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US semiconductor manufacturer Western Digital Corp. announced Tuesday it will raise the price of its NAND flash memory chips by 10%. Earlier ...

Some major institutional investors of South Korea have committed a combined $620 million to Partners Group’s third direct infrastructure progr...

South Korea’s central bank expects consumer inflation to hit an 11-year high this year as oil prices jumped above the $100 a barrel level for ...

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager with $10 trillion assets under management, named Hiroyuki Shimizu head of institutional in...

As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has acquired US-based NEC Energy Solutions to expand its capabilities into the energy storage system (ESS) integration mar...

South Korea’s central bank is caught in a dilemma as it needs to raise interest rates to curb rising inflationary pressure in Asia’s fou...

South Korea’s major banks posted record earnings last year, boosted by higher interest income amid the central bank’s easing monetary bi...

Singapore’s antitrust authority approved the integration of Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., paving the way for South Korea&rsqu...

TOKYO – Hyundai Motor Co. is reentering the Japanese car market after a 12-year hiatus with its latest electric vehicles, as the growing deman...

South Koreans are continuing their rush to safer assets with the balance of bank deposits, money market funds (MMFs) and cash management accounts (C...

South Korea's mobile financial platform Toss is evolving from a payment service app into a full-fledged financial service provider, or a super app, ...

South Korea's Osstem Implant Co., battered by the country's largest-ever embezzlement scandal for a listed company, is now being courted by investme...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) will launch real-life, offline tests for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) project on Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy ...

South Korea's leading banks began to reap the rewards of their efforts to become regional players in Asia, with their aggressive investments in Viet...

Affinity Equity Partners is set to send an investment teaser this week for the planned sale of Burger King’s operations in South Korea and Jap...

Japan's mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo has sold all its shares in KT Corp., worth 437.5 billion won ($370 million), to Shinhan Bank which formed a...

Creditor banks of South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) are mulling new ways to find a new owner of the debt-ridden ...

South Korea’s central bank is almost certain to raise interest rates on Friday to curb inflation and household debt as the US Federal Reserve ...

South Korea’s won currency hit a 1-1/2-year low as the US Federal Reserve signaled the central bank may raise interest rates sooner than expec...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) is planning to sell up to $3 billion worth of new global bonds this week, tipped to be the largest-ever bond...

South Korea’s MBK Partners said on Jan. 3 that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Dongjin Textile Co. -- a Korean firm that has been s...

South Korea’s leading petrochemical company SK Geo Centric Co. and Japan’s chemicals producer Tokuyama Corp. plan to found a joint ventu...

Affinity Equity Partners has chosen Goldman Sachs as its adviser for the planned sale of its entire stakes in Burger King’s operations in Kore...

MG Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) will gradually increase its alternative investment proportion from the current early 30...

Voluntary retirement packages, often coming with generous compensation, have been adopted by companies as a way to let go of older or redundant empl...

With stock and cryptocurrency fevers subsiding amid a monetary tightening bias, South Koreans are moving their money back to safe assets, as banks s...

South Korea has officially declared its plan to join a mega Trans-Pacific free trade deal, called the CPTPP, following China’s application to ...

Mortgage loan growth at banks in South Korea slowed to near a four-year low in November, on the back of tightened lending rules and an interest rate...

South Korea’s BNK Asset Management Co. acquired UBS Financial Services tower in New Jersey for $219 million from US real estate developer Hart...