Japan rate policy

SK Geo Centric, an SK Innovation Co. subsidiary focused on the eco-friendly chemical business, joined hands with Paris-based Veolia Environnement S....

Ildong Pharmaceutical Co., a South Korean drugmaker, considers seeking approval for a COVID-19 anti-viral pill from the country as Japan postponed g...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday it is supplying its all-electric IONIQ 5 crossover to Japan’s taxi servi...

South Korea’s GRE Partners Asset Management Co. a real estate investment firm, has recently suspended the selling process for Pfizer Pharmaceu...

South Korea’s shared micromobility startup The Swing Co. is making inroads in Japan, becoming the first domestic service provider in the secto...

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...

The South Korean won is expected to weaken to 1,400 against the dollar, a level not seen since the 2008-09 global financial crisis as the country&rs...

South Korea’s Kakao Corp. has voluntarily removed an external payment link from the country’s largest messaging app KakaoTalk in complia...

The commercial real estate market in Seoul slowed this year, according to a report by South Korean online property platform RSquare. The sum of the ...

South Korea’s central bank is expected to raise interest rates by 50 basis points (bps) on Wednesday for the first time in history to cool dow...

Unlike the West or China, which showed vastly different reactions, most South Koreans had a more complicated initial response to the news of forme...

The South Korean won is expected to further depreciate after touching its lowest level since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, on concerns that...

Just like its global peers, Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have suffered from the chip shortage that bogged down the entire auto industry for nearl...

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

President Biden met with the heads of Japan and South Korea—the first such gathering between the three countries’ leaders in nearly five...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., one of the world’s leading battery makers, has agreed to supply its cylindrical batteries to Isuzu Motors Ltd., Japan...

South Korea’s inflation accelerated to a 24-year high last month, reinforcing expectations that the central bank may raise interest rates by 5...

Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook, and Seoul National University (SNU) jointly launched an extended reality (XR) research center in So...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has decided to raise the interest rates of the members’ savings products by 25 to 4...

The duty-free industry has been hoping that the end of COVID-19-related travel restrictions would help boost its sales. Even as international t...

South Korea’s won hit a 13-year low, weakening past the psychologically important 1,300 per US dollar level for the first time since the 2008-...

South Korea’s adult audio content platform for women raised money to make inroads into Japan as a start of its global business.Sensual Moment ...

Foreign investors’ stockholdings in South Korea have plunged to their lowest level in nearly 13 years, dealing a heavy blow to the domestic st...

South Korea’s airlines are suffering from surging oil prices, a weaker won and rising interest rates as the global border reopening has yet to...

South Korea’s central bank may raise interest rates more than usual to rein in inflation in Asia’s fourth-largest economy after the US F...

Some major securities firms in South Korea are having difficulties with overseas alternative assets they have yet to sell down. The brokerage firm...

South Korea’s inflation accelerated further in May to the fastest pace since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on surging energy and food pr...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced Wednesday it has selected 60 promising startups to which it will provide financial assistance and expert...

Standard & Poor's (S&P), an international credit rating agency, has lowered Korea Electric Power Corp.'s stand-alone credit profile to non-i...

South Korea’s central bank delivered a back-to-back interest rate hike for the first time in 15 years on Thursday to curb rampant consumer pri...