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The average birth rate in South Korea dropped to a fresh low of 0.84 last year, the world’s lowest, which population experts said will unlikel...

Kim Bong-jin, founder of South Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, or Baemin in short, has committed to donating more than half of hi...

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and two other major domestic electric vehicle battery makers have grown significantly, controlling more ...

Mirroring the other fast-growing economies in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is rapidly transitioning into a cashless society, with financial transactions ...

Optrontec Inc., a small South Korean manufacturer and provider of optical filters, lenses and three-dimensional sensing technology, has been ramping...

A South Korean real estate investment trust (REIT) backed by Amazon’s largest logistics center in Japan and an office complex in Seoul is plan...

South Korean shipbuilders won the most shipbuilding orders worldwide in 2020, overtaking China and claiming the lead in the global shipbuilding indust...

Korea Post has appointed new chief investments officers of both its savings and insurance units, in an internal reshuffle of senior managers at the ...

French auto giant Groupe Renault has warned of stern action against its struggling South Korean unit, urging it to improve productivity and cut cost...

The South Korean arm of General Motors Co. has become the country’s first automaker forced to cut production due to the global semiconductor c...

South Korea’s financial regulator has decided to allow the short selling of large-cap stocks from May 3 despite opposition from retail investo...

Celltrion Inc. and HLB Inc., two leading South Korean biopharmaceutical shares, shot up on Monday as the main bourse’s key index climbed back ...

Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market operator, is poised to raise up to 200 billion won ($180 million) in fresh fund...

South Korea’s financial authorities and the ruling Democratic Party are likely to extend the country's ban on short selling for another three ...

A senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday warned against the extended ban on stock short selling in South Korea, saying...

South Korea’s economic growth rate dropped by 1 percent last year, its worst performance since the 1998 Asian financial crisis when the coun...

GM Korea Co., a subsidiary of US auto giant General Motors Co., is slashing production rates due to a component supply disruption, the latest sign t...

Online fashion platform Musinsa Co., a familiar name among Gen Zers and millennials in South Korea, is ready to go global. This month, the Korean co...

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, is interested in buying Jeju Bank, named for and based on the country's largest island, to secur...

Food delivery giant Delivery Hero SE is facing some time pressure to sell South Korea’s No. 2 food delivery app Yogiyo, estimated at 2 trillio...

Big companies listed on South Korea’s major stock market will be required to disclose their business activities related to environmental, soci...

Venture capital funds in South Korea have raised their largest-ever amount of 6.6 trillion won ($6 billion) last year, supported by government polic...

South Korean institutional investors, including the National Pension Service, have committed around $400 million to KKR’s Asia real estate f...

The Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) and financial services firms in South Korea have committed $130 million to KKR & Co.’s inau...

Increased time spent at home due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has led to the rise in exports of cleaning and disinfecting appliances, including ...

The Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, a $12 billion savings arm for South Korea’s small business owners, is looking to mandate four domestic fi...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has emerged as the top shareholder in South Korea’s only listed logistics real estate inves...

Korea Resources Corp. is planning to sell its 82.25% stake in a coal mine in Australia, as part of efforts to cut its debt totaling 6.7 trillion won...

South Korea's environmental, social and governance (ESG) bond market is seeing strong growth as companies are driven by institutional investors' inc...

E-commerce giant eBay Inc. has officially kicked off the sale process of eBay Korea Co., valued up to 5 trillion won ($4.6 billion), with its sa...