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E-commerce
Alipay’s rise puts Korea on alert to private data breaches
South Korean fintech companies' customer data transfers to Alipay, a Chinese payment platform, are setting off private data breach alarm bells amid ...
Aug 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s retail investors buy stocks on dips in turmoil
South Korea’s individual investors took the recent turmoil in stock markets as an opportunity to buy shares at home and abroad on dips, bettin...
Aug 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling
Foreigners and institutional investors in the South Korean stock market picked biotechs as their favorite shares in hopes of a biopharma stock jump ...
Aug 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn
US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean e-commerce platforms struggle to draw new capital
South Korean online marketplace operators are struggling to attract investors amid deteriorating profitability and the financial turmoil facing dome...
Aug 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
S.Korean stocks log largest daily loss since pandemic
The South Korean stock market dropped more than 3% on Friday to breach the psychologically important barrier of 2,700 in almost two months, after we...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Qxpress investors to take over Qoo10 founder's control
Financial investors of Qxpress Pte. are set to take over Singapore-based Qoo10 Pte. and its founder Ku Young Bae’s control amid financial turm...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s July household debt grows at fastest pace in over 3 years
South Korea’s household debt is expanding at the fastest pace in over three years, clouding growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy and ...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG CNS gears up for 2025 IPO with $5.1 billion in enterprise value
LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, is gearing up for an initial public offering early next year, o...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean commercial real estate market to show slow recovery in H2
South Korea’s commercial real estate market will post a slow recovery in the second half of this year due to rate cut delays and no big correc...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korean treasury yields fall to lowest level in over 2 years
South Korea’s treasury bond yields fell to their lowest points in more than two years, slipping below the 3% level for the first time since Ap...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Woori Financial vows higher shareholder returns, value-up after record Q2
Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services holding company, plans to significantly enhance its shareholder va...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanyang Securities stake draws bids without sale manager
Hanyang Securities Co. has received preliminary bids from four to five South Korean companies or consortia for its 11.3% stake after its controlling...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Young Korean investors choose monthly dividend ETFs over crypto
For decades, investments in financial products that promise decent dividend payouts such as high-dividend stocks have been associated with elderly i...
Jul 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Doosan Robotics to merge with Doosan Bobcat by early 2025
Doosan Robotics Inc. will complete a merger with Doosan Bobcat Inc. by early next year, a move aimed at prodding Bobcat to take an active role in ex...
Jul 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
Net zero, digitalization to boost private infrastructure investment
Infrastructure debt is a growing asset class with much to offer investors, with a wide range of assets and characteristics available. AllianzGI mana...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MG Non-Life Insurance deal falls through with no bidders
The sale of South Korean mid-sized insurer MG Non-Life Insurance Co. has been canceled as the financially distressed insurer failed to attract any b...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Samsung Securities’ IB head to quit amid talent outflow
Lee Jae-hyun, who has led one of Samsung Securities Co.'s investment banking divisions for two years, has recently expressed his intention to quit, ...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Samsung boosts renewable energy in Vietnam facilities
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday its Vietnam facilities will ramp up eco-friendly operations by directly purchasing renewable energy under ...
Jul 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Kospi on upward run; individual investors turn bearish
South Korean individual investors are strongly betting on a drop in domestic share prices, in contrast to foreign investors’ aggressive buying...
Jul 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign net buying of S.Korean stocks hits all-time high
Offshore investors net purchased nearly 23 trillion won ($16.7 billion) worth of South Korea-listed stocks in the first half of this year. The buyin...
Jul 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean IPO boom sets record; bubbles burst post debut
South Korea’s initial public offerings in the first half of this year were oversubscribed 1,610 times, the highest-ever rate for a half-year p...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street
South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. is poised to acquire the country’s leading e-commerce operator 11Street Co. to ramp up its ...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Jollibee to acquire Korea’s Compose Coffee in $340 mn deal
Jollibee Foods Corp., the Philippines’ largest fast-food chain, is set to take over a majority stake in Compose Coffee Co., South Korea’...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
South Korean brokerages woo super-rich to make them even richer
South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, have largely built their wealth through hard work, savings and ...
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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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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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Card, KakaoBank to team up for PLCC
South Korea's Shinhan Card Co. and the domestic internet bank KakaoBank Corp. said on Wednesday that they signed a business agreement to develop and...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On to sell $360 mn in perpetual bonds amid tough EV market
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to sell 500 billion won ($359.6 million) in its first perpetual bon...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators
Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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