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Even before South Korea’s second-largest hypermarket chain Homeplus Co. was put under court receivership due to its worsening financial woes, ...

South Korea’s economy rebounded slower than central bank expectations in the third quarter on sluggish exports, adding to predictions that the...

The share price of SK Hynix Inc. plummeted as much as 11% at one point on Thursday after Morgan Stanley sharply cut its target price in an about-tur...

KB Securities Co. on Tuesday raised the target price for LIG Nex1 Co. from 195,000 won ($140.4) to 200,000 won amidst a recent significant rise in...

South Korea is expected to retain its MSCI’s emerging market status as the global index provider said in its June 6 report that the country&rs...

South Korea's financing and finance leasing firm M Capital Co. is facing a growing risk of liquidity crunch as its attempts to refinance maturing de...

Hyundai Motor Securities downgraded its investment opinion on GS Engineering & Construction Corp. (GS E&C) from "Buy" to "Market Perform" on...

The credit rating outlook on Hyosung Advanced Materials Corp. has been lowered one notch to Stable by South Korea’s two major credit rating ag...

Disregarding existing ways and being open to new opportunities are challenging in South Korea’s large conglomerates, where a strict corporate ...

The ratings of Lotte's subsidiaries have been downgraded en masse. Lotte Chemical Corp., the group's cash cow, was cut to AA from AA+.NICE Investors...

Korea Investors Service downgraded the unsecured bond credit rating of Hyosung Chemical on Thursday from A to A-, saying that its profit-generating ...

EcoPro BM Co., the top stock on South Korea’s junior bourse Kosdaq, declined on Wednesday as some brokerage houses have downgraded the shares ...

South Korean companies are at risk of credit rating downgrades as the fallout of a debt default by the domestic developer of a Legoland theme park r...

Two credit rating agencies have lowered South Korean big-box retail giants’ credit profiles. Korea’s top three big-box stores, Homeplus ...

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. on Sept. 10 rebutted J.P. Morgan’s massive downgrade of its target price for the biopharmaceutical company. T...

Shares of South Korea’s three leading electric-vehicle (EV) battery makers LG Chem Ltd, SK Innovation Co. and Samsung SDI Co. fell 5% on August ...