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

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

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

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, 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

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

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'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

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, 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

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...

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

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...

E-Mart in exclusive talks to buy US food company

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

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?

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

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...

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