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South Korean M&A activity returns to pre-Covid level

By Wooyoung Lee
  • 04 Sep 2021 22:30
  • 06 Sep 2021 01:16
South Korean M&A activity is starting to make a comeback from the pandemic slump (see here), with the country’s competition regulator reporting a surge in the number of merger filings and in the value of the deals in the first half of this year.
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Wooyoung Lee

Correspondent, Seoul


Wooyoung Lee is a correspondent based in MLex’s Seoul office, South Korea, covering antitrust, privacy and data security, mergers and acquisitions and financial services. Wooyoung has more than a decade of experience in journalism, public policy and research. She has worked and written for news outlets including The Korea Herald, Al Jazeera International, Bloomberg BNA, Monocle, among others.

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