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Shipping & Shipbuilding Hanwha Ocean shares sink after KDB's sale of 4.2% stake

Investors rushed to dump Hanwha Ocean Co. shares early Tuesday after its second-largest shareholder, Korea Development Bank, cashed in on a 4.2% sta...

Mergers & Acquisitions VIG taps KDB financing to buy 40% stake in Kakao Mobility

South Korea’s private equity firm VIG Partners’ buyout of minority stakes in Kakao Mobility Corp., the nation’s most popular taxi-...

Mergers & Acquisitions Winia cancels acquisition deal with Seoul Private Equity

Winia Co., a South Korean home appliance manufacturer under court-led restructuring, has terminated its conditional acquisition agreement with Seoul...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM seeks to acquire parts of SK Shipping for $1.4 bn from Hahn & Co.

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest ocean carrier, is seeking to buy SK Shipping Co., excluding its liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation busi...

Private equity Korean lenders to Accell warn they may boycott KKR

KKR & Co. is facing a huge backlash from South Korean financial services firms after the debt restructuring of Dutch bicycle manufacturer Accell...

Artificial intelligence OpenAI, KDB to collaborate to enhance S.Korean AI ecosystem

The US-based OpenAI and Korea Development Bank (KDB) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support the development of South Kor...

Banking & Finance Woori Bank to arrange $3.7 bn for Qatar desalination, power plant

South Korea's Woori Bank said on Tuesday it will arrange the Qatar Ras Abu Fontas desalination and power plant project, estimated to cost $3.7 billi...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM introduces S.Korea's first LNG-powered vessels

South Korea's HMM Co. said on Friday that it will introduce two 7,700 TEU (1 TEU equals one 20-foot container) container ships powered by liquefied ...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM to spend $17.5 bn by 2030 to double cargo capacity

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest ocean carrier, said on Tuesday it will spend 23.5 trillion won ($17.5 billion) by 2030 to nearly double its car...

Corporate restructuring Doosan Robotics to merge with Doosan Bobcat by early 2025

Doosan Robotics Inc. will complete a merger with Doosan Bobcat Inc. by early next year, a move aimed at prodding Bobcat to take an active role in ex...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM opens Shanghai-Mexico container route

South Korea's HMM Co. announced on Monday that it launched a new Far East Latin America Express (FLX) container service bound for Mexico.The service...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM starts to demonstrate OCCS for vessles

South Korea's HMM Co. announced on Tuesday that it installed and initiated a demonstration of the Onboard Carbon Capture and Storage System (OCCS) f...

Mergers & Acquisitions Eugene PE, KDB PE to acquire Boryung Biopharma for $231 million

A consortium of Eugene Private Equity and Korea Development Bank Private Equity will acquire 80% of South Korean vaccine maker Boryung Biopharma Co....

Korean chipmakers Samsung seeks $3.6 billion in loans from KDB for chip investment

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. seeks to borrow as much as 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion) from the state-run Korea Development Bank t...

Corporate restructuring SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...

Private equity Korea's KDB widens gap in VC fundraising in H1; NPS to fund in July

The capital commitments of state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) have widened the gap for South Korean venture capital firms in fundraising over ...

Logistics Lotte Global Logistics, KOBC to partner for global logistics

South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Ocean Business Corporatio...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM gets Platinum ESG rating from EcoVadis

HMM Co., South Korea’s flagship sea carrier, announced on Tuesday that it achieved the Platinum rating from EcoVadis, a global environmental, ...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM enhances maritime safety with AI technology

HMM Co., South Korea’s leading sea carrier, announced on Friday its adoption of an advanced AI image analysis solution 'Deep Eyes', aimed at b...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM to sharply increase container ship fleet by 2030

HMM Co., South Korea’s flagship sea carrier, on Monday unveiled a plan to sharply increase the fleet of container and bulk carriers by 2030 to...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM, SIPG to cooperate on eco-friendly fuel

South Korea’s major ocean carrier HMM Co. announced on Wednesday that it signed a Shanghai Port Clean Marine Fuel memorandum of understanding ...

Mergers & Acquisitions KDB halts KDB Life sale process to take full control

The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has suspended the protracted sale process of KDB Life Insurance Co. to take full control of the insurer b...

Economy Korea eyes $1.5 bn injection in KDB to boost chip, battery sectors

South Korea may inject some 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) into Korea Development Bank (KDB) by the end of this month to support the state-run bank's...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HMM, Hyundai Glovis aim for car shipping sector as rates jump

South Korea’s major ocean carriers HMM Co. and Hyundai Glovis Co. aim to take advantage of the booming car shipping business as vehicle freigh...

Mergers & Acquisitions Not a penny for Samsung Sec in failed HMM deal, and little sympathy

After the planned $5 billion sale of HMM Co., South Korea’s largest container shipper, to poultry processor Harim Co. fell through this week, ...

Mergers & Acquisitions Harim gives up HMM deal over management rights dispute

South Korea's leading poultry processor Harim Co. has walked away from a $5 billion deal to buy HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier, re...

Shipping & Shipbuilding Hyundai Glovis, KOBC sign deal for car carriers

Hyundai Glovis Co. and Korea Ocean Business Corporation (KOBC) announced on Monday that they will sign a business agreement on Feb. 6. related to ...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HD Hyundai, Hanwha delivers 1st of 12 container ships to HMM

South Korea’s top container line HMM Co. said on Wednesday that it held a naming ceremony for HMM Garnet, a 13,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit...

Mergers & Acquisitions Harim, KDB in dispute over $5 bn HMM deal conditions

Talks to sell South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier HMM Co. to Harim Group, a leading poultry processor, have made little progress amid disputes o...

Corporate restructuring Taeyoung becomes 1st Korean builder in debt workout in decade

The vast majority of creditors to Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. (Taeyoung E&C) have agreed to start debt restructuring for the tro...