A cheat sheet of M&As in Korea

Since 2016, Tech in Asia has been keeping tabs on Korea’s M&A landscape. As landmark purchases and M&A deal counts soar to new heights, we’ve put together this piece to help you keep track of the latest trends and milestones.

Before we dive in, here are a couple of caveats about the data:

• M&A transactions vary significantly in structure. Some deals may be made under irregular circumstances.
• All charts and visuals in this piece refer only to publicly disclosed M&A deals.
• In our calculations of mean and median, we have excluded publicly disclosed M&A deals with unknown deal sizes.

Korea’s M&A landscape at a glance

Starting with a broad overview of M&A activity in Korea, here’s how the overall deal count and deal size in the region have changed over time.

The mean and median deal sizes also reveal trends in the distribution of M&A deals sizes in the region over time.

A look at Korea’s M&A leaderboards

While most of Korea’s M&A check sizes remain small, deals are made across an increasingly diverse range of industries. Below are the top five verticals that have seen the most M&A activity.

Diving deeper, here are the country’s top 10 acquirers to date.

Here’s a complete view of all M&A deals in our database. Use the table below to sort the data by column or key in a search query to find a specific acquiree or acquirer.

For more on how we analyze data, feel free to read our research methodology. If you notice any missing or incorrect data, kindly let us know at research@teKoreasia.com.

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