corporate U-turn

The South Korean corporate bond market is taking a direct hit from growing credit crunch concerns in the country’s construction sector trigger...

Foreign investors turned net buyers of Samsung Electronics Co. in 2023, reversing their selling spree of the stock over past three years, as the sem...

Shinsegae Inc., South Korea’s largest department store and supermarket company, will pull out of the whisky market, bucking the trend of the r...

Shinhan Finance, a subsidiary of South Korea's Shinhan Card in Kazakhstan, has attracted a 31 billion won ($24 million) investment from local car de...

On Nov. 20, HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier, issued new 200 million shares after its two largest shareholders -- Korea Development ...

Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Rhee Chang-yong has transformed the central bank into a dynamic monetary authority by cooperating with not only oversea...

Celemics Inc., a South Korean diagnostic reagent producer, is gearing up for its foray into the US and India next year in its first step toward glob...

Global sales of consumer information technology electronics such as smartphones, PCs and TVs are expected to rebound in 2024, fueling hopes of an ea...

The sibling rivalry for management control of Hankook Tire & Technology Co., South Korea’s top tire maker, has taken another turn as the e...

Office vacancy rates in South Korea’s capital city of Seoul fell to their lowest level this year last month as people returned to work follo...

Hankook Tire & Technology Co., South Korea’s top tire manufacturer, is launching a local corporation in Taiwan to directly sell tires in t...

South Korea is more hopeful about a gradual recovery in the economy, driven largely by revived global demand for its mainstay export semiconductors,...

LG Uplus Corp. has acquired a domestic dog space rental startup Along as the South Korean mobile carrier is zooming in on pet care services as its n...

South Korean social impact startups backed by the country’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group enjoyed higher corporate values with two of t...

South Korea's POSCO Holdings Inc. announced on Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC) in Seou...

SEOUL—Russia said it supports holding regular security talks with North Korea and China to address the threat posed by the U.S. on the Korean ...

South Korean information and communications technology service provider LG CNS has launched a service for finding useful knowledge and data within a...

South Korea’s biosimilar drugmaker Celltrion group on Monday moved one step closer to the planned combination of its three major affiliates wi...

Smilegate, South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, is raising investments in domestic startups despite ...

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 POSCO Group on Tuesday said its Chairman Choi Jeong-woo presided over the regular meeting of the World Steel Association on Su...

South Korea’s dreadfully low birthrate — the world’s lowest — is not just a concern for politicians or government officials....

A South Korean company recently gave up on its plan to venture into the burgeoning robot market.Fair-trade regulations that prohibit the creation of...

South Korea's KT Corp. has developed a solution called "DX Care" that allows for easy and fast diagnosis of corporate intranet quality issues. KT's ...

South Korea’s petrochemical and steel companies, which mainly engage in business-to-business transactions, are opening or running a string o...

South Korea’s corporate bond market is saddled with a massive amount of debt due later this year and a surge in banks' new bond issues, amid h...

Major South Korean companies’ spending on research and development lags investments made by their global competitors due to lower government t...

South Korean food and beverage (F&B) company Samsung Welstory has teamed up with Kangbuk Samsung Hospital to develop business-to-business (B2B) ...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery manufacturer, said on Tuesday it has raised $1 billion by selling its first global...

Back in the 1990s, South Korea was internationally denounced as a country where people eat dog meat.People hardly recognized nor paid attention to t...