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September 21, 2020
W520b per BTS member? Market worth of K-pop stars in limelight as agency’s IPO nears

With a mere estimate of the market value of Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind BTS, reaching nearly 4.6 trillion won ($3.97 billion), eyes are on the seven-member boy band that generates most of the company’s revenue. The K-pop agency is scheduled to make its market debut on South Korea’s ...
September 18, 2020
Shinhan BNP Paribas vows climate action through asset management

South Korean asset manager Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management said on Sept. 18 that it would beef up efforts to take climate change into account in its asset management business, as part of its green finance and impact investing. Under its climate action declaration released Friday, the joint v...
September 17, 2020
Pandemic polarizes risk appetite in real estate investment

Representatives of South Korean institutional investors said Tuesday they were increasingly tapping into distressed asset classes in their capital deployment to real estate assets, as the novel coronavirus disruption in the market is upping the appetite for the two extremes: very safe and very risk...
September 17, 2020
SK Holdings secures W480b through block sale of ESR shares

SK Holdings has raised 480 billion won ($409 million) by selling shares of logistics operator e-Shang Redwood Group through a block deal, with plans to invest the newly secured capital in its future growth engines, the company said on Sept. 17. The deal saw 140 million shares sold at 22.50 Hong K...
September 16, 2020
Kakao Bank’s pre-IPO market value soars to W46tr

Amid heated competition over public subscriptions in Korea’s initial public offering market, the local top internet-only bank’s valuation on the pre-IPO market has soared, exceeding the combined market cap of the four major financial groups here. According to local industry sources on Sept. 16,...
September 13, 2020
PEI to hold PERE Seoul event virtually

Financial intelligence firm PEI said Sunday it plans to host its PERE Investor Forum: Seoul Virtual Experience 2020 on Tuesday. The virtual event is designed to connect South Korean investors with global fund managers and investment advisers to get a glimpse of the future capital flows in the re...
September 11, 2020
Kakao Games shares soar for 2nd day in row, leaps to No. 3 on Kosdaq

Kakao Games continued its bullish run on the Kosdaq market, with shares spiking by a daily permissible limit of nearly 30 percent for a second consecutive day on Sept. 11. As soon as trading began, the company’s stock price reached 81,100 won ($68.22) per share, up 18,700 won or 29.97 percent fr...
September 09, 2020
COVID-19 changing how Korean LPs think about infrastructure bet

Even before the pandemic, South Korean institutional investors pursued safe bets in infrastructure investment, given their tendency to work with top-tier external partners to manage their money and to join the final round of fundraising for those external partners. They became more conservative in...
September 08, 2020
Korean asset managers take heat from H2O fund freeze

Korean asset management houses are facing a ripple effect from London-based investor H2O Asset Management‘s decision to halt fund withdrawals for four weeks and to draw up measures to seek redress from the fund freeze, according to an announcement on Sept. 8. VI Asset Management and Kiwoom Asset...
September 08, 2020
Korea reveals details of ‘Netflix law’

The Ministry of Science and ICT on Sept. 8 provided advance notice of its ordinances under the revised Telecommunications Business Act, which includes clauses that will bind foreign platform operators like Netflix and YouTube to share costs in securing stable services. The revision, dubbed the ”...
September 04, 2020
Sign of an exit? Hahn & Co. moves to reduce Ssangyong Cement capital

Ssangyong Cement Industry has proposed reducing its equity capital to pursue higher dividend and enhance shareholder value. Market watchers say the move makes the case for a possible exit of South Korea‘s second-largest private equity house Hahn & Co. from the nation’s No. 1 cement maker by marke...
September 03, 2020
Olive Young to go public in 2022

Health and beauty store Olive Young said on Sept. 4 it was preparing to apply for an initial public offering in 2022. CEO Koo Chang-gun announced the decision on the company’s in-house communication app “Olive Lounge” on Wednesday where he said work to file for an IPO in 2022 would start next ...
September 03, 2020
HDC-Asiana acquisition deal headed for collapse: reports

Despite months of back-and-forth and attempts at breakthroughs, the acquisition talks between HDC Hyundai Development Company and Asiana Airline are likely to fall apart, according to reports on Sept. 3. In an email Wednesday, the building company once again told Korea Development Bank, the airli...
September 03, 2020
BTS impact spills over into Korean stock market

With Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind K-pop sensation BTS pursuing a public initial offering next month, investors appear to be increasingly drawn to South Korea‘s entertainment stocks. Some market analysts also painted a rosy picture of the scheduled IPO, forecasting that Big Hit will co...
September 02, 2020
PEI to hold Infrastructure Investor Seoul Summit virtually

Financial intelligence firm PEI is poised to host this year‘s Infrastructure Investor Seoul Summit virtually on Sept. 8, the company said on Sept. 2. The event comes as the London-based company looks to provide a virtual place for the global infrastructure investing community to connect with Sout...

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