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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE secures $1.8 bn in container ship orders
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) secured orders for 22 container ships worth a total of 2.54 trillion won ($1.8 billion) ...
Apr 28, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Seoul mulls joint review of Alaska LNG project with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam
South Korea has proposed forming a consortium with Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam to jointly assess the feasibility of investing in the $45 billion Alask...
Apr 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
S.Korea’s top 4 financial holding firms cheer upbeat Q1 results
South Korea’s top four financial holding companies – Shinhan, KB, Hana and Woori – reported stellar earnings for the first quarter...
Apr 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
DB Insurance becomes Daol Investment’s No.2 shareholder
DB Insurance Co., a leading South Korean non-life insurance company, has become Daol Investment & Securities Co.'s second-largest shareholder af...
Apr 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI, Hanwha Ocean to usher in battery-driven submarine era
Hanwha Ocean Co. and Samsung SDI Co. will start evaluating their jointly developed lithium-ion battery system for a submarine with South Korea&rsquo...
Apr 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
S.Korea’s medical tourism thrives on weak currency
Foreign visitors to South Korea jumped nearly 20% early this year, largely driven by a sharp depreciation in the country’s currency value agai...
Apr 18, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS breaks into US smart city market
LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, has won its first public-sector smart city contracts in the US,...
Apr 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
US PE firm Miri Capital ups stake in Korea’s STIC Investments
US private equity firm Miri Capital Management LLC said on Tuesday it has raised its stake in STIC Investments Inc. to step up its shareholder activ...
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung expands automotive MLCC supply to BYD, other Chinese firms
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. is supplying several million dollars' worth of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) to BYD Co. and Chinese automotive...
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
EQT set to invest in KKR-backed fashion unicorn Musinsa
EQT, Europe's largest private equity firm, is set to invest 20 billion to 30 billion won ($14 million-$21 million) in Musinsa, South Korea’s f...
Apr 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics’ Spot embarks on public safety missions
Spot, a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics Inc., will aid defense and safety agencies in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia to assist in...
Apr 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Kakao Entertainment sheds loss-making units, revives IPO prospects
Kakao Entertainment Corp. has been divesting unprofitable music labels and digital content platforms, which it has gobbled up over the past few year...
Apr 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK
ABL Bio Inc., a South Korean biotech company, will license out its proprietary blood-brain barrier shuttle platform, called the Grabody-B, to UK-bas...
Apr 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
K-beauty exports to China rebound after 4-month slump
South Korea’s beauty industry is showing signs of recovery in China, with exports rebounding after four months of decline.The turnaround follo...
Apr 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Korean financial firms face growing risks in overseas property investments
South Korea’s financial institutions are increasingly at risk of their overseas real estate investments turning sour, government data showed o...
Apr 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Asia Property to buy WeWork building in Seoul
Seoul-based real estate investment firm Asia Property has been picked as the sole preferred bidder for an office building currently occupied by cowo...
Apr 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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League table
UBS tops Korea’s buyout deal advisory in Q1 thanks to Lotte
UBS Group AG, the frontrunner in South Korea's M&A market last year, retained the top position in the country's buyout advisory market in the fi...
Apr 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. acquires SK Specialty for $1.8 billion
Hahn & Co., South Korea’s largest private equity firm, has finalized the acquisition of SK Specialty Co., the world’s leading produc...
Apr 01, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hanwha gears up for 3rd-generation leadership with chairman’s stake gift
South Korea’s chemical-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-youn will hand over half of his holdings in the conglomerate&rs...
Apr 01, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
VIG taps KDB financing to buy 40% stake in Kakao Mobility
South Korea’s private equity firm VIG Partners’ buyout of minority stakes in Kakao Mobility Corp., the nation’s most popular taxi-...
Mar 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
KKR, Carlyle, Hillhouse race to buy Korean beauty device maker Classys
Global private equity giants such as KKR & Co., Carlyle Group and Hillhouse Capital Group Holdings are vying to acquire Classys Inc. as the Sout...
Mar 26, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air to finalize $32.7 bn deals with Boeing, GE Aerospace
Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s top full-service carrier, is set to soon finalize $32.7 billion deals with Boeing Co. and GE Aerospace for...
Mar 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
US Chamber of Commerce sees Korea’s business penalties as trade barrier
The US Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest lobbying group, told Washington that South Korea’s penalties on businesspeople are amo...
Mar 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Shinhan REITs picked as sole bidder for BNK Digital Tower
Shinhan REITs Management is expected to acquire BNK Digital Tower, an office building in the affluent neighborhood of Gangnam in southern Seoul, aft...
Mar 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Daol PE buys Youngil Glass to ride Korean cosmetics boom
Daol Private Equity has acquired Youngil Glass Industry Co., a South Korean manufacturer of glass containers, in a 65 billion won ($44.5 million) de...
Mar 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Games
Krafton invests in 10 overseas game startups in 2024
Krafton Inc. invested in 10 overseas game developers in 2024 in search of the next big franchise intellectual property (IP) following its mega-hit t...
Mar 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
MBK chairman to leverage own funds to pay Homeplus suppliers
Michael ByungJu Kim, the co-founder, partner and chairman of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm (PEF) MBK Partners Ltd., is expected to leve...
Mar 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Bank partners with Hyundai Mobis for loan services to suppliers
Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s top auto parts maker, has partnered with the country’s biggest lender Shinhan Bank to help its partners...
Mar 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
BNK's planned acquisition of Hyundai Motor Securities building falters
BNK Asset Management Co.'s bid to acquire the Hyundai Motor Securities building in central Seoul has hit a stumbling block as the main tenant, Hyund...
Mar 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Celltrion to cancel $140 mn in treasury shares, stock up
South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer Celltrion Inc. announced on Friday a plan to cancel $140 million worth of treasury shares to i...
Mar 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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