Minister Lee Young

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is set to appoint Lee Hoon, the senior managing director and head of the investment strategy & innovation d...

CJ Olive Young, South Korea’s top beauty store chain, has suspended its process to seek a stock market listing, becoming the latest major loca...

Kim Jae-young, founder and chief executive of Lionheart Studio Corp., the company behind South Korea’s most popular mobile game Odin, has join...

South Korea's most prestigious university is embroiled in a plagiarism scandal after two papers it published on artificial intelligence are believed...

South Korea’s former finance minister and central bank governor Cho Soon died at 94 of natural causes on Thursday.Cho, a renowned economist ca...

Samsung Electronics Co. undertook an unexpected personnel reshuffle on Thursday, involving 20 employees, to hold them accountable for a lower-than-e...

Samsung Group’s de facto leader Jay Y. Lee on Monday met with visiting Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger in Seoul to explore ways to f...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and visiting US President Joe Biden emphasized the two countries' iron-clad commitment to economic security all...

Eight years ago today, the late Samsung Group leader Lee Kun-hee collapsed at his home following a heart attack, a harbinger of doom six years later...

South Korea’s won currency skidded to the lowest level in more than two years on Thursday, adding to fears over growing inflationary pressure ...

Investment rights for dozens of Korean calves, worth a combined 10 million won ($7,900), sold out within one minute after each of the three investme...

South Korea’s Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki reiterated the country will take reform measures such as the extension of the local currency's trad...

Samsung Electronics Co. is losing its hegemony in the global semiconductor market as a sustained leadership vacuum has kept the world’s top me...

CJ Corp. launched an artificial intelligence center Wednesday, which it hopes will lead the conglomerate's digital innovation. The new CJ AI Cente...

South Korea’s distilled spirit soju is alluring more young drinkers in Japan, the home of its rival liquor shochu, as K-content such as drama ...

Samsung Electronics Co. has hired a 20-year governance veteran for its much-awaited corporate governance restructuring, according to those familia...

South Korea’s nominee for its new central bank governor stoked expectations that the Bank of Korea may raise interest rates less than predicte...

The wife and two daughters of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee raised a combined 1.37 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in block sale of Samsun...

South Korea on Wednesday nominated veteran International Monetary Fund official Rhee Chang-yong as the country’s new central bank chief, who i...

As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...

Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has named Lee Seong-yeong as its new chief investment officer and is in the final stage of the no...

IMM Private Equity is set to acquire a 1.73 percent stake in Samsung Life Insurance Co., according to investment banking sources on Jan. 27. The sta...

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean 3D imagery tech company listed on the Kosdaq, announced on Tuesday that its medical robot Kymero has condu...

Music copyright trading platform Musicow Inc. has attracted a 200 billion won ($167.9 million) investment from Korea’s private equity firm STI...

Global asset managers are increasing shareholdings in Koh Young Technology Inc., Korea’s leading 3D image measurement tech firm listed ...

Netflix mega-hit Squid Game’s actor Oh Young-soo, Player 001, has won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role on TV at the 79th Gold...

South Korea’s won currency hit a 1-1/2-year low as the US Federal Reserve signaled the central bank may raise interest rates sooner than expec...

SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier, has tapped its e-commerce arm's chief executive and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Lee Sang-h...

Voluntary retirement packages, often coming with generous compensation, have been adopted by companies as a way to let go of older or redundant empl...

The Kosdaq Listed Companies Association of South Korea announced its top Kosdaq blue chips during its 13th annual award conference held on Dec. 16...