buying spree

IMM Private Equity will buy additional shares in South Korea’s Hanssem Co. for 100 billion won ($77 million) in a tender offer to inject fresh...

SK Signet Inc., an affiliate of South Korea's SK Group that makes and sells electric vehicle (EV) chargers, on Monday said it received its first ord...

Seoul-based activist fund Tcha Partners Asset Management Co. on Monday demanded that South Korea’s Namyang Dairy Products Co. buy back half of...

EQT Partners AB, the world’s third-largest private equity firm, is poised to buy a controlling stake in South Korean security service provider...

South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate Dongwon Group is seeking to buy local biopharmaceutical company Boryung Biopharma Co....

South Korea’s hy, formerly Korea Yakult, has acquired Mesh Korea, the operator of the delivery service Vroong that uses two-wheeled vehicles. ...

South Korea's Hanwha Group will acquire ship engine maker HSD Engine in a move to shore up its shipbuilding unit following the conglomerate's takeov...

South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments is poised to become the second-largest shareholder of Iljin Materials Co., a Kosdaq-listed battery...

SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is poised to strengthen its eco-friendly b...

The South Korean won currency skidded to a four-week low on Monday as stronger-than-expected US employment data renewed expectations that the Federa...

Dongwon Industries Co. will discuss a deal with McDonald’s Corp. to buy the latter’s Korean operations in hopes of riding on the renewed...

MBK Partners, the largest private equity firm in Northeast Asia, is set to acquire Japanese senior nursing care service company Unimat Retirement Co...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...

Croda International Plc., a British specialty chemicals company, is set to acquire South Korean bio materials producer Solus Biotech Co. for some 35...

South Korean real estate firm Bluecove Investment has signed an agreement to acquire five-star hotel Grand Hyatt Seoul for more than 700 billion won...

South Korea’s undersea cable company KT Submarine Co. plans to buy a cable laying barge from LS Cable & System Ltd., its major shareholder...

MBK Partners, a leading Asian private equity firm, and Unison Capital Korea agreed on a tender offer to acquire management rights of Osstem Implant ...

LG Electronics Inc.'s OLED evo was selected as the best product by Japan's most well-known audio and video publications.The South Korean company sai...

Pacific Alliance Group (PAG), a Hong Kong-based alternative investment firm, joined the bidding on Jan. 10 to acquire a 100% stake in South Korean h...

A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...

Mirae Asset Global Managements Co. said on Friday that it has invested 21 billion won ($17 million) in a large logistics center in Mumbai to become ...

Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is acquiring Medit Corp., the world’s third-largest 3D dental scanner maker, for 2.45 trillion w...

Belgian chemicals maker Solvay S.A. has been selected as the preferred bidder to acquire South Korean biomaterials maker Solus Biotech, according to...

Kream, a customer-to-customer (C2C) platform for buying and selling limited-edition sneakers, is slated to close the Series C round with a 200 bil...

Young Poong Precision Corp., an industrial pump and chemical plant valve maker under South Korea's Young Poong Group, is aggressively increasing con...

Tesla, Inc. was the investors’ choice in South Korea this year, ahead of other overseas stocks.According to the Korea Securities Depository he...

The TIGER KEDI30 ETF has topped the list of the most purchased exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by South Korea’s individual investors in the theme...

BASF SE, the world’s largest chemical producer, US food processing giant ADM Co. and two other global companies have joined the race to acquir...

Hyundai Home Shopping Network Corp., a TV shopping channel operator owned by South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Dec. 26 it will s...

Saving income to buy a house in South Korea has become more difficult and taking longer, according to a report by the Ministry of Land, Infrastruc...