SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The head of Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s leading ride-hailing company, said Monday he has asked the firm’s largest shareholder, Kakao Corp., to postpone its plan to sell part of its shares to a private equity fund amid strong protest from Kakao Mobility’s labor union, sources said. According to [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanjin KAL Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s air transportation conglomerate Hanjin Group, said Monday it is selling its entire stake in its budget carrier unit to its flagship Korean Air Lines Co., a move seen as intended at streamlining the structure before completing a merger with a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state deposit insurer said Friday it sold 2.2 percent of its stake in Woori Financial Holdings Co. for some 239 billion won (US$199 million). The Korea Depository Insurance Corp. (KDIC) said that the pre-market sale of 15.86 million shares came in line with a decision by the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun and honorary group chief Chung Mong-koo sold their combined 10 percent stake in Hyundai Glovis to the global private equity firm Carlyle Group, the logistics unit of the group said Wednesday. The junior Chung sold a 3.29 percent stake and his father unloaded [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Eugene PE, the private equity firm of South Korea’s Eugene Group, and four others have been chosen to buy a combined 9.3 percent government-held stake in Woori Financial Holdings Co. for 897.7 billion won (US$754.1 million), South Korea’s financial regulator said Monday. The move will put an end to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 dairy company, Namyang Dairy Products Co., said Friday that its controlling shareholders — Chairman Hong Won-sik and his family — have signed a deal to sell the company’s management rights and majority stake to mid-sized local business group Dayou Winia Group. Namyang said the sale [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Energy Co., a South Korean electricity provider, said Thursday it plans to sell its stake in a coal-fired thermal power plant project in Vietnam. The company said in a regulatory filing its board made the decision at a recent meeting to sell the 30-percent stake valued at 217.5 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean credit card issuer Samsung Card Co. said Thursday it has decided to sell its entire 19.9 percent stake in Renault Samsung Motors Corp. Samsung Card said it recently made the decision and selected Samsung Securities Co. as the lead manager of the stake sale. The card [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Group, a South Korean energy-to-defense conglomerate, said Thursday it has sold part of its stake in U.S. electric truck maker Nikola Corp. for US$53.7 million. Green Nikola Holdings, Hanwha’s U.S. subsidiary, sold 2.9 million Nikola shares, which lowered its ownership from 5.6 percent to 4.86 percent, according to [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Group, a South Korean energy-to-defense conglomerate, plans to sell half of its stake in U.S. electric truck maker Nikola Corp., the two companies said Thursday. Green Nikola Holdings, Hanwha’s U.S. subsidiary that holds a 5.65 percent share in Nikola, plans to sell up to 11.1 million shares over [...]