Korea opens probe into Woori's loans to ex-chair's relatives
South Korea’s financial watchdog agency said on Sunday it has found that Woori Financial Group, the country's fourth-largest financial holding...
Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling
Foreigners and institutional investors in the South Korean stock market picked biotechs as their favorite shares in hopes of a biopharma stock jump ...
Carlyle, Keppel, IMM stay in final race for Ecorbit
Carlyle Group, a union of Hong Kong-based Keppel Corp. and Gaw Capital Partners and a consortium of IMM Investment and IMM Private Equity are the th...
HD Hyundai Mipo to build Korea’s first LCO₂ carrier
HD Hyundai Mipo Co., formerly Hyundai Mipo Dockland Co., has embarked on the construction of South Korea’s first liquefied CO₂ (LCO₂) carrier,...
Half of EV imports in Korea run on Chinese batteries as EV fires rise
Of 58 electric vehicle models running on the streets of South Korea, 22 models are equipped with Chinese batteries, a survey showed on Friday.Accord...
Korea seeks to curb China's offshore wind farm dominance
South Korea will prioritize non-price factors such as economic security and contributions to the domestic supply chain over bidding prices when sele...
KOGAS executes first simultaneous LNG bunkering in Korea
South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) said on Friday that its subsidiary, Korea LNG Bunkering, successfully carried out the country’...
HD Hyundai secures Korea's hydrogen engine generator project
HD Hyundai Infracore Co., a construction equipment and engine manufacturer, said on Thursday it has won the government's first project to develop ge...
Samsung SDS gains AI management system certification
Samsung SDS Co. announced on Thursday that it has become the first company in South Korea's IT service industry to receive the ISO/IEC 42001 certifi...
Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn
US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...
LG unveils Korea’s 1st open source AI to take on Meta, Google
LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Wednesday introduced the country’s first open-sourced artificial intelligence la...
Samsung signs wind turbine structure supply deal with Equinor
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said on Wednesday that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Norway's state-owned energy company Equi...
S.Korea’s current account at near 7-year high on strong chip exports
South Korea reported its biggest monthly current account surplus in six years and nine months thanks to robust exports of semiconductors. But the gr...
Korean e-commerce startup funding sharply drops since 2022
South Korean e-commerce companies have seen a sharp decline in series A funding over the past three years amid intensifying competition with Chinese...
South Korean stocks rebound but still on rollercoaster
South Korean stocks on Tuesday recouped some of their hefty losses caused by the previous day's global panic selling after financial authorities iss...
Macquarie buys its 1st Korean data center for $538 mn
Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund (MKIF) has signed an agreement to buy a 40-megawatt (MW) data center from Seoul-based IGIS Asset Management Co. ...
Korean tech stocks suffer falls despite strong Q2 results
Some 60% of the Kospi-listed companies that posted above-forecast results in the second quarter of this year have seen their share prices declining ...
South Korea enjoys record-high kimchi exports in first half
South Korea's kimchi exports surged to an all-time high for a six-month period in the first half of this year, according to data from the Korea Agro...
Slowing economy creates opportunity for S. Korean used car sellers
South Korea’s used car sellers hope to take advantage of the slowing economic growth at home and abroad to expand their market shares.Lotte Re...
Activist fund KCGI to buy Hanyang Securities for $180 mn
South Korean private equity firm KCGI Co. is expected to acquire local brokerage house Hanyang Securities Co. for 244.9 billion won ($179.8 million)...
Jeju Air seeks M&A, igniting race for top place in Korea's LCC market
Jeju Air Co., a leading South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC), will likely seek the acquisition and merger of a rival small airline operator amid inte...
Korea's warehouses suffer oversupply, rising vacancies
Logistics centers in Seoul suburbs are suffering oversupply and rising vacancy rates, according to a report from South Korean commercial real estate...
S.Korea, China's technology leak, anti-dumping disputes surge
South Korean companies are getting tough on anti-dumping and patent infringement cases as they feel threatened by the intensifying price competition...
South Korea’s Inflation reaccelerates in July
South Korea’s headline inflation picked up at a stronger-than-expected pace in July, reaccelerating due to higher prices for agricultural and ...
S.Korea’s July household debt grows at fastest pace in over 3 years
South Korea’s household debt is expanding at the fastest pace in over three years, clouding growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy and ...
SK On logs record quarterly loss on sluggish EV market
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest battery maker, on Thursday reported a record quarterly loss on the prolonged weakness in the electric veh...
Korea Investment manages Vista Land $50 mn global bond issuance
Korea Investment & Securities Co. announced on Thursday that its Hong Kong subsidiary KIS Asia managed the issuance of $50 million in global bon...
Woori Financial Group relaunches brokerage arm
Woori Financial Group has returned to South Korea’s brokerage service market after a decade with the launch on Thursday of Woori Investment &a...
Central Asia emerging as South Korea’s new used car export market
South Korea’s export volume of secondhand vehicles to Central Asia is increasing for an unexpected reason: Russia.According to the Korea Inter...
Korean commercial real estate market to show slow recovery in H2
South Korea’s commercial real estate market will post a slow recovery in the second half of this year due to rate cut delays and no big correc...
