BTS heads to LA for first live concert since COVID-19

BTS heads to LA for first live concert since COVID-19

BTS will travel to Los Angeles in November for its first live concert since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. BTS said on Sept. 28 on its offic...

StockX enters Korea's resale market, poses threat to domestic platforms

StockX enters Korea's resale market, poses threat to domestic platforms

The rapid growth of the resale scene in South Korea has driven the world’s No. 1 resale platform, StockX, to venture into the country, signali...

Korea property startup Kasa to launch exchange in Singapore

Korea property startup Kasa to launch exchange in Singapore

Kasa Korea Co., a property investment platform, is set to expand its services to help global users invest in real estate in the world by obtaining l...

Korean MZers become world's biggest spenders on mobile games

Korean MZers become world's biggest spenders on mobile games

South Korean millennials and Gen Zers have become the world's biggest spenders on mobile games with the MZers accounting for over 90% of domestic mo...

Korea Zinc expands from smelter to hydrogen, battery materials maker

Korea Zinc expands from smelter to hydrogen, battery materials maker

Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, plans to add a couple of new sectors to the list of its new growth drivers: green h...

Batteries, chips strengthen US-Korea economic ties

Batteries, chips strengthen US-Korea economic ties

Battery and chip industries are reinforcing economic cooperation between the United States and South Korea, expanding their ties focused on security...

S.Korea plans to tighten ability-to-repay rules

S.Korea plans to tighten ability-to-repay rules

South Korea's new household lending rules, set to be unveiled next month, will center on tightening the assessment of borrowers' repayment capabilit...

Market boom drives more S.Koreans to become angel investors

Market boom drives more S.Koreans to become angel investors

Angel investing has become widely prevalent among South Koreans. The practice of providing capital for new and small business ventures, which were t...

Korea’s top cryptocurrency exchange operator becomes decacorn

Korea’s top cryptocurrency exchange operator becomes decacorn

Dunamu Inc., the operator of South Korea’s top cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, became a decacorn, a company valued at over $10 billion.Dunamu h...

Cosmetics startup Birdview readies for 2022 listing

Cosmetics startup Birdview readies for 2022 listing

South Korea-based Birdview, the operator of leading cosmetics platform Hwahae, is aiming to make a trading debut as early as the first half of nex...

Fried chicken chain BHC to pay $255 mn for Outback Steakhouse Korea

Fried chicken chain BHC to pay $255 mn for Outback Steakhouse Korea

South Korea’s No. 2 fried chicken brand BHC Group is set to spend $255 million to acquire the Korean operations of Outback Steakhouse, an Aust...

Brookfield to name Hahn & Co exec as Korean office head

Brookfield to name Hahn & Co exec as Korean office head

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. will name Jun Park, a top manager of Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co., as the new head of its South K...

Hyundai Heavy IPO creates largest shipbuilder on Kospi

Hyundai Heavy IPO creates largest shipbuilder on Kospi

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. successfully went public on Sept. 17 by closing at almost double its IPO price. The stock price closed at 111,500 won (...

Samsung C&T, S-Oil in hydrogen transport partnership

Samsung C&T, S-Oil in hydrogen transport partnership

Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading arm of Samsung Group, has tentatively agreed with S-Oil Corp. to cooperate in securing overseas ...

KB Fin, Shinhan invest in Sweden's wind farm via joint fund

KB Fin, Shinhan invest in Sweden's wind farm via joint fund

South Korea's two banking giants -- KB Financial Group and Shinhan Financial Group -- have invested a combined 80 billion won ($68 million) in a win...

Korea’s Halla to enter EV battery materials business

Korea’s Halla to enter EV battery materials business

South Korea’s auto parts supplier Halla Holdings Corp. is making inroads into the electric vehicle battery materials business.Halla said on Se...

Industrial Bank of Korea to sell $500 mn bond at lower cost

Industrial Bank of Korea to sell $500 mn bond at lower cost

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) is slated to raise $500 million in dollar corporate bond at a lower-than-planned cost on strong demand.IBK decided to...

High-priced drugs add to pressure for Korea's healthcare reform

High-priced drugs add to pressure for Korea's healthcare reform

A number of new rare disease treatments, approved in South Korea over the past year, are still unaffordable for the public because of their price ta...

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles off its East Coast

North Korea fires two ballistic missiles off its East Coast

SEOUL—North Korea launched two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in Pyongyang&rs...

Asia’s Covid-19 Success Stories Warily Ponder Post-Vaccination Moves

Asia’s Covid-19 Success Stories Warily Ponder Post-Vaccination Moves

Earlier this month, Singapore reached a Covid-19 milestone: The fully vaccinated portion of the population crossed 80%. But instead of moving ahead wi...

IB firms enter tough race for SSG.COM IPO underwriting deal

IB firms enter tough race for SSG.COM IPO underwriting deal

The race to become the lead underwriter for the IPO of Shinsegae Group’s e-commerce brand SSG.COM is getting fierce. A total of nine instituti...

S.Korea fines Google $180 mn for operating system market abuse

S.Korea fines Google $180 mn for operating system market abuse

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday imposed a fine of 207.4 billion won ($180 million) on Google, alongside a correction order, aft...

Tech crackdown bites Korea Inc.

Tech crackdown bites Korea Inc.

Investors are selling technology stocks in a major Asian economy on regulatory worries just as one of the country’s biggest online payment com...

Millennials now S.Korea’s largest buyer of luxury goods

Millennials now S.Korea’s largest buyer of luxury goods

The millennials have become the largest spenders on luxury goods at department stores in South Korea. According to joint research by The Korea Econo...

S.Korea's potential growth rate drops to record low

S.Korea's potential growth rate drops to record low

The COVID-19 pandemic has dampened South Korea's growth potential between this year and the next by 0.2 percentage points to its historic low of 2.0...

Korea refiners' recovery accelerates on strong margins

Korea refiners' recovery accelerates on strong margins

South Korean refiners are gathering recovery momentum as refining margins hit a two-year high on falling petroleum product supply from China and r...

Hydrogen: Next big thing for stock investors in Korea

Hydrogen: Next big thing for stock investors in Korea

In 2009, battery makers were barely on the radar in South Korea when it comes to stock investment. Back then, the rechargeable battery industry was ...

Korea content platform startup to buy Getty Images unit

Korea content platform startup to buy Getty Images unit

A South Korean content platform startup OGQ Corp. is set to take over the world’s leading stock content company Getty Images Inc.’s unit...

Korea postpones forex bond sale to October

Korea postpones forex bond sale to October

South Korea’s government delayed a sale of foreign exchange stabilization fund bonds to next month, disrupting local companies’ plans to...

Ruling party calls for BOK's active role to aid COVID victims

Ruling party calls for BOK's active role to aid COVID victims

South Korea's ruling Democratic Party has called on the Bank of Korea (BOK) to take a more active role to aid pandemic-hit small business operators ...

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