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Food & Beverage India: Tantalizing frontier for K-food’s global ambitions beyond China

South Korea’s processed food exports to India have surged to a record 6 trillion won ($4.1 billion), marking a significant milestone in the gr...

Corporate strategy Orion behind original Choco Pie to invest $580 million in new plants

Orion Corp., a South Korean confectionery and snack manufacturer, will inject 830 billion won ($580 million) over three years to expand snack manufa...

Mergers & Acquisitions MBK wins enough stake in tender offer to control Korea Zinc

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd. has secured a large enough stake in Korea Zinc Inc. through a tender offer to take control ...

ASK 2024 Alternative investment experts to gather Oct. 16-17 at ASK 2024

South Korea’s major institutional investors and global asset managers will gather at the ASK 2024 global alternative investment conference on ...

Sovereign wealth funds Korea Investment Corp. appoints Park Il Young as its new CEO

South Korean sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) announced on Thursday that it has appointed former World Bank Group executive ...

Food & Beverage Orion seeks M&As, facility expansion with dividends from China, Vietnam

Orion Holdings Corp., a leading South Korean confectionery and snack maker, has been active in overseas markets for decades, particularly in China a...

Food & Beverage Orion to collaborate with Vietnam on potato seed

South Korea’s Orion Corp. announced on Monday that it is strengthening its collaboration with the Institute of Agro-Biology, the Vietnam Natio...

Construction Dongbu Corp exceeds $730 bn in new orders

South Korea's Dongbu Corporation surpassed 1 trillion won ($727 million) in new orders this year by securing a 200 billion won ($145 million) railwa...

Pension funds NPS corp governance committee taps SNU professor as member

A corporate governance committee of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, has named a Seoul Na...

Food & Beverage Korea’s Orion to ship bottled water to China to challenge Evian

Orion Holdings Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s confectionary and snack maker Orion Corp., is set to export bottled water to China,...

Airlines Korea’s Incheon Airport Corp. signs $3 billion deal to run Manila airport

South Korea's state-run Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) has signed a $3 billion deal to operate Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airpo...

Mergers & Acquisitions Lotte puts Lotte Chemical Titan in Malaysia on market

Lotte Chemical Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals company, has embarked on the process of selling its Malaysian unit Lotte Chemical Tit...

Food & Beverage Orion, VNUA to team up for potato production

South Korea’s confectionery and snack maker Orion Corp. announced on Friday that it signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Institut...

Banking & Finance Korea Investment leads Mongolia Mortgage Corp.'s global bond issuance

Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS) announced on Tuesday its successful completion of the lead management for a $225 million global bond iss...

Mergers & Acquisitions Orion to buy control of biotech startup LegoChem for $415 mn

South Korea’s snack and confectionery maker Orion Group has agreed to buy a controlling stake in LegoChem Biosciences Inc., a Korean biotech s...

Mergers & Acquisitions Kakao Mobility's talks to acquire FreeNow in deadlock

Kakao Mobility Corp.’s ambition to go global has hit a roadbock after its parent group Kakao Corp. rejected its draft bid to buy Germany-based...

Mergers & Acquisitions Poultry processor Harim to buy Korean top sea carrier HMM for $5 bn

South Korea’s leading poultry processor Harim Group is set to acquire the country’s No. 1 sea flag carrier HMM Co. for about 6.4 trillio...

Banking & Finance Korea Housing Finance Corp. opens New York office

Korea Housing Finance Corporation announced on Wednesday that it has opened a New York office to serve as a hub for its overseas fund procurement ac...

Executive reshuffles Kakao taps venture capital unit head as new CEO to lead reform

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform under fire for its extremely aggressive business expansion, tapped its venture capital unit hea...

Batteries Hanwha to boost battery production equipment business

Hanwha Group, South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate, is working to bolster its secondary battery manufacturing equipment business wi...

Future mobility Hyundai Motor's K-UAM One Team collaborates with Incheon

The "K-UAM One Team," an urban air mobility (UAM) consortium consisting of five companies, including Hyundai Motor, has announced that it signed a m...

Mergers & Acquisitions Korea's Harim to divest of Hanjin KAL shares to fund HMM acquisition

South Korea’s poultry processing company Harim Group is set to sell off all its Hanjin KAL Co. shares its affiliate owns to secure capital for...

Shipping & Shipbuilding Samsung Heavy, Pan Ocean to co-develop digital solutions

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pan Ocean Co., the country's...

Food & Beverage Snack maker Orion earns dividends from Vietnam for 1st time

South Korea’s confectionery and snack manufacturer Orion Corp. collected dividends from its Vietnamese unit for the first time as the company ...

Banking & Finance Bank of Korea appoints new senior deputy governor

The Bank of Korea announced on Friday that it has appointed Ryoo Sang-dae, the current vice president of Korea Housing-Finance Corp., as its new s...

Food & Beverage Orion teams up with Dutch Mill to tap Vietnamese dairy market

South Korea's Orion Corp. announced on Tuesday its strategic collaboration with Thailand's dairy behemoth, Dutch Mill Co., marking its ambitious ent...

Bio & Pharma Bertis Pan-omics Analysis Solution, Systems (PASS) launched in US

Bertis, a company specializing in the development of proteomics-based precision medicine technology , announced on Monday the launch of PASS (Pan-om...

Korean stock market EcoPro, Hanwha Ocean, JYP among top MSCI inclusion candidates

EcoPro Co., Hanwha Ocean Co., JYP Entertainment Corp. and Kumyang Co. are the top candidates for inclusion in the MSCI Korea Index when the global s...

Rights offerings CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low

Shares of CJ CGV Co., South Korea’s top multiplex cinema chain, hit the lowest level since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on Wednesday as...

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Key facts Industry Injection molding & product development consultancy Mainstay products/services Injection molding with QDM, family...