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South Korea’s KB Asset Management Co. is set to list its Balhae Infrastructure Fund (Balhae) on the country’s main bourse Kospi in the s...

South Korean budget airlines are seeing a slow recovery in international flights as key routes such as China and Japan have yet to normalize while t...

Episodes of extreme yen weakness don’t tend to go well for Asia. In the late 1990s, early 2010s and today, a sliding yen often proves to be even...

KB Investment Co., a venture capital arm of KB Financial Group, is seeking to raise more than 200 billion won ($150 million) in its second global fu...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. is poised to invest $100 million in US spacecraft and satellite communication corporation SpaceX. The South Korean f...

South Korea’s central bank on Wednesday took the most aggressive measure with a 50-basis-point policy interest rate hike for the first time in...

Blackpink, the female K-pop idol group, will hold an in-game concert, the first such event by Korean pop artists, in collaboration with Krafton Inc....

A selloff in risk assets in South Korea is intensifying as foreigners turned net sellers of Korean bonds for the first time in 18 months in June whi...

Samsung Electronics Co. is slated to enable embedded subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) into its new foldable smartphones available in South Korea ...

LG Electronics Inc., the global home appliance maker, suffered a lower profit in the second quarter on the back of rising commodity and logistics co...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has halted updates to Kakao Corp.'s KakaoTalk, South Korea's most popular messaging app. An employee of Kakao told...

Samsung Electronics Co. has kicked off mass production of 3-nanometer chips based on the industry’s smallest process node as a global first, a...

Samsung Engineering Co. agreed to spend $41 million on Vietnam’s largest private water treatment company for the eco-friendly business in Sout...

South Korean biotech company L&C Bio, which specializes in tissue regeneration treatment, is poised to ramp up its expansion into the Chinese ma...

South Korea’s SK Bioscience Co., a biopharmaceutical unit of SK Group, has won marketing authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine from the Minis...

South Korea’s car-sharing platform Socar Inc. has estimated its corporate value at up to 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) for an initial public...

Many traffic accidents are caused by drowsy driving, fatigue or the driver’s abnormal health conditions.Automakers around the world have str...

As a string of sporadic labor union strikes enters its third week, the risk of supply disruption has spread to an unlikely victim – Hankook Ti...

Hyundai Mobis Co. CEO Cho Sung-hwan has registered as a candidate for the next presidential election of the International Organization for Standar...

Back in 2013, Hong Kong painted itself as the uncontested leader in Asia’s art scene – over Singapore, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Art Bas...

Hanwha Power Systems Co., a South Korean energy equipment company, said on Friday it has completed joint development of a boil-off gas (BOG) compres...

TagHive Inc. is an education technology startup building a bridge between South Korea and India. The company’s founder and CEO Pankaj Aga...

  LianBio, a Nasdaq-listed biotechnology company, has joined hands with MediRama Co., a South Korean clinical development firm, to help promis...

South Korea's over-the-top streaming platform TVing Co. has partnered with global content provider Paramount Plus to challenge top OTT player Netfli...

South Korea’s petrochemical companies are set to halt operations as the work stoppage by unionized truck drivers stretched into an eighth day ...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced Monday it will invest 580 billion won ($451 million) to manufacture battery cells for Austin-based Tesla, Inc.The ...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. announced Thursday it has developed the prototype for the world’s first virtual trading system (VTS,) which allows ...

South Korea’s major logistics firm CJ Logistics Corp. is accelerating business expansion in Southeast Asia. It has started applying a homegrow...

Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, and Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. (USNC)...

Costco Wholesale Corp, a big-box retail giant, has begun dawn delivery services in South Korea as e-commerce is becoming the norm in the nation's gr...