Woori Bank improper loan
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Central bank
August inflation puts BOK under fire for delayed pivot
South Korea’s inflation moderated to the government’s target of 2.0% in August, its slowest increase in three years and five months, put...
Sep 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Woori signs $1.16 bn deal to acquire Tongyang, ABL Life from China’s Dajia
Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services provider, said on Wednesday it has signed a deal to acquire Tongya...
Aug 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
Bank of Korea holds rate steady, signals pivot to easing soon
South Korea’s central bank held interest rates steady but cut its inflation and growth forecasts for the year and signaled that it will pivot ...
Aug 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Kookmin to tighten loan limits to cool housing market
Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s largest lender under KB Financial Group, will tighten lending to curb mortgage loan growth in line with the govern...
Aug 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK signals autumn rate cut as inflation, economic growth slow
South Korea’s central bank is likely to reduce interest rates in the next three months as inflation is expected to ease amid a slowdown in Asi...
Aug 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Kolon Global, Hana Bank to form onshore wind power fund
South Korea's Kolon Global Corp. announced on Tuesday it signed an agreement with Hana Bank, Hana Alternative Asset Management, and MDM Asset Manage...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s household debt hits record high on mortage loans
South Korea’s household debt hit a record high in the second quarter as the domestic housing market started to recover and more consumers rush...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung's financial arms beat No.1 banking group KB in profit
Samsung Group's financial services business has overtaken South Korea's No. 1 banking group KB Financial Group in terms of net profit, posing a thre...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Acquisition loan rates dip to pre-pandemic levels in S.Korea
Interest rates on acquisition financing in South Korea are set to stabilize at the 5% level, rates last seen before COVID-19 swept the world, height...
Aug 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea opens probe into Woori's loans to ex-chair's relatives
South Korea’s financial watchdog agency said on Sunday it has found that Woori Financial Group, the country's fourth-largest financial holding...
Aug 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s current account at near 7-year high on strong chip exports
South Korea reported its biggest monthly current account surplus in six years and nine months thanks to robust exports of semiconductors. But the gr...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
US to award SK Hynix up to $450 mn for Indiana chip complex
The US government said on Tuesday it plans to provide SK Hynix Inc., the world’s leading high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chipmaker, up to $450 mil...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
HI Investment & Securities changes its name to iM Securities
HI Investment & Securities Co. was rebranded as iM Securities after it held an extraordinary shareholders' meeting at its headquarters in Yeouid...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hana Card, Toss Bank jointly launch PLCC card
South Korea's Hana Card announced on Friday that it partnered with Toss Bank to launch its first private label credit card (PLCC), the Toss Bank Cre...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Financial Group relaunches brokerage arm
Woori Financial Group has returned to South Korea’s brokerage service market after a decade with the launch on Thursday of Woori Investment &a...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Woori Financial vows higher shareholder returns, value-up after record Q2
Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services holding company, plans to significantly enhance its shareholder va...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial's quarterly profit hits record on interest margin growth
South Korea’s largest financial holding group KB Financial Group Inc. has logged its record quarterly profit in the April-June period, thanks ...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Kookmin Bank adds Indonesian to banking platform
South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank said on Monday it launched Indonesian language services on its mobile banking platform KB Starbanking to expand its ...
Jul 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Goldman Sachs taps ex-Morgan Stanley MD as Korea co-head
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said on Monday that it has appointed Ahn Jae-hoon, former managing director at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as country co-h...
Jul 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea’s Woori Bank raises $550 mn in AT1 hybrid bond
South Korean major bank Woori Bank said on Thursday that it raised $550 million by issuing additional tier 1 (AT1) hybrid bonds on July 17 with call...
Jul 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korean banks raise mortgage rates despite looming rate cut
South Korean banks are raising mortgage rates again as the government strives to curb household debt growth that grew at its sharpest pace in three ...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hana Bank, SK Telecom to support AI startups
South Korea's Hana Bank and SK Telecom Co. held the final selection and inauguration ceremony for the second AI Startup Accelerator BootCamp at Spar...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
BofA eyes its 1st Korean IPO management with K Bank deal
Bank of America Corp. (BofA) is quickly expanding its presence in the South Korean initial public offering market, where J.P. Morgan and Citigroup G...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea’s Lotte Card sees 1st profit in Vietnam since launch
Lotte Card Co., South Korea’s No. 5 credit card issuer, is enjoying its first monthly profit in Vietnam after offering various financial produ...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea mulls tripling NPS' advance dollar funding limit
South Korea is considering tripling the maximum amount of dollars the National Pension Service (NPS) can buy from the domestic foreign exchange mark...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial builds disaster response system
South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group announced on Sunday that it established a disaster response system to provide swift and substantial assistance...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanyang Securities up for sale; in talks with KCGI, Woori
Hanyang Securities Co., a small South Korean brokerage firm, has been put on the market as its parent Hanyang University Foundation scrambles to kee...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hana Financial mulls non-banking M&As for growth: CEO
Hana Financial Group, one of South Korea's top five financial groups, is mulling mergers and acquisitions in non-banking sectors in a bid to seize n...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK chief signals rate cut; warns of rising housing prices
The time is ripe to prepare an interest rate cut as consumer prices are holding around South Korea’s target of 2%. But it remains uncertain wh...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling
Korea slaps Credit Suisse with largest ever short-sale penalty
South Korea's financial regulator said on Wednesday it has officially imposed Credit Suisse Group AG and its affiliate a combined 27.2 billion won...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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