Richard Baldwin international economies

CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province -- General Motors Co. may consider making electric vehicles in South Korea, the country manager said on Wednesda...

South Korea’s central bank on Wednesday delivered its second 50-basis-point policy interest rate hike as the ailing won currency adds to infla...

The tanking South Korean won currency has stoked doubts over the fundamentals of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, although the government contin...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co.’s planned purchase of the International Finance Center in Seoul worth 4.1 trillion ($3 billion) from Canada...

South Korea’s POSCO International Co. and its Australian mining partner Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd. will invest A$300 million ($200 million) ...

Global private equity firm Cinven Ltd. has attracted €550 million ($551.3 million) from South Korean institutional investors for its eighth fla...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. is accelerating a digital economic system on its metaverse platform ifland, the telecom giant ...

As South Korea is serious about hosting the World Expo 2030, the country’s top business leaders will be given new roles: Leading the governmen...

A decade-long dispute between South Korea and the US private equity firm Lone Star Funds over a Korean deal will be wrapped up next week, with an in...

South Korea’s won has hit the weakest level since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on a mounting trade deficit while growing concerns over ...

Hyundai Motor Co. is highly likely to suffer a further production delay for its all-electric crossover IONIQ 5 after South Korean industry sources s...

Back in the 1970s and 80s, general trading companies were the vanguards of South Korea’s exports. Daewoo International Corp., LG Internat...

South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled its ambitious goals for revenue and operating margins as electri...

SK Geo Centric, an SK Innovation Co. subsidiary focused on the eco-friendly chemical business, joined hands with Paris-based Veolia Environnement S....

Hanwha, the South Korean chemicals-to-financial conglomerate, has been a key player in the M&A market with a series of conspicuous acquisitions ...

Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s largest auto parts maker, is aiming to produce the majority of its automotive semiconductors with its own tec...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s steel giant, reported a lower profit in the second quarter on rising raw material pr...

South Korea’s five technologies on 5G mobile networks, cloud computing and cryptography have been preliminarily chosen as global standards, a ...

South Korean budget airlines are seeing a slow recovery in international flights as key routes such as China and Japan have yet to normalize while t...

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.'s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is set to merge with its local rival Seezn, run by tel...

HYBE Co., the K-pop label best known for BTS, signed an agreement with Walt Disney Company in its first collaboration with an international content ...

Just like its global peers, Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have suffered from the chip shortage that bogged down the entire auto industry for nearl...

As economic uncertainties grow amid rate hikes and inflation, South Korean institutional investors are eyeing direct lending for safer investment an...

Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s top carrier, is set to take measures to normalize international flights as nations worldwide are opening u...

South Korea’s petrochemical companies are set to halt operations as the work stoppage by unionized truck drivers stretched into an eighth day ...

Private equity is regarded as an alternative asset class while shares of listed companies are known as traditional assets. This classification may n...

Global aerospace juggernaut Airbus SE says we have already entered the lunar economy and the company is looking forward to soon collaborating on lun...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, on Thursday announced a plan to invest 247 trillion won ($195 billion) in k...

South Korea’s POSCO International Corp. and Hotel Lotte Co. have been suffering from sluggish earnings of their five-star hotel in Yangon, Mya...

A weakening won is usually a bonus for the South Korean economy as it strengthens the export-dependent country’s price competitiveness in over...