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South Korea’s financial behemoth Shinhan Financial Group is slated to gain full ownership of its newly-acquired subsidiary Neoplux -- a former venture capital arm under Doosan Group -- as soon as the two sides complete a small-scale stock exchange at the end of this month, a filing showed on D...
South Korea has decided to invest $9.8 million in green and digital projects in developing nations through the World Bank’s Korea Green Growth Trust Fund, the Ministry of Economy and Finance said on Dec. 1. The KGGTF, launched in 2011, is a Korean government-financed trust fund that has hel...
South Korean cosmetics giant Amorepacific said on Nov. 17 that it would invest 3 billion won ($2.7 million) in Dmil, a multi-channel network company. According to Amorepacific, Dmil is a media contents firm, producing and selling cosmetics-related content and items, partnering with 250 content cr...
Amazon is partnering with Korean e-commerce platform 11st to avail purchase of its goods to Korean customers, 11st operator SK Telecom said on Nov. 16. According to SKT, which is SK Group’s mobile carrier that operates online shopping platform 11st, the two made an agreement for Amazon&rsq...
South Korea’s buyout firm IMM Private Equity is looking for a buyer for Taihan Electric Wire starting November, five years after it invested 300 billion won ($261.7 million) in the then-debt-saddled company for a controlling stake, according to sources on Oct. 16. Shares of Taihan, the nat...
South Korean mobile game developer Com2us said on Oct. 12 it had acquired a 100 percent stake in German sports game company Out of the Park Developments, the company’s first foreign takeover. Com2us, which already offers sports games officially licensed by Major League Baseball, the Nation...
GS Caltex said on Oct. 7 it signed an investment agreement with a Vietnamese car wash startup to expand its auto repair and lubricants businesses in the Southeast Asian country. According to the South Korean refiner, it will invest 39 billion dong ($1.6 million) to acquire a 16.7 percent stake i...
Chemical-to-financial conglomerate KG Group said Tuesday that it would take over a 93.8 percent stake in Hollys F&B from investment firm IMM Private Equity. Hollys F&B owns Hollys Coffee, one of the largest coffee franchises in South Korea. With the acquisition deal, KG Group will own sli...
SK Holdings has raised 480 billion won ($409 million) by selling shares of logistics operator e-Shang Redwood Group through a block deal, with plans to invest the newly secured capital in its future growth engines, the company said on Sept. 17. The deal saw 140 million shares sold at 22.50 Hong K...
Even before the pandemic, South Korean institutional investors pursued safe bets in infrastructure investment, given their tendency to work with top-tier external partners to manage their money and to join the final round of fundraising for those external partners. They became more conservative in ...
Ssangyong Cement Industry has proposed reducing its equity capital to pursue higher dividend and enhance shareholder value. Market watchers say the move makes the case for a possible exit of South Korea‘s second-largest private equity house Hahn & Co. from the nation’s No. 1 cement m...
Despite months of back-and-forth and attempts at breakthroughs, the acquisition talks between HDC Hyundai Development Company and Asiana Airline are likely to fall apart, according to reports on Sept. 3. In an email Wednesday, the building company once again told Korea Development Bank, the airli...
KB Financial Group said on August 27 that it has received approval from the Financial Services Commission to acquire Prudential Life Insurance of Korea. In April, the South Korean financial giant, inked a deal with Prudential to buy a 100 percent stake in the insurance company for some 2.3 trill...
South Korean firm Koscom disclosed Wednesday that it plans to acquire HSBC Fund Services Korea, to dive into the asset management sector. After a year of preparation for the takeover, the company has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom-based HSBC to acquire a 92.66 percent stake in the f...
Foreign investors in two Korean companies -- Unison and Yakjin Trading -- managed to sell their stakes earlier this week, but only at significant losses, disclosures showed Aug. 25. The sale price was significantly lower than what the investors -- Japanese conglomerate Toshiba and US private equit...
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