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South Korea’s secondary battery makers face a risk from heavy reliance on Chinese raw materials, while the industry has sought measures to ens...

South Korean companies suffered from surging financing costs as corporate bond yields shot to eight-year highs. Affiliates of major conglomerates wi...

LG Electronics Inc. has overtaken Whirlpool Corp. as the world’s top manufacturer of home, kitchen and laundry appliances after posting record...

South Korea's HDC Hyundai Development Co. plans to raise more than 1 trillion won ($832 million) in funding backed by its real estate holdings as th...

South Korea's SillaJen Inc., once the largest stock on Kosdaq by market value, faces a higher risk of being kicked out of the country's junior stock...

The European Commission’s rejection of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.'s proposed merger with crosstown rival Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine En...

WeMade Co., a South Korean video game developer, has come under criticism for the massive unnoticed selling of its cryptocurrency WEMIX, allegedly i...

South Korea is preparing measures to secure coal as Indonesia, the world’s largest supplier of thermal coal, banned exports of the commodity t...

November’s inflation print, while mostly in line with market expectations, was staggeringly high. Headline inflation increased ...

South Korea's real estate prices have risen at a rapid pace over the past two years, but that would not indicate an increased risk of loan defaults ...

The United States expected SK Hynix Inc.’s capital expenditures plan in China to pose a threat to national security, Washington’s top tr...

Hopes for improving corporate earnings are rising as countries around the world are relaxing their anti-COVID-19 measures, but South Korean companie...

Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping mall, is set to release its own Fire tablets in South Korea from as early as next year, penetratin...

The diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) shortage in South Korea stemming from China's suspension of urea exports is getting worse, as local DEF inventories a...

South Korea’s economy expanded slower than expected in the third quarter on sluggish private consumption and capital expenditures offset healt...

The deal to combine the world's largest shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. with second-ranked Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co....

In 2018, a South Korean food startup GoPizza Co. was on the brink of shutting down. Lim Jae-won, GoPizza's founder, had launched the business with a...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), a South Korean retirement fund, is chasing medium-risk, medium-return assets in developed markets with a...

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing company, has indefinitely postponed its planned initial share sale, as its parent, Ka...

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

South Korean landowners, in particular in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, were recently forced to stop negotiations with the would-be buyers of their l...

South Korean companies rushed to issues bonds as the Bank of Korea is expected to raise interest rates further, ramping up financing costs. Some war...

The US-listed e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. has posted its highest-ever quarterly revenue. The company reported on Aug. 12 that its second-quarter r...

China's regulatory crackdown on Chinese technology and private education companies is driving up the level of volatility and creating mispricing in ...

South Korean private equity (PE) firm Hahn & Co.’s deal to acquire Namyang Dairy Products is at risk of collapse as the owner and his fami...

South Korea's economy reported strong growth on healthy private consumption in the second quarter, keeping expectations of an interest rate hike lat...

Goldman Sachs has begun researching its right to call in the 300 billion won ($265 million) loan it provided against Coupang Corp.'s two distributio...

The recent asset price rises in South Korea, in particular in the equities and real estate markets, have been too rapid, even considering an expecte...

Last week’s devastating fire at a Coupang distribution center, which reportedly burned down more than 16 million items for delivery, is expect...

South Korea’s exports surged to the highest level in over 32 years in May on the back of strong demand for semiconductors and automobiles, rei...