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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 ...

Shares in Korea Zinc Inc. soared on Thursday, a day after completing its buybacks, driven by institutional investors covering shorts on the stock an...

South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group will resume the merger of Doosan Bobcat Inc. and Doosan Robotics Inc. using a new me...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), manager of the world’s third-largest public pension fund, said on Thursday it is set to ve...

South Korean regulators have ordered Doosan Robotics Inc. to amend the securities prospectus it submitted last week for its merger with Doosan Bobca...

SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s largest energy company, is set to become the industry leader in Asia through a merger with an affiliate while...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to sell 500 billion won ($359.6 million) in its first perpetual bon...

South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group’s building unit, suffering amid difficulties in the local real estate project financing sector, is s...

Cash dividend payments by companies listed on the Korea Exchange, the country's main bourse, have nearly tripled in a decade. They have returned a l...

South Korean companies listed on the main bourse Kospi raised their dividend payouts between 2021 and 2023 despite falling net income in the same pe...

South Korea’s listed firms are undervalued compared with companies in public markets of developed and emerging countries, according to the Kor...

South Korea’s top financial regulator advised about 10 local savings banks in trouble to increase their capital by the end of this month to pr...

South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group on Tuesday replaced the head of its construction unit amid the sluggish property market, adding to ...

South Korea may inject some 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) into Korea Development Bank (KDB) by the end of this month to support the state-run bank's...

South Korean companies paid more corporate taxes than their rivals in developed countries in 2022, losing competitiveness, with the nation’s c...

SK Square Co., an investment arm of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, has suspended negotiations with Singapore-headquartered e-comme...

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong has been appointed as the chairman of the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) at the Bank for Int...

KB Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s top financial holding company by assets, on Tuesday reported better-than-expected net profit in the thi...

South Korean food tech startup Gopizza, known for its single-serving pizza prepared by robots, on Tuesday said it will open a branch on Nov. 1 at Si...

Chinese battery materials suppliers are rushing to expand their production bases in South Korea, mainly in partnership with domestic companies.Such ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest public pension fund, plans to raise the ratio of its alternative...

South Korean banks are seeing loan delinquency rates surge due to the increase in lending during the pandemic and a series of rate hikes. The rates ...

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, logged growth in a quarterly net profit as larger interest rate...

Activist funds such as Singapore-based Flashlight Capital Partners Pet. (FCP) on Tuesday failed to gain approval on almost all of their proposals ma...

Prestige Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical developer, said on Tuesday that the final analysis of phase 3 clinical trial on the anti-cancer...

South Korean corporate debt ratio rose to a six-year high in the third quarter as sales growth and profitability fell, darkening the outlook for Asi...

The state-run Korea Gas Corp. is set to raise some 1 trillion won ($745 million) by issuing hybrid securities to lower its debt ratio although the d...

The Seoul branch of the UK-based Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) has made a capital increase of over 20% to raise its capital adequacy r...

Bank KB Bukopin, South Korean bank KB Bank's Indonesian subsidiary, is set to raise capital by issuing 8.44 trillion rupiah ($550.6 million) in new ...

South Korea is expected to become the world’s most elderly country with about half of its population aged 65 or older by 2070, the government ...