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South Korea’s job growth in October fell for a fifth consecutive month to the lowest in eleven months, boosting concerns over a slowdown in As...

Lotte Chemical on Tuesday announced that it suffered 423.9 billion won ($308 million) in operating loss on a consolidated basis in the third quarter...

South Korea’s current account surplus has shrunk on falling exports, adding to concerns over a slowdown in Asia’s fourth-largest economy...

Global businesses are forecast to suffer supply chain disruptions next year amid worsening geopolitical risk, such as the Russia-Ukraine war and pro...

KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, has teamed up with another local company to expand its digital healthcare business in Vietnam furth...

South Korean companies, led by the country’s most valuable firm Samsung Electronics Co., have rushed to accumulate cash as interest rates kept...

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is accelerating its digital shift to better respond to the changi...

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. announced its third-quarter earnings on Nov. 3, including quarterly operating profit of 150.3 ...

The South Korean economy grew at its slowest pace of the year in the third quarter on weak net exports, adding to concerns over a further slowdown i...

The Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) is eyeing certain sectors that create stable revenue streams such as healthcare, daily...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is aiming to secure market dominance for a next-generation DRAM chip called DDR5 b...

A buyer who works for the men's fashion division of a South Korean department store had trouble sleeping ahead of the fall sale that ran from Sept. ...

Global investors are eyeing infrastructure as the asset class is inflation-protected, providing strong downside protection in times of high volatili...

The global venture capital ecosystem has been contracting since the second quarter of last year, hit by rising inflation and rate hikes. New ...

Korea Credit Data (KCD), a South Korean data solutions provider for small business owners, has become a Korean unicorn, or an unlisted company with ...

The phrase “Average is over” topped the list of 10 key phrases suggested by a renowned Korean consumer behavior professor to predict 202...

South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...

Deep learning-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Z.Ai Inc. won the September pitch competition hosted by Seoul-based startup accelerator D....

The tanking South Korean won currency has stoked doubts over the fundamentals of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, although the government contin...

South Korea’s Bosung Group has attracted $2 billion from TGK Inc., a US infrastructure company, for its planned construction of Korea’s ...

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group said on Wednesday that it has signed a contract with Palantir Technologies Inc., a US data analyt...

South Korea’s headline inflation eased in August for the first time in seven months on a slower rise in oil prices, but the central bank is st...

South Korea’s lawmakers on Thursday passed a resolution to officially express its concerns over the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that remo...

South Korea logged a record monthly trade deficit in August with the longest spree of shortfalls in more than 14 years, while domestic consumption, ...

The emergence of a rival is usually a cause of distress for existing players.Micron Technology Inc.’s entry into the DDR5 DRAM arena, however,...

Shinhan Card Co. has joined forces with US legal data and analytics company FiscalNote Holdings Inc. to expand its data business into the global mar...

South Korea’s two home appliances giants – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. – dominated the global TV market in the...

South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co. has forged a partnership with China’s top data center developer and operator GDS to jointly enter the Sout...

South Korean companies are embracing the x-to-earn (X2E) business model, by which users earn rewards by playing online games and accomplishing other...

The Jubilee, a 2,200-ton tuna fishing vessel operated by South Korea’s leading fishing company Dongwon Industries Co., has been using drones t...