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South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Friday that the number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea in May was 1.42 million, an increa...

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...

Shin Yoo-yeol, the heir apparent to Lotte Group, has been elected to the board of directors of its Japanese holding company, which serves as a link ...

South Korea's low-cost carrier (LCC) Jin Air announced on Wednesday that it received an A in the Sustinvest ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) ...

South Korean private equity investments declined last year for the first time since 2016 due to interest rate hikes, high inflation and the Korean 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...

Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...

The number of air passengers traveling between South Korea and Japan has surpassed 10 million in the first five months of this year, setting a new r...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading defense system developer in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it has received an AA rating in the 2024 environmental, ...

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...

HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea’s refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, said on Sunday that it will export sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Ja...

South Korea will put the adoption of poison pills and dual-class shares on the new policy agenda at a meeting with business leaders this month, wher...

South Korea’s two warship builders are striving to win an A$11 billion (US$7.3 billion) deal from Australia to build 11 advanced frigates &nda...

South Korean investors are eyeing Japan’s golf resorts to buy amid the weak yen, rising demand for golf courses in Japan, and relatively low p...

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Tuesday that it opened a new flagship store in Myeongdong, Jung-g...

South Korea outstripped Japan in terms of per capita gross national income (GNI) for the first time in 2023, central bank data showed, with the Japa...

Coworking space operator WeWork Inc. is slated to shut down a major office in Seoul, once one of the largest WeWork offices in Asia, in September ...

South Korea’s headline inflation slowed to a 10-month low in May as the Bank of Korea kept its interest rate policy tight, adding to the centr...

South Korea plans to build as many as three new nuclear power plants by 2038 and put into operation at least one small modular reactor (SMR) by 2035...

Store vacancy rates in South Korea’s largest shopping mecca Dongdaemun Market have soared to as high as 86%, with Chinese e-commerce platfor...

South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Thursday that it received the highest rating of AAA for insurer financial strength (IFS) from th...

Hyundai Glovis Co., the world’s third-largest car shipping company, is set to introduce an emission reduction system for its vehicle carriers ...

South Korean brokerage firms are scurrying to raise more than 1.7 trillion won ($1.24 billion) in private equity funds to bet on soured property loa...

Global accounting industry leader PricewaterhouseCoopers’ South Korean member firm is expanding its foothold with global mergers and acquisiti...

SK Hynix Inc. is investigating the possibility of building a plant for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), vital for generative artificial intelligence, in...

The Bank of Korea said on Thursday it has grown more uncertain about when to cut interest rates despite expectations of easing the monetary policy g...

Japan’s Toray Industries Inc., the leading global carbon textile manufacturer, plans to spend 500 billion won ($366.3 million) to expand eco-f...