Korea M&A Corporation

When Park Hyeon-joo, chairman of Mirae Asset Financial Group, introduced South Korea's first retail mutual fund in December 1998, the country was mired in the Asian financial crisis. Only a year had passed since the government had agreed to bring strict discipline to its financial sector and rein in profligate industrial conglomerates, in return for a multibillion-dollar bailout from the Interna..

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will loosen regulations on foreign asset management firms and domestic private equity funds as early as this year, and eliminate rules deterring overseas acquisitions, two ministries said on Thursday. The moves are the latest in a series of deregulation efforts for the financial industry as the government strives to raise its financial clout in Asia, and are aimed a..