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Dongkuk Holdings, the holding company of South Korea-based steel manufacturing company Dongkuk Steel Group, has announced plans to launch a corporate venture capital unit.
Vice chairman Se-wook Jang said during a general shareholders’ meeting that the company plans to establish a CVC within a year, according to media outlet Breaking Latest News.
The announcement comes after the re-election of Jang See-Wook as Dongkuk Holdings’ vice chairman and executive director.
South Korea liberalised its regulations in 2021 to allow the country’s holdings companies to form corporate venture capital units. Since then, a third of the country’s 76 industrial conglomerates having created a CVC arm.