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Electronics
LG Electronics to participate in Frieze Art Fair in New York
LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday that it will participate in Frieze New York, one of the world's three major contemporary art fairs, from May 17...
May 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset Securities acquires European ETF market maker GHCO
Mirae Asset Securities UK, the UK corporation of South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities, announced on Monday that it has acquired GHCO, a market-makin...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
HL Holdings, Veluga Brewery to digitalize Korean liquor market
HL Holdings Corp., a major South Korean automotive parts logistics specialist with a three-decade history, has joined hands with Veluga Brewery Inc....
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Hansae: Hidden Korean champion in global OEM apparel market
Hansae is an unfamiliar name to many South Koreans for sure.But among original equipment manufacturing (OEM) companies in the apparel industry, Hans...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to open medical checkup center in Hanoi, Vietnam
South Korea's KT Corp. next year will launch a medical checkup center in Hanoi, Vietnam, under a strategy to advance its digital healthcare business...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT pursues digitalization of health care with ezCaretech
South Korea's KT Corp. on Friday said it will jointly enter the health care sector with electronics health records company ezCaretech.Both companies...
May 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS' alternative assets underperform benchmark amid high inflation
National Pension Service (NPS) in South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, saw its returns on alternative investments last year un...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Terra co-founder Do Kwon’s $177 million assets in Korea under seizure
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, the mastermind behind the Terra-Luna cryptocurrency collapse, has had most of his assets in South Korea frozen, a...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset Securities joins Singapore Exchange's trading membership
South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities has made history as the first Korean financial investment firm to join the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) trading...
May 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2023
Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to kick off May 17 in Seoul
South Korean institutional investors, including the world’s third-largest pension fund National Pension Service (NPS), and global asset manage...
May 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Defense, healthcare lure global funds in dull market
Defense, healthcare and semiconductor materials companies have been the main investment targets of global funds such as Fidelity and Morgan Stanley ...
May 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Multifamily emerges as Korean LPs’ top real estate pick for 2023
Multifamily housing has emerged as the most popular real estate segment for South Korean institutional investors, with senior secured loans picked as ...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Clean energy remains top pick for Korean infrastructure investors
South Korean institutional investors are poised to ramp up investments in global infrastructure, hedging against inflationary pressure, a survey found...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC mulls expanding assets in Asian emerging markets: CEO
NEW YORK – Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is considering expanding alternative investments in Asian emerging markets...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kakao Healthcare teams up with US digital, biohealth firms
Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Group, has teamed up with US digital and health companies such as DexCom...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s GEPS to begin investing in global buyout, growth funds
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is set to inject 100 billion won ($74.7 million) to make its first investments in gl...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Samsung Life buys 20% of French asset manager Meridiam
Samsung Life Insurance, managing 223.1 trillion won ($167.5 billion) in assets, has acquired a 20% stake in Paris-based infrastructure investment fi...
Apr 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ OliveNetworks opens S.Korea's first logistics center with 5G
South Korea's digital service company CJ OliveNetworks on Thursday said it set up the mobile communications network "Ieum 5G" exclusively for busine...
Apr 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Sports tech startups poised to launch next Korean unicorn
UK Premier League Tottenham Hotspur star forward Son Heung-min and two-way US MLB icon Shohei Ohtani, a designated pitcher and hitter for the Los An...
Apr 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset Owners Report
S.Korean LPs to up exposure to private debt, infrastructure in 2023: Survey
South Korean institutional investors are eyeing private debt and infrastructure for stable income and to hedge against inflation, a survey by The Kore...
Apr 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Welt gets second digital therapeutic device approval in S. Korea
South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on Wednesday that it has approved the cognitive therapy software "WELT-I" developed by We...
Apr 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Samsung unveils HealthStack at US healthcare tech exhibition
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that it will showcase Samsung HealthStack ver. 1.0 at the "2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Ex...
Apr 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Specialty income by preferred securities, commercial MBS
With a hamstrung US Federal Reserve, the global outlook for 2023 is one of cautious optimism for fixed income. As the Fed is unable to readily rescu...
Apr 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea plans to make digital platform gov't based on large-scale AI
South Korean government is pursuing various measures to nurture talent as a way to secure national competitiveness in the AI industry as represented...
Apr 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
LG shares soar as UK asset manager Silchester raises stake
LG Corp., the holding firm of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group, saw its share price soar in the local market on Wednesday as...
Apr 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LS Group' corporate value soars as EV battery market grows
LS Corp., a holding company of South Korea's LS Group, has seen its enterprise value swell by nearly 1 trillion won ($760 million) over the past yea...
Apr 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Super-rich Koreans eye return to stocks despite weaker economy
The super-rich in South Korea are eyeing stocks for investments despite a slowdown in Asia’s fourth-largest economy this year, expecting the l...
Apr 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Macquarie to buy Lotte’s S.Korean transportation card unit
Macquarie Asset Management, part of Australian investment bank Macquarie Group, is set to buy Loca Mobility Corp., Lotte Card Co.’s subsidiary...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kyobo Life’s holding firm plan gains speed with Pavilion Asset acquisition
Kyobo Life Insurance Co. has completed the process to put a South Korea-based alternative asset investment company under its wing, a move that is ex...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
VIP Asset’s new mutual fund to forgo operating fees if it posts losses
VIP Asset Management Co., a leading South Korean asset manager, said on Friday it is launching a new mutual fund, and its managers won’t take ...
Mar 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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