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Arts Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

On an unremarkable evening in November 2024, inside the opulent Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, something quietly historic was taking place.A delicate...

Real estate 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...

Real estate BNK's planned acquisition of Hyundai Motor Securities building falters

BNK Asset Management Co.'s bid to acquire the Hyundai Motor Securities building in central Seoul has hit a stumbling block as the main tenant, Hyund...

Leadership & Management Small firms emerge as prime targets of management disputes in Korea

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) accounted for the majority of disputes over corporate management control in South Korea last year, with th...

Real estate Koramco seeks to sell Seoul prime office tower in $272 million deal

South Korea’s Koramco REITs Management & Trust Co. is poised sell a prime office building in Seoul in an estimated 400 billion won ($272 m...

Business & Politics Korea’s new acting president assures economy resilient, security tight

South Korea’s new Acting President Choi Sang-mok said on Friday he is confident that the country’s economy is resilient and its national...

Korean chipmakers Samsung primed for graphics chip leadership with 24 Gb GDDR7

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled the industry’s first 24 gigabit (Gb) graphics DRAM chip, opt...

Beauty & Cosmetics Korean cosmetics, Amazon Prime Day’s top beauty products

South Korean cosmetics were top picks among beauty products of Amazon Prime members during the global leading e-commerce platform’s largest an...

Real estate Seoul prime office deals at 10-year low on rate uncertainty

Prime office transactions in Seoul hit a 10-year low in the second quarter due to delayed fundraising amid uncertainties of the central bank’s...

Real estate NPS-backed new prime office building in Seoul struggles with poor demand

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is seeing little demand for a Seoul-based new prim...

Real estate 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...

Real estate Blackstone sells prime Seoul office building for $586 mn to Koramco

Blackstone Inc. completed selling off Arc Place, a prime office building located in Seoul's upscale Gangnam area, to Koramco REITs Management and Tr...

Real estate Seoul landmark Donuimun D Tower put up for sale

South Korean real estate firm Mastern Investment Management is set to sell off Donuimun D Tower, a landmark office building in Seoul, for about 900 ...

Real estate Norway’s prime office value drop hits Korean retail investors

A South Korean real estate fund is set to post a 100% loss as the value of its sole asset, a prime office building wholly leased to Norway’s l...

Real estate Myeong-dong cements status as super-prime real estate in Korea

A 170-square-meter plot of land in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, where South Korean beauty brand Nature Republic’s flagship store is located, ha...

Real estate Warburg Pincus’ JV to invest in Korean prime warehouses

US private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC said on Tuesday it will establish a joint venture in South Korea via its Asia real estate fund to invest i...

Steel Hyundai Steel develops industrial neutron analyzer jointly with startup

Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's second-largest steelmaker, announced on Thursday that it has successfully collaborated with the in-house startup 3I...

Korean chipmakers Samsung primed for graphics chip leadership with GDDR7

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled a next-generation graphics DRAM chip that is faster and more energ...

Private equity KKR to buy Namsan Green Building in Seoul for $186.7 million

KKR & Co. Inc. has agreed to buy Namsan Green Building in a central office district in Seoul for an estimated 250 billion won ($186.7 million).T...

Business & Politics S.Korea to strengthen cooperation with Portugal in renewable energy

South Korea’s the Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Lee Chang-yang participated on Wednesday in The Korean-Portuguese Business Forum at the ...

Entertainment S.Korea's KT Studio Genie provides romantic comedy to Amazon

KT Studio Genie, a content production subsidiary of the South Korea's telecom giant KT Corp., announced on Monday that it had signed a global conten...

Supply chain S.Korea, Mongolia discuss stabilization of mineral supply chains

The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and  Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul on Tuesday held a business forum o...

Private equity Hahn & Co. to sell off Korea's major biofuel maker SK Eco Prime

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Company is set to put a 100% stake in biofuel manufacturer SK Eco Prime on sale, with Goldman Sachs as a...

Arts Exhibition: Samsung heir’s donation of Lee Jung-seob works

The late Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee was an avid arts collector.Though the business magnate did not mention names, it was easy to guess who h...

Alternative investments German urban logistics and light industrial assets promising, DLE says

The pandemic has brought logistical real estate and infrastructure into the spotlight driven by long-term underlying e-commerce trends. It is advant...

IPOs LG Energy Solution’s IPO plan remains elusive after GM recall settlement

South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. is about to resume its initial share sale plan shelved for months due to the uncertain...

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles off its East Coast

SEOUL—North Korea launched two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in Pyongyang&rs...

Business & Politics Samsung on lookout for M&As; auto chipmakers among prime targets

Samsung Electronics Co., sitting on a cash pile of more than 100 trillion won ($90 billion), is actively pursuing mergers and acquisitions, with som...