South Korea’s mergers and acquisitions market has entered one of its busiest periods on record, supported by strong risk appetite and a more than 70% year-to-date surge in the KOSPI, with Citi advising on a series of high-profile transactions. Recent deals include EQT’s roughly USD930m acquisition of a controlling stake in cloud software provider Douzone Bizon, described as Asia’s largest B2B software transaction outside Japan, and the IMM Investment–KB Balhae consortium’s 49