S.Korea eases path for foreign REITs in senior housing push

S.Korea eases path for foreign REITs in senior housing push

South Korea, grappling with a fast-aging population, has relaxed development and ownership rules for senior housing, opening the sector to foreign h...

Koramco targets $7 bn bet on Korea data centers

Koramco targets $7 bn bet on Korea data centers

Koramco Asset Management Co., South Korea’s leading real estate investment firm, plans to invest 10 trillion won ($7 billion) in domestic data...

POBA bullish on REITs, real estate debts and senior housing

POBA bullish on REITs, real estate debts and senior housing

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is betting big on real estate investment trusts (REITs) and senior housing in the US...

S.Korea’s Lunit installs breast cancer AI diagnostic tool at 200 US hospitals

S.Korea’s Lunit installs breast cancer AI diagnostic tool at 200 US hospitals

Lunit Inc., a South Korean AI-powered cancer diagnostics company, said on Monday that more than 200 healthcare institutions across the US have now a...

Shinhan REITs picked as sole bidder for BNK Digital Tower

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...

CHA Biotech seeks to resume healthcare unit IPO after affiliates’ merger

CHA Biotech seeks to resume healthcare unit IPO after affiliates’ merger

CHA Biotech Co., South Korea’s leading stem cell therapeutics developer, plans to resume an initial public offering of CHA Healthcare Co., a m...

EQT targets healthcare, technology, business service providers in Korea

EQT targets healthcare, technology, business service providers in Korea

EQT, the largest private equity firm in Europe, is setting its sights on healthcare, technology companies and business service providers in South Ko...

Koramco REITS chosen preferred buyer of Crescendo Building in Seoul

Koramco REITS chosen preferred buyer of Crescendo Building in Seoul

Koramco REITs Management & Trust Co., a leading South Korean real estate firm, has been chosen as the preferred negotiator to buy the Crescendo ...

Partners Investment, GordonMD eye $150 mn biotech fund launch

Partners Investment, GordonMD eye $150 mn biotech fund launch

South Korean venture capital firm Partners Investment said on Thursday it will raise up to 215.5 billion won ($150 million) in a biotech fund jointl...

Boryung invests $10 million in Intuitive Machines

Boryung invests $10 million in Intuitive Machines

South Korea's Boryung Corp. said on Friday it bought $10.0 million in shares of US-based lunar lander company Intuitive Machines to expand its space...

GIC to pick preferred bidder in $1.1 bn Seoul landmark building sale

GIC to pick preferred bidder in $1.1 bn Seoul landmark building sale

Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund, is set to select a preferred bidder for the sale of a lan...

Mastern Investment reshuffles organizations

Mastern Investment reshuffles organizations

Mastern Investment Management Co., South Korea's real estate investment firm, said an organizational restructuring on Friday.The firm streamlined it...

LG NOVA hosts Innovation Festival in US

LG NOVA hosts Innovation Festival in US

LG Electronics Inc. 's North American Innovation Center (LG NOVA) said on Monday that it held an Innovation Festival last Wednesday and Thursday at ...

Samsung develops health software development kit

Samsung develops health software development kit

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced the Samsung Health Software Development Kit (SDK) Suite, aimed at helping developers and researchers ...

Hyundai Department to triple healthcare sales by 2030 with Nestle

Hyundai Department to triple healthcare sales by 2030 with Nestle

Hyundai Department Store Group, a South Korean conglomerate controlling retail, fashion, healthcare and lifestyle businesses, aims to triple its hea...

Kakao to merge dk techin and Kakao Brain

Kakao to merge dk techin and Kakao Brain

South Korea's Kakao Corp. said on August 23 that its mobile solution development subsidiary dK Techin Corp. will merge with its AI technology affili...

Volpara to supply cancer diagnostics SW to Intermountain Health

Volpara to supply cancer diagnostics SW to Intermountain Health

Lunit, a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, announced on Wednesday that its subsidiary Volpara Health, a New Zealand-based AI software deve...

CHA Healthcare incorporates Singapore's SMG as subsidiary

CHA Healthcare incorporates Singapore's SMG as subsidiary

South Korea's CHA Healthcare Co., CHA Biotech's overseas medical business affiliate incorporated Singapore's SMG as a subsidiary. CHA Healthcare an...

South Korea’s job growth rises in July led by elderly workers

South Korea’s job growth rises in July led by elderly workers

South Korea’s job numbers grew in July, led by new hires among those in their 60s and older in one of the world's fastest-aging countries. The...

Hanwha REIT to buy Hanwha Group office building for $584 mn

Hanwha REIT to buy Hanwha Group office building for $584 mn

Hanwha REIT Co., a real estate investment arm of South Korea’s No. 7 conglomerate Hanwha Group, said on Monday that it is poised to acquire th...

Spear Korea to acquire AI medical firm Life Semantics

Spear Korea to acquire AI medical firm Life Semantics

South Korea's aerospace materials company Spear Korea will acquire artificial intelligence (AI) medical firm Life Semantics Co. Life Semantics ...

Samsung to invest $52 mn in US biotech VC Flagship Pioneering

Samsung to invest $52 mn in US biotech VC Flagship Pioneering

Samsung C&T Corp., its bio units Samsung Biologics Co. and Samsung Bioepis Co. and Samsung Venture Investment Corp. have committed a combined 72...

Korea’s POBA to invest $109 mn in Koramco’s office REIT

Korea’s POBA to invest $109 mn in Koramco’s office REIT

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is set to commit 150 billion won ($108.5 million) in preferred stocks for offices in...

SK puts shares in Goldman-backed Korea Superfreeze on market

SK puts shares in Goldman-backed Korea Superfreeze on market

SK Group has put its shares in Korea Superfreeze Inc., a cold chain logistics company jointly owned by EMP Belstar and Goldman Sachs, on the market,...

Koramco, Fi-public to collaborate on mobile REIT investment

Koramco, Fi-public to collaborate on mobile REIT investment

South Korea's Koramco REITs Management and Trust announced on Friday that it plans to launch a personal REIT investment service utilizing a mobile p...

Keppel REIT to sell Seoul-based prime office T Tower

Keppel REIT to sell Seoul-based prime office T Tower

Singapore’s Keppel REIT Management Ltd. is set to divest of its Seoul-based prime office building T Tower near Seoul Station.Real estate manag...

Samsung Fire headquarters up for sale at about $746 mn

Samsung Fire headquarters up for sale at about $746 mn

The Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. headquarters building in Seoul is on the market at a valuation of more than 1 trillion won ($746 million...

Foreign venture funding for Korean startups picks up

Foreign venture funding for Korean startups picks up

South Korean startups raising funds from overseas venture capital firms nearly doubled in the first two months of this year from a year ago, heighte...

Lotte to sell 7-Eleven’s ATM unit in Korea for around $38 mn

Lotte to sell 7-Eleven’s ATM unit in Korea for around $38 mn

Lotte Group is set to sell the automated teller machine (ATM) business of Korea Seven Co., the operator of convenience store chain 7-Eleven in South...

Kakao launches AI-based blood sugar management solution

Kakao launches AI-based blood sugar management solution

South Korea’s Kakao Healthcare Corp. has introduced an artificial intelligence-based blood sugar management solution targeting the global digi...

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