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October 05, 2020
Retail investors rush to submit deposits for Big Hit’s public subscription

Within less than an hour, nearly 2.7 trillion won ($2.32 billion) flowed into brokerages handling a two-day public subscription for shares of Big Hit Entertainment, the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, Monday, reflecting explosive interests from retail investors, industry insiders said. Retail ...
September 29, 2020
KG Group to acquire Hollys Coffee for W145b

Chemical-to-financial conglomerate KG Group said Tuesday that it would take over a 93.8 percent stake in Hollys F&B from investment firm IMM Private Equity. Hollys F&B owns Hollys Coffee, one of the largest coffee franchises in South Korea. With the acquisition deal, KG Group will own slightly mo...
September 28, 2020
Antitrust watchdog drafts law to regulate online platforms

South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that it has drafted a bill to regulate dominant online platform operators as unfair trade has become a reality in the sector amid the surge in digital transactions caused by the pandemic. The proposed Act on the Fairness of Online Platform Transaction...
September 25, 2020
Lotte Insurance denies rumors of self-delisting plan

Lotte Insurance said on Sept. 25 that it would not consider delisting itself from the country’s main bourse Kospi, refuting rumors by some local media reports. Followed by the nation’s sole bourse operator’s call for explanation on the delisting rumors, the insurance firm made its official an...
September 24, 2020
Korean lenders struggle with New York hotel-retail project investment

Major South Korean lenders’ decision to invest some $100 million in a hotel and retail project at 20 Times Square in New York in 2018 has come back to bite them two years later, with the property’s foreclosure last year continuing to wreak havoc, local reports said on Sept. 24. In 2018, French ...
September 21, 2020
Litigations pile pressure on Mirae Asset Group

Korean investment banking group Mirae Asset Group is being swamped by litigations at home and abroad, including one against China’s Dajia Insurance Group surrounding high-profile hotel deals in the United States, filings showed Monday. As of the end of June, the total litigation costs incurred to...
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...

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