Southeast Asian domestic helpers

South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. has begun its advance into Southeast Asia through a tie-up with a financial company in Thailand. KakaoBank on Friday ...

Hanwha Investment & Securities announced on Thursday that it has decided to acquire Indonesia's Ciptadana Securities and Ciptadana Asset Managem...

Daesang Corp., South Korean manufacturer of food and pharmaceutical ingredients, announced on Wednesday that it has developed a new eco-friendly mat...

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. will resume making domestic flu vaccines by year's end, two years after it stopped production to supply a vaccine fo...

South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT) announced on Friday that it ...

South Korea is set to raise the annual cap for individuals' overseas fund transfers without prior notice from $50,000 to $100,000, thereby easing th...

South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency (NIA) have enlisted four tech enterprises — KT Corp., Nav...

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

South Korean residents’ overseas card use jumped in the first quarter to nearly recover levesl before the outbreak of COVID-19 on rising inter...

South Korean chip equipment maker Hanmi Semiconductor Co. said on Wednesday that it has set up a local subsidiary, Hanmi Vietnam, in the Bac Ninh re...

Air Busan Co., a South Korean low-cost carrier, targets record earnings with more international flights, especially to neighboring China and Japan, ...

POSCO Future M Co., a unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., revealed on Monday that Ultium CAM, its joint venture with General Motor...

Asia’s private equity giant MBK Partners Ltd. is set to accelerate fundraising for its new fund, which is expected to become the firm’s ...

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 Korean consumers have witnessed a substantial rise in complaints related to Vietjet Air and AirAsia, popular low-cost carriers used for trav...

South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., (KAI) has finalized a contract to supply Malaysia with eigh...

South Korea’s two major chipmakers — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. — are feeling the heat as they are dragged further ...

The active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar developed jointly by the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and defense contractor Hanwha Sys...

A study has revealed that a decrease in the working-age population due to low birth rates and an aging population, coupled with an increase in the d...

In Myeongdong, Seoul’s shopping mecca, on May 14, street vendors were busy soliciting foreign tourists, greeting them in their mother tongues ...

South Korea's LS Electric Co. will join hands with Thailand's second-largest company Siam Cement Group (SCG) to target the Southeast Asian market fo...

South Korea's leading low-cost carrier (LCC) Jeju Air Co. posted record-high performance in the first quarter. Industry analysts say domestic LCCs w...

Seoul is slated to welcome domestic helpers from Southeast Asia later this year to ease the burden of childcare and address issues surrounding Korea...

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asia with a youth population constituting about one-third of the region’s total population and surging internet penetrat...

South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) tech company Upstage on Friday said it will install its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot AskUp on the...

South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals said on Wednesday that the Israeli Ministry of Health has approved the company's new drug application (NDA...

Vietnamese tourists splurged the most among foreign visitors to South Korea last year, filling the void left by Chinese travelers shunning Korea sin...

Renault Korea this month will stop operating its Busan plant for about 10 days in a desperate bid to reduce inventory, which has soared due to plumm...

South Korean companies looking to export electric vehicle chargers to the United States can now receive local certification more conveniently within...

South Korea's shipbuilding and shipping companies, including HMM Co., Samsung Heavy Industries, marine equipment manufacturer Panasia and the ship i...