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Koreans Will Continue to Flood the US CRE Market

Punching above its weight, in recent years, South Korea has been one of the most aggressive accumulators of prime US commercial real estate assets, according to a source in this EXCLUSIVE commentary.

By Natalie Dolce | Updated on October 19, 2015

South Korea is a small country—really small. It consists of little more than 38,000 square miles of land (the distance from the northern-most point to the southern-most point of South Korea being just about equal to the distance from Kansas City to Oklahoma City). It has a population of only about 50 million (or just over 3% of the population of China). However, in recent years, according to Jason S. Kim, a partner at law firm Blank Rome, South Korea has been one of the most aggressive accumulators of prime US commercial real estate assets.

The views expressed below are the author’s own.

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