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Trading volume in South Korean stock market has surged to its highest level in eight months, with investors piling into defense, nuclear energy, shi...

South Korea’s financial market has stabilized with a sharp fall in the country’s default risk and some recovery of its currency value ag...

With South Korean retail investors joining the global gold rush in ‘fear of missing out’, or FOMO, the country’s gold price has ...

South Korea plans to allow companies listed on the local stock market to trade virtual assets, including cryptocurrencies, on a pilot basis in the s...

Companies in South Korea are expected to refrain from seeking initial public offerings for a while after the country’s much-anticipated new bl...

Hanwha Aerospace Co. will acquire an additional 1.3 trillion won ($900 million) worth of shares in Hanwha Ocean Co. from its sister companies throug...

LX International Corp., the trading unit of South Korea’s LX Group, said on Friday it is seeking to acquire a nickel mine and a copper mine in...

Capital Group Companies Inc. has increased its stake in LS Electric Co., a South Korean supplier to Elon Musk’s X.AI Corp., as the US asset ma...

Shinhan Bank, a key arm of Shinhan Financial Group, reclaimed its position as South Korea’s top lender posting its largest-ever profit in 2024...

Nextrade, South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange, enabling trading of stocks listed on the Kospi and the Kosdaq for 12 hours a day is ...

Electric vehicle battery maker SK On Co. said on Friday it is set to complete a merger with crude oil storage tank operator SK Enterm Co. on Feb. 1 ...

South Korea will allow foreign investors to trade South Korean treasury bonds via omnibus accounts under the names of global custodians or asset man...

Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder, partner and chairman of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd., and Kyungin David Lee, UBS Gl...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) is widely expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday amid the nation's softening economy and moderating i...

South Korea’s top financial regulator has proposed loosening restrictions on financial holding companies’ ownership of fintech platforms...

K Bank, a South Korean online lender, said on Wednesday it has again canceled its initial public offering plan amid the languid stock market an...

An increasing number of foreign banks without a physical presence in South Korea are gearing up to offer dollar-won conversion services to non-Korea...

The South Korean won is forecast to hover in the mid-1,400s level against the dollar through the third quarter of 2025, according to global investme...

The number of South Koreans investing in cryptocurrencies recently broke past 15 million — about 30% of the country’s population —...

K Bank, a South Korean online lender, is making a fresh attempt to list on the Korean stock market in February 2025 as bitcoin’s record-breaki...

South Korea’s central bank chief said on Wednesday the impact of political turmoil caused by martial law on Asia’s fourth-largest econom...

South Korean cybersecurity firm RaonSecure Co. said on Monday it signed a $2.5 million contract with SBI Sumishin Net Bank, the largest internet ban...

South Korea’s central bank lowered interest rates for a second straight meeting on Thursday in a surprise move and left the door open for anot...

South Korea’s central bank is expected to freeze its policy rate at 3.25% during its last monetary policy meeting of the year to prevent any f...

South Korea's Woori Bank said on Tuesday it will arrange the Qatar Ras Abu Fontas desalination and power plant project, estimated to cost $3.7 billi...

South Korea, the world’s fourth-largest oil importer, is considering increasing US oil imports to ease potential pressure from President-elect...

The United States has reinstated South Korea on its foreign-exchange monitoring watchlist, a year after it removed Asia’s No. 4 economy from t...

It began in 1982 as a small community bank for Korean immigrants in Los Angeles, California. Today, Hanmi Bank, under Nasdaq-listed Hanmi Financial ...

South Korea’s crypto exchanges are enjoying a global boom in virtual currencies, including bitcoin, as US President-elect Donald Trump is expe...

South Korea's Shinhan Securities said on Thursday its overseas subsidiary Shinhan Securities Vietnam (SSV) launched a mobile trading system (MTS) "N...