Sovereign bonds

South Korea’s central bank raised the base interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.25% during its monetary policy board meeting on Nov. 24, slow...

State-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has contacted major conglomerates including Hyundai Motor Group about the sale of its stake in HMM Co., the c...

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is set to raise 600 billion won ($442 million) from a local bank in a plan to seek loans to secure money instead ...

South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. has seen its shares trapped in a boxed range for a protracted period despite its spectacular earn...

South Korea’s small- and mid-sized brokerage houses have begun their workforce reductions ahead of the end of the year. The brokerages are set...

A South Korean small insurer will buy back dollar perpetual bonds as scheduled, reversing its earlier decision not to recall the notes, to ease conc...

A South Korean small insurer has made a rare decision not to buy back dollar perpetual bonds, in the first such case for the country’s issuers...

Monthly average deposits for stock investment in South Korea are poised to drop below 50 trillion won ($35.1 billion) for the first time since July ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will continue to look for opportunities in private debt and venture capital investment with mid- to long-term gro...

South Korea’s $35 billion rescue plan provided a temporary painkiller to the domestic bond markets rattled by Legoland Korea developer’s...

Samsung Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) manager, will focus on global, active and bond-type ETFs, as we...

South Korea on Oct. 17 started exempting foreign investors from two types of taxes on Korean treasury bonds and monetary stabilization bonds investm...

NEW YORK – Investors should stay in the financial market as rising interest rates have put the values of assets such as stocks and bonds at ap...

South Korean corporate bond issuance in September hit a monthly low this year on souring investor sentiment due to interest rate hikes.Corporate bon...

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 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...

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...

South Korea’s major defense maker LIG Nex1 Co. plans to develop drone jammers that can force small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to go off c...

South Korea's large business groups led a sharp increase in bank lending in July, driving the corporate bank loan growth to a record high, central b...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is set to appoint Lee Hoon, the senior managing director and head of the investment strategy & innovation d...

A selloff in risk assets in South Korea is intensifying as foreigners turned net sellers of Korean bonds for the first time in 18 months in June whi...

South Korea’s net issuance of corporate bonds during the first half of 2022 was its lowest in six years, according to Korea Financial Investme...

South Korean biotech company L&C Bio, which specializes in tissue regeneration treatment, is poised to ramp up its expansion into the Chinese ma...

High-yield bonds generally create greater yields than other funds, but low-quality bonds are vulnerable to economic downturns and the firms’ c...

Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund is discussing the sale of Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. to a South Korean textile business group....

South Korea’s top waste management company SK Ecoplant Co. is set to expand its business in Southeast Asia with an $80 million investment in M...

South Korea’s central bank chief said he will consider big-step interest rate hikes in the coming months to curb inflation in Asia’s fou...

South Korea's new president Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office on Tuesday, is set to push the expansion of sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corpor...

South Korea’s consumer prices in April rose at the fastest pace since the 2008-09 global financial crisis, reinforcing expectations of further...

Korea Post, South Korea's state-run postal service agency, said on April 21 that its insurance arm will select a maximum of two asset managers for...