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Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) said on Wednesday it has promoted Lee Hoon, its former head of investment strategy and innovation division, to th...

South Korea’s inflation accelerated further last month to its highest point since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, adding to expectations t...

South Korean startup Time Percent Corp. was founded a year ago with the specific goal of giving power to the investors of digital assets, rather tha...

South Korea’s central bank on Wednesday took the most aggressive measure with a 50-basis-point policy interest rate hike for the first time in...

K Bank submitted a preliminary assessment request to the Korea Stock Exchange on Thursday, the first step to an initial public offering. The on...

South Korean biotech company L&C Bio, which specializes in tissue regeneration treatment, is poised to ramp up its expansion into the Chinese ma...

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...

South Korea’s central bank may raise interest rates more than usual to rein in inflation in Asia’s fourth-largest economy after the US F...

Rhee Chang-yong has made a big splash in less than two months as the Bank of Korea governor and I’m not the least bit surprised. Over the l...

South Korea’s national soccer team, led by captain Son Heung-min, lost to Brazil 1-5 in a pre-World Cup friendly on Thursday, much to 65,000 K...

South Korea’s central bank chief said he will consider big-step interest rate hikes in the coming months to curb inflation in Asia’s fou...

For the first time, South Korea’s startup accelerator D.Camp has opened an office in the port city of Busan. The joint effort between D...

South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group has picked Vietnam’s e-commerce startup Tiki as its first strategic partner in the Southeast Asian count...

South Korea’s top three general trading companies, LX International Corp., POSCO International Corp. and Samsung C&T Corp. achieved record...

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday raised its policy interest rate in a surprise move as accelerating inflation is feared to bite into gro...

South Korea’s startups raked in a record amount of investment last year, thanks to the number of unicorns reaching an all-time high.This was n...

KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications company, is considering changing into a holding company structure in an effort to boost the compan...

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

South Korea’s three major digital banks are stepping up their credit loans to borrowers with low credit ratings, a disruptive business model s...

South Korea plans to open temporary settlement lines between domestic banks and their units in Russia in order to help companies hit by multinationa...

South Korea’s venture capital firm Translink Investment and non-profit organization Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs agreed to launch ...

International sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are set to have a material impact on South Korea’s three largest shipbuilders, ...

South Korea's contact lens brands accelerated their penetration into the global market estimated at $10 billion in 2021, thanks to the market's rebo...

South Korea is the world’s second-most attractive wine market, outranked by only the United States, according to London-based consumer researc...

Some major institutional investors of South Korea have committed a combined $620 million to Partners Group’s third direct infrastructure progr...

South Korea’s central bank expects consumer inflation to hit an 11-year high this year as oil prices jumped above the $100 a barrel level for ...

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...

South Korea’s central bank is caught in a dilemma as it needs to raise interest rates to curb rising inflationary pressure in Asia’s fou...

South Korea’s major banks posted record earnings last year, boosted by higher interest income amid the central bank’s easing monetary bi...

South Koreans are continuing their rush to safer assets with the balance of bank deposits, money market funds (MMFs) and cash management accounts (C...