Seoul to rewrite Kosdaq with tax breaks, listing reforms

South Korea is moving to revamp its Kosdaq market, pairing tax incentives aimed at institutional investors with listing reforms designed to revive t...

Korea Post seeks offshore real estate secondary funds for $150 mn mandate

Korea Post is seeking one or two offshore real estate secondary fund managers for a commitment of up to $150 million, or €150 million in total....

South Korea bets on AI, power, financials to carry Kospi toward 5,000 in 2026

South Korean stocks are heading into 2026 with strategists betting that leadership will broaden beyond semiconductors to power, financial and infras...

South Korea’s year-end IPO market defies seasonal lull

South Korea’s initial public offering market, typically subdued at the end of the year, is showing unusual exuberance as newly listed companie...

S.Korea, UK strike upgraded trade deal, expanding market access on both sides

South Korea and the UK have agreed to upgrade their bilateral free trade agreement, a move Seoul expects will unlock fresh export momentum in automo...

Seoul weighs Kosdaq split from Kospi to invigorate lagging junior market

South Korean policymakers are weighing a far-reaching reform of the country’s stock market structure that would separate the Kosdaq from its l...

S.Korea’s steel exports set to slide to 5-year low as Chinese supply floods markets

South Korea’s steel industry is heading toward its weakest export performance in five years, as a prolonged global construction slump collides...

SK On to build LFP battery plant in Korea for ESS output, targeting $13.5 billion govt projects

SK On Co., a major South Korean battery maker, has decided to build the country’s largest domestic production line for lithium iron phosphate ...

Real AI bubble is market concentration, not technology: Amundi CIO

The artificial intelligence revolution is real, but the way investors are betting on it has become dangerous, said Vincent Mortier, group chief inve...

SK Hynix mulls treasury-share-backed ADR listing on NYSE in fresh value-up initiative

SK Hynix Inc., one of the world’s top memory chipmakers, is looking into a plan to list American depositary receipts (ADRs) backed by its trea...

Korea seeks to overhaul listed firms’ M&A rules to use fair value instead of market prices

South Korea is seeking one of its most far-reaching capital-markets overhauls in decades, with plans to rewrite merger-valuation rules, tighten disc...

Musinsa, Shinsegae V shine in K-fashion platform war; Ably, Zigzag struggle

Musinsa, South Korea’s fashion unicorn backed by KKR Co., and Shinsegae V, the online luxury item marketplace of retail giant Shinsegae Intern...

South Korea’s short-selling firepower swells, signaling market turn

A surge in securities lending across South Korea’s stock market is emerging as a powerful new drag on the nation’s top technology names,...

Samsung to supply half of memory for Nvidia's 2nd-generation SOCAMM in 2026

Samsung Electronics Co. will supply half of the memory used for Nvidia Corp.’s second-generation SOCAMM in 2026, positioning itself as the lar...

Korean bond yields break above 3%, shutting issuers out of market

South Korea’s government bond market has entered a fresh bout of volatility, with yields climbing above 3% even as global peers' yields remain...

Zeekr joins Chinese peers BYD, XPeng to push into South Korea's EV market

China’s Zeekr, the premium electric vehicle brand under Geely Automobile, on Tuesday signed its first dealer agreements with Korean companies,...

Hyundai-Kia’s US market share climbs to record 10.9% in October

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., under South Korea’s auto behemoth Hyundai Motor Group, are rapidly rewriting their place in the US auto marke...

Shin & Kim, Yulchon dominate S.Korea’s Best Lawyer Awards in 2025

Shin & Kim and Yulchon emerged as the strongest performers at the Korea Economic Daily’s 2025 Best Law Firm & Lawyer awards, each prod...

Seoul to introduce tax incentives to revitalize Kosdaq market

After helping ignite a rally in the Kospi under South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung’s pro-market tilt, Seoul is turning its reform agenda to...

Korea’s ruling party pushes mandatory tender offers; critics warn moves may chill M&A market

South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party (DP) is pushing ahead with plans to introduce a mandatory tender offer regime, setting up a fresh clash ...

Offshore investors boost appetite for Korean real estate; Singapore funds at forefront

A softening won and lower interest rates are raising foreign appetite for South Korean commercial real estate, with Singaporean heavyweights  -...

S.Korea’s top shipyards ride container ship boom as China stumbles

South Korea’s shipbuilder giants are enjoying their strongest container ship cycle in nearly two decades, with this year’s order tally a...

After market jolt, Nvidia tries to reassert control of AI narrative

Nvidia Corp. is mounting a forceful defense against rising skepticism over the durability of the artificial intelligence boom, circulating a seven-p...

Europe’s loan market gains momentum on revival in deals: M&G Investments

Following a slowdown between late 2022 and the end of 2023, Europe’s broadly syndicated loan (BSL) market has regained powerful momentum. Tota...

NPS says FX hedging a tool for higher returns, not policy lever as authorities struggle with slumping won

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund and the country’s largest institutional investor, has been pull...

Korea Inc. braces for ‘new normal’ of weak won as majority sees 2026 FX above 1,400 won

South Korean companies are drawing up next year’s business plans on the assumption that the foreign exchange rate will remain above 1,400 won ...

Celltrion steps into weight-loss market with oral rival to Wegovy, Mounjaro

Celltrion Inc., the South Korean biosimilar giant seeking to expand into higher-value innovative medicines, is positioning itself as a future conten...

Netflix, S.Korean rivals bleed cash as fight for OTT market heats up

South Korea’s streaming battlefield has become so cutthroat that even Netflix Inc., the world’s largest over-the-top (OTT) platform, is ...

Defensive tilt, infrastructure surge set to lift Europe’s private debt market: BlackRock

Heightened geopolitical uncertainty and the energy transition are fueling defense and infrastructure spending in Europe, positioning its private cre...

Hamilton Lane sees tailwinds in Asia’s private secondary market

Asia’s private markets, particularly the secondaries segment, are primed for strong growth as constrained supply, attractive pricing and impro...