regulatory sandbox

Mergers & Acquisitions Korea Zinc faces multiple legal, regulatory challenges in fight against MBK

Korea Zinc Inc. Chairman Choi Yun-birm appears to have kept his grip on the world’s largest zinc smelter after successfully fending off an MBK...

Private equity MBK Special Situations relinquishes Korean investment advisory license

MBK Partners Special Situations (MBKP SS), which operates the Seoul-based private equity firm’s credit situations funds, has voluntarily relin...

Korean chipmakers TSMC’s potential deal with Intel keeps Samsung on edge

South Korea’s semiconductor industry is closely watching developments in talks between TSMC and Intel Corp. over the world’s largest con...

Business & Politics S.Korea’s reshoring companies pale amid lack of support, incentives

Reshoring, or a corporate U-turn to the home country from an overseas location, has been the global trend since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemi...

Banking & Finance India offers Korean firms detailed guidance for forays into India

India’s finance ministry, central bank and stock market operator outlined the country’s regulatory and investment environment for South ...

Banking & Finance Kookmin to tighten loan limits to cool housing market

Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s largest lender under KB Financial Group, will tighten lending to curb mortgage loan growth in line with the govern...

The KED View What's wrong with making money from startup exits?

In South Korea, those who struck it rich from property investments are the subject of envy, but startup founders who make big money from their exits...

Business & Politics China exodus to elevate Korea to Asia hub: AmCham chief

South Korea has outstripped Hong Kong and Shanghai as a preferred Asia-Pacific headquarters destination for global companies, trailing only Singapor...

Korean stock market Korea’s ELS market to stagnate after HSCEI debacle: KOFIA chairman

The Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) will go all out to minimize any adverse effects on the South Korean financial market from an anti...

Banking & Finance S.Korea’s LS Group wins regulatory nod for securities biz

South Korea’s electrics components-to-energy conglomerate LS Group is set to start the securities business as it secured regulatory approval t...

Bio & Pharma ViGenCell, NK/T cell lymphoma treatment ‘VT-EBV-N’ designated as orphan drug in Europe

ViGenCell, a company specializing in immune cell therapy, announced on the 19th that its NK/T cell lymphoma treatment "VT-EBV-N" has been designated...

Automobiles Kakao Mobility looks abroad to expand taxi services

South Korea’s Kakao Mobility Corp. is expanding overseas services in the face of criticism over its business practices, including the alleged ...

Corporate restructuring Kakao in emergency mode under regulatory, antitrust probes

Kim Beom-soo, founder and chairman of South Korea’s largest mobile platform Kakao Corp., convened an emergency meeting with some 20 chief exec...

Artificial intelligence Lunit joins Saudi gov't healthcare sandbox

South Korea's medical AI company Lunit has joined the Saudi Arabian government's Healthcare Sandbox initiative, a move to advance digital transforma...

Bio & Pharma Celltrion Pharm gets GMP certification from Japan

Celltrion Pharm Inc. announced on Wednesday that its pre-filled syringe (PFS) production facility in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province has obtain...

Regulations More Korean FSS retirees find jobs in legal, financial biz

More retirees of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) are snagging new jobs at private companies such as the banks they regulated during their te...

Regulations Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

South Korea’s fractional investment market is gearing up for a grand opening after the government earlier this year unveiled security token of...

Regulations Fractional investing to gain traction in Korea with green light from FSC

Come September, South Korean investors will be able to freely and safely buy and sell fractions of artwork and even live cows just as they do with t...

Bio & Pharma Corentec enters Japanese artificial joint market

Corentec Co., a South Korean company that develops artificial joints and spinal implants, is making a full-fledged entry into the Japanese market. T...

Regulations Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI

Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to...

Energy Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...

Automobiles Renault Korea creates mobility exhibition hall in metaverse

Renault Korea announced on Friday that it plans to establish and run an automobile-related experiential space called Renault Korea Hub in the metave...

The KED View In South Korea, innovation is subject to regulatory approval

In a country like South Korea with few natural resources to run its economy, innovations or brilliant business ideas are crucial to its survival.It ...

Bio & Pharma Korea United Pharm signs contract to supply medicines to Saudi Arabia

Korea United Pharm. Inc. announced on Monday that it signed a contract to supply nine types of medicines, including 11 anticancer drugs, to Saudi ph...

Regulations FSS to inquire actual use of funds raised by issuing ESG bonds

From now on, companies in South Korea that have raised funds by issuing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) bonds will have to answer questi...

Bio & Pharma Korean biotechs target US labs to speed up regulatory approval for tests

South Korean molecular diagnostics companies are increasingly buying high-quality laboratories in the US that meet federal regulatory standards in a...

Construction Hyundai Engineering completes Long Son plant project in Vietnam

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of Hyundai Motor Group, said Monday it has completed its co...

Korean startups Sandbox Network pursues corporate restructuring to dig out of red

Sandbox Network, Inc. announced on Sunday that it will go through corporate restructuring and encourage employees to voluntarily resign, hit by cont...

Korean startups Promising K-startups to present B2B transition strategies at Geeks Show Up

Come this Thursday, 10 select startups will duke it to prove their business-to-business (B2B) model has the best chance of success. The start...

Banking & Finance Korea Woori Card to start installment finance biz in Indonesia

Woori Card Co. is set to start the installment finance business in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy as the credit card unit of Sout...