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South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO said on Monday it’s raising this year’s sales target by 17.5% after posting its highest q...

Hyosung Group, founded in 1966, is a textile and chemicals conglomerate that currently stands as the 26th-largest business group in South Korea. Unt...

Samsung Group heirs, including Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, have tentatively agreed to donate more than half of the late Lee Ku...

Foreign investors, the dominant players on the Korean bourse, are returning as buyers of Samsung Electronics Co. and other blue chips, keeping the m...

South Korean companies, having raised 30 trillion won ($27 billion) in both equity and bond issues in the first quarter of this year, are on course ...

Despite worsening economic conditions due to the COVID-19 crisis, South Korea’s secondary battery business saw a rise in its key indicators, inc...

South Korean steelmaker POSCO Co. will put its efforts into gaining dominance in new growth markets such as eco-friendly vehicles and steel bars use...

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has stated that the 10-year exclusion order prohibiting SK Innovation Co. from importing battery product...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest TV maker, has launched new flashy flagship TV models, with which the tech giant aims to retain it...

This year, South Korean companies preparing for trading debuts have set their offering prices on average about 27% higher than the proposed price ba...

South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja is looking to have its initial public offering plans reviewed by regulators in the second quarte...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has reported a provisional return rate of 9.7 percent in 2020, marking the second time for the South Korean pensi...

Kim Bong-jin, founder of South Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, or Baemin in short, has committed to donating more than half of hi...

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and two other major domestic electric vehicle battery makers have grown significantly, controlling more ...

Naver Webtoon Ltd. has begun preparations to make its trading debut in the US by year-end, according to the investment banking industry on Feb. 17.S...

To leave the world a little bit better – a line from the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem What is Success and the status message...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) earned a combined $42 million in gains between 2019 and 2020, representing 60% of its cumulative earnings since i...

POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker, is set to return to a strong performance this year following a lackluster 2020 hit by the fallout...

South Korea-based Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. is planning a trading debut this year, with the proceeds marked for future growth engines to power th...

South Korea’s SM Group, formerly known as Samla Midas Group, is pushing for an initial public offering of its merchant liner, SM Line Corp., o...

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman and de-facto leader Jay Y. Lee was on Jan. 18 sentenced to two and a half years in prison on bribery and embez...

A slate of new sport utility vehicles are driving up Hyundai Motor Group's market share in the US, where its two automaking units have relied on sed...

South Korean exporters are bracing for a tough year with their profits poised to languish, hit by the strong won, amid expectations for a rebound in...

South Korea's game and entertainment companies saw their share prices surge on rising expectations of a return to the Chinese market after a Korea...

The South Korean won has strengthened to its highest level in two and a half years amid local stocks’ three-day bull run to a record high on h...

Credit crunch concerns from the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak seem long ago as South Korea-based companies' capital raising nears an all-time ...

The penetration of electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles into the transportation industry will unlikely become a major threat to refiners over the ne...

KT&G Corp. has been a laggard on the main bourse for the most part of the year despite its solid financial health, putting South Korea’s dom...

SD Bio Sensor, Inc., a South Korea-based manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, is pushing to go public early next year, drawing market attention as a st...

GANGNEUNG, Gangwon Province -- Gangneung, on the coast east of Seoul, is famously known as a coffee destination — but there's actually another d...