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South Korea’s mobile platform Kakao Corp. is set to shake up the country's e-commerce market in the second half of the year with the launch of...

HYBE Co., the global entertainment powerhouse behind BTS, has successfully closed its previously announced rights offering to raise 445.5 billion wo...

The National Pension Service has shelved a plan to introduce negative screening on coal mines and relevant businesses in an aim to build a low-carbo...

Slightly more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the business world, the role of management consultants has become important more than ...

The growth of South Korea's game industry this year is likely to be led by new titles created by cashing in on the intellectual property of popular ...

Korea Investment Corporation has appointed new heads of alternative investment strategy and private equity in a senior management reshuffle carried ...

South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. and Hana Financial Investment Co. have jointly acquired three pre-completed logistics centers in the U...

The National Pension Service has set up a $1.5 billion joint venture with the US-based real estate investment firm Hines for a build-to-core portf...

The National Pension Service has teamed up with the US-based Stockbridge Capital Group to acquire a $2 billion portfolio of logistics facilities in ...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a $12 billion savings arm for South Korea’s small business owners, will diversify its fixed income-heavy po...

South Korean chipmakers and display manufacturers will lose a major client in China when US trade sanctions targeting the technology giant Huawei Tech...

KKR & Co. is set to acquire a non-controlling stake in a South Korean sewage management company in a deal worth up to 200 billion won ($170 millio...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has committed between $100 million and $200 million to an energy and infrastructure fund set up by UK-based private...

A consortium led by NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has been named as a preferred buyer for infrastructure assets worth $400 million in Austra...

Seoul-based Midas Asset Management has acquired three logistics assets in Germany, including an Amazon-leased facility, for 200 million euros ($217 mi...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), Danish pension fund PFA and real estate investment firm Patrizia AG have co-invested 800 billion won ...

A distressed allocation can complement private equity and private debt strategies in the later stage of credit growth cycles as a record-high percenta...

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. has secured $147.2 million in a mezzanine tranche from South Korea’s Kiwoom Asset Management Co. Ltd. on a US office ...

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. will acquire 18 used aircraft from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Capital for $540 million, for which it is to complete t...

The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed risk management center head Seong-Tae Park as new head of investment strategy on Dec. 8, a week...

Investment strategy head and No. 2 of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) Investment Management department Soo-Cheol Lee has tendered his resignation...

Midas Asset Management, a small-sized South Korean fund manager, has invested $100 million in a mezzanine debt secured on 53 hotels across the United ...

KB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and other units of South Korea’s top banking group KB Financial Group co-invested 90 million euros ($103 million) in a se...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) and the Korea Teachers’ Pension will step up real estate and infrastructure investments in Asia and other eme...

The National Pension Service (NPS) is building regionally diversified portfolios in pursuit of both profitability and stability, said its chief execut...

National Pension Service’s (NPS) investment strategy head Soo-Cheol Lee has assumed the role of acting chief investment officer of the $561 billion pe...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have invested around 38 billion won ($36 million...

Shinhan Financial Group’s alternative investment arm has sourced a $100 million investment by three South Korean insurers in a mezzanine debt on US ho...

KEB Hana Bank, a leading South Korean lender, has arranged $300 million lease financing for an aircraft portfolio of Avolon, in the first financing ar...

Five South Korean insurance companies have invested $118 million in senior debt of a portfolio of six US thermal power facilities, which are expected ...