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Mergers & Acquisitions CJ CheilJedang scraps $3.5 bn green bio sale, shifts gears to expansion

CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea’s largest food and beverage company, said on Wednesday it has scrapped a planned sale of its green bio busin...

Bio & Pharma ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK

ABL Bio Inc., a South Korean biotech company, will license out its proprietary blood-brain barrier shuttle platform, called the Grabody-B, to UK-bas...

Mergers & Acquisitions MBK Partners poised to acquire CJ Cheiljedang’s $3.5 billion bio business

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is on the verge of clinching a major acquisition deal by offering a higher bid than other conten...

Mergers & Acquisitions MBK Partners, 2 Chinese firms vie for CJ Cheiljedang’s $4 bn bio business

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners and two leading Chinese biotechnology firms are vying for management control of CJ Cheiljedang C...

Bio & Pharma Samsung Biologics signs initial deal with LigaChem Bio on ADC production

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Thursday it has signed an initial agreement with LigaChem Biosciences I...

Chemical Industry HD Hyundai Oilbank supplies bio VLSFO to Yangming

HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., a South Korean crude oil refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, said on Thursday it started to supply Taiwan-based Yang Ming Marine...

Mergers & Acquisitions Blackstone, Carlyle, MBK vying for CJ CheilJedang’s bio business

Blackstone, Carlyle Group and MBK Partners have joined the race to purchase the bio business of CJ CheilJedang Corp., the world’s largest prod...

Business & Politics Latvian President Rinkēvičs seeks closer ties with S.Korea in bio, defense

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, who is on a four-day working trip to South Korea, said on Friday he hopes for deeper cooperation between the two...

Mergers & Acquisitions CJ CheilJedang puts bio business on market for $4 bn

CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea’s largest food company, is seeking to sell its bio business for about 6 trillion won ($4.3 billion) in what ...

Chemical Industry LG Chem targets functional cosmetics market with bio-materials

LG Chem Ltd., the world’s fourth-largest chemicals manufacturer, is targeting the functional cosmetics market with bio-materials derived from ...

Bio & Pharma Lotte to restructure bio business to focus on CDMO

South Korea’s retail-to-chemical conglomerate Lotte Group will restructure its bio business to focus on the profit-making medicine bio develop...

KOREA Investment Week Korea's investment forum KIW 2024 kicks off September 9

South Korea’s largest investment forum Korea Investment Week 2024 (KIW 2024) will kick off next month in Seoul, drawing around 150 leaders fro...

Korean stock market Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling

Foreigners and institutional investors in the South Korean stock market picked biotechs as their favorite shares in hopes of a biopharma stock jump ...

Petrochemicals HD Hyundai Oilbank exports bio marine fuel blends

The Korea Customs Service announced on July 29 that domestic petroleum products were exported after being blended in a bonded zone for the first tim...

Artificial intelligence LG to foster smart factory business as new B2B growth driver

PYEONGTAEK, Gyeonggi Province -- LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, aims to foster its smart factory business as a new gr...

Bio & Pharma Samsung Elec invests in US bio startup Element Biosciences

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, said on Friday it has invested in US biotech startup Element Biosciences Inc. to ex...

Bio & Pharma Samsung to invest $52 mn in US biotech VC Flagship Pioneering

Samsung C&T Corp., its bio units Samsung Biologics Co. and Samsung Bioepis Co. and Samsung Venture Investment Corp. have committed a combined 72...

Bio & Pharma Kwangdong Pharma acquires stake in Precision Bio

South Korea's Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Tuesday that it signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire Precision Biosensor Inc., a company...

Bio & Pharma Lotte Biologics targets $1.1 billion in sales with new bio plants

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Lotte Biologics Co. said on Wednesday it is aiming for 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in annual sales by 203...

Leadership & Management PwC's Korean member taps new chiefs, creates finance unit

Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a South Korean member firm of PwC International Ltd., has appointed new chiefs of its key units and created a fi...

Bio & Pharma Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China row

SAN DIEGO – Samsung Biologics Co. is enjoying a stream of contract development and manufacturing order inquiries from big pharmaceutical compa...

Bio & Pharma Korean biotech Bertis to join BIO 2024 for global reach

South Korean biotech Bertis Inc. will deliver presentations at the BIO International Convention, one of the world’s largest bio and healthcare...

Bio & Pharma Samsung Life Science invests in US biotech firm Latus Bio

Samsung Life Science Fund, managed by Samsung Group’s venture investment arm, has invested in US biotechnology firm Latus Bio Inc. during the ...

Private equity Daesung PE tops Korean venture funds by return in 2018-2023

Daesung Private Equity Inc. in South Korea has become the top local venture capital manager in terms of realized capital gain between 2018 and 2023,...

Bio & Pharma Bio startup ArtBlood attracts $4.8 mn investment

South Korean bio startup ArtBlood, specializing in blood production for transfusion, announced on Tuesday that it successfully secured an investment...

Fiber & Textile Hyosung TNC to invest $1 bn in new bio-fiber plants in Vietnam

Hyosung TNC Corp., the world’s top spandex maker, plans to invest $1 billion in new bio-textile materials plants in Vietnam to accelerate its ...

Bio & Pharma Samsung begins new drug development for rare diseases

Samsung Bioepis Co., a biosimilar development unit of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, has begun its new drug development busines...

Corporate restructuring LG Chem reshuffles R&D unit to turn into EV materials maker

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest petrochemical company, is strengthening its research & development capabilities as it aims to transfor...

Artificial intelligence LG, Jackson Lab to jointly develop AI models for Alzheimer’s, cancers

LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence research arm of South Korea’s LG Group, and the Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a US non-profit biomedic...

Chemical Industry HD Hyundai Chemical to produce eco-friendly bio-naphtha

South Korea's HD Hyundai Chemical Co. announced on Thursday that it will collaborate with CJ CheilJedang Corp. to produce eco-friendly bio-naphtha...