ICT-based financial innovation

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. announced on Wednesday that it will host the “SK Innovation Global Forum” on July 13 in San Jose, Califo...

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Tuesday that it renewed a three-year expansion to its official partnership with the Tennessee Titans, an NFL team b...

South Korea's Hanwha Global, the global division of Hanwha Corp. and KT Corp. announced on Monday that they signed a memorandum of understanding (...

South Korean oil refiner SK Innovation Co. secured an AA rating in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment by Morgan Stanley Capi...

Young South Korean millionaires want to take more control of their investments and bet on sectors they know, not relying passively on private banker...

Meritz Financial Group Inc. became the first South Korean financial holding company to unveil a concrete shareholder return plan, pledging to alloca...

South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., also the world’s No. 3, must accelerate innovation and prop up fundamentals to ...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, has tapp...

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced on Friday that it established a simulator at its central research center to verify the operational ...

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals maker Lotte Chemical Corp. has taken a hit from a lowered credit-rating outlook of the company and its majo...

Shopee Pte. Ltd., an e-commerce operator, plans to quadruple sales of South Korean products in Vietnam and Thailand by 2025 aiming to expand its glo...

South Korea's Woori Bank and Woori PE Asset Management announced on Thursday that they have signed a "strategic business agreement for creating a ...

Webtoon Entertainment Inc., South Korean tech giant Naver Corp.'s online comics platform, said on Thursday that it will raise $315 million by issuin...

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday it launched an Internet of Things (IoT) credit card in collaboration with KB Kookmin Card. The card us...

Marine Innovation Co., a South Korean eco-friendly social venture company sponsored by the country’s top energy firm SK Innovation Co., is par...

South Korea’s financial assets in the US hit a record high last year due to the US stock market rally and Korean companies’ capital inje...

Woori Financial Group has adopted Samsung Electronics Co.'s Samsung Culture Index (SCI) to tighten its internal controls, which will be given more w...

South Korea's Hanwha Life Financial Services said on Tuesday it received an A+ (Stable) credit rating from Korea Ratings, becoming the first domes...

SK Innovation Co., the parent of South Korea’s largest oil refiner SK Energy Co. and battery maker SK On Co., is looking to merge with energy ...

South Korean credit rating agency NICE Investors Service Co. (NICE) downgraded Hyosung Chemical's credit rating outlook from stable to negative on W...

South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Tuesday that it has received an A1 (stable) insurance financial strength rating from Moody's Rat...

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Monday that it will expand its European bases, including establi...

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it invested $10 million in Perplexity, the US-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...

L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics group, announced on Wednesday that it is recruiting digital and innovative technology companies to p...

Asian private equity firm MBK Partners has dropped out of a plan to back 300 billion won ($217.9 million) for South Korean budget airline Air Premia...

Hanwha Systems Co., a South Korean aerospace and defense contractor, has been picked as a preferred developer by the state-run Korea Institute for D...

Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker after its sibling Hyundai Motor Co., has upped the stakes in China and the US to bolster its ...

South Korea's micro-satellite startup Nara Space Technology Inc. announced on Friday that it was selected as one of the top-100 climate tech startup...

SAN DIEGO – Samsung Biologics Co. is enjoying a stream of contract development and manufacturing order inquiries from big pharmaceutical compa...