Korea's SK Siltron to invest $597 mn in silicon wafer production

South Korea’s SK Siltron Co. will invest 855 billion won ($597.4 million) to expand its 300-millimeter (12-inch) silicon wafer manufacturing f...

Sinking won fans doubts over Korea’s economic fundamentals

The tanking South Korean won currency has stoked doubts over the fundamentals of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, although the government contin...

Small caps warm up S.Korea’s chilly IPO market

Small and mid-sized companies are reviving the otherwise chilly IPO market in South Korea, which has been dragged down by weaker-than-expected deman...

Korea ramen packet maker inks $1 bn battery material deal

A South Korean instant noodle packet maker has secured a $1 billion deal to supply battery materials to a joint venture between General Motors Co. a...

LG embraces ESG management standards with first groupwide report

South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG is rapidly embracing environmental, social and governance standards as key criteria in evaluating...

S.Korea to take measures to support stock, bond markets

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...

Korea Investment & Securities and Stifel Financial form joint venture 

Korea Investment & Securities Co., a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings, announced on Wednesday that it has formed a joint venture with Mis...

IGIS Asia, Quadreal to form JV for warehouse development in Korea

IGIS Asia Investment Management Pte., the Singapore-based subsidiary of South Korea’s largest real estate manager IGIS Asset Management, and V...

S.Korea to introduce advanced supercomputer by 2024

South Korea will introduce a high-performance supercomputing system by 2024, more than 24 times faster than the current model, a government-run rese...

Celltrion wins sales approval for biosimilar Vegzelma in Japan

Celltrion Inc. secured Japan’s approval for sales of its cancer treatment biosimilar CT-P16, a move to help the South Korean biopharmaceutical...

Hyundai Rotem rolls out Korea’s fastest bullet train

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, has rolled out the country’s fastest bullet train that can r...

Korean crypto buyers show higher risk appetite than global peers

South Korean cryptocurrency investors appear willing to take more risks than their global counterparts, balancing their portfolios between market le...

Tanking won deteriorates Korea’s dollar funding conditions

A nosediving South Korean won deteriorated local corporate dollar funding conditions with the cost of insuring the country’s sovereign debt ag...

Korean won at fresh low since global financial crisis as markets crash

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...

Korea's DL Chem shrugs off slow petrochemical market in Q3

DL Chemical Co., the petrochemical arm of South Korean conglomerate DL Group, is forecast to post robust third-quarter results despite sluggish sa...

Korea's Kospi plunges to year's record low close on foreign selling

South Korea’s main bourse Kospi dropped 1.81% to finish at 2,290.00 on Sept. 23, hitting a new low closing for the year amid growing woes over...

Korea's SBW Group eyes bid for textile giant Lycra

South Korean fashion business operator SBW Group is joining the race to acquire global leading textile firm The Lycra Company, investment banking so...

Korea FX authorities, NPS agree on currency swap; won flat

South Korea’s foreign exchange authorities and the state-run National Pension Service (NPS) agreed to open a currency swap line for the first ...

Japan and South Korea leaders meet one-on-one for first time since 2019

The leaders of Japan and South Korea held their first bilateral meeting in nearly three years, another step toward recovery for frayed ties between tw...

Korea to raise tax credits on OTT content for future growth

Studio Dragon Corp., South Korea’s leading drama production house, spent 26 billion won ($18.5 million) on Vincenzo, aired in 2021, and receiv...

Korea's Hyundai Mobis CEO Cho elected ISO president

South Korean auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co.’s CEO Cho Sung-hwan has been elected as the next president of the International Organization f...

Bosung attracts $2 bn investment from TGK for Korea's largest data center

South Korea’s Bosung Group has attracted $2 billion from TGK Inc., a US infrastructure company, for its planned construction of Korea’s ...

Lotte Home Shopping showcases Bellygom at Manhattan’s Pier 17

NEW YORK – Lotte Home Shopping Inc. displayed Bellygom at Manhattan’s Pier 17 on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the Korea Brand Expo in ...

BOK chief signals another big step as Fed hike haunts won

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday signaled another 50-basis-point policy interest rate hike as the won currency weakened past the psychol...

S.Korea's fund of funds to form new fund worth $215 mn with VCs in the US

NEW YORK – The South Korean government is poised to tap into its fund of funds to form a joint investment fund with venture capital firms in t...

S.Korea’s SK Gas expands LNG, hydrogen biz for future

ULSAN -- SK Gas Ltd., South Korea’s leading liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supplier, is expanding its liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydrogen ...

POSCO Chem, OCI break ground on EV battery pitch plant

South Korea’s P&O Chemical is set to build the country’s first high-softening-point pitch manufacturing facilities with 15,000 tons ...

Korea defense firms showcase new weapons for record exports

South Korean defense makers showcased next-generation products with artificial intelligence, robot and stealth functions for the future battlefiel...

ADB cuts Korea’s 2023 growth outlook as trade in deficit for sixth month

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has slashed its 2023 growth outlook for the South Korean economy, citing daunting global risks, as the country is h...

Was South Korea’s FX intervention too late?

The South Korean won on Sept. 14 opened 1.4% lower in the domestic currency session after shocking US inflation data rattled global financial market...