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S.Korea’s project financing exposure reaches $145 bn

South Korean financial services companies and construction firms are exposed to a combined 200 trillion won ($145 billion) worth of potential risks related to domestic real estate project financing, a big chunk of which is falling due between 2024 and 2025, according to Samjong K

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Travel & Leisure
Korean retailers, hotels enjoy tourist boom in May holidays

South Korean retailers and hotels are enjoying a boom thanks to an expected surge in tourists at home and abroad as more than 180,000 foreigners are expected to visit the country due to the early May holidays across North Asia.Japan is already in its Golden Week holiday this week

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Korean food
CJ's Bibigo bolsters sports marketing with PGA tours

Scottie Scheffler, a top-ranked American professional golfer, gave a shoutout to food served by CJ CheilJedang Corp. during The CJ Cup golf tournament in South Carolina in 2022, saying the Korean food he tasted at the Bibigo Kitchen booth during the tour was the best.During the 2

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Samsung shifts gears to focus on HBM, server chips
Korean chipmakers
Samsung shifts gears to focus on HBM, server chips

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it will adjust its memory chip product mix to increase the output of advanced memory chips for servers and storage systems to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) devices.During a conference call with analysts after announcing its first-quarter results, company executives said the company’s memory chip production will focus on high-bandwidth memory (HBM), do

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  • Overseas projects boost Korean builders’ earnings; GS profit halves
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    Overseas projects boost Korean builders’ earnings; GS profit halves

    Large-scale overseas construction projects boosted major Korean builders’ quarterly results while lackluster domestic construction work, coupled with higher labor and raw material costs, hurt their profitability, government data showed.Accordin

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  • Hanwha Systems to build Jeju Hanwha Space Center
    Aerospace & Defense
    Hanwha Systems to build Jeju Hanwha Space Center

    South Korea's Hanwha Systems Co. announced plans on Monday that it plans to establish the Jeju Hanwha Space Center in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, focusing on the development, manufacturing, and testing of satellites.The facility, set to be

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  • LG Chem exhibits bright outlook after first-quarter loss
    Earnings
    LG Chem exhibits bright outlook after first-quarter loss

    LG Chem Ltd., the parent of the world's second-largest battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., expects its business will improve in upcoming quarters on a recovery in demand for its high-value-added advanced material products after it reported a fall

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  • JLK to supply medical AI solutions in Indonesia
    Bio & Pharma
    JLK to supply medical AI solutions in Indonesia

    South Korea’s JLK Inc., an AI-based stroke care platform maker, announced on Tuesday that it signed a business agreement with medical consulting firm PT Kind Communication to export medical AI solutions to Indonesia.Under the agreement, JLK wil

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US multifamily market challenges create investment opportunities
Real estate
US multifamily market challenges create investment opportunities

There is potential distress in the U.S. multifamily housing sector today. we believe there is a window of opportunity over the next 12-18 months for well-capitalized investors to take advantage of select distress opportunities and to exit when capit

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Mergers & Acquisitions
STIC Investments to sell Korea’s top mobile coupon platform

Seoul-based private equity firm STIC Investments is set to sell Coop Marketing, South Korea’s largest mobile coupon platform company that operates digital voucher systems for the country’s top online messenger Kakao Talk, shopping centers

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Pension funds
NPS to commit $1.1 bn to external managers in 2024

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will select domestic general partners (GPs) to manage about 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) worth of investment this year, its biggest-ever external allocation also set to invest in high-default-risk

Apr 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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Banking & Finance
Hanwha Life to buy stake in Indonesia's Nobu Bank

South Korea’s second-largest insurer Hanwha Life Insurance Co., with 109 trillion won ($79.4 billion) in total assets as of end-September 2023, said on Wednesday it will buy shares in a banking unit of Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group to exp

Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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Pension funds
NPS loses $1.2 bn in Korean stocks on weak battery shares in Q1

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, lost 1.66 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in domestic stock value in the first quarter of this year as shares in the battery sector tumbled amid the electric vehi

Apr 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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  • Sovereign bonds
    S.Korea desperately seeks WGBI inclusion to rescue won

    South Korea is desperately working for inclusion on a global major bond index to save the ailing won, the second worst-performer among emerging Asian currencies, by attracting up to $58 billion to the local debt market.Last month, FTSE Russell, the global index subsidiary of London Stock Exchange Group, decided to keep South Korea on the watch list

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  • Foreign exchange
    NH Investment, Woori Bank top in FX forecasting  

    Late last year, when the Korean won traded at 1,288 per dollar, most market analysts and economists predicted that the Korean currency would regain ground against the US dollar to the 1,200 level in the second quarter of this year from the low 1,300 level in the first quarter, but such widespread forecasts turned out to be wrong.Worse yet, it is ge

    Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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  • Short selling
    Korea builds system to speed up naked short-selling ban

    South Korea’s top financial regulator is set to build a centralized digital system to strengthen the prevention of naked short-selling as the financial watchdog has detected an increase in the illegal practice by institutional investors over the past few years. The government measure comes after some global investment banks, such as The Hong

    Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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MSCI Korea likely to add 3 stocks: Samsung Securities
Korean stock market
MSCI Korea likely to add 3 stocks: Samsung Securities

HD Hyundai Electric Co., Alteogen Inc. and Enchem Co. are expected to be invited to join Morgan Stanley Capital International’s Korea Index when the global stock index provider conducts regular index rebalancing next month, according to Samsung Securities Co. The probability of the trio’s inclusion in the MSCI Korea Index in May is 90%,

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