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  • The Export-Import Bank of Korea (K-Exim), Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure) and a group of 11 international commercial bank lenders raised financing for a US$2.5 billion greenfield petrochemical facility for Jurong Aromatics on Jurong Island, Singapore in June last year in a pioneering deal
  • Revisions to Korea's Financial Investments Services and Capital Markets Act (FISCMA) could lead to the cannibalisation of domestic banks, Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) has warned
  • Korean banks learnt lessons from the crash of 1997 and have impressive reserves of cash. An amendment to the Bank Act has been made to ensure compliance with Basel III, but the framework coming into effect next year does not seem to be causing too much concern among the country’s financial institutions
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  • By Kwang Wook Lee and Sejung Lee, Yoon & Yang LLC
  • Multiple trade unions can now exist within a single company. The move was designed to give employees more choice, but businesses leader have their doubts about how the system will work in practice
  • David Yu, general counsel of Diageo in South Korea, talks to Katherine Jo about how his company has managed to avoid conflict with the country’s famously strong unions and the challenges posed by new regulations
  • Korean courts hold that economic substance now overrules legal substance when addressing foreign companies’ use of holding companies in third countries for Korean acquisitions. Lone Star marks the first precedent in this ruling, but other cases will determine how Korea’s National Tax Service will treat such holding companies in the future
  • Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers tax partner Henry An tells Katherine Jo about some of the uncertainties and tax issues that have arisen as a result of Korea adopting International Financial Reporting Standards
  • The M&A market in Korea has made an impressive recovery during the global downturn. Extensive revisions to the Korean Commercial Code should facilitate innovation and further boost growth