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Corporate bonds
Kakao Games to raise $203 mn in bonds convertible to Krafton shares
Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is set to issue an estimated 280 billion won ($203.2 million) wort...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Star exchange-traded funds rebranded as Rise
South Korea’s KB Asset Management Co. announced on Wednesday that it will change the name of its ETF brand from "KB Star" to "Rise."The names ...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea mulls tripling NPS' advance dollar funding limit
South Korea is considering tripling the maximum amount of dollars the National Pension Service (NPS) can buy from the domestic foreign exchange mark...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial builds disaster response system
South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group announced on Sunday that it established a disaster response system to provide swift and substantial assistance...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanyang Securities up for sale; in talks with KCGI, Woori
Hanyang Securities Co., a small South Korean brokerage firm, has been put on the market as its parent Hanyang University Foundation scrambles to kee...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Korea challenges PCA ruling in favor of Mason Capital over Samsung case
South Korea is seeking to revoke an international tribunal’s ruling in April that its government must pay US-based Mason Capital Management LL...
Jul 11, 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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Real estate
Korea’s POBA to invest $109 mn in Koramco’s office REIT
South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is set to commit 150 billion won ($108.5 million) in preferred stocks for offices in...
Jul 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
NPS-backed new prime office building in Seoul struggles with poor demand
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is seeing little demand for a Seoul-based new prim...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Young rich Koreans: Financially literate, self-directing
Young South Korean millionaires want to take more control of their investments and bet on sectors they know, not relying passively on private banker...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
POSCO aims to quadruple operating profits by 2030
POSCO Group, South Korea’s No. 1 steelmaker, has set an ambitious goal of quadrupling its operating profits and doubling revenue by 2030 with ...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s military fund taps ex-president of Woori Financial as CIO
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, has tapp...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hanwha’s Flexell Space to supply satellite solar cell to Terran Orbital
Flexell Space, an in-house space solar cell-developing startup under South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co., will supply its tandem flexible batteri...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Financial, Natixis to manage global private equity fund
South Korea's Woori Bank and Woori PE Asset Management announced on Thursday that they have signed a "strategic business agreement for creating a ...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean PE funds shrink in 2023 for first time in 7 years
South Korean private equity investments declined last year for the first time since 2016 due to interest rate hikes, high inflation and the Korean w...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Doosan emerges as darling in Korea’s BBB bond market
Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset's US dividend premium fund surpasses $72 mn in net assets
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. announced on Tuesday that the net assets of its Mirae Asset US Dividend Premium Fund, which invests...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea's NPS CIO talks with GPIF, GIC execs on asset allocation
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) Chief Investment Officer Seo Won-joo has visited Japan and Singapore on his first overseas busine...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Dentlink, virtual lab for dentists around the world
It's been just over two years since Innovaid Co. launched Dentlink but the South Korean startup has already pivoted from its earlier local market-ce...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai files for 1st overseas unit IPO in India: reports
Hyundai Motor Co.'s Indian unit filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Saturday to raise up to $3 b...
Jun 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset Indian subsidiary surpasses $21.8 bn in AUM
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. announced on Thursday that the total assets under management (AUM) of its Indian subsidiary have su...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korean retail investors’ US stockholdings at record high
South Korean individual investors’ US stockholdings swelled to a record $82.19 billion as of early June amid the US stock market rally, while ...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Yellow Umbrella's new CIO to spur alternative investment
The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a 25.4 trillion won ($18.5 billion) savings arm of South Korean small business owners, has tapped an alternativ...
Jun 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Nvidia co-leads Series A round for AI startup Twelve Labs
Global chip giant Nvidia Corp. has co-led a $50 million Series A funding round for Twelve Labs, a South Korean artificial intelligence company speci...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korea's KDB widens gap in VC fundraising in H1; NPS to fund in July
The capital commitments of state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) have widened the gap for South Korean venture capital firms in fundraising over ...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
IGIS fund defaults on loan linked to German office
A 370-billion-won ($270 million) real estate fund managed by IGIS Asset Management Co. faces a heavy loss from its investment in Trianon, a landmark...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao Mobility, Archer to collaborate for K-UAM commercialization
South Korea's Kakao Mobility Corp. announced on Friday that it signed an agreement with Archer Aviation, the US-based urban air mobility (UAM) aircr...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS logs 5.8% return in Q1 led by US tech stock rally
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 5.82% investment return for the first quarter ...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean brokerage firms seek to raise $1.2 bn in property funds
South Korean brokerage firms are scurrying to raise more than 1.7 trillion won ($1.24 billion) in private equity funds to bet on soured property loa...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)