Put BTS Jin’s face on it, Otoki sales jump tenfold

What happens when you put a K-pop superstar’s face on a ramen pack? For Otoki, the answer was a tenfold surge in sales.The food maker said T...

VCs step up K-pop startup bets in hunt for next Demon Hunters

Once reluctant to touch entertainment, investors are now flooding K-pop startups with cash in hopes of capturing the next global breakout following ...

JPMorgan, CLSA see Korean stocks most attractive amid Asian ‘Goldilocks rally’

South Korea’s equities market is undergoing what investors dub a “renaissance,” as global investment banks steadily upgrade their ...

JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley to meet with Korean regulators, financial chiefs to assess Korea risks firsthand

JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley executives, alongside dozens of overseas investors, will visit South Korea next month to meet with top policymakers and ...

Global investment banks raise S.Korea’s growth forecasts as trade tensions with US ease

Global investment banks are revising up their growth forecasts for South Korea, citing easing trade uncertainties and signs of a consumer-led recove...

CLSA, Citi, JPMorgan slam South Korea’s tax reform plans as anti-market

South Korea’s latest tax overhaul is triggering a wave of criticism from foreign investment banks, with analysts warning that the proposed tax...

JPMorgan, Jefferies picked to manage TaylorMade Golf sale

Centroid Investment Partners, a Seoul-based private equity firm, has selected JPMorgan and Jefferies as lead managers for the sale of TaylorMade Gol...

GIC at forefront of $413-mn deal to buy hotels from South Korea’s DL Group

Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte. has been given priority rights to buy three hotels valued at more than 600 billion won ($413 million) toget...

NPS overweight in beauty, food; chases APR, Samwha higher

The National Pension Service (NPS) has raised its bets on South Korean beauty and food companies in the second quarter of this year on expectations ...

Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion

South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...

SK Ecoplant, Vietnam’s BCGE tie up for 700 MW wind, solar projects

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, said on Friday it has agreed with BCG Energy (BCGE), a wholly...

JPMorgan Chase’s growth driver: offline community branches

NEW YORK -- Global banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been expanding brick-and-mortar branches across the US with investments of billions of...

EcoPro Materials, Doosan Robotics heat up Korean IPO market

South Korea’s initial public offering market is recovering as EcoPro Materials Co., Doosan Robotics Inc. and other newly listed jackpot shares...

JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon to visit S.Korea on June 5

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon is set to visit Seoul on June 5 and discuss South Korea’s overseas investments with exec...

S.Korean stocks at 8-month high as foreigners chase Samsung

South Korean stocks hit an eight-month high on Monday as foreign investors continued to chase Samsung Electronics Co., the country’s most valu...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

K-bio firms embrace gene therapy CDMO as Samsung looks the other way

South Korea’s major biopharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing the cell and gene therapy business under a contract drug-making mechanis...

BOK may take big-step rate hike on Fed's aggressive tightening

South Korea’s central bank may raise interest rates more than usual to rein in inflation in Asia’s fourth-largest economy after the US F...

S.Korean CEOs chase M&A targets in same industry

Some 72% of South Korea's chief executives surveyed by consulting firm EY intend to carry out M&As within the next 12 months to increase their m...

NH, KB ranked top S.Korean equity, debt underwriters

Fundraising via initial public offerings and rights issues in South Korea more than doubled to 27.2 trillion won ($23 billion) in 2021 from a year a...

E-Mart in exclusive talks to buy US food company

South Korea's largest supermarket chain E-Mart Inc. has spent nearly $4 billion on acquisition deals so far this year, including the $3 billion purc...

Korea silicon anode materials makers to see quantum leap in demand

The global silicon-based anode materials market is gathering momentum as demand is expected to outpace supply on increasing production of electric v...

BTS label HYBE shares at highest close: Too late to chase it now?

Shares in HYBE Co., the label behind BTS, hit their all-time high close on Tuesday, buoyed after the boy band's latest track "Butter" topped the Bil...

SM Entertainment emerges as next flashpoint for Kakao, Naver rivalry

As SM Entertainment Co., the label behind the global K-pop phenomenon, is up for grabs in the M&A market, the battle heats up between the countr...

Kurly hires Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley for US listing

Kurly Inc., the operator of premium grocery delivery platform Market Kurly, will push forward in its US IPO aims with three global investment banks ...

JPMorgan tops Korea’s H1 M&A advisor list with Prudential deal

Prudential Financial Inc.’s 2.3 trillion won ($1.9 billion) sale of its South Korean unit dominated the country’s M&A advisory market ...