Korea’s headline inflation dips below 3% in April but erratic

South Korea’s headline inflation dipped below 3% for the first time in three months last month but uncertainty lingers from still-high agricul...

Korean retailers, hotels enjoy tourist boom in May holidays

South Korean retailers and hotels are enjoying a boom thanks to an expected surge in tourists at home and abroad as more than 180,000 foreigners are...

S.Korea’s project financing exposure reaches $145 bn

South Korean financial services companies and construction firms are exposed to a combined 200 trillion won ($145 billion) worth of potential risks ...

Korea’s Kookmin Bank raises $600 mn in global senior debts

South Korea’s largest bank Kookmin Bank said on Tuesday it has issued $600 million worth of global senior secured bonds. The debts were oversu...

LG Chem displays bright outlook after loss in first quarter

LG Chem Ltd., the parent of the world's second-largest battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., expects its business will improve in upcoming quarters...

S.Korea sees record-high foreign visitors after pandemic

South Korea saw a record-high number of foreign tourists post-COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2024. The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Spor...

STIC Investments to sell Korea’s top mobile coupon platform

Seoul-based private equity firm STIC Investments is set to sell Coop Marketing, South Korea’s largest mobile coupon platform company that oper...

Korea’s factory output backpedals, but spending recovers in March

South Korea’s factory activity weakened in March on a fall in manufacturing output, stoking concerns about Asia’s fourth-largest economy...

Korea desperately seeks global bond index inclusion to rescue won

South Korea is desperately working for inclusion on a global major bond index to save the ailing won, the second worst-performer among emerging Asia...

S.Korea’s KT to innovate media, content businesses with AI

South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is set to innovate its media and content businesses with artificial intelligence as it seeks new growth d...

Korea’s booming medical tourism: Skin care, plastic surgery in demand

The number of foreign patients visiting South Korea for medical tourism hit a record high last year, driven by those who traveled to Korea for skin ...

Shinsegae faces off with Affinity, BRV over SSG.COM

Shinsegae Group could face a legal battle against two private equity firms that are demanding it buy back their combined 1 trillion won ($727 millio...

HD Hyundai Marine IPO sees strong demand from retail investors

South Korea’s HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. has attracted billions of dollars from retail investors in subscription deposits for the ship mai...

Genesis unveils GV70 facelift ahead of Korean debut in May

Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis on Friday unveiled the GV70 facelift as the leading South Korean automaker plans to launch the luxury mids...

Daedong completes S.Korea's largest rooftop solar power plant

South Korea's Daedong Mobility announced on Friday that it has completed the construction of the largest rooftop solar power plant in the country at...

S.Korea's Andar strengthens tech alliance with LYCRA Company

The athletic-leisure brand Andar Co. announced on Friday that it will strengthen its technological alliance with the LYCRA Company, the world's larg...

HMM enhances maritime safety with AI technology

HMM Co., South Korea’s leading sea carrier, announced on Friday its adoption of an advanced AI image analysis solution 'Deep Eyes', aimed at b...

Korea’s Lotte sells Lotte Glory Properties Shenyang amid US-China dispute

South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group has signed a deal to sell a theme park project in Shenyang, China – its latest move to pull out o...

Korea builds system to speed up naked short-selling ban

South Korea’s top financial regulator is set to build a centralized digital system to strengthen the prevention of naked short-selling as the ...

Hanwha Aerospace, Poland sign $1.6 billion Chunmoo rocket launcher deal

Hanwha Aerospace Co., a leading South Korean defense company, on Thursday signed a $1.64 billion deal to supply 72 units of Chunmoo multiple launch ...

Machine tool maker DN Solutions kicks off IPO process

DN Solutions Co., the world’s third-largest machine tool maker, has kicked off the process of going public on the Korea Exchange, in an initia...

SK Hynix to invest $14.6 bn to build HBM plant in S.Korea

SK Hynix Inc. will spend 20 trillion won ($14.6 billion) to build a new memory chip manufacturing plant on a site originally designated to build a N...

Bet on innovations with societal impact: Kakao Ventures CEO

In the past 10 years, Kim Ki-jun has been on the hunt for deep technology startups that will have a significant societal impact, and he will continu...

Hanwha Life to buy stake in Indonesia's Lippo-owned bank

South Korea’s second-largest insurer Hanwha Life Insurance Co., with 109 trillion won ($79.4 billion) in total assets as of end-September 2023...

S.Korea taps ex-NASA exec John Lee as space agency R&D head

South Korea named John Lee, a former senior executive of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as the head of missions such a...

N.Korean hackers attack South’s arms makers for tech data

North Korean hackers allegedly attacked South Korean arms manufacturers and stole technical data from them over more than a year Seoul’s polic...

Korea's Lotte Insurance put on market for around $1.5 bn

Lotte Group’s non-life insurance affiliate Lotte Insurance Co., has been put up for sale at around 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion), according to...

S.Korea’s IBK, Japan’s Mizuho Bank agree on $218-million committed line

South Korea’s state-run Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) has agreed on a 300 billion won ($218 million) committed credit line with Japanese lead...

Alibaba eyes 1st investment in Korean e-commerce platform

China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is likely to make its first investment in a South Korean online shopping platform as it aims to gain a competitiv...

Blackstone signs over $1 bn deal with MBK for 1st exit in Korea

Private equity giant Blackstone Inc. is set to mark its first exit from South Korea by selling a 71.25% stake in the holding firm of Geo-Young Corp....