Immigration Raid Disruptions Spread, Casting Pall on Korea Investment September 12, 2025 By Hyonhee Shin and Youkyung Lee Fallout from last week’s unprecedented immigration raid at a Georgia battery plant run by two South Korean firms is reverberating...
US Plant Raid Jolts South Korea and Stirs Investor Anxiety September 8, 2025 By Youkyung Lee and Denny Thomas The immigration raid on a Georgia EV battery plant run by two South Korean firms has rattled Seoul, coming less...
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Opens S. Korea Branch Office; CEO Named June 29, 2017 Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), Allianz Group’s unit for corporate & specialty insurance business, has opened a branch office...
Korean VW Executive Sentenced to Jail for Role in Emissions Scandal January 6, 2017 A South Korean court on Friday sentenced an executive of Volkswagen’s local unit to one year and six months in...
Anbang Insurance to Acquire Allianz’s South Korea Operations April 6, 2016 Anbang Insurance Group Co., which walked away from a bid to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. last week,...
Allianz Puts South Korean Life Insurance Unit on Block: Sources February 24, 2016 By Denny Thomas Europe’s largest insurer Allianz has put its South Korean life insurance business on the block as part of a global...
Dujuan Strengthens; Threatens Ryukyu’s, Japan,Taiwan, China: AccuWeather September 25, 2015 AccuWeather has reported that Tropical Storm Dujuan is on track to strengthen into a powerful typhoon with Japan’s Ryukyu Islands...
Typhoon Nangka Continues on Course towards Japan: AIR Analysis July 15, 2015 Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released an analysis of Typhoon Nangka, which is currently a Category 3 storm “with...
Beazley, Korean Re Form Partnership; Create Special Purpose Lloyd’s Syndicate April 9, 2015 Beazley and Korean Re announced a partnership to develop business together and to establish a special purpose syndicate at Lloyd’s,...
Lloyd’s Appoints First General Representative in South Korea February 24, 2015 Lloyd’s has appointed Jin-Yung Sun as its first general representative in South Korea. Sun has worked in the (re)insurance industry...