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South Korea’s major financial groups enjoyed record quarterly earnings as higher policy interest rates increased lending rates, powering the p...

South Korean biopharmaceutical firms are facing challenges in clinical trials overseas alongside the rising Korean won to the US dollar exchange rat...

Pension Foundation of Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK Pension), a South Korean retirement plan for pastors and churches, is poised to hire several...

Shares in South Korea’s scandal-hit biotechnological company SillaJen Inc. soared on Thursday after the local exchange decided to maintain the...

South Korea’s LS Group will become the No. 2 shareholder in KT Submarine Co. after buying the undersea cable construction company’s new ...

Samsung Electronics Co. set up a task force team dedicated to increasing its shareholder value last month, according to industry sources on Oct. 4. ...

South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...

South Korea's autonomous transportation startup 42dot, owned by Hyundai Motor Group, on Monday unveiled a driverless electric shuttle installed with...

South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...

Global private equity firm Cinven Ltd. has attracted €550 million ($551.3 million) from South Korean institutional investors for its eighth fla...

Institutional investors gathered momentum for shareholder activism in South Korea not only to boost their values but also to improve corporate gover...

CJ OliveNetworks Co., a South Korean digital software developer, has joined hands with bemyfriends, a startup specializing in the global K-pop fando...

Shares in EcoPro BM Co., a cathode material maker used in electric vehicle batteries, topped the list of South Korean stocks, for which an increased...

Samsung Group’s four heirs to the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee have seen their group company shareholdings shrink by a combined 11 trillion won (...

South Korean firms wholly owned by foreign companies sent more than 1.1 trillion won ($800 million) back home for the fiscal year of 2021 in aggrega...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, has partially restarted its blast furnaces at its main plant in ...

South Korea may keep the National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest such fund, from increasing its power for shareholder deriva...

South Korean private equity firms are set to take over NexFlex Co., the country’s largest manufacturer of flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL...

MBK Partners’ talks to buy a controlling stake in South Korea’s MegaStudyEdu Co. have collapsed, the company said on Friday, a deal esti...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea had an 8% negative return during the first half of 2022, its investment management arm announced on Au...

South Korea is planning to set up a new subsidy policy for electric vehicle purchases, which will be commensurate to the EV makers’ after-sale...

Taekwang Industrial Co., a South Korean petrochemical and textile company, reported its first quarterly loss in 10 years amid weakness in its key bu...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone and memory chipmaker, will soon join The Climate Group’s RE100 Initiative as the...

POSCO International Corp., the trading unit of Korean steel giant POSCO, will merge with its unlisted affiliate POSCO Energy Co. to reinforce its en...

South Korea’s small and mid-sized private equity firms are increasingly postponing fundraising schedules for their project-based funds to the ...

LX Pantos Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s LX Group, is looking to acquire a controlling stake in local budget carrier Air Premia Co.,...

Voyager X is a relatively new artificial intelligence (AI) startup in South Korea. Its founder Nam Se-dong, however, has been a well-known figu...

Real estate is in the global investor spotlight amid skyrocketing inflation. However, not all property sectors or locations will offer the same infl...

Kolon Global Corp., an affiliate of South Korean conglomerate Kolon, will spin off its car import business unit to improve management efficiency and...

South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. is set to spend 15 trillion won ($11.4 billion) by 2026 to diversify business amid the volatility...