POSCO Int'l to build 1.26 mn tons of green hydrogen infrastructure by 2035

POSCO Int'l to build 1.26 mn tons of green hydrogen infrastructure by 2035

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International revealed on Friday its strategy to establish a green hydrogen supply infrastructure with...

SGC Group slapped with over $7.7 mn fine for unfair internal trade

SGC Group slapped with over $7.7 mn fine for unfair internal trade

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a fine of more than 10 billion won ($7.7 million) on SGC Group companies for unfair internal transaction...

NPS buys more Hyosung Heavy Industries, LS Electric shares in Q2

NPS buys more Hyosung Heavy Industries, LS Electric shares in Q2

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea increased investments in local machinery, shipbuilding and semiconductor stocks in the second quarter ...

SK C&C to release Kospi-focused AI investment strategy service

SK C&C to release Kospi-focused AI investment strategy service

SK C&C, an information and communications technology affiliate of South Korea’s SK Group, will create an artificial intelligence (AI) inve...

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International on Sunday said it officially declared its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 to b...

Korean ETFs’ net asset value doubles in 3.5 years

Korean ETFs’ net asset value doubles in 3.5 years

South Korea’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surpassed 100 trillion won ($75.7 billion) in net asset value for the first time on Thursday, 21 ye...

NPS taps Macquarie, IMM, Hahn & Co. as private equity managers

NPS taps Macquarie, IMM, Hahn & Co. as private equity managers

The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, said on Friday it has hired Macquarie Asset Managem...

Doosan vice chairman visits robotics trade show Automatica

Doosan vice chairman visits robotics trade show Automatica

South Korea’s Doosan Group Vice Chairman Park Ji-won visited Automatica 2023 on Wednesday, a leading trade fair for smart automation held in M...

NPS logs 8.6% return on investment as of end-April 2023

NPS logs 8.6% return on investment as of end-April 2023

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has logged an 8.63% profit in fund management in January-April this year thanks to strong equity ...

Korea’s trade deficit with China runs deep; chip support required

Korea’s trade deficit with China runs deep; chip support required

Just like its neighboring countries in Asia, South Korea’s economic growth has long been swayed by the ups and downs of China, which heavily r...

Genie Music launches AI-based arrangement service

Genie Music launches AI-based arrangement service

Genie Music, the music production and distribution affiliate of South Korea’s KT Corp., has launched an arrangement service for digital music ...

S.Korea to return to Japan’s preferential trade partner list in July

S.Korea to return to Japan’s preferential trade partner list in July

Japan has decided to put South Korea back on the list of its preferential trade partners, nearly four years after its removal. The Korea-Japan trade...

Monthly exports set for growth in June for 1st time in 10 months

Monthly exports set for growth in June for 1st time in 10 months

South Korea’s exports in the first 20 days of June rose from a year earlier, seeing growth in the period for the first time since last August....

CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low

CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low

Shares of CJ CGV Co., South Korea’s top multiplex cinema chain, hit the lowest level since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on Wednesday as...

S.Korea’s top pharmaceutical distributor buys 25% of No. 2 Baekje Pharma

S.Korea’s top pharmaceutical distributor buys 25% of No. 2 Baekje Pharma

South Korea’s top pharmaceutical distributor Geo-young Co. has acquired 25% of market No. 2 Baekje Pharmaceutical.Geo-young on Tuesday said th...

KBIZ holds SME export consultation meeting in Dubai

KBIZ holds SME export consultation meeting in Dubai

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...

Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores

Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has slashed the target prices of South Korean top cathode stocks, namely EcoPro BM Co. and POSCO Future M Co., by nearly ha...

Foreign buying of Korean stocks, bonds at record high, boosting won

Foreign buying of Korean stocks, bonds at record high, boosting won

Foreigners bought a record $11.43 billion in South Korean stocks and bonds in May, boosting the value of the won versus the dollar amid the greenbac...

POSCO Int'l to supply nearly 7 mn motor cores to Hyundai Motor

POSCO Int'l to supply nearly 7 mn motor cores to Hyundai Motor

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International on Thursday said its affiliate POSCO Mobility Solution will supply motor cores to Hyundai ...

S.Korea's trade deficit hits 15th straight month

S.Korea's trade deficit hits 15th straight month

South Korea last month suffered its 15th straight month of trade deficit, its longest streak since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, due to the de...

POSCO to comply with IRA rules to access battery tax breaks: chairman

POSCO to comply with IRA rules to access battery tax breaks: chairman

NEW YORK – POSCO Group, which owns South Korea’s largest steelmaker, has been striving to transform into a low-carbon conglomerate by sh...

S.Korea's Mirae Asset, Hana Financial Group form security token tie-up

S.Korea's Mirae Asset, Hana Financial Group form security token tie-up

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities on Thursday said it signed an agreement with Hana Financial Group on the security token consortium Next Finance...

HYBE employees accused of insider stock trading over BTS

HYBE employees accused of insider stock trading over BTS

Three HYBE employees on Wednesday were accused of insider stock trading, allegedly selling the South Korean entertainment giant's shares before K-po...

Foreign demand for chip stocks powers Kospi to 1-year high

Foreign demand for chip stocks powers Kospi to 1-year high

South Korea’s main bourse Kospi on Tuesday hit its highest closing since June last year, boosted by foreigners’ net buying in semiconduc...

Music copyright trading platform Musicow attracts $46 mn from STIC

Music copyright trading platform Musicow attracts $46 mn from STIC

Musicow Inc. has garnered an additional 60 billion won ($45.8 million) from Seoul-based venture capital and private equity firm STIC Investments Inc...

Funds from West to emerging Asia power S.Korean stocks

Funds from West to emerging Asia power S.Korean stocks

Foreigners reported a record purchase of South Korean shares despite a global economic slowdown, as money moved from the US and Europe into emerging...

Foreigners gobble up chip stocks in S.Korea, buoying overall Kospi

 Foreigners gobble up chip stocks in S.Korea, buoying overall Kospi

Foreign investors' appetite for South Korean stocks remains insatiable, mainly for semiconductor heavyweights, underscoring their high expectations ...

LS Group's US affiliate SPSX to raise $150 mn in pre-IPO

LS Group's US affiliate SPSX to raise $150 mn in pre-IPO

LS Group’s US cable affiliate Superior Essex (SPSX) plans to raise $150 million (200 billion won) via a South Korean private equity fund (PEF)...

NKMax submits US subsidiary's securities report to SEC

NKMax submits US subsidiary's securities report to SEC

The listing in the US of NKGen Biotech, the American subsidiary of South Korean developer of natural killer (NK) cell therapy NKMax Co., is coming i...

YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high

YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high

YG Entertainment Inc., the K-pop label behind global sensation Blackpink, saw its stock hitting the highest point in more than 10 years as a new gro...

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