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

Hyundai Motor Co.’s all-electric IONIQ 5 crossover beat two competing models from Volkswagen and Swedish carmaker Polestar in a comparative as...

South Korean startup Time Percent Corp. was founded a year ago with the specific goal of giving power to the investors of digital assets, rather tha...

South Korea’s major petrochemical producer Lotte Chemical Corp. and a Japanese trading house Itochu Corp. joined forces for the hydrogen and a...

SEOUL—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for a reorientation of the world’s trading practices in the wake of Russia’s invasion...

Unlike the West or China, which showed vastly different reactions, most South Koreans had a more complicated initial response to the news of forme...

South Korea suffered the largest trade deficit for the first half of a year on surging energy prices and slowing exports, while consumer sentiment i...

The Shilla Duty Free Shop, the world’s No. 3 duty-free chain, has joined hands with a Chinese e-commerce giant to attract some 158 million cro...

Doosan Enerbility Co. announced Sunday it has signed an initial memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A. (SGRE) i...

The duty-free industry has been hoping that the end of COVID-19-related travel restrictions would help boost its sales. Even as international t...

Hanwha Power Systems Co., a South Korean energy equipment company, said on Friday it has completed joint development of a boil-off gas (BOG) compres...

South Korea’s POSCO International Co. plans to more than treble the natural gas production from the two gas fields of its newly-acquired Austr...

K-pop sensation BTS on Tuesday made a surprise announcement that it will temporarily split up, saying its seven members need time for personal growt...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. announced Thursday it has developed the prototype for the world’s first virtual trading system (VTS,) which allows ...

Lotte Duty Free, South Korea’s largest duty-free business operator, is closing one of its flagship stores in Seoul in the wake of the COVID-19...

The price of LUNA 2.0 (LUNA), the brand-new token of the controversial Terraform Labs Ltd., has been on a tumultuous ride since its debut a couple o...

Hyundai Motor Group is expected to receive about $1.6 billion in incentives including tax breaks from Georgia as South Korea’s top automaker i...

South Korea’s major electronics retailers such as Lotte Himart are facing a headwind as more customers are buying home appliances online and d...

Cryptocurrency investors in South Korea have threatened to file a class action lawsuit against co-founders of the disgraced blockchain platform oper...

South Korea's Lotte Duty Free Co. is slated to open a downtown store in Sydney on May 5, after Australia reopened its international borders to forei...

South Korea’s top three general trading companies, LX International Corp., POSCO International Corp. and Samsung C&T Corp. achieved record...

South Korean individuals are likely to become the first non-resident direct stock investors in India, after the South Asian country lifted the ceili...

South Korea's SK Networks Co. is looking for an acquisition worth over 1 trillion won ($816 million) to accelerate its shift away from trading and r...

Choi Jin-min, founder and chairman of Kiturami Boiler Co., is one of the few living witnesses in South Korea's boiler history. At the age of 21, he ...

South Korea plans to open temporary settlement lines between domestic banks and their units in Russia in order to help companies hit by multinationa...

South Korea’s reopening stocks jumped on Friday as the government eases COVID-19-curbing restrictions and as the number of the Omicron variant...

South Korea logged a trade surplus in February on strong exports after deficits in the previous two months, the recovery remained fragile, given Rus...

South Korea’s general trading companies, which usually work as middlemen linking buyers with sellers, are seeking to transform into eco-friend...

Samsung Electronics Co. filed a lawsuit against its former patent chief on Sunday, in response to the ex-vice president's claim that the tech giant ...

South Korean money inflows to Chinese stocks exceeded investment in North America as sluggish US shares spurred investors to bet on a recovery in th...