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South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), with 920.4 trillion won ($694.6 billion) in assets as of November 2022, faces growing concerns o...

South Korean chemical and renewable energy firm Hanwha Solutions Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has received a global certification for its recy...

SillaJen Inc. said on Monday it has enrolled the first patient in a US phase 1 trial of an anti-cancer drug BAL0891 licensed from Swiss drugmaker Ba...

South Korea's leading broadband Internet access provider SK Broadband is moving into the public desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) market.SK Broadband anno...

POSCO Steeleon Co., a South Korean steelmaker and a unit of POSCO Group, said on Wednesday that its biomass color steel plate has been certified as ...

LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean home appliance maker, said on Monday that it has obtained ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its vehicle co...

Kumho Tire Co. is intensifying its sustainable management efforts by establishing an environmental, social and governance (ESG) committee directly u...

SsangYong Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it has received certification for its European cyber security management system (CSMS). This certific...

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) posted the largest annual loss last year since its inception in 2005, according to its 20...

Hyundai Transys, an auto parts unit of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it is enhancing its voluntary fair trade compliance program ...

South Korea’s battery materials makers are stepping up their efforts to conform to environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards throug...

GC Biopharma Co.'s production facility in Ochang (North Chungcheong Province) secured a pre-qualification (PQ) certification from the World Health O...

Investment in South Korea is pouring into bond-type exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under the anticipation that interest rate hikes end this year. Such...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has achieved its highest ranking in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) evaluation of climate change response. The company...

KT DS, an IT service arm of South Korea's KT Group, said on Thursday that its Internet-of-Things (IoT) solution Smart-X has passed the oneM2M certif...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is gearing up for its largest-ever corporate bond issue in South Korea at lower-th...

Cars.com, a US automobile evaluation website, named the Hyundai Motor Co.'s IONIQ 5 as the Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 on Tuesday. According to Hy...

Kumho Petrochemical Co. said on Tuesday that its four synthetic rubber products including SSBR, HBR, LBR, and NdBR have earned International Sustain...

SK Bioscience Co. said on Tuesday that its Pangyo headquarters and its vaccine production facility L House in Andong, South Korea, have acquired ISO...

HMM Co., a South Korean container shipping company formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine, said on Monday that it has joined the United Nations G...

LS Electric Co., a South Korean electric power and automation equipment maker, has achieved a major milestone by obtaining international standard ce...

South Korean pharmaceutical company Boryung announced that its production facility for anti-cancer injections in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, ...

Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp. said on Monday that it has signed a contract with Dutch biotechnology firm Synaffix B.V for the use of antibody-...

Aekyung Chemical, an affiliate of South Korea's Aekyung Group, has begun mass-producing eco-friendly plasticizers derived from recycled waste plasti...

South Korean startups won four out of the 23 Best of Innovation awards at CES 2023, the world’s largest tech show last month. Among the winner...

SK Bioscience Co., a biopharmaceutical arm of South Korea's SK Group, announced it has received a BBB rating in its latest environmental, social, an...

Foreign investors dumped South Korean bonds in Janaury, becoming net sellers of the securities for the first time in four years as they booked pro...

SK Geo Centric Co., South Korea's chemical firm, has received the globally recognized "GRS" certification for its eco-friendly polymers, the company...

Samsung Electronics Co.'s device solutions division has achieved ISO 22301 certification, the international business continuity management system (B...