Japan rate policy

South Korea plans to discuss with Japan the re-establishment of their bilateral currency swap line, said its finance minister on Thursday, as the di...

Korea Investors Service downgraded the unsecured bond credit rating of Hyosung Chemical on Thursday from A to A-, saying that its profit-generating ...

TOKYO – Glonet Co. is a novice logistics company hardly known in Japan’s time-honored shipping industry.The small South Korean shipping ...

Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...

South Korea's Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced on Friday that Kim Seong-wook, the ministry's Director of the Office of International Finan...

Vice Chairman and CEO Shin Hak-cheol of South Korea's largest chemical company LG Chem Ltd. is looking for talent in Japan to lead his company's thr...

South Korea’s headline inflation fell for a fourth straight month in May to a 19-month low amid continuous signs of a slowdown in Asia’s...

South Korean AI-powered edtech firm, Riiid, announced on Thursday it has partnered with ALC, a premier brand in the Japanese language education indu...

Teachers’ Pension (TP), South Korea’s major pension fund for private school employees, will accelerate investment in domestic bonds whil...

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering adding national pension benefits for married couples to raise the ever-declining birth r...

South Korea’s semiconductor industry is more vulnerable to economic and industrial shifts in its key export markets than those of its rivals T...

South Korea’s three-year treasury bond yield topped the base rate for the first time in two months, after the Bank of Korea (BOK) warned again...

Moody’s on Friday cut its view on KEPCO’s credit to the lowest investment grade, a move that could lead the rating agency to downgrade t...

South Korea is embroiled in a heated debate on a program to recruit domestic helpers from Southeast Asia at lower rates than those paid to their Kor...

South Korea in the first quarter posted a total fertility rate (TFR) of 0.81, the lowest in history for that quarter. Because the number of bir...

The Bank of Korea’s (BOK) decision on Thursday to keep its base rate steady at 3.50% does not signal the end of its one-and-a-half-year tighte...

A survey result indicates an increased interest in travel to Japan compared to pre-No Japan boycott levels, while interest in travel to China has pl...

South Korean game developers target overseas markets for their locally hit massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) to increase pro...

South Korea’s largest low-cost carrier (LCC) Jeju Air Co. will make the most of the post-pandemic recovery in travel demand by exploring South...

South Korean banks are seeing loan delinquency rates surge due to the increase in lending during the pandemic and a series of rate hikes. The rates ...

South Korea's surgical and medical instruments maker Osteonic Co. on Thursday announced the start of exports of its Kinex sports medicine products t...

South Korea and Canada will make close cooperation to strengthen their supply chains of critical minerals such as uranium and nickel, key materials ...

South Korea’s SK Group and Hana Financial Group are jointly developing a next-generation credit rating model for the financially disadvantaged...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will change the definition of multi-child families from those with three or more kids younger than 13 to household...

Hyundai Motor Co., in celebration of the first anniversary of its reentry into the Japanese market, is introducing a locally tailored "assurance pro...

The South Korean won is underperforming most other currencies as Asia’s fourth-largest economy is gradually losing steam for long-term growth....

CHIBA, JAPAN – A global K-pop concert hosted by CJ ENM Co., a South Korean entertainment powerhouse, heated up the venue in Japan with an audi...

Samsung Electronics Co. will build a prototype chip production facility in Japan for 30 billion yen ($221 million) to develop next-generation back-e...

YG Entertainment Inc., the K-pop label behind global sensation Blackpink, saw its stock hitting the highest point in more than 10 years as a new gro...

South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on Friday that it has reached the previous day an agreement with Japan's iPark Institute duri...