financial sector

More than four out of ten small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have experienced difficulties due to regulations and cited employment and labor...

Orion Corp., the Korean company, best known for its signature product choco pie, is entering drug development. Instead of indirectly running a joint...

South Korean fintech startup Awake Corporation won the hearts and wallets of judges at the D.Day X D.Camp event on Thursday, garnering 20 million wo...

South Korea's cable TV provider LG HelloVision and security company S-1 Corp.  announced they will jointly develop a home-based platform using ...

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...

Lotte Group will replace the head of its construction unit, hit by a liquidity crisis stemming from project financing, to ease investor concerns ove...

Come this Thursday, D.Camp operated by the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs will host the biggest demo day of the year, in collaboration wit...

South Korea’s Daol Investment & Securities Co. plans to sell a controlling stake in its Thai subsidiary, Daol Thailand PCL, as part of its...

Several South Korean startups have recently been hit hard by their CEOs’ unethical behavior and business-related misconduct, leading to a lo...

South Korea's oil refining and energy giant GS Caltex has teamed up with leading domestic companies in their respective fields to enter the carbon c...

South Korea's shipbuilders fear seeing their orders next year plummet by over 40% on-year due to disruptions in related financing amid surging inter...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric battery maker, may receive money for capacity expansion from its parent company SK Innovation Co...

Korea's pet food market is getting more sophisticated, with brands appearing whose products are even more expensive than food for humans despite hav...

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 ...

The Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) is eyeing certain sectors that create stable revenue streams such as healthcare, daily...

Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...

South Korea’s antitrust body is set to strengthen reviews on acquisitions for different businesses in the platform industry to resolve the pro...

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has successfully proved the performance of its latest LPDDR5X DRAM on Qualcomm Te...

GS Caltex Corp. Chief Executive Hur Sae-hong said on Monday he expects global oil prices, which remain elevated due to geopolitical tensions, won&rs...

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s top home appliance maker, has ramped up expansion of robot applications in the smart logistics sector with it...

South Korean luxury e-commerce platform operator Balaan Co. will complete the attraction of 25 billion won ($17.3 million) in investment in a Series...

The Biden administration has decided to allow Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, to import ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven translation has been dominated by big tech.Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC is the global leader while Naver Cor...

South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. and Swiss technology company Luxoft have jointly developed an advanced in-vehicle inf...

South Korean builder Hanwha Engineering & Construction Co. has aborted a $10 billion project to build a Bismayah new city in Iraq after failing ...

Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s biopharmaceutical giant, made a foray into the digital healthcare sector for its future growth by launching a sm...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has joined the race to acquire Medit Corp., the world’s third-largest 3D dental scanner ...

Korea Investment & Securities Co., a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings, announced on Wednesday that it has formed a joint venture with Mis...

South Korea's stock market tumbled to its lowest level in more than two years on Wednesday, as fears of a slowing global economy and rising inflatio...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to acquire major domestic battery material maker Iljin Materials Co. at some 2.7 trillion won ($1.9 ...