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South Korea is leaning toward allowing the K-pop boy band BTS to fulfill alternative service instead of active military duty, the country’s mi...

South Korea has postponed the introduction of a new law aimed at expanding its authority beyond Korean entrepreneurs, people familiar with the matte...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo will visit Hyundai Motor Co. during his upcoming two-day official visit to South Korea as the automaker is aggressi...

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is kickstarting efforts to attract foreign visitors with new tour programs and a promotional video featuring the ...

A consortium led by South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. and US private equity giant KKR & Co. is set to acquire Shinhan Investment Cor...

A couple of months ago, media outlets reported Chanel plans to open stores solely for VIP shopping in Asia.The French label is widely expected to op...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. is poised to invest $100 million in US spacecraft and satellite communication corporation SpaceX. The South Korean f...

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 ...

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

IMM Investment Co. and STIC Investments Co., the two most active South Korean private equity firms in 2021 fundraising, made bets on a dividend-focu...

South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group will be buying a landmark office building in a central business district of Seoul for aroun...

Private equity firms registered in South Korea enjoyed a 20% jump in their accumulated commitments in 2021 as a whole, led by small and medium-sized...

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

South Korea's most prestigious university is embroiled in a plagiarism scandal after two papers it published on artificial intelligence are believed...

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

SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, has expanded the area covered by the traffic control system for self-driving in Seoul, takin...

South Korea plans to rebuild the nuclear power plant industry hard hit by the previous government’s nuclear energy phasing-out policy by placi...

Back in 2013, Hong Kong painted itself as the uncontested leader in Asia’s art scene – over Singapore, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Art Bas...

South Korean private equity firms that plan to inject a total of 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) into SK Ecoplant Co. are having a hard time raising t...

Lotte Duty Free, South Korea’s largest duty-free business operator, is closing one of its flagship stores in Seoul in the wake of the COVID-19...

South Korea’s national soccer team, led by captain Son Heung-min, lost to Brazil 1-5 in a pre-World Cup friendly on Thursday, much to 65,000 K...

A total of four consortiums announced their bids for the government-run urban air mobility (UAM) program titled K-UAM Grand Challenge on Tuesday.&nb...

NongHyup Bank, a major arm of South Korea's National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, got the nod from India last week to open its first branch ...

Two leading South Korean materials companies PI Advanced Materials Co. and NexFlex Co. have drawn final bids mainly from foreign rivals and private ...

Hyundai Motor Group is expected to receive about $1.6 billion in incentives including tax breaks from Georgia as South Korea’s top automaker i...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will meet with his US counterpart President Joe Biden this Saturday for a summit meeting in Seoul. The two...

Cryptocurrency investors in South Korea have threatened to file a class action lawsuit against co-founders of the disgraced blockchain platform oper...

South Korea’s leading patient monitoring device maker Mediana Co. is targeting the pet medical industry while seeking an artificial intelligen...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., an asset management arm of Mirae Asset Financial Group in South Korea, will be in an exclusive talk with Brookfi...

South Korea’s NH-Amundi Asset Management Co. said on Monday that it completed selling Yuanta Securities Co.’s Korean headquarters to C...