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Retail
Shinsegae faces off with Affinity, BRV over SSG.COM
Shinsegae Group could be embroiled in a legal fight against private equity firms demanding it buy back their combined 1 trillion won ($727 million) ...
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IPOs
HD Hyundai Marine IPO sees strong demand from retail investors
South Korea’s HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. has attracted billions of dollars from retail investors in subscription deposits for the ship mai...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s Lotte sells Lotte Glory Properties Shenyang amid US-China dispute
South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group has signed a deal to sell a theme park project in Shenyang, China – its latest move to pull out o...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling
Korea builds system to speed up naked short-selling ban
South Korea’s top financial regulator is set to build a centralized digital system to strengthen the prevention of naked short-selling as the ...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Korean banking group's Q1 profits drop on ELS sales
The combined net profit at South Korea’s four largest financial services firms, including KB Financial Group, are estimated to have dropped ne...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
SK Chemicals' bond oversubscribed with $526 mn demand
SK Chemicals Co., a unit of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, is set for a successful debt issue as the company’s bond sale has...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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REITs
Koramco, Fi-public to collaborate on mobile REIT investment
South Korea's Koramco REITs Management and Trust announced on Friday that it plans to launch a personal REIT investment service utilizing a mobile p...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Private markets open to more high-net-worth individuals: Hamilton Lane
The number of high-net-worth individuals allocating capital to private markets is increasing fast. These are wealthy individuals who own at least $1...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Brokerage firms' bonds draw investors amid rate cut hopes
South Korean brokerage firms are ramping up sales of long-term bonds to refinance their loans by repaying short-term debts in hopes of a rate cut by...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung Asset's KODEX S&P500 TR ETF surpasses 1 tn won in net asset
Samsung Asset Management Co. announced on Tuesday that the net asset value of its KODEX US S&P500 TR exchange-traded fund (ETF), which tracks th...
Apr 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean SMEs
KOTRA operates S.Korea's pavilion at Vietnam Expo
The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) announced on Wednesday that it has operated the South Korean Pavilion at the 2024 Vietnam Expo, ...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Hyundai Motor regains AAA credit rating after 4 years
Hyundai Motor Co. regained its top AAA credit rating for the first time since the end of 2019.NICE Investors Service on Tuesday upgraded Hyundai Mot...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign buying of Korean stocks hit record high in Q1
Foreign investors gobbled up a record 15.8 trillion won ($11.7 billion) worth of stocks listed in South Korea during the first three months of this ...
Mar 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s factory output rebounds in February on chip recovery
South Korea’s factory activity last month bounced back in three months thanks to strong recovery in the country’s semiconductor sector b...
Mar 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign bonds
Euroclear to trade S.Korean treasuries via omnibus account from June
The National Tax Service (NTS) of South Korea said on Tuesday that Euroclear Bank SA/NV and Clearstream Banking S.A., two major clearing houses for ...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
E-Mart offers voluntary retirement after 2023 loss
E-Mart Inc., South Korea’s largest supermarket chain, has launched a company-wide early retirement program for the first time in its 31-year h...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SM Entertainment founder invests $5.2 million in Mindlogic
K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co.'s founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man is expected to invest up to 10 billion won ($7.5 million) in Mind...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
JB investors urged to oppose Align's call for board overhaul
Global proxy advisors International Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. have expressed their opinion that there is no need for...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
E-Mart's credit rating drops on weak retail earnings
The credit rating of E-Mart Inc., South Korea’s top hypermarket chain operator, was downgraded to AA- by local agency NICE Information Service...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Lotte Group to give more authority to outside directors
Food-to-retail conglomerate Lotte will expand the authority of outside directors by separating the roles of chief executives and board chairs at its...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Sephora to exit S.Korean market in May
Sephora, the world's leading multi-brand beauty retailer and an affiliate of French luxury conglomerate LVMH, announced on Tuesday that it will exit...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean investors’ yen savings flirt with record high
South Korean retail investors, hunting for bargains, have flocked to shovel in the Japanese currency hovering around its record low value in anticip...
Mar 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean rental platforms become headache for PE investors
South Korean rental platforms have become a headache for private equity firms, with their declining profits and dim business outlooks making them ha...
Mar 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Brookfield taps ARA Korea as preferred bidder for Conrad Seoul
Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. has selected Seoul-based real estate manager ARA Korea Ltd. as the preferred bidder for five-star ho...
Mar 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's CU opens first store in Kazakhstan
South Korea's BGF Retail, the operator of the leading domestic convenience store chain CU, announced on Thursday that it opened its first store in K...
Mar 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign bonds
Mirae Asset to sell Korean treasuries to retail investors
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...
Mar 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
NPS to invest up to $8.2 bn in undervalued Korean stocks
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 ...
Mar 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset's Indian unit boosts retail brokerage services
South Korean brokerage house Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Tuesday that the number of its retail customer accounts in India, one of the world&r...
Feb 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
E-Mart to open first Korean supermarket chain in Laos
E-Mart Inc. said on Friday it will become the first South Korean supermarket company to open a chain store in Laos in its push to expand into Southe...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Mid-caps in digitization have strong upside potential: Partners Group
Global fund manager Partners Group Holding AG, one of the largest listed private equity firms in Europe headquartered in Switzerland managing $147 b...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)