SoftBank’s Son expected to meet Samsung's Lee for Arm M&A discussion

SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son, who also goes by the Korean name Son Jeong-ui, arrived in South Korea on Saturday. When asked about the purp...
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SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son, who also goes by the Korean name Son Jeong-ui, arrived in South Korea on Saturday. When asked about the purp...
FTSE Russell, a global index provider, added South Korea to the watch list for potential inclusion in its FTSE World Government Bond Index (WGBI), p...
South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has joined the race to acquire Medit Corp., the world’s third-largest 3D dental scanner ...
Ottogi Co. is emerging as a formidable rival to Nongshim Co. in South Korea's instant noodle market, becoming the most popular ramen for the fifth w...
South Korea’s Aju Group is set to split its parent company into a construction material firm and an investment corporation to enhance its prof...
South Korea’s SK Siltron Co. will invest 855 billion won ($597.4 million) to expand its 300-millimeter (12-inch) silicon wafer manufacturing f...
The tanking South Korean won currency has stoked doubts over the fundamentals of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, although the government contin...
Small and mid-sized companies are reviving the otherwise chilly IPO market in South Korea, which has been dragged down by weaker-than-expected deman...
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, has signed a deal with an Australian lithium producer. Securing the core ...
A South Korean instant noodle packet maker has secured a $1 billion deal to supply battery materials to a joint venture between General Motors Co. a...
South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG is rapidly embracing environmental, social and governance standards as key criteria in evaluating...
South Korea is set to take measures to stabilize local stock and bond markets hit by global interest rate hikes amid growing risks of a worldwide ec...
Korea Investment & Securities Co., a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings, announced on Wednesday that it has formed a joint venture with Mis...
IGIS Asia Investment Management Pte., the Singapore-based subsidiary of South Korea’s largest real estate manager IGIS Asset Management, and V...
South Korea will introduce a high-performance supercomputing system by 2024, more than 24 times faster than the current model, a government-run rese...
Celltrion Inc. secured Japan’s approval for sales of its cancer treatment biosimilar CT-P16, a move to help the South Korean biopharmaceutical...
Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, has rolled out the country’s fastest bullet train that can r...
South Korean cryptocurrency investors appear willing to take more risks than their global counterparts, balancing their portfolios between market le...
A nosediving South Korean won deteriorated local corporate dollar funding conditions with the cost of insuring the country’s sovereign debt ag...
The South Korean won on Monday extended losses to a fresh low since the 2008-09 financial crisis as local financial markets lost ground, alongside t...
DL Chemical Co., the petrochemical arm of South Korean conglomerate DL Group, is forecast to post robust third-quarter results despite sluggish sa...
South Korea’s main bourse Kospi dropped 1.81% to finish at 2,290.00 on Sept. 23, hitting a new low closing for the year amid growing woes over...
South Korean fashion business operator SBW Group is joining the race to acquire global leading textile firm The Lycra Company, investment banking so...
South Korea’s foreign exchange authorities and the state-run National Pension Service (NPS) agreed to open a currency swap line for the first ...
South Korea’s SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has met with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema to discuss potential mineral deals in core mate...
The leaders of Japan and South Korea held their first bilateral meeting in nearly three years, another step toward recovery for frayed ties between tw...
Studio Dragon Corp., South Korea’s leading drama production house, spent 26 billion won ($18.5 million) on Vincenzo, aired in 2021, and receiv...
South Korean auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co.’s CEO Cho Sung-hwan has been elected as the next president of the International Organization f...
South Korea’s Bosung Group has attracted $2 billion from TGK Inc., a US infrastructure company, for its planned construction of Korea’s ...
The US decision to remove tax incentives for cars produced outside North America may violate World Trade Organization (WTO) provisions and could be ...
SoftBank’s Son expected to meet Samsung's Lee for Arm M&A discussion
SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son, who also goes by the Korean name Son Jeong-ui, arrived in South Korea on Saturday. When asked about the purp...
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