KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market

South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...
South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest such fund, is poised to report an annual loss in 2022 for the fi...
South Korea's Medicox Co. on Wednesday said it will raise 40 billion won ($32 million) to boost its unit for oral insulin and cannabidiol (CBD).The ...
The war in Ukraine continues to stoke ongoing uncertainty in Europe, with the impact on energy supplies and prices likely to be felt more intensely ...
Hyundai Motor Group won eight awards out of 19 categories in this year's Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards, the most of any global auto group.Kia Cor...
LG Innotek, the electrical component unit of South Korea's LG Group, said on Wednesday that it has developed two types of high-performance hybrid le...
The South Korean won currency hit a near 5-month high on Thursday as US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested a slowdown in its tightenin...
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) saw on Nov. 27 around 1.7 trillion won ($1.3 billion) worth of investor bids for its bond issuance targeting 400 ...
South Korea’s central bank raised the base interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.25% during its monetary policy board meeting on Nov. 24, slow...
State-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has contacted major conglomerates including Hyundai Motor Group about the sale of its stake in HMM Co., the c...
South Korea’s SK Energy Co., refiner giant SK Innovation Co.’s petroleum production subsidiary, said on Tuesday it will join forces with...
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is set to raise 600 billion won ($442 million) from a local bank in a plan to seek loans to secure money instead ...
The state-run Korea Gas Corp. is set to raise some 1 trillion won ($745 million) by issuing hybrid securities to lower its debt ratio although the d...
South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. has seen its shares trapped in a boxed range for a protracted period despite its spectacular earn...
South Korea’s small- and mid-sized brokerage houses have begun their workforce reductions ahead of the end of the year. The brokerages are set...
A South Korean small insurer will buy back dollar perpetual bonds as scheduled, reversing its earlier decision not to recall the notes, to ease conc...
A South Korean small insurer has made a rare decision not to buy back dollar perpetual bonds, in the first such case for the country’s issuers...
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., which are gradually increasing their presence in the US market, saw their hybrid vehicle sales reach an all-time hi...
Monthly average deposits for stock investment in South Korea are poised to drop below 50 trillion won ($35.1 billion) for the first time since July ...
South Korea’s $35 billion rescue plan provided a temporary painkiller to the domestic bond markets rattled by Legoland Korea developer’s...
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, will increase production of hybrid models by some 15% next year to focus on the popular segmen...
Samsung Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) manager, will focus on global, active and bond-type ETFs, as we...
South Korea on Oct. 17 started exempting foreign investors from two types of taxes on Korean treasury bonds and monetary stabilization bonds investm...
NEW YORK – Investors should stay in the financial market as rising interest rates have put the values of assets such as stocks and bonds at ap...
South Korean corporate bond issuance in September hit a monthly low this year on souring investor sentiment due to interest rate hikes.Corporate bon...
Eco-friendly cars such as electric vehicles and hybrids have increased their share in South Korea's used car market, together accounting for 36% of ...
FTSE Russell, a global index provider, added South Korea to the watch list for potential inclusion in its FTSE World Government Bond Index (WGBI), p...
South Korea is set to take measures to stabilize local stock and bond markets hit by global interest rate hikes amid growing risks of a worldwide ec...
The South Korean won on Monday extended losses to a fresh low since the 2008-09 financial crisis as local financial markets lost ground, alongside t...