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Lee Hae-jin, the founder of South Korea’s No. 1 internet portal operator Naver Corp., is set to return to the company to lead the board amid t...

MBK Partners, the largest private equity firm in North Asia, will acquire a controlling stake in FICT Ltd., a semiconductor printed circuit board (P...

Hana Financial Group will buy back 400 billion won ($280 million) worth of shares to retire, marking its largest-ever repurchase, in line with ongoi...

South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. is on the market again four years after the US blocked a takeover by a Chinese private equity f...

South Korea’s business-to-business fintech service provider Dozn is planning an initial public offering on the Kosdaq in February for an estim...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), one of the world’s top 10 global pension fund managers, is joining other foreign asset manag...

IMM Private Equity has divested its remaining 1.38% stake in Woori Financial Group for 166.4 billion won ($115 million), exiting the South Korean fi...

Lim Hyoung-seok, former Vice President of KKR Korea, left the private equity giant’s Seoul office and established his private equity fund (PEF...

Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has agreed to buy the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads manufacturing division of SK Enpulse C...

South Korea’s private equity firm Hahn & Co. is set to acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top specialty gas producer SK Spec...

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run utility company, expects to post its highest-ever overseas business performance this year, thanks ...

Doosan Bobcat Inc., a global construction machinery maker owned by South Korea’s Doosan Group, has unveiled massive corporate value-up measure...

Affinity Equity Partners, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, will acquire a controlling stake in South Korea’s No. 1 car rental and leasing co...

IFM Investors, a global investment manager owned by Australian pension funds, is looking to infrastructure as the fastest-growing asset segment for ...

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to drastically raise its shareholder return rates to bolster shareholder value. The c...

Chinese online shopping giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has invested 100 billion won ($71.4 million) in South Korea’s top women’s cloth...

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s largest institutional investor, reported a preliminary 9.18% return from investments, equiva...

Seoul-based Kamur Private Equity has signed a definitive agreement to sell a majority stake in South Korean industrial cutting tool manufacturer JJ ...

La Defense Partners is expected to exercise a casting vote over the ongoing management dispute at Hanmi Science Co. after the Seoul-based private eq...

An international consortium involving South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. and financial firms has won a $3.7 billion project to build a desali...

IMM Investment, Korea Investment Private Equity (PE), Corstone Asia, and Paratus Investment have been selected for the Export-Import Bank of Korea's...

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund and the country’s largest institutional investor, expects some ...

LG Group affiliates— LG Display Co., LG Innotek, LG Chem Ltd., and LG Energy Solution Ltd. —unveiled their ambitious growth strategies o...

Hyosung Chemical Corp. has failed to reach an agreement with a consortium of IMM Private Equity and STIC Investments Inc. to sell its specialty gas ...

Apollo Global Management Inc., a US private equity powerhouse, said on Monday it has opened an office in Seoul to expand its business in the Asia Pa...

NH Nonghyup REITs Management Co. has completed the purchase of Donuimun D Tower, a prime office building in central Seoul, for 895.3 billion won ($6...

The United States has reinstated South Korea on its foreign-exchange monitoring watchlist, a year after it removed Asia’s No. 4 economy from t...

Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group’s online shopping mall operator SSG.COM has secured Olympus, a special purpose company created by Korean b...

The US stock holdings of South Korean individual investors surpassed $100 billion for the first time, driven by a sustained rally in the US markets ...

South Korea's mom-and-pop investors have upped their stake in Indian stocks, hoping that Donald Trump's return to the White House will boost the Sou...