Hwang Hyeon-sik

Asset management Mirae Asset bets on China as Korean investors’ US focus draws concern

South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group is increasingly unveiling China-focused investment products as Chairman P...

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...

Leadership & Management AI to drive Mirae Asset's next-phase growth: chairman

Mirae Asset Group is a pioneer in South Korea’s mutual fund industry. It launched the country’s first equity mutual fund in the wake of ...

Private equity Hahn & Co. overhauls Namyang board, ending family control

Private equity firm Hahn & Co. on Friday won shareholder approval to replace Namyang Dairy Products Co.'s board of directors with Hahn's executi...

Pension funds Korea’s Teachers’ Pension names SK Securities VP as CIO

South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension has named Jeon Bum-sik, a vice president at SK Securities Co. with three decades of investment experienc...

Mergers & Acquisitions Mirae Asset seeks to buy India’s 9th-largest brokerage Sharekhan

South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group aims to enhance its presence in India by acquiring Sharekhan, the Southeast As...

Korean chipmakers Advanced memory is strategic asset for Korea’s chip supremacy: Hwang

South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – has been the dominant...

Business & Politics KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo drops reelection bid as controversy flares

KT Corp. Chief Executive Ku Hyeon-mo has abandoned his ambitious bid to lead South Korea’s largest telecommunications company for another thre...

Pension funds NPS shortlists 6 candidates for chief investment officer opening

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund managing 896.6 trillion won ($690.5 billion) as of end-S...

Entertainment Squid Game wins Emmy awards for best actor, director

LOS ANGELES, California -- Netflix mega-hit Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk each bagged an Emmy trophy Monday night in Los ...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor to redirect its TaaS, AI functions to self-driving arm 42dot 

Hyundai Motor Group will redirect the core functions of its Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) division and AIRS Company to its recently acquired se...

Korean chipmakers Korea losing ground in semiconductor talent development

South Korea, home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, is losing ground for talent development in the semiconductor sector as fewer profe...

Music & Entertainment Squid Game: Bloody battle for survival reflects reality – director

Netflix original South Korean drama “Squid Game” is making history again for K-content, topping the platform’s global chart as the...