hefty trade imbalance

South Korea's car output in 2021 is estimated to have tumbled to its lowest level in 17 years as a global shortage of semiconductors slowed down pro...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, the world’s largest shipbuilder, is set to showcase its latest and next-generation mobility technology related...

US-listed chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. and Chinese private equity firm Wise Road Capital terminated their $1.4 billion buyout agreement...

South Korea has officially declared its plan to join a mega Trans-Pacific free trade deal, called the CPTPP, following China’s application to ...

Musicow Inc., a music copyright trading platform and one of the hottest startups in South Korea, will set up a joint venture in the US with Korean c...

Kimchi exports hit record high Kimchi, Korea’s traditional fermented food, is raising its status in the global food market. Korea exported $1...

A Korean startup about a year old has succeeded in creating a microchip that speeds up trading by a few microseconds -- a huge difference in the w...

Virtual realms known as the metaverse that have become the hot topic for tech companies also are winning a new fan base among investors.SoftBank Gro...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund with 930 trillion won ($781.8 billion) in total a...

“Music becomes Cashcow” is the slogan for Korea’s hottest startup of the year, Musicow, Inc., and cash cow it has been. Indus...

Success of Korean films on OTT platforms South Korea posted a surplus in its intellectual property rights trade balance in the first half of 2021. ...

Kakao Pay Corp. ’s stock tumbled after a strong debut on the South Korean main stock market as investors booked profits, keeping an eye on if ...

SM Line Corp. on Wednesday became the latest South Korean company to drop its initial public offering plan on disappointing institutional interest.T...

South Korea’s largest container liner HMM Co. suffered a tumble in its stock prices despite the rosy outlook on the global shipping industry a...

Musicow Inc., South Korea's first music copyright trading platform, has embarked on the process to go public on the back of its eye-catching growth ...

South Korea's antitrust body has launched an investigation into Kakao Mobility Corp. on allegations of discrimination against taxi drivers not subsc...

Financial services companies, including brokerage firms, will be able to participate in South Korea's carbon emission trading market by year's end a...

When KNet Investment Partners LLC, a South Korean venture capital company, invested 9.9 billion won ($8.6 million) in Krafton Inc. in 2009, the game...

South Korea’s only mass-producer of hydrogen tube trailers, Iljin Hysolus Co. made a strong debut on Kospi by reaching the price ceiling on it...

South Korea will launch its first set of carbon credit-themed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) next month, in a move to address the rising investor dema...

KakaoBank Corp. has fallen out of the top 10 list on Kospi on Aug. 10, its third trading day, with Celltrion and Kia Corp. overtaking the company ag...

South Korea’s LG Group will put the facility management division of its affiliate S&I Corp. up for sale amid talk that a sale of the unit ...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), a leading South Korean shipbuilder, on Wednesday posted a dismal quarterly operating loss ...

South Korea-based e-commerce startup RXC has secured around 20 billion won ($17.5 million) in a seed round -- an impressive and rare amount consider...

The initial public offering of South Korea's Lotte Rental Co., set for next month, will likely produce high double-digit to low triple-digit returns...

With South Korea’s stock markets maintaining bullish momentum this year, debate about setting up an alternative trading system (ATS) in the co...

The prospective initial public offering of DiDi Chuxing Technology Co., China's largest ride-hailing app, is expected to generate as much as 200 bil...

South Korea’s state-funded Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) is undergoing a full-scale digital transformation to expedite inter...

SK Innovation Co. again refused to accept LG Energy Solution Ltd.’s demand that SK pay a hefty amount of compensation for its involvement in a...

South Korea's Coupang Corp. made its trading debut in New York on Thursday, with shares rocketing 41% from their $35 opening price to close at $49.2...