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South Korea’s central bank increased its policy interest rate for the second time in three months and signaled further hikes to stem rising in...

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest container line, posted fresh record sales and profits in the third quarter, boosted by higher freight rates and...

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 plans to buy back 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) worth of government bonds in a move to stem a jump in market interest rates.The Ministry...

South Korea’s consumer inflation accelerated to a near-10-year high in October, while exports reported an eighth straight month of double-digi...

The National Pension Service (NPS) will increase strategic investments with leading global institutional investors to boost overseas alternative inv...

Chief Investment Officer of South Korea's Hanwha Life Insurance Shin Minsik said on Wednesday that the company is selectively looking for equities i...

Investor confidence has waned in South Korea in line with stock market instability. Stock prices of some newly listed companies have failed to mee...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled the industry’s highest-performing DRAM with a data speed capabl...

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it will be able to commercialize a 2-nanometer transistor process technology by 2025 to take on bigger foun...

The credit rating outlook for Korean Air Lines Co. (KAL) and its parent Hanjin KAL Corp. has been upgraded amid expectations that passenger flights ...

Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of KT&G Corporation, has set up its first interactive cafe in the global market where...

Earlier this month, Singapore reached a Covid-19 milestone: The fully vaccinated portion of the population crossed 80%. But instead of moving ahead wi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dampened South Korea's growth potential between this year and the next by 0.2 percentage points to its historic low of 2.0...

Seoul office building prices rose at their strongest rate in 10 years in the second quarter of this year, driven by domestic investors as the Seoul ...

South Korea’s government delayed a sale of foreign exchange stabilization fund bonds to next month, disrupting local companies’ plans to...

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. has put on hold indefinitely its plan to sell up to a 49% stake in SK Geocentric Co., formerly known as SK Global Ch...

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 consumer inflation remained at a nine-year peak in August, adding to expectations that the central bank will raise interest rate...

LG Electronics Inc., one of the world’s largest TV makers, is leading the TV industry’s shift toward organic light-emitting diode (OLED)...

South Korean companies rushed to issues bonds as the Bank of Korea is expected to raise interest rates further, ramping up financing costs. Some war...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday officially launched the new models of its high-end smartphones Galaxy Z Fold3 and Galaxy Z Flip3 in 40 countries, ...

The Bank of Korea has ended its ultra-easy monetary stance by bumping up the base interest rate by 25 basis points from a record-low 0.5% on Thursda...

The sale of Citibank Korea’s consumer banking business has hit a stumbling block as the South Korean unit of Citigroup Inc. postponed its boar...

The rising inflationary risk in the US, fueled by strong recovery from the pandemic-induced slowdown, is likely to be short-lived and modest, and in...

The South Korean won skidded to an eleven month-low as foreign investors extended a selling spree in the local stock markets, adding to expectations...

IMM put Hyundai LNG Shipping, South Korea’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker operator, on sale in a predicted $1.7 billion deal.IMM Priv...

The commercial real estate market in Seoul saw the fastest rate of price growth among all the gateway cities in the world over the past 12 months, w...

Six out of 10 South Koreans believe their children will be financially worse off than their parents, marking the highest number for the country sinc...

South Korea’s incoming financial regulatory chief says his policy priority is on limiting economic and financial risks stemming from higher ho...