overvaluation

Korean stock market Money moves from US, China to India for higher returns

For investors looking for higher returns in emerging markets, India is undoubtedly a market darling.The Asian country, widely expected to become the...

Korean stock market S.Korea’s hottest stock EcoPro may miss invitation from MSCI Korea in May

Cosmo Advanced Materials & Technology Co. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. are expected to join the MSCI Korea Index next month but South Korea’s ...

Fintech Korean fintech sector struggles amid liquidity drought

A three-year-old South Korean fintech company is having trouble raising money through a Series B funding round as investor sentiment on the sector h...

Korean startups Nine out of 10 VC heads in S.Korea say startups overvalued: Survey

Heads of South Korea’s leading venture capital firms say domestic startups have entered a phase of overvaluation. The Korea Economic Dail...

Batteries LG Energy faces reality check as its stock turns a market laggard

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. was touted as a market darling even before its Kospi debut last month, reflecting the investor fr...

Short selling Kospi short sales hit $639 mn amid rate hike woes

Short selling on the Korean stock market is soaring rapidly on concerns over the US Fed Reserve’s interest rate hike. Particularly, a large ...

IPOs Race for CJ Olive Young IPO underwriting deal heats up

The competition to underwrite a listing of CJ Olive Young, South Korea’s top beauty store chain, is intensifying with some brokerage houses va...

IPOs Tencent-backed Krafton's mega IPO seen as overvalued

South Korea-based game publisher Krafton Inc.'s highly-anticipated initial public offering is raising concerns that it may be overvalued. The compan...

Travel & Leisure Korea's travel agency stocks overvalued, analysts say

The stock prices of South Korea’s two leading travel agencies, HanaTour Service Inc. and Modetour Network Inc., have skyrocketed in 2021 with ...

NAND business SK Hynix’s $9 bn Intel NAND deal ‘not overvalued’: CEO

SK Hynix Inc.’s $9 billion deal to acquire Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip business is not overvalued as the price tag reflects the US firm...