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Banking & Finance
KB Financial logs record profit in Q2, above consensus estimates
South Korea’s second-largest financial institution KB Financial Group Inc. achieved record-high quarterly net profit in the April-June period ...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korea’s outbound travelers spend 20% more on-year in H1: BC Card
South Korea’s outbound travelers spent 19.8% more in the first half of this year compared with a year ago amid a revival in overseas tourism, ...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea's BC Card to enter Kyrgyz payment market
South Korea's BC Card will make a full-fledged entry into the Central Asian payment market by establishing a card payment joint venture in Kyrgyzsta...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial pursues glocalization in Southeast Asia
KB Financial Group Chairman and Chief Executive Yoon Jong-kyoo brought up “glocalization” as a key strategy for its global expansion at ...
Jul 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hyundai Card, Visa form global data alliance
South Korea’s Hyundai Card has launched a data analysis business with Visa. Hyundai Card on Monday said it formed a strategic business partner...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Chip prices likely to rise in H2: KB Securities
KB Securities predicted on Thursday that semiconductor prices are likely to rise in the second half of the year due to the decrease in production ca...
Jun 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
KB Financial, Sompo Japan team up for boosting nursing care services
South Korea's KB Financial Group and Japan's Sompo Holdings announced on Friday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on nursing care s...
Jun 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG bonds
Hyundai Card issues $193 mn Korean green bonds
South Korea's Hyundai Card announced on Friday that it has issued a green bond worth 250 billion won ($193 million), becoming the first company in t...
Jun 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korean overseas card spending near pre-COVID-19 levels
South Korean residents’ overseas card use jumped in the first quarter to nearly recover levesl before the outbreak of COVID-19 on rising inter...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Vietnamese tourists top in card spending in Korea in 2022
Vietnamese tourists splurged the most among foreign visitors to South Korea last year, filling the void left by Chinese travelers shunning Korea sin...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
BC Card, KTO to promote mobile payment for foreign tourists
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has announced a new partnership with BC Card and the Korea Easy Payment Foundation to introduce a mobile paymen...
Apr 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea’s five major companies form data network alliance
South Korea's five major companies have joined forces to make a combined data product that consolidates their respective information, ranging from c...
Apr 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Macquarie to buy Lotte’s S.Korean transportation card unit
Macquarie Asset Management, part of Australian investment bank Macquarie Group, is set to buy Loca Mobility Corp., Lotte Card Co.’s subsidiary...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KB Financial launches $193 million fund to invest in global startups
South Korea’s second-largest financial institution KB Financial Group will launch a 250 billion won ($193 million) fund to invest in startups ...
Mar 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
KB Securities signs MOU with Korea East-West Power, Hikive
KB Securities Co. announced on Thursday that it had entered into a business agreement with Korea East-West Power Co. and Hikive to collaborate on a ...
Mar 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
KB, Hana drive major S.Korean overseas banking profits lower
KB Kookmin Bank and Hana Bank led weaker earnings of the four largest South Korean lenders’ overseas units last year although their rivals Shi...
Mar 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Apple Pay to shake up S.Korea's digital payment market
The launch of Apple Pay in South Korea on Tuesday is poised to shake up the country’s digital payment market as the sector leader Samsung Pay ...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Apple Pay to launch in South Korea on March 21
Apple's mobile payment service, Apple Pay, is set to launch domestically in South Korea on March 21, according to industry sources on Monday.With th...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial Group injects $385.6 million into S.Korea’s real estate PF
South Korea’s KB Financial Group on Monday said it will provide liquidity support for the domestic market for real estate project financing (P...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT
South Korea's BC Card on Sunday said it applied for a domestic patent for a non-fungible token (NFT) that can verify a user's asset details using bl...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
BC Card signs contracts for Indonesia's digital payment project
BC Card Co., a South Korean credit card company, said on Friday it has signed two contracts to provide digital payment services for Indonesia’...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
ISS supports Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee
Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is supporting the appointment of Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee Jin Ok-Dong as...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Apple Pay's S.Korea debut as early as third week in March
Apple Pay, the mobile payment service by iPhone maker, is set to launch in as early as two weeks in South Korea, home to the world’s largest s...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
BC Card shows one-stop payment int'l network at MWC 2023
BC Card, the only credit card company from South Korea taking part in this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, is displaying at ...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
KT Group signs MOUs with Mongolian firms to explore joint opportunities
South Korea's KT Group has signed multiple memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the Mongolian government and economic delegation to explore pote...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
KB Securities launches AI-based RoboNews on US stocks
South Korea's KB Securities announced the launch of KB RoboNews on Monday, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) service that provides insight...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial returns to top in Korea with record NP in 2022
Shinhan Financial Group Co. reported a record-high net profit of 4.6 trillion won ($3.6 billion) last year, snatching back the crown of South Korea&...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hyundai Card to provide Apple Pay in South Korea
Apple and Hyundai Card on Wednesday officially announced the launch of the simple payment service Apple Pay in South Korea.The American tech giant s...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial Group holds investment conference via metaverse
South Korea's KB Financial Group on Tuesday presented its investment philosophy to individual and institutional customers in the metaverse, a three-...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea's credit card approval volume hit all-time high last year
The annual card approval amount in South Korea exceeded 1,000 trillion won ($811.4 billion) for the first time ever. This is largely because of "ret...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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