jae-hyun, who has led one of Samsung Securities Co.'s investment banking divisions for two years, has recently expressed his intention to quit, ...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
GIC taps its real estate expert Jasmine Loo as new Korea head
Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund with around $770 billion in assets under management, has t...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea’s edtech startups defend against global giants with AI
South Korea’s major online adult education platforms improved their earnings powered by classes on artificial intelligence, defying concerns o...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket
Shinsegae Group, South Korea’s retail giant, on Wednesday launched sweeping top-level management overhauls for Gmarket Inc. and SSG.COM. to ti...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
PwC's Korean member taps new chiefs, creates finance unit
Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a South Korean member firm of PwC International Ltd., has appointed new chiefs of its key units and created a fi...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Deloitte Korea taps new CFO, consulting head in reshuffle
Deloitte Korea, which operates accounting firm Deloitte Anjin LLC and consulting service provider Deloitte Consulting LLC, announced a reshuffle wit...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Executives
Samsung’s new chip head instills a sense of crisis, hope
Samsung Electronics Co.'s new semiconductor chief Jun Young-hyun knows better than anyone about the difficulties the South Korean tech giant fa...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Ex-Porsche engineer Harrer to lead Hyundai’s high-performance push
Hyundai Motor Group is upping the ante to lead in the luxury and high-performance car market and speed up electrification by tapping a high-profile ...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Samsung Electronics replaces chip head amid HBM crisis
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, on Tuesday replaced its semiconductor business chief as the South Korean company st...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Deutsche Bank's Korea IB head quits after country head resigns
Cho Man Chul, managing director and head of investment banking at Deutsche Bank in Korea, has resigned, according to people with knowledge of the ma...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
Macquarie Korea Asset Management confirms two nominees
Macquarie Group has named two executives at its Seoul-based real asset investment unit, which manages the main Kospi-listed Macquarie Korea Infrastr...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
HYBE conflict vs NewJeans label set to escalate into legal battle
HYBE Co., the company behind boy band BTS, has reported Min Hee-jin, the chief of popular girl group NewJeans’ label ADOR, to police for inves...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea taps ex-NASA exec John Lee as space agency R&D head
South Korea named John Lee, a former senior executive of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as the head of missions such a...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia wins World's Greatest Auto Disruptors 2024
Kia Corp. won two categories of the Newsweek World’s Greatest Auto Disruptors Awards with the all-electric EV9 winning Research and Developmen...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia taps ex-BMW, Mercedes-Benz designers for China, Europe
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, has appointed former designers of German luxury carmakers BMW AG and Mercedes-Benz AG as chiefs of i...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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