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Real estate Korea’s top property asset manager IGIS Asset’s controlling stake up for sale

South Korea’s top real estate asset management firm IGIS Asset Management Co. plans to sell a controlling stake owned by the heirs of the comp...

Business & Politics Naver beleaguered by weak Korean businesses amid Line woes

South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. is struggling with sluggish core domestic businesses – commerce, search and sports – as Jap...

North Korea Top US general sees changing nuclear threat from North Korea

COMMAND POST TANGO, South Korea—The top U.S. military official in South Korea said his thinking has changed on deterring North Korea’s n...

Private equity Tmax Group to draw more than $572 mn to buy back Tmaxsoft

South Korea's leading software company Tmax Group is set to draw at least 750 billion won ($572.3 million) and a maximum of 1 trillion won from Seou...

Korean games Faker’s T1 wins League of Legends global championship

South Korea’s video game team T1 led by local hero and professional player Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok won the 2023 League of Legends W...

Healthcare Lotte Healthcare to launch AI-based health management platform

South Korea's Lotte Healthcare has entered the digital healthcare market through the launch next week of its personalized healthcare management pl...

Private equity SK Group, NPS may exercise put option on Masan without gain

South Korean institutional investors, including SK Group and National Pension Service (NPS), are likely to only recover their principal without prof...

Bio & Pharma S.Korea's Boryung gets gov’t OK for diabetes drug Trubuddy

South Korea’s Boryung Corp. on Tuesday said it received approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for its new compound diabetes drug ...

Korean Investors Korea's sovereign wealth fund directly exercises voting rights for first time

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, has begun actively exercising its voting rights in invested companies.Ac...

Entertainment Golfzon takes part in PGA Merchandise Show in Florida

South Korea's indoor golf simulator maker Golfzon Co. said Wednesday that it would participate in the 2023 PGA Merchandise Show to be held in Orland...

Mergers & Acquisitions TPG to sell off Korean luxury tile firm Nox's parent for $421 mn

US alternative investment manager TPG Inc. is poised to sell a 65% stake in South Korea’s Moleem Corp., the parent of global leading luxury vi...

Corporate bonds Small Korean life insurer further rattles bond market

A South Korean small insurer has made a rare decision not to buy back dollar perpetual bonds, in the first such case for the country’s issuers...

Aerospace & Defense LIG Nex1 showcases guided rocket at top navy exercise

South Korea’s defense exporter LIG Nex1 Co. showcased its guided rocket at the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise l...

IPOs S.Korea to ban execs' post-IPO share sale for certain period

South Korea will introduce an IPO lock-up period for company executives and their top shareholders to ban them from selling the company shares short...

Leadership & Management Kakao co-CEO nominee resigns after stock option exercise

Alex Young-joon Ryu, a nominee for new co-CEO of South Korea's top mobile messenger app Kakao Corp., on Monday offered to step down, after his dispo...

Earnings BTS producer tops the list of H1 highest-paid Koreans

Senior executives of HYBE Co., South Korea's leading K-pop agency, topped the three spots on the first-half list of highest-paid South Koreans, with...

Korean startups AI startup DevUnlimit gamifies home fitness to offer stress-free exercise

South Korea-based fitness content startup DevUnlimit Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence-based fitness platform that gamifies exercise rou...

Affinity Equity-led group to exercise put option on $1.8 bn Kyobo Life shares

A consortium led by Affinity Equity Partners will push ahead with exercising their right to sell shares in South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co. Ltd....