Economy
M&A·IB
Global M&A Also Sees ‘Separation of the Wheat from the Chaff’… Investments in Assets with Certain Returns Are Coming One After Another
In the global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, there is a noticeable trend of capital flowing toward proven assets. As interest rates and geopolitical uncertainties make it difficult to predict …
M&A·IB
Prices Don’t Match, No Exit in Sight… South Korean PE Firms and Conglomerates Adopt a Cautious Stance on M&A
The domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in the first half of this year showed little growth in actual transactions, despite ample available capital. It is explained that while both private …
M&A·IB
Concentration of M&A Deals Accelerates… “Only AI Deals Were Hot”
Although the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market froze in the first half of this year, it appears that many of the deals—which came as a welcome relief amid the drought—were concentrated in specific…
M&A·IB
A ‘Solution’ Born of Barrier-Free Collaboration… Why Global Private Equity Firms Are Turning to the Pacific
“There is only one reason why global private equity (PE) firms and large corporations turn to Pacific for their most complex deals: they want a ‘real solution (conclusion),’ not just a few lines of le…
Business·Industry
[Breaking News] LG Corp. Reports 113.3 Billion Won in Second-Quarter Operating Profit… Returns to Profitability Compared to Previous Quarter
LG Energy Solution announced on the 7th that its consolidated operating profit for the second quarter of this year was preliminarily estimated at 113.3 billion won. This represents a 77% decrease comp…
Business·Industry
SamsungElectronics’ Q2 Operating Profit Exceeds 100 Trillion Won Excluding Provisions… Sets Another Record (Comprehensive)
Riding the wave of a memory chip boom, SamsungElectronics posted an operating profit of over 89 trillion won in the second quarter of this year. In particular, excluding provisions for performance bon…
Business·Industry
Shin Tae-hyun, CEO of Inventera Inc.: “With Infinity, We’re Moving Beyond Precision Diagnostics to Take on Drug Delivery Therapies”
“Inventera Inc. is a company specializing in nanopharmaceuticals that develops diagnostic tools and therapeutics based on platform technologies that overcome the limitations of immune cell phagocytosi…
Business·Industry
SamsungElectronics Posts 89 Trillion Won in Operating Profit, Setting 'Another Record'… Surpasses NVIDIA (SANG BO Co.,Ltd)
SamsungElectronics has once again set a new record for quarterly earnings, driven by the artificial intelligence (AI) memory supercycle. The company surpassed 170 trillion won in revenue and 80 trilli…
Business·Industry
Glamping Has Grown, but the Law Still Treats It as a ‘Tent’… K-Camping Regulations to Be Revised
Critics have pointed out that while the domestic camping market is rapidly restructuring around convenience-oriented facilities—such as glamping, caravans, and dome houses—and experiential products, r…
M&A·IB
Fund Holding Four Homeplus Stores 'On the Brink of Bankruptcy' Faces Loan Maturity Deadline
As Homeplus’s corporate rehabilitation proceedings have effectively come to an end, raising the likelihood of bankruptcy, loans totaling approximately 580 billion won linked to four Homeplus stores ar…