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Major companies in South Korea, such as affiliates of Samsung, LG and Hyundai Motor Group, are bringing larger amounts of capital back home from abr...

SK Square Co., an investment arm of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, has suspended negotiations with Singapore-headquartered e-comme...

KB Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s top financial holding company by assets, on Tuesday reported better-than-expected net profit in the thi...

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has begun an investigation process for alleged intra-group transactions between GS Caltex Corp., the country&r...

South Korean food tech startup Gopizza, known for its single-serving pizza prepared by robots, on Tuesday said it will open a branch on Nov. 1 at Si...

South Korea’s confectionery and snack manufacturer Orion Corp. collected dividends from its Vietnamese unit for the first time as the company ...

Chinese battery materials suppliers are rushing to expand their production bases in South Korea, mainly in partnership with domestic companies.Such ...

South Korea’s current account swung to the black in May from a deficit the prior month, thanks to a surplus in the goods account for the secon...

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has received nearly 600 billion won ($470 million) in dividends from its overseas operations in the first qu...

Hyundai Motor Group’s overseas subsidiaries will repatriate $5.9 billion in dividends in total to their parent in South Korea this year to hel...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest public pension fund, plans to raise the ratio of its alternative...

South Korean banks are seeing loan delinquency rates surge due to the increase in lending during the pandemic and a series of rate hikes. The rates ...

South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings thanks to strong sales of Poshmark Inc. in the US. It ...

Back in the early 2000s, Meritz was an obscure, lesser-known insurance-related company in South Korea’s financial arena.Part of Hanjin Group, ...

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday reported its largest-ever quarterly profit, which soared a whopping 86.3% from a year earlier, while unveiling a plan t...

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, logged growth in a quarterly net profit as larger interest rate...

South Korea’s JB Financial Group Co. won a proxy battle against local activist fund Align Partners Capital Management on dividends and nominat...

Global proxy advisory giant Glass, Lewis & Co. has voted for three out of the four proposals made by Seoul-based Tcha Partners Asset Management ...

Activist funds such as Singapore-based Flashlight Capital Partners Pet. (FCP) on Tuesday failed to gain approval on almost all of their proposals ma...

Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. are urging shareholders of JB Financial Group Co., a South Ko...

South Korea’s JB Financial Group Co. has refused a local activist fund’s request to raise dividend payouts, stressing such a measure wil...

The Hyundai Motor Group is set to become South Korea’s first conglomerate to disclose dividend allocations ahead of the ex-dividend date, a mo...

Prestige Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical developer, said on Tuesday that the final analysis of phase 3 clinical trial on the anti-cancer...

South Korean private equity firm Align Partners Capital Management Inc. is set to lead shareholder activism against the country’s top financia...

South Korea's major holding companies are expected to set higher dividends per share (DPS) at end-2022 than in previous years, a Samsung Securi...

South Korean corporate debt ratio rose to a six-year high in the third quarter as sales growth and profitability fell, darkening the outlook for Asi...

South Korea will reform financial market regulations to attract more foreign investments and to achieve MSCI Inc.’s developed market status fo...

South Korea plans to revise its stock dividend policy as part of a broader financial market reform to help attract foreign investors and obtain MSCI...

The state-run Korea Gas Corp. is set to raise some 1 trillion won ($745 million) by issuing hybrid securities to lower its debt ratio although the d...

The Seoul branch of the UK-based Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) has made a capital increase of over 20% to raise its capital adequacy r...