It can be said that the overseas real estate investments in Korea is still at its infancy. The most important reason is the financial institutions' failure to improve on their own competitiveness due to the overemphasizing on their public nature.
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It can be said that the overseas real estate investments in Korea is still at its infancy. The most important reason is the financial institutions' failure to improve on their own competitiveness due to the overemphasizing on their public nature.
The case presented in this study is distinguished from other PF types of overseas investments in that it has a significance as a true PI investment. The past overseas investments in Korea was simply loans to the overseas development project. Even in the cases of PI investments, the investment institution made investments in foreign countries by subscribing to a fund and enjoyed the dividends only. It can be said that this case is distinguished from the investments of the past in which profits and losses are attributed to the investment institution.
A summary was made about major points.
First, although the analysis is important in business, the domestic rating institution lacks in its skills to rate the overseas business feasibility.
Second, it is vital to for the legal and accounting problems concerning a new business. It is important that the legal issue may be avoided by making a close examination of the local laws and also the domestic laws. And it is required of the institution to keep an eye on the accounting treatment. Since this case was an unprecedented case concerning the accounting issue, it was confirmed through inquiry to the Financial Supervisory Service.
Third, it is crucial to look out for the problems regarding exchange hedge. Though overseas investment may be successful, its result may be devastating by the exchange problem.
Fourth, it is urgent to advance the asset operation company. Among other things, its capability to operate the assets in foreign countries, to cope with the risk preemptively, and ti cope properly with all sorts of issues occurring in the long-term investment is very important.
Finally, it is necessary to take a measure for interim repurchase. Since the overseas real estate investment project is basically a long-term investment, the institutional arrangement is needed to sell or repurchase it in the middle.
The business field of PI has been a field felt to be unfamiliar even for those who engaged in the financing field for years. This study presents through empirical data that the PI business, in which financial institutions armed with expertise, mining excellent businesses actively, make profits by becoming a partner of business with customers through share participation is the IB field that must actively be supported in the future.