Short selling

South Korea’s leading game developer Netmarble Corp. said on Tuesday it sold a 6% stake in HYBE Co., the music label behind K-pop sensation ...

The South Korean won continued its bull run on Monday, strengthening past the psychologically important barrier of 1,300 level against the dollar fo...

The South Korean government is planning to sell off a 29.3% stake in Tokyo-listed game giant Nexon Co.’s holding firm NXC Corp. via a public b...

South Korea has temporarily suspended short selling partly to prevent illegal, naked short selling, a decision buoying stocks heavily targeted by sh...

Asiana Airlines Inc. on Thursday decided to carve out its lucrative cargo business, clearing a major hurdle to its merger with bigger rival Korean A...

South Korea’s financial regulator plans wider investigations into illegal short-selling trades by major foreign investment banks to ease conce...

South Korea's SKC Ltd. announced on Tuesday it will sell the fine ceramics business of its subsidiary SK enpulse, a semiconductor materials investme...

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to sell certified refurbished Galaxy phones in South Korea at prices up to 50% cheaper than brand-new phones, a move e...

South Korean convenience store chain CU next month will launch a souvenir snack set for foreign tourists.This will be the first product of its kind ...

South Korea’s medium-sized business group Taeyoung Group said on Wednesday it is near to selling its cash cow logistics unit to shore up its f...

South Korea’s short-term corporate loan growth is picking up at a fast pace, stirring concern among some analysts who see parallels to the 200...

South Korea’s HLB Therapeutics Co. on Tuesday said its US subsidiary Elevar Therapeutics has acquired the global rights excluding South Kore...

South Korea’s poultry processing company Harim Group is set to sell off all its Hanjin KAL Co. shares its affiliate owns to secure capital for...

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. has inked a deal with the US specialty pharmacy chain CarePartners Pharmacy to supply its autoimmune disease ...

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) will fine the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd. (HSBC) and Bank BNP Paribas the large...

South Korea's Kia Corp. held a global distributors convention for the first time in five years, sharing medium to long-term business strategies, inc...

South Korean chemical material company SKC Ltd. is selling its unit for raw materials of polyurethane (PU), a chemical substance.The company’s...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. is seeking to sell off its Seoul-based office building, the value of which is estimated at around 300 billion won ($223.7...

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. said Tuesday it will sell its full ownership in Brazilian soybean crusher CJ Selecta S.A., or a 66% sta...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has sold its entire stakes in joint ventures with Chinese partners as the Korean company faces a supply glu...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) sold electronics, information technology and content-related shares in the third quarter, and fil...

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest carmakers, enjoyed record September sales thanks to the popularity of their electri...

LG Chem Ltd., the parent of South Korea’s No. 1 battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., will unload its polarizer businesses to two Chinese pla...

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has secured approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labou...

South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. is supplying its first HiMSEN engine using methanol fuel to a Japanese shipmaker. This represents an acceleration in th...

SK Chemicals Co., a South Korean plastic materials producer, is in exclusive talks with Seoul-based Glenwood Private Equity to sell its pharmaceutic...

BusinessOn Communication Co., a leading cloud computing firm listed on the junior bourse Kosdaq, is open to a sale of its controlling stake for arou...

US dollar investors in South Korea have not backed down from their shorting position of the currency despite the strengthening dollar against the Ko...

South Korea’s POSCO Holdings Inc. is seeking to produce blue ammonia in partnership with CF Industries Holdings Inc., the world’s larges...

Samsung C&T Renewables, the renewable energy corporation of South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. in the US, announced on Thursday that it has s...