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South Korean brokerage and investment bank under Korea Investment Holdings, offering trading, asset management, and underwriting services.
Michael Dell's family-office fund is buying 1.34% of SK Inc from chairman Chey Tae-won for 544 billion won, about $406 million at 1,339.6 won. The block is 58% of the 944 billion won Chey is raising for a divorce settlement.
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Kurly is reviving its IPO plan after a 51.6 billion won first-half operating profit, nearly four times its 13.1 billion won for 2025. Annualized, that puts Naver's 2.8 trillion won May valuation at about 27 times operating profit.
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Naver and Brookfield are negotiating up to $9 billion of financing for a $10 billion expansion of Naver's Sejong AI data center to 200 megawatts. Korean banks weighing a share have to judge what about 100,000 Nvidia GPUs will be worth years into a loan.
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Korea Investment & Securities is staking the firm on a pension market it expects to grow to 1,000 trillion won from 600 trillion in three years. Growth alone would leave it third among brokers, so the plan depends on taking reserves that other providers already hold.
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Yuanta Securities Korea raised its Samsung Electronics target 18.9% to 630,000 won, about 124% above the 281,500 won quote, on an argument that HBM is eating into general-purpose DRAM capacity and pushing the end of the supply squeeze further out.
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Korea's largest savings banks fund multi-year loans with deposits coming due inside twelve months, and industry data for the end of June measures the gap bank by bank at the biggest lenders.
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Five Korean retail subscription books open across four days from the 14th. Bigwave Robotics sets its final price on the 14th, one day before Brills stops taking institutional orders for a second robot automation deal.
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Unpaid principal at Korea's ten largest brokerages rose 5.1 times to 37.79575 billion won over seven months, a sum equal to less than a tenth of a percent of the record 38.6328 trillion won margin book behind it.
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Kim Sung-hwan told Korean reporters in Manhattan that data centres were the question overseas investors raised most often, and he came back from London and New York with agreements from Fidelity International, PIMCO and Carlyle.
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The won closed at 1,397.7 on the 19th, down 14.1 in a session, even as the U.S. 30-year yield hit its highest since 2007. Exporter flow, not rate differentials, set the price.
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Japan, the UK and the US are all paying more to borrow. Korea's revenue upgrade rests on a semiconductor cycle, while mandatory spending is set to grow 5.9% a year regardless.
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Individual investors on the KRX Gold Market turned net buyers for the first time since May, but only after bullion futures had already added 9%. The flow is a read on Fed expectations, arriving late.
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Korean brokerages have tied retail pay so tightly to individual sales results that a trading boom now pays front-line contract staff many times what the people running the firms take home.
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