South Korea is ramping up efforts to encourage companies to enhance shareholder value by providing tax support for its corporate value-up program, a ...
Lee Bok-hyun, governor of South Korea’s top financial watchdog body, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), said on Thursday that there shoul...
Trading volume in South Korean stock market has surged to its highest level in eight months, with investors piling into defense, nuclear energy, ship...
South Korea’s financial market has stabilized with a sharp fall in the country’s default risk and some recovery of its currency value aga...
With South Korean retail investors joining the global gold rush in ‘fear of missing out’, or FOMO, the country’s gold price has sh...
Foreigners scooped up South Korean government bonds in January despite the country’s ongoing political upheavals, betting big on the country&rs...
South Korea plans to allow companies listed on the local stock market to trade virtual assets, including cryptocurrencies, on a pilot basis in the se...
MSCI, a global index compiler, said on Wednesday it has removed 11 stocks, including Lotte Chemical Corp., from its Korea index without any additions...
Companies in South Korea are expected to refrain from seeking initial public offerings for a while after the country’s much-anticipated new blo...
Money is rapidly shifting to cryptocurrency markets in South Korea as lower interest rates and lackluster stock prices reduce the investment appeal o...
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, has become South Korea’s third most valuable stock on the country’s ...
Nextrade, South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange, enabling trading of stocks listed on the Kospi and the Kosdaq for 12 hours a day is s...
South Korea will launch a high tech fund worth more than 34 trillion won ($23 billion) to provide cheap financing, including equity investments, for ...
South Korea’s exports dropped in January on-year for the first time in 16 months due to more holiday days in the month, although overseas sales...
South Korea’s economy expanded 2.0% last year, falling short of the central bank’s forecast on weaker-than-expected growth in the fourth ...
South Korea will sharply raise the threshold for listed companies to remain trading on the domestic stock market to facilitate the delisting of finan...
South Korea’s central bank slashed its economic growth forecasts on Monday, adding to views that the monetary authority will cut interest rates...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has become the country's first sitting president to be arrested on rebellion charges as part of a probe into his...
South Korea’s job growth slowed last year amid a prolonged slump in the country’s construction, manufacturing and retail sectors, boding ...
The Bank of Korea (BOK) said on Wednesday that the foreign investors' net selling in the South Korean stock market was $3.86 billion in December last...
The Bank of Korea (BOK) is widely expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday amid the nation's softening economy and moderating in...
Global credit rating agencies are warning of looming downward pressure on South Korea’s sovereign credit rating about a month after Asia’...
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) said on Wednesday it issued a total of $3 billion in global bonds, targeting worldwide investors.The matur...
Foreign direct investments in South Korea hit a record high in 2024, driven by Chinese and Japanese investors in the manufacturing sector, the Minist...
South Korea’s foreign exchange reserves shrank to a five-year low at the end of last year after the country’s foreign exchange authoritie...
Lim Hyoung-seok, former Vice President of KKR Korea, left the private equity giant’s Seoul office and established his private equity fund (PEF)...
An increasing number of foreign banks without a physical presence in South Korea are gearing up to offer dollar-won conversion services to non-Korean...
South Korea sharply lowered its economic growth forecast for this year amid the prolonged political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol’s...
South Korea’s exports, the country’s main growth driver, reached an all-time high in 2024, buoyed by strong semiconductor exports and a r...
The South Korean won is forecast to hover in the mid-1,400s level against the dollar through the third quarter of 2025, according to global investmen...
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