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Global proxy advisors International Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. have expressed their opinion that there is no need for...

South Korean retail investors, hunting for bargains, have flocked to shovel in the Japanese currency hovering around its record low value in anticip...

South Korean rental platforms have become a headache for private equity firms, with their declining profits and dim business outlooks making them ha...

Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. has selected Seoul-based real estate manager ARA Korea Ltd. as the preferred bidder for five-star ho...

The South Korean government on Monday tapped Mirae Asset Securities Co. as the brokerage chosen to sell treasury bonds, the sale of which will be la...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is expected to invest up to 11 trillion won ($8.2 ...

Global fund manager Partners Group Holding AG, one of the largest listed private equity firms in Europe headquartered in Switzerland managing $147 b...

A South Korean real estate fund is set to post a 100% loss as the value of its sole asset, a prime office building wholly leased to Norway’s l...

South Korea’s mid-sized brokerage firms are increasingly embracing bond sales as several large firms sold their bonds in January amid investor...

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on Feb. 18 that it will broaden the scope of its English electronic disclosure ser...

US Treasury bonds are gaining popularity among retail investors in South Korea amid expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates...

Foreign investors bought more South Korean stocks and bonds in January, extending their buying spree to three months.The Financial Supervisory Servi...

NextEnergy Capital, a leading global fund manager specializing in ground-mounted solar energy, will boost its investments in renewables around the w...

Apollo Asset Management, Warburg Pincus and Lexington Partners are South Korean institutional investors’ most preferred private equity firm...

DAEGU – The IMC Group, owned by Warrant Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., will invest 130 billion won ($98 million) to build a semicond...

South Korean investors armed with ample liquidity have rushed to buy corporate debts to enjoy high yields before rates head south later this year, l...

Global real estate will be the least-chosen asset class for South Korean institutional investors this year, according to a recent survey. Despite curr...

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading company, joined hands with Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Bow Capital for investment cooperation,...

The Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) will go all out to minimize any adverse effects on the South Korean financial market from an anti...

South Korean investors have already suffered about 230 billion won ($171 million) losses from their investments in equity-linked securities (ELS) ti...

South Korea will scrap a plan to impose taxes on capital gains from financial products for all shareholders and further lower securities transaction...

Aftershocks continue in the South Korean financial market following the country’s financial regulator’s ban on the trading of spot bitco...

South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Group is planning to debut on the Nasdaq market by early 2025, founder and Chairman Seo Jung-jin said at the...

Samsung SDI Co. has agreed to invest $18.5 million in Canada Nickel Company Inc. to secure steady supplies of nickel and cobalt, key materials for r...

As the annual general shareholders’ meeting season is approaching fast, publicly traded companies in South Korea are readying for a swath of p...

South Korea’s unicorn startups, or venture firms with a corporate value of at least 1 trillion won ($760 million), are poised to return to the...

South Korean investors’ years-long trading of spot-bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed in Canada and Germany was abruptly suspended du...

IGIS Asset Management Co., a leading real estate firm in South Korea, said last week it has tapped Oh Taesuk, a real asset expert with more than 20 ...

LG Electronics Inc. on Monday posted record-high 2023 revenue thanks to robust sales of home appliances and vehicle components, although its fourth-...

South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. was fined 11.6 billion won ($8.9 million) for allegedly misleading its customers over in...