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Entertainment Kakao Entertainment sheds loss-making units, revives IPO prospects

Kakao Entertainment Corp. has been divesting unprofitable music labels and digital content platforms, which it has gobbled up over the past few year...

Private equity Affinity, GIC sell out of Kyobo Life; Chairman Shin seeks holding firm, M&A

Affinity Equity Partners and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have sold their entire stake in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., exiting from thei...

Private equity Kyobo Life’s Shin in talks with Affinity, GIC over exits below purchase price

Kyobo Life Insurance Co., South Korea’s third-largest life insurer, is in talks with some of its financial investors (FIs) to help them exit f...

Corporate governance Hyundai Motor taps ex-CPPIB private equity head Suyi Kim for board role

Hyundai Motor Co. has tapped Suyi Kim, former private equity head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Benjamin Tan, an ex-portfo...

Real estate 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...

Real estate GIC drops Seoul landmark building sale on Korea’s political woes

Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund, dropped the sale of a landmark building in Seoul due to t...

Real estate GIC to open 2nd tender for Seoul landmark building sale as bids disappoint

Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund, is set to seek more proposals from bidders to sell a land...

Real estate 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...

Real estate GIC taps its real estate expert Jasmine Loo as new Korea head

Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund with around $770 billion in assets under management, has t...

Pension funds Korea's NPS CIO talks with GPIF, GIC execs on asset allocation

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) Chief Investment Officer Seo Won-joo has visited Japan and Singapore on his first overseas busine...

Private equity Supreme Court affirms Affinity, GIC's exit value on Kyobo Life

South Korea’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the ruling that would allow the Affinity Equity Partners-led consortium, including Singapore&r...

Mergers & Acquisitions HYBE loses 1st battle against Kakao for SM Entertainment

South Korea’s HYBE Co. lost its first battle against dominant local mobile platform Kakao Corp. over SM Entertainment Co. as the label behind ...

Pre-IPOs PIF, GIC to invest $964 mn in Korea's Kakao Entertainment

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have agreed to invest a combined $964 million in K...

Economy Foreign-owned companies in Korea send hefty profits back home

South Korean firms wholly owned by foreign companies sent more than 1.1 trillion won ($800 million) back home for the fiscal year of 2021 in aggrega...

Venture capital KDB resumes global venture IR event in Singapore

South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) said on Thursday that KDB NextRound, the bank’s venture investment platform, will h...

Batteries SK On bidders weigh growing risks of battery makers

Some of the four shortlisted bidders for South Korea's SK On Co. recently went back to the drawing board to assess the value of the world's No. 5 el...

Korean startups Ridi becomes first Korean content platform unicorn

Ridi Corp., often referred to as South Korea's Kindle, has received funding of 120 billion won ($100 million) from Singapore's GIC and three domesti...

Mergers & Acquisitions SK On narrows bidders to BlackRock, Carlyle, KKR, GIC

South Korean battery maker SK On Co. has narrowed bidders for its shares worth up to $3.3 billion to four candidates -- BlackRock, The Carlyle Group...

Batteries SK On's $4 bn funding draws PE giants, GIC, Saudi PIF

BlackRock, Blackstone, Singapore's GIC and Saudi's Public Investment Fund (PIF) are among the preliminary bidders for shares worth up to $4.2 billio...

Pre-IPOs GIC, EQT, MBK compete for ADT Caps' $300 mn shares

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, Sweden-based EQT Partners and South Korea-based MBK Partners are among the four shortlisted bidders for share...

Private equity Affinity, GIC speed up exit efforts on Kyobo Life

Singapore's GIC, Affinity Equity Partners, Baring Private Equity and IMM Private Equity have taken the next step toward their long-delayed exit from...

Private equity GIC, PEFs face further delays to Kyobo exit after ruling

Singapore’s GIC, Canada's Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan (OTPP) and private equity firms, including Affinity Equity Partners, may need to endu...

Mergers & Acquisitions GIC set to buy stake in Starbucks Korea for $700 mn

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Ltd. is set to sign an agreement next week to buy a 30% stake in Starbucks Korea from the coffeehouse ...

Hotel sale Hilton Seoul likely to be transformed into office

Millennium Hilton Seoul, the venue of South Korea's 1997 negotiations to secure a $58 billion rescue package from the International Monetary Fund, w...

Mergers & Acquisitions Singapore sovereign fund GIC to buy 30% of Starbucks Korea for $710 mn

Singapore’s sovereign growth fund GIC Private Ltd. plans to acquire a 30% stake in Starbucks Korea for about 800 billion won ($710 million) fr...

IPOs SK Bioscience attracts NPS, GIC in successful bookbuilding

South Korea-based SK Bioscience Co. has successfully concluded the bookbuilding for its initial public offering, attracting institutional investors ...

Sovereign wealth funds KIC CEO to meet GIC, Temasek execs during Singapore trip

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) Chief Executive Choi Heenam will make his first overseas business trip in 11 months to visit Singapore this month...

Startup Goldman, GIC, Sequoia to exit from Korean food delivery app in $4 bn deal

Goldman Sachs, Singapore’s GIC and Sequoia Capital are among the financial investors set to secure handsome returns from a combined 506 billion ...

CVC-Brookfield-GIC consortium sole bidder for Korea’s ADT Caps

A consortium of CVC Capital Partners, Brookfield Asset Management and Singapore’s GIC was the sole bidder for South Korea’s No.2 security services fir...

Brookfield, GIC join CVC-led group in final bidding for Korea’s ADT Caps

CVC Capital Partners has formed a consortium with Brookfield Asset Management and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC to make a final bid for South ...