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July 01, 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

LG Electronics acquires Norway’s OSO in bold HVAC expansion

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s leading electronics company, is doubling down on its bid to lead the burgeoning global heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) market with OSO Hotwater, one of Europe’s top providers of water heating solutions, now under its wings. The Korean company announced on Monday that it has signed a deal to take over a 100% stake in OSO, head

K-pop

HYBE to bring K-pop idol playbook to India, tapping local talent

India, a country of 1.4 billion people, will be HYBE Co.'s next stop to test its K-pop model by discovering and nurturing local talent under its Chairman Bang Si-hyuk’s “multi-home, multi-genre” strategy. The K-pop powerhouse behind global sensation BTS has already introduced this approach in the US, Japan and Latin America and it is beginning to bear fruit. “With

Batteries

POSCO sets sights on lithium production in US

POSCO Holdings Inc. has teamed up with Australia’s Anson Resources Ltd. to build a direct lithium extraction (DLE) demonstration plant in the US, a move expected to help the South Korean steel-to-battery materials conglomerate expand its footing in the battery materials supply chain in North America, the company said on Monday. Under a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) a

Pension funds

S.Korea’s pension fund NPS posts weaker returns amid US tariff concerns

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund and the country’s largest institutional investor, is posting sharply reduced investment returns this year, weighed down by losses in overseas equities amid heightened global uncertainty and shifting US trade policy. The NPS said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it posted a provisional return of 0.92%

Mergers & Acquisitions

NPS, Scape acquire Aussie senior living operator Aveo from Brookfield

South Korea’s state-run pension fund, the National Pension Service (NPS), has partnered with Australia’s student housing specialist Scape to clinch a record A$3.85 billion ($2.5 billion) deal to acquire senior living operator Aveo Retirement Homes Ltd. from Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc. The transaction value marks Australia’s biggest direct real estate d

Mergers & Acquisitions

Hanwha becomes 1st Korean insurer to foray into foreign banking market

Hanwha Life Insurance Co. has become the first South Korean insurance firm to advance into the overseas banking sector by securing a controlling stake in Indonesia’s Nobu Bank. The insurer, part of South Korea’s seventh-largest conglomerate Hanwha Group, has finalized the acquisition of a 40% stake and management rights in the banking arm of Lippo Group, Indonesia’s sixth

Investment banking

Goldman Sachs acquires Mercure Ambassador: 1st stint with Korean hotels

Goldman Sachs, in partnership with JB Asset Management Co., has acquired Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae, a prominent mixed-use commercial property in Seoul, in a 262 billion won ($194 million) deal. The deal marks the US investment bank’s first direct investment in South Korea’s hospitality sector. JLL Korea, the local arm of global real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSal

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