Short selling

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. has agreed to sell its water filter business – the world’s second-largest producer of reverse osmosis m...

Kakao Corp. shares underperformed its peers and the broad market on Friday after SK Telecom Co. sold off its entire stake in the South Korean platfo...

SK Inc., the holding company of SK Group, is in talks with Hahn & Co., a South Korean buyout firm, to sell SK Siltron Co., the country’s s...

South Korea will allow short selling of all listed stocks in the country as of Monday for the first time in five years, raising expectations of more...

South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer Celltrion Inc. said on Monday it is set to sell Steqeyma, a biosimilar to autoimmune disease t...

POSCO Holdings Inc. has decided to sell its entire stake in Nippon Steel Corp., according to industry sources on Wednesday, marking the end of their...

South Korean biotechnology firm SillaJen Inc. is pioneering a new approach to determine the best dose for a cancer drug combination in clinical tria...

Kia Corp. will expand production of its compact sport utility vehicle, the Seltos, after selling 310,000 units of the model across the globe, making...

South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. plans to sell its display business by the end of the first half as part of a strategic shift to...

Affinity Equity Partners and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have sold their entire stake in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., exiting from thei...

South Korea will allow short selling on all listed stocks in the country next month as planned, said the chief of the country’s financial regu...

Macquarie Asset Management is poised to sell a four-star hotel in Seoul for about 170 billion won ($118.7 million) to South Korea’s KB Asset M...

Lee Bok-hyun, governor of South Korea’s top financial watchdog body, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), said on Thursday that there shou...

Lotte Group, South Korea’s sixth-largest conglomerate, is speeding up its business streamlining efforts amid mounting debts as it has moved on...

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company under SK Group, is seeking to dispose of its waste treatment b...

Samsung Life Insurance Co., South Korea’s largest life insurer, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., the country’s No. 1 non-lif...

South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. is on the market again four years after the US blocked a takeover by a Chinese private equity f...

South Korea will allow foreign investors to trade South Korean treasury bonds via omnibus accounts under the names of global custodians or asset man...

South Korea’s HS Hyosung Advanced Materials Corp. is seeking to sell its tire steel cord business to secure funds for its new growth ventures ...

South Korea’s KT Corp. is set to sell Initech Co., its Kosdaq-listed financial security unit, for 85 billion won ($59.1 million) as the leadin...

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Wednesday that it sold its two large-scale sola...

Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea’s second-largest steelmaker, sold more than 1 million tons of automotive steel sheets to overseas automakers ot...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) said on Wednesday that the foreign investors' net selling in the South Korean stock market was $3.86 billion in December las...

South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. has signed a deal with Brazil’s Eurofarma Laboratórios S.A. to establish a joint venture ...

South Korea’s petrochemical producers are set to issue corporate bonds to take advantage of ample liquidity at the beginning of the year amid ...

South Korea’s Koramco REITs Management & Trust Co. is poised sell a prime office building in Seoul in an estimated 400 billion won ($272 m...

The battle over Korea Zinc Inc.'s management control between Korea Zinc Chairman Choi Yun-birm and the Young Poong Corp.-MBK Partners alliance has b...

Seoul-based private equity firms Corstone Asia and Q Capital Partners are in talks with foreign investors to sell a South Korean fried chicken chain...

China's IT giant Xiaomi has entered the South Korean market. Xiaomi said on Monday it established its South Korean branch, Xiaomi Korea, and wi...

German luxury carmaker BMW claimed the mantle of top imported car brand in South Korea for a second consecutive year in 2024, beating out rival Merc...