Economy
Financing
[Capital Focus] Is the Era of Hong Kong’s Wealthy Coming to an End?… “The Switzerland of the East” Shaken
Global investment banks (IBs) and capital markets are turning their attention to Greater China, the world’s largest manufacturing hub and the financial center of Asia. “Capital Hub” is a series coveri…
Business·Industry
Shipyards Begin Automating ‘Last Manual Tasks’ in Logistics… Samsung Heavy Industries and Hanwha Ocean Conduct Pilot Projects
The automation of logistics processes—which have relied on manual labor right up to the very end at shipyards—is set to move full steam ahead. The key objective is to boost production efficiency by au…
Business·Industry
10th Anniversary of Samsung’s Wind-Free Air Conditioner Launch… Company Sets Sights on Global B2B Market
SamsungElectronics’ Wind-Free air conditioner, first introduced in 2016, has marked its 10th anniversary. SamsungElectronics announced on the 5th that it is expanding the supply of Wind-Free air condi…
M&A·IB
[M&A Deal Board] E-commerce Brands and Energy Efficiency Solutions Up for Sale
Every week, in collaboration with LISTING, an M&A matching platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we report on newly listed assets and acquisition demand in the domestic M&A market. B…
M&A·IB
[Economy with the EU] “Demand Will Remain Even After the War Ends”… European VCs Bet on Defense Tech
Funds are pouring into European defense tech—an area that was once considered too risky for venture capital (VC) firms to readily invest in. Since the war in Ukraine, the battlefield effectiveness of …
Bonds·FX Policy
Corporate Bond Market Struggling to Meet Repayment Obligations… Shinhan Securities and GS Entec Conduct Bookbuilding
Amid a continued trend of net redemptions—where redemptions exceed new issuances—in the corporate bond market, Shinhan Investment Securities and GS Entec are set to conduct bookbuilding this week for …
M&A·IB
[VC’s Pick] Video AI Expands into Industrial Settings… Twelve Labs Secures Investment
This week (June 29–July 3), startups across various sectors—including medical imaging solutions, pre-owned luxury goods trading, AI entertainment, and bio-AI—secured investments from venture capital (…
M&A·IB
A Semiconductor Fabless Company Founded by SK Hynix’s Youngest-Ever Executive [VC Cradle]
The biggest bottleneck for AI servers is memory. As the KV cache—where large language models (LLMs) store past computations—accumulates, the required memory capacity increases exponentially. This prob…
Business·Industry
Genosco, Tax Risk?… “Lecraza Is ‘Royalty Income’; Its Value Remains Unchanged”
Concerns about “tax risks” have been raised in some quarters of the financial investment, pharmaceutical, and biotech markets regarding Genosco, a subsidiary of OSCOTEC Inc.(039200)specializing in new…
Business·Industry
BL Pharmtech Hits Daily Limit…Samchundang Pharm Falls [K-bio pulse]
Investors in the biopharmaceutical sector continued to show strong interest in BL Pharmtech on July 2, driving its stock to the daily upper limit. The surge was fueled by growing expectations of tangi…