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Netflix mega-hit Squid Game’s actor Oh Young-soo, Player 001, has won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role on TV at the 79th Gold...

A former vice president of Samsung Electronics Co., who led the South Korean tech giant's seven-year patent fight with Apple Inc., has sued his ex-e...

Cosmax East, which owns and manages Cosmax’s business in China in its entirety, has announced plans to seek listing on the Korea Stock Exchang...

Credit Suisse Group AG has appointed two South Koreans as new managing directors (MD) for its Seoul office. Shim Jong-min and Kim Sei-won were promo...

Michael ByungJu Kim, the founder of South Korean investment firm MBK Partners, and Kim Jung-ju, founder of Nexon, the largest online gaming compan...

SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea said they would update their joint wartime contingency plans for North Korea, as the Kim Jong Un regime has&n...

SEOUL—North Korea has the capacity to make more base ingredients for nuclear bombs than previously believed, according to new research, sugg...

SEOUL—“Squid Game,” Netflix Inc.’s dystopian drama set in South Korea, is the top-watched show in more than 9...

North Korea put on one of its largest displays of missiles at an event at which dictator Kim Jong Un said Pyongyang couldn’t trust r...

The South Korean won weakened past the psychologically important 1,200 per dollar mark for the first time in 15 months as growing worries about glob...

The heavy inheritance tax burden in South Korea is pushing the heirs of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee to sell about 2.2 trillion won (...

South Korea’s benchmark bond yield hit the highest level in about two and a half years as expectations of tighter monetary policies at home an...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is South Korea’s largest source of trade surplus. The Northeast Asian country generated $34...

Shareholders of South Korea’s SK Innovation Co. on Thursday approved the company's plan to separate its battery business into a new entity.Und...

South Korea's energy-to-construction conglomerate GS Group was not considered a serious bidder when it entered the race for a 46.9% stake in the cou...

In September 2020, Krafton Inc.’s blockbuster game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) hit a major roadblock. India prohibited Chinese ...

Michael ByungJu Kim, founder and chairman of Korea’s largest private equity firm MBK Partners, will donate 30 billion won ($26 million) to the...

South Korean game company Nexon’s founder Kim Jung-ju has resigned from the chief executive position at NXC Corp., the holding company of Nexo...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has named Suyi Kim, its Asia head, as the global chief of its private equity business, effective Se...

The bid to acquire a controlling stake in Hugel Inc., South Korea’s leading maker of botulinum toxin, more commonly known as botox, from US pr...

Samsung Electronics Co. and South Korea’s leading solar panel maker Hanwha Q Cells Co. have joined hands to provide smart home energy solution...

Shares in HYBE Co., the label behind BTS, hit their all-time high close on Tuesday, buoyed after the boy band's latest track "Butter" topped the Bil...

ESG is one of the most frequently mentioned keywords in South Korea today. It stands for environmental, social and corporate governance, the three...

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) does not carry out negative screening to exclude companies and sectors that do not comply with envi...

Actress Youn Yuh-jung has made history by becoming the first Korean actor to win an Oscar at the Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles Sunday night.&n...

Samsung Group heirs, including Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee, have tentatively agreed to donate more than half of the late Lee Ku...

Hanwha Group leader Kim Seung-youn is returning to management seven years after he was banned from business activities following his conviction for ...

LG Electronics Inc. has mandated South Korea’s largest law firm Kim & Chang as the legal advisor for its smartphone division sale, accor...

Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, credited with transforming South Korea’s small television maker into a global tech giant, passed away on Oct. 25 a...

Kim Yong-jin, the former second vice finance minister of President Moon Jae-in’s government between mid-2017 and 2018, has been chosen as the Na...