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South Korea's business sector is urging reform of the domestic inheritance tax system to alleviate problems in corporate succession, citing difficul...

The ratings of Lotte's subsidiaries have been downgraded en masse. Lotte Chemical Corp., the group's cash cow, was cut to AA from AA+.NICE Investors...

The Japanese yen on Monday extended losses against the South Korean won to touch an eight-year low, briefly breaching a psychological support line a...

Add officials at the People’s Bank of China to the list of those disappointed by China’s post-COVID-19 reopening boom. On June 13, PB...

The Japanese yen is nearing its lowest level in eight years against the South Korean won, with their exchange rate hovering around the 9.00 level.It...

Foreigners bought a record $11.43 billion in South Korean stocks and bonds in May, boosting the value of the won versus the dollar amid the greenbac...

MSCI Inc. regards the South Korean stock market as not ready for its developed market status despite a series of reforms, dampening the country&rsqu...

Korea Investors Service downgraded the unsecured bond credit rating of Hyosung Chemical on Thursday from A to A-, saying that its profit-generating ...

South Korea’s headline inflation fell for a fourth straight month in May to a 19-month low amid continuous signs of a slowdown in Asia’s...

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

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering adding national pension benefits for married couples to raise the ever-declining birth r...

SK Ecoplant Co. is seeking to establish an interim holding firm for its waste management subsidiaries and sell its stake to private equity firms as ...

South Korea’s three-year treasury bond yield topped the base rate for the first time in two months, after the Bank of Korea (BOK) warned again...

Moody’s on Friday cut its view on KEPCO’s credit to the lowest investment grade, a move that could lead the rating agency to downgrade t...

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...

CJ Group, a major South Korean conglomerate with a wide range of businesses spanning everything from food to bio, livestock feed, logistics, enterta...

South Korea in the first quarter posted a total fertility rate (TFR) of 0.81, the lowest in history for that quarter. Because the number of bir...

The Bank of Korea’s (BOK) decision on Thursday to keep its base rate steady at 3.50% does not signal the end of its one-and-a-half-year tighte...

Jin Air Co., a low-cost carrier (LCC) under Korean Air Co., is seeking to expand its air routes to Indonesia and Singapore this year with the additi...

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 ...

Foreign investors' appetite for South Korean stocks remains insatiable, mainly for semiconductor heavyweights, underscoring their high expectations ...

South Korea’s SK Group and Hana Financial Group are jointly developing a next-generation credit rating model for the financially disadvantaged...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will change the definition of multi-child families from those with three or more kids younger than 13 to household...

The South Korean won is underperforming most other currencies as Asia’s fourth-largest economy is gradually losing steam for long-term growth....

South Korean entrepreneurs are imposed heavy inheritance taxes of up to 60% to hand down wealth to their children, the highest level among Organizat...

South Korea's low-cost carriers (LCCs) since last month have waged an intense competition with the recovery of the overseas travel market. They boos...

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

Samsung Electronics Co. and other South Korean tech companies opposed measures proposed by Broadcom Inc. to avoid penalties by the country’s a...

South Korea’s central bank chief on Wednesday said it is too early to suggest starting to cut interest rates as inflation remains above its ta...

The decline in consumption by 20-somethings due to benchmark interest rate hikes is over eight times greater than those in their 60s.Analysts blame ...