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DigitalBridge Group Inc., a US digital infrastructure investment firm, announced on July 19 it has appointed South Korean Tae E. Ahn as managing d...

The South Korean won is expected to weaken to 1,400 against the dollar, a level not seen since the 2008-09 global financial crisis as the country&rs...

Despite a number of global market uncertainties, there is value in real assets where rental income grows faster than inflation, Mahdi Mokrane, head ...

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...

Rhee Chang-yong has made a big splash in less than two months as the Bank of Korea governor and I’m not the least bit surprised. Over the l...

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

Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co. of South Korea is seeking investment opportunities for distressed and special situation strategies with a se...

Kim Hyun-soo, a former real estate investment head of South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), has been named Asia head of Allianz Real Estate,...

Just a few years back, fashion startups in South Korea rarely saw the need for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The same was true for the so-c...

South Korea’s investment firm SK Square Co. announced on Thursday that it has chosen Harvey Hakjin Bae, a former alternative investment expert...

Singapore-based private equity firm Affirma Capital has founded an affiliate for private credit management and tapped Kim Seong-mok, a former execut...

The Blackstone Group has named Ha Yung-Ku, who had led Citibank Korea for nearly 14 years, as chairman of its South Korean operations as the US inve...

CJ Corp. launched an artificial intelligence center Wednesday, which it hopes will lead the conglomerate's digital innovation. The new CJ AI Cente...

Ahn Joonghyun, who led Samsung Electronics Co.'s high-profile M&A deals for nearly nine years, was promoted to a president-level position to hea...

NEW YORK – Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. are set to fully unveil their redesigned vehicles at the upcoming New York Auto Show ...

Environmental initiatives such as RE100 and high Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards are not just for conglomerates anymore, accor...

South Korea on Wednesday nominated veteran International Monetary Fund official Rhee Chang-yong as the country’s new central bank chief, who i...

Critical data center hubs have emerged in European major cities with dramatic growth in data consumption, and the facilities are rising as promising...

Heads of South Korea’s leading venture capital firms say domestic startups have entered a phase of overvaluation. The Korea Economic Dail...

Kakao Corp. founder and chairman Brian Kim said on Monday that he will step down from the tech giant’s board of directors, following a series ...

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 ...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager with $10 trillion assets under management, named Hiroyuki Shimizu head of institutional in...

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won will assume an additional post as a chairman of SK Telecom Co.The conglomerate’s holding company SK Inc. announ...

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...

Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has named Lee Seong-yeong as its new chief investment officer and is in the final stage of the no...

Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) has named its former Financial Investment Department head Park Man-soo as its new chief investment officer,...

South Korea's two retail heavyweights Lotte and Shinsegae are in head-to-head competition for the country's fifth-largest convenience store chain Mi...

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

Cha Hoon, the former head of real estate investment at Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is moving to Abu Dhabi’s state holding firm Abu Dhab...

Naver Corp. has chosen Choi Soo-yeon, 40, to lead the top online platform in South Korea, in the 22-year-old company's most dramatic top management ...