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South Korean banks are broadening their horizons beyond Asia into Mexico, Poland and Africa in step with Korean manufacturing companies’ globa...

South Korea will launch the country’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade Co. in the first half of next year to enable stock trading for...

South Korea's Shilla Duty Free Shop announced on Thursday that it partnered with Meituan and Dazhong Dianping, China's largest travel and lifestyle ...

South Korea’s listed firms are undervalued compared with companies in public markets of developed and emerging countries, according to the Kor...

South Korean brokerage firms expanded their net profits from overseas operations last year, backed by increased gains from their investment banking ...

Shares of Krafton Inc., South Korea’s gaming behemoth, lost about 8% on Tuesday on news that SK Square Co., an investment arm of the country&r...

South Korea's LG Innotek and SK On have won the Edison Awards in the US for the second consecutive year. LG Innotek announced on April 21 that it r...

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that its thin chocolate-coated cookie sticks Pepero and no-sugar ice cream Zero entered King Po...

South Korean textile maker and supplier Sae-A Trading Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire US sportswear maker Tegra ...

KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, announced on Monday that it launched the WE:SH Travel credit card that offers benefits sp...

South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it will open a Bellygom pop-up store at Lotte Duty Free's showroom Now in Myeongdong unti...

South Korea’s Lotte Duty Free announced on Tuesday that it changed its duty-free showroom LDF House, which was opened last October in Myeong...

South Korean and Thai governments declared the launch of negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on Thursday. South Korea’s ...

The National Tax Service (NTS) of South Korea said on Tuesday that Euroclear Bank SA/NV and Clearstream Banking S.A., two major clearing houses for ...

South Korea's advanced tech startup Wrtn Technologies, a major player in generative artificial intelligence (AI), opened its free and unlimited AI s...

South Korea’s instant ramen noodle exports soared to a record monthly high in February, data showed, on course to hit the $1 billion mark in 2...

While the economic impact of US singer Taylor Swift is so powerful that pundits coined words like “the Taylor Swift economy,” no less st...

South Korea's HD Hyundai Construction Equipment Co. announced on Wednesday that it recently signed a contract to supply 60 construction equipment un...

Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas governor and long-time confidant of former US President Donald Trump, has shown firm support for her form...

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, said on Thursday it introduced a trade-in program in the country for electric vehicles to boos...

Duty-free shops at Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s main gateway, are fiercely competing to lure luxury brand boutiques to their o...

More than 60% of South Korean women from their mid-20s to their mid-40s who are currently working have no plan to have children although nearly all ...

South Korean brokerage house Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Tuesday that the number of its retail customer accounts in India, one of the world&r...

Line Corporation announced on Friday that it has launched paid and free AI Assistant services within the LINE Messenger in Japan.LINE AI Assistant i...

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Feb. 22 that it released the beta version of its open-source small lan...

Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced on Tuesday that it has uploaded the Labeler ...

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading and rental company actively investing in tech firms in recent years, will step up its efforts to transform i...

South Korea and Indonesia have agreed to allow unrestricted flight operations between their regional airports. This announcement, made by Seoul's Mi...

South Korean cosmetics giant Amorepacific Group's stock closed at 3,400 won ($2.6) on Wednesday, down 12.1% after the group announced disappointing ...

The South Korean travel retail industry, once considered the country’s golden goose, is forced to streamline operations given no signs of a dr...