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South Korea's fiscal deficit in September has pushed the annual shortfall to over 100 trillion won ($89.6 billion) with public debt reaching an all-ti...

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee met with Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Oct. 20 to discuss ways to strengthen bus...

Kakao Pay Corp. is set to become South Korea’s first mobile-payment fintech company to go public as the company kicks off preparations for an in...

Kakao Games Corp. has raised over a staggering 16 trillion won ($13.5 billion) in deposits during the first day of its public subscription on Septembe...

Activist fund Korea Corporate Governance Improvement (KCGI) and mid-sized builder Bando Engineering & Construction have succeeded in their pu...

Investors are paying close attention to the Korean game holding company Krafton as it is expected to be this year's hottest initial public offering. T...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) plans to abandon its principle of hedging currency exposure from investing in overseas alternatives, a...

IGIS Asset Management Co. Ltd. has launched South Korea’s first public fund investing in logistics centers, targeting to raise up to 245 billion won (...

Korea Investment Management Co. plans to raise 104 million euros ($118 million) from individual investors in June to fund its 275-million-euro purchas...

Daishin Asset Management Co. Ltd. has launched a public fund to raise up to 80 billion won ($68 million) to fund its $180 million purchase of a Tokyo ...

Two US state pension funds and a Hong Kong public fund have invested 50 billion won ($47 million) in aggregate to buy a minority stake in South Korea’...

Former South Korean lawmaker Sung-joo Kim, named as chief executive and chairman of the National Pension Service (NPS) on Nov. 2, stressed the publi...

The brokerage arm of KB Financial Group, a top South Korean banking group, is planning to raise around 60 billion won ($54 million) from individual in...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has been recently named as a preferred buyer of an office complex in Brussels, Belgium, in a 130 billi...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is most likely to select global asset managers to invest about $200 million on aggregate in ...

(Corrected: Numbers in the first and third paragraphs were corrected to $500 to $600 million, and $880 million, respectively) The Public Officials ...

Two key fund managers of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) have offered to step down earlier this month, joining in 25 other employees ...

South Korean brokerage firms, on the buying spree of US and European real estate, will roll out public real estate funds in the coming months to sell ...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has signed a final agreement to acquire a 10-story office building in the southern part of Hamburg, Ge...

Three private equity firms – LGT Capital Management, Leadenhall Capital Partners and Nephila Capital – have been chosen as the preferred managers of t...

Asia-based alternative investment firm Pacific Alliance Group (PAG) is teaming up with a South Korean brokerage company to launch about a 200 billion ...

Keymen of major South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service (NPS), Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and Korea Post,...

South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. has purchased State Farm Insurance’s four-building office complex in Texas for 900 billion won (...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a savings fund for South Korean public officials, will select about two management firms to commit $4...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has preliminarily chosen three U.S.-based asset management firms of mezzanine funds in limit...

South Korea’s public pension funds, including the National Pension Service (NPS) and pension schemes for government officials and military personnel, ...

The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) of South Korea has decided to commit 60 million Australian dollars to a Macquarie infrastructure fund ...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on Friday a new program to support young entrepreneurs under the age of 39 who are interested in startin...