strategic investors

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...

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...

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...

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...

Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services holding company, plans to significantly enhance its shareholder va...

For decades, investments in financial products that promise decent dividend payouts such as high-dividend stocks have been associated with elderly i...

Infrastructure debt is a growing asset class with much to offer investors, with a wide range of assets and characteristics available. AllianzGI mana...

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...

South Korea's Kumho Tire Co. announced on Thursday that it signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement with Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany's B...

South Korean individual investors are strongly betting on a drop in domestic share prices, in contrast to foreign investors’ aggressive buying...

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...

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...

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. is poised to acquire the country’s leading e-commerce operator 11Street Co. to ramp up its ...

South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, have largely built their wealth through hard work, savings and ...

Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...

South Korean investors are eyeing Japan’s golf resorts to buy amid the weak yen, rising demand for golf courses in Japan, and relatively low p...

South Korea’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), said on Thursday it will extend its blanket stock short-selling ba...

South Korean individual investors’ US stockholdings swelled to a record $82.19 billion as of early June amid the US stock market rally, while ...

Retail-focused Shinsegae Group is set to outsource delivery services and logistics management for its e-commerce platforms such as SSG.COM and Gmark...

South Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider KT Corp. has formed a strategic alliance with US tech giant Microsoft Corp. to colla...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), also the world’s third-largest pension fund, will gradually reduce the proportion of its l...

KT Corp. has offered reverse pitches for South Korean artificial intelligence and technology startups to cooperate in the areas where it lacks in te...

South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Thursday that it received the highest rating of AAA for insurer financial strength (IFS) from th...

Private credit continues to lure investors, not least within one of the largest areas of private credit, direct lending. Providing reliable income s...

The scope of real assets is expanding with new businesses such as infrastructure operating services and supply chain management, creating niche oppo...

South Korean institutional investors favor private credit as interest rates are expected to remain higher for longer, said speakers at the chief inv...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will scale up its collateralized loan obligation (CLO) business with New York-based investment firm Anchorage ...

Young rich Koreans have emerged as big players in South Korea’s asset management market, expanding into M&As and commercial real estate, a...

HLB Co. and its affiliate stocks tumbled on Friday on news that the South Korean biotech group’s highly anticipated new cancer treatment Rivoc...

As the Federal Reserve signaled delays in rate cuts after meeting earlier this month, more investors have adopted for a wait-and-see attitude. Those...