foreign exchange transactions

Foreign private equity firms have taken advantage of the strong dollar to dominate corporate acquisition deals in South Korea, adding to expectation...

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, the world’s largest shipbuilding country, will expand its production of high-value-added specialized vessels, such as liquefied h...

Foreign investors have returned to the South Korean market, snapping up chip industry leaders such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. for ...

Global investors are eyeing infrastructure as the asset class is inflation-protected, providing strong downside protection in times of high volatili...

South Korea on Oct. 17 started exempting foreign investors from two types of taxes on Korean treasury bonds and monetary stabilization bonds investm...

The Inflation Reduction Act provides a plethora of subsidies to boost domestic manufacturing for goods that help combat climate change. Tweaks to ...

Shares in South Korea’s scandal-hit biotechnological company SillaJen Inc. soared on Thursday after the local exchange decided to maintain the...

South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp. is poised to hire an investor relations (IR) executive whose chief responsibility will be to com...

South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...

Small and mid-sized companies are reviving the otherwise chilly IPO market in South Korea, which has been dragged down by weaker-than-expected deman...

South Korea’s Samsung Life Insurance Co. and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. have committed to a $650 million injection in some altern...

South Korea’s main bourse Kospi dropped 1.81% to finish at 2,290.00 on Sept. 23, hitting a new low closing for the year amid growing woes over...

The US decision to remove tax incentives for cars produced outside North America may violate World Trade Organization (WTO) provisions and could be ...

South Korea's National Tax Service (NTS) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM) held a meeting on Sept. 16 to discuss favorable ta...

South Korean firms wholly owned by foreign companies sent more than 1.1 trillion won ($800 million) back home for the fiscal year of 2021 in aggrega...

South Korea’s leading tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. has one business strategy that sets it apart from its local rivals: Build m...

South Korea is set to raise the quota of foreign workers by 10,000 this year to address labor shortage issues in the country’s shipbuilding, m...

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced on Friday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...

When a country’s currency weakens, foreign investors flee the local markets as a softer foreign-exchange rate usually means fragile economic f...

Despite being in crypto winter, or a period in which prices of major cryptocurrencies have slid and stayed low for weeks on end, South Korea's bigge...

South Korean shared electric scooter platforms are taking over their smaller rivals or entering new markets as beefed-up safety guidelines on two-wh...

South Korea’s agricultural product prices are expected to increase this year as the agriculture industry is suffering chronic labor shortages....

Hong Kong-based Crypto.com announced Monday it finalized the acquisition of a 100% stake in South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange operator OK-...

South Korea will introduce an internship visa program for foreigners studying at overseas universities to ease a shortage of talent in the fields of...

South Korea has postponed the introduction of a new law aimed at expanding its authority beyond Korean entrepreneurs, people familiar with the matte...

South Korea plans to spend more cash on attracting foreign investments in high-tech and core supply chain industries as foreign direct investment to...

Dunamu, the operator of South Kora’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, has launched two programs to support 500 startups over the next fi...

A selloff in risk assets in South Korea is intensifying as foreigners turned net sellers of Korean bonds for the first time in 18 months in June whi...

South Korea’s leading telecom operator KT Corp. will offer a broader range of services for foreign subscribers ahead of an expected surge in f...