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Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw the net value of its traditional assets rise 8.25% in the first half of this year, backed by the strong perfo...

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday kept the door open for another interest rate hike after leaving the policy borrowing cost unchanged for...

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical said on Thursday that its local loyalty program for Nabota (American name: Jeuveau) in the US, a botulinum tox...

South Korea’s central bank is expected to cut its policy interest rate by one percentage point next year with inflationary pressure easing fur...

Macquarie Asset Management is aiming to close its sixth buyout fund in South Korea at a maximum of 1 trillion won ($775.6 million) by the first ha...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund with 975.6 trillion won ($754.2 billion) in assets under...

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – the world’s two largest memory chipmakers – have fiercely competed to advance their ch...

South Korea's regenerative medicine company T&R Biofab Co. on Monday said it obtained a patent in Japan for production technology for liver or...

South Korea’s headline inflation dropped for a fifth straight month to a 21-month low, adding to expectations that the central bank might not ...

Electric vehicles suffered sharper price falls in South Korea’s secondhand car market this year, compared with combustion engine and hybrid ca...

The credit rating of Korea Seven Co., which runs the South Korean operations of the convenience store chain 7-Eleven, was downgraded to its lowest l...

South Korea's business sector is urging reform of the domestic inheritance tax system to alleviate problems in corporate succession, citing difficul...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday launched its three-day global strategy meeting, a biannual event held in June and December where major executives...

The ratings of Lotte's subsidiaries have been downgraded en masse. Lotte Chemical Corp., the group's cash cow, was cut to AA from AA+.NICE Investors...

South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. has begun its advance into Southeast Asia through a tie-up with a financial company in Thailand. KakaoBank on Friday ...

GS Engineering & Construction Co. announced on Friday that it recently held the “1st Global HR Leaders Conference” attended by chief...

Invest Korea, KOTRA's organization dedicated to attracting foreign investment, held an IR for Japanese companies interested in entering South Korea ...

Add officials at the People’s Bank of China to the list of those disappointed by China’s post-COVID-19 reopening boom. On June 13, PB...

The Japanese yen is nearing its lowest level in eight years against the South Korean won, with their exchange rate hovering around the 9.00 level.It...

A large-scale business event was held in Dubai to support the expansion of Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into the Middle East.Th...

MSCI Inc. regards the South Korean stock market as not ready for its developed market status despite a series of reforms, dampening the country&rsqu...

Korea Investors Service downgraded the unsecured bond credit rating of Hyosung Chemical on Thursday from A to A-, saying that its profit-generating ...

South Korea’s headline inflation fell for a fourth straight month in May to a 19-month low amid continuous signs of a slowdown in Asia’s...

Teachers’ Pension (TP), South Korea’s major pension fund for private school employees, will accelerate investment in domestic bonds whil...

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering adding national pension benefits for married couples to raise the ever-declining birth r...

SK Ecoplant Co. is seeking to establish an interim holding firm for its waste management subsidiaries and sell its stake to private equity firms as ...

South Korea’s three-year treasury bond yield topped the base rate for the first time in two months, after the Bank of Korea (BOK) warned again...

Moody’s on Friday cut its view on KEPCO’s credit to the lowest investment grade, a move that could lead the rating agency to downgrade t...

South Korea is embroiled in a heated debate on a program to recruit domestic helpers from Southeast Asia at lower rates than those paid to their Kor...

South Korea in the first quarter posted a total fertility rate (TFR) of 0.81, the lowest in history for that quarter. Because the number of bir...