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March 03, 2021
KDB commits $126m financing to satellite project

South Korea’s state-run lender Korea Development Bank said March 3 that it had agreed on a $126 million commitment to finance an artificial satellite project in Indonesia. KDB is the first Korean lender to finance a space satellite project. The bank’s funding is part of the latest batch of a...
December 09, 2020
Shinhan Financial to gain full ownership of Neoplux

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 Dec. ...
December 01, 2020
S. Korea invests $9.8m in World Bank green trust fund

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 helped m...
November 17, 2020
Amorepacific invests W3b in beauty content producer firm

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...
November 16, 2020
Amazon taps into Korea by investing in 11st

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’s equity...
October 16, 2020
IMM PE looks to exit from Taihan Electric Wire

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 nation’s...
October 12, 2020
Com2us acquires German sports game company

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 National Bas...
October 07, 2020
GS Caltex acquires stake in Vietnamese car wash startup

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 in...
September 29, 2020
KG Group to acquire Hollys Coffee for W145b

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 slightly mo...
September 17, 2020
SK Holdings secures W480b through block sale of ESR shares

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...
September 09, 2020
COVID-19 changing how Korean LPs think about infrastructure bet

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...
September 04, 2020
Sign of an exit? Hahn & Co. moves to reduce Ssangyong Cement capital

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 maker by marke...
September 03, 2020
HDC-Asiana acquisition deal headed for collapse: reports

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...
August 27, 2020
KB Financial’s acquisition of Prudential Life approved

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 trilli...
August 26, 2020
Koscom acquires HSBC-owned IT asset management business

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 fu...

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