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Upcoming IPOs
Seoul Guarantee Insurance to raise $124 million from IPO
Seoul Guarantee Insurance Co. (SGI) will raise 181.5 billion won ($124.2 million) through an initial public offering later this month in its second ...
Mar 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea’s pension fund NPS posts record return in 2024 on US stock rally
The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund and the country’s largest institutional investor, said on ...
Feb 28, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Hana Financial to boost corporate value by raising shareholder returns
South Korea’s Hana Financial Group aims to increase corporate value by ramping up shareholder returns based on a sustainable profit structure ...
Feb 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korea welcomes more babies after downward birth rate spiral
South Korea’s fertility rate bounced back last year for the first time in nearly a decade following a surge in marriages, raising hopes for a ...
Feb 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
Bank of Korea cuts rates, growth forecast on Trump tariff policy
South Korea’s central bank on Tuesday cut interest rates while sharply reducing its economic growth forecast as lingering political turmoil fo...
Feb 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
South Korea to fully resume short selling in March: FSC Chief
South Korea will allow short selling on all listed stocks in the country next month as planned, said the chief of the country’s financial regu...
Feb 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
S.Korea needs to allow short-selling for all listed stocks: FSS chief
Lee Bok-hyun, governor of South Korea’s top financial watchdog body, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), said on Thursday that there shou...
Feb 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Innotek ventures into automotive AP module market
LG Innotek Co., a major South Korean electronics parts developer, has forayed into the automotive application processor (AP) module market, poised f...
Feb 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
South Korean stock trading volume at 8-month high
Trading volume in South Korean stock market has surged to its highest level in eight months, with investors piling into defense, nuclear energy, shi...
Feb 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s default risk dips below pre-martial law levels
South Korea’s financial market has stabilized with a sharp fall in the country’s default risk and some recovery of its currency value ag...
Feb 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
MSCI Korea Index removes four petrochem firms, seven other stocks
MSCI, a global index compiler, said on Wednesday it has removed 11 stocks, including Lotte Chemical Corp., from its Korea index without any addition...
Feb 12, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Korean investors abandon savings, stocks for cryptocurrencies
Money is rapidly shifting to cryptocurrency markets in South Korea as lower interest rates and lackluster stock prices reduce the investment appeal ...
Feb 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Alternative stock exchange Nextrade to launch on March 4
Nextrade, South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange, enabling trading of stocks listed on the Kospi and the Kosdaq for 12 hours a day is ...
Feb 06, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to sell financial security unit for $59 mn for restructuring
South Korea’s KT Corp. is set to sell Initech Co., its Kosdaq-listed financial security unit, for 85 billion won ($59.1 million) as the leadin...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s economy grows 2.0% in 2024; Q4 GDP below forecast
South Korea’s economy expanded 2.0% last year, falling short of the central bank’s forecast on weaker-than-expected growth in the fourth...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
South Korea to tighten delisting rules to remove ailing firms
South Korea will sharply raise the threshold for listed companies to remain trading on the domestic stock market to facilitate the delisting of fina...
Jan 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK lowers growth forecasts to bolster rate cut expectations
South Korea’s central bank slashed its economic growth forecasts on Monday, adding to views that the monetary authority will cut interest rate...
Jan 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Korea Investment Holdings’ MSCI ESG rating upgraded to A
Korea Investment Holdings Co. said on Thursday it was upgraded by three notches from B to A in the MSCI ESG rating this year.The MSCI ESG rating is ...
Jan 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign investors sells $3.86 bn in S.Korean stock market
The Bank of Korea (BOK) said on Wednesday that the foreign investors' net selling in the South Korean stock market was $3.86 billion in December las...
Jan 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
Bank of Korea seen cutting interest rates by 25 bps in January
The Bank of Korea (BOK) is widely expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday amid the nation's softening economy and moderating i...
Jan 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Memo from Howard Marks
Prices are not high enough? Trees don't grow to the sky
The S&P 500 index just experienced its best two-year streak since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, with the hype surrounding artificial intel...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Energy logs 1st quarterly loss in over 3 years, outlook remains gloomy
LG Energy Solution Ltd. reported its first quarterly loss in more than three years on Thursday, adding to concerns that the world’s third-larg...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung’s Q4 profit misses expectations; Stock rises
Samsung Electronics Co. flagged weaker-than-expected earnings for the last quarter of last year due to a fall in memory chip prices and soft demand ...
Jan 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
POSCO’s new bond sale seven times oversubscribed
South Korean steelmaker POSCO’s new bond issue for 500 billion won ($343 million) was seven times oversubscribed, which may encourage the comp...
Jan 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea sharply cuts 2025 growth forecast, opens door for extra budget
South Korea sharply lowered its economic growth forecast for this year amid the prolonged political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol’...
Jan 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Korean pension funds raise bets on infrastructure, global stocks
South Korean pension funds are raising their bets on infrastructure and global stocks, while reducing exposure to the domestic stock market on a dow...
Jan 01, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Kospi to move in 2,350-3,200 range in 2025: brokerages
South Korean stocks are expected to bounce back in the new year as their extremely low valuation following investors’ massive sell-offs in 202...
Dec 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea’s Acting President Han impeached; Stocks, won plummet
Han Duck-soo, South Korea’s acting president and prime minister, was impeached in Parliament on Friday amid a deepening political crisis batte...
Dec 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Koreans flock to cryptos amid Trump-fueled crypto craze
The number of South Koreans investing in cryptocurrencies recently broke past 15 million — about 30% of the country’s population —...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korea to relax FX rules by December to boost dollar selling
South Korea will raise the limits on forward dollar purchases and expand the foreign exchange swap line between the National Pension Service (NPS) a...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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