Business News
Criminal suspect’s shirt embarrasses FILA
Early on Wednesday morning, people’s eyes were all on a criminal suspect who was accused of blackmailing some 70 women, including minors, into creating...
CEOs
Finance News
NH Securities to host web seminar via YouTube
Brokerage will offer information to investors along with Mirae Asset
NH Investment & Securities announced on March 30 that the outfit will host a YouTube...
K-Pop/BTS
NH Securities to help BTS label go public
Brokerage house picked for entertainment company
NH Investment & Securities will help Big Hit Entertainment, which manages K-pop superstar BTS, go public this year along...
AI News
AI News: PARTRON dips 2.27%
As of Jan. 15 10:25 A.M., PARTRON declined 2.27%, compared with yesterday, to 12,900 won. It had declined 1.9% through the past month. The...
AI News: Kia Motors inches down 0.97%
As of Jan. 15 09:10 A.M., Kia Motors slightly edged down 0.97% to 40,750 won. It had declined 9.44% through the past month. Kia...
M&A News
Coronavirus affects Prudential Life Korea deal
KB Financial unionists oppose acquisition of life insurance company
The sales of IMM Private Equity were expected to be a big hit as multiple candidates...
Netmarble gobbles up Woongjin Coway
Game publisher buys rental giant
Netmarble, one of the leading game publishers in Korea, managed to snap up Woongjin Coway, the country’s business bellwether in...
Naver set to join hands with SoftBank
Line in merger talks with Yahoo Japan
Two major high-tech corporations of Korea and Japan are poised to join hands so as to challenge such...
Latest News
Police to conclude propofol probe of Lee Boo-jin in April
Officials remain silent about whether to book Samsung heiress
The police strive to finish the probes over Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin, who was questioned...
Korean billionaires: Michael Byungju Kim
1. Wealth: $1.5 billion (Forbes, 2019)
With the wealth of $1.5 billion, Michael Byungju Kim is South Korea’s 23rd richest businessman, even ahead of CJ...
Police summons Hotel Shilla chief Lee Boo-jin
Samsung heiress investigated for suspected drug use
It took a full year for the police to summon Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin to look into...
NH Securities to host web seminar via YouTube
Brokerage will offer information to investors along with Mirae Asset
NH Investment & Securities announced on March 30 that the outfit will host a YouTube...
List of South Korean firms manufacturing coronavirus test kits
Domestic outfits churn out diagnostic kits for COVID-19
The fast spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, prompts governments from across the world to try desperately...
Book
Exclusive: Michael Byungju Kim to publish autobiographical novel
MBK head to release 'Offerings' on March 24
As the founder of Korea’s largest homegrown private equity fund, MBK Partners Chairman Michael Byungju Kim is...
