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South Korean banks are raising mortgage rates again as the government strives to curb household debt growth that grew at its sharpest pace in three ...

The time is ripe to prepare an interest rate cut as consumer prices are holding around South Korea’s target of 2%. But it remains uncertain wh...

The Korean won is forecast to continue its downward spiral and soften past the 1,400 threshold against the greenback this year, while the Bank of Ko...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is set to commit 150 billion won ($108.5 million) in preferred stocks for offices in...

South Korean oil refiner SK Innovation Co. secured an AA rating in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment by Morgan Stanley Capi...

South Korea’s household names Samsung, SK and LG have entered a new race to win the glass substrate market set to surge in the artificial inte...

South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals maker Lotte Chemical Corp. has taken a hit from a lowered credit-rating outlook of the company and its majo...

South Korea's low-cost carrier (LCC) Jin Air announced on Wednesday that it received an A in the Sustinvest ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) ...

South Korean private equity investments declined last year for the first time since 2016 due to interest rate hikes, high inflation and the Korean w...

South Korea's Hanwha Life Financial Services said on Tuesday it received an A+ (Stable) credit rating from Korea Ratings, becoming the first domes...

Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading defense system developer in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it has received an AA rating in the 2024 environmental, ...

South Korean credit rating agency NICE Investors Service Co. (NICE) downgraded Hyosung Chemical's credit rating outlook from stable to negative on W...

South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Tuesday that it has received an A1 (stable) insurance financial strength rating from Moody's Rat...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group plans to require stricter environmental, social and governance compliance from its partners st...

Coworking space operator WeWork Inc. is slated to shut down a major office in Seoul, once one of the largest WeWork offices in Asia, in September ...

Store vacancy rates in South Korea’s largest shopping mecca Dongdaemun Market have soared to as high as 86%, with Chinese e-commerce platfor...

South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Thursday that it received the highest rating of AAA for insurer financial strength (IFS) from th...

South Korean brokerage firms are scurrying to raise more than 1.7 trillion won ($1.24 billion) in private equity funds to bet on soured property loa...

The Bank of Korea said on Thursday it has grown more uncertain about when to cut interest rates despite expectations of easing the monetary policy g...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a retirement fund with assets under management (AUM) of 26 trillion won ($19.1 bill...

Eduwill Corp., South Korea’s leading provider of online and offline test prep courses for adults, has taken a hit from a series of credit-rati...

South Korean trading firm LX International Corp. announced on Tuesday that it joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) to strengthen its envi...

Demand and short-term deposits at South Korea’s top five banks have expanded 5% to 657 trillion won ($480 billion) in the first quarter of thi...

HMM Co., South Korea’s flagship sea carrier, announced on Tuesday that it achieved the Platinum rating from EcoVadis, a global environmental, ...

TBILISI, Georgia – The Bank of Korea (BOK) will go back to square one on monetary policy as stronger-than-expected economic growth in the...

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday that the Hyundai Motor Co.'s IONIQ 5 achieved the highest rating of "Top Safety Pick Plus" (TSP+) in crash t...

South Korea’s largest bank Kookmin Bank said on Tuesday it has issued $600 million worth of global senior secured bonds. The debts were oversu...