geopolitical risk

The diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) shortage in South Korea stemming from China's suspension of urea exports is getting worse, as local DEF inventories a...

South Korea’s economy expanded slower than expected in the third quarter on sluggish private consumption and capital expenditures offset healt...

The deal to combine the world's largest shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. with second-ranked Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co....

In 2018, a South Korean food startup GoPizza Co. was on the brink of shutting down. Lim Jae-won, GoPizza's founder, had launched the business with a...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), a South Korean retirement fund, is chasing medium-risk, medium-return assets in developed markets with a...

South Korean companies rushed to issues bonds as the Bank of Korea is expected to raise interest rates further, ramping up financing costs. Some war...

China's regulatory crackdown on Chinese technology and private education companies is driving up the level of volatility and creating mispricing in ...

South Korean private equity (PE) firm Hahn & Co.’s deal to acquire Namyang Dairy Products is at risk of collapse as the owner and his fami...

South Korea's economy reported strong growth on healthy private consumption in the second quarter, keeping expectations of an interest rate hike lat...

The recent asset price rises in South Korea, in particular in the equities and real estate markets, have been too rapid, even considering an expecte...

South Korea’s exports surged to the highest level in over 32 years in May on the back of strong demand for semiconductors and automobiles, rei...

Current high asset valuations might be justified by record-low interest rates supported by expansionary fiscal and monetary policies, but investors ...

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday that it will recall 81,701 units of its electric vehicles sold worldwide over fire risk, in a move that could co...

South Korea’s treasury yields are heading higher as advances in vaccine development and concerns over increased government bond sales prompt f...

An increasing amount of global funds are flowing into South Korea as advances in COVID-19 vaccine development and a weaker dollar boost investors&rs...

South Korea’s Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has recently selected an opportunistic strategy fund for private debt investment as the $3 bi...

Korea's household credit risk hit the second-highest record for the upcoming third quarter, driven by impacts of the global pandemic wh...

The Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) plans to abandon its principle of hedging currency exposure from investing in overseas alternatives, a...

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has entered New York City’s inventory loan market by providing $350 million financing on a luxury condominium tower i...

The pace of growth in overseas alternative investments by South Korean securities companies has been “too rapid” over the past 18 months and brought t...

The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed risk management center head Seong-Tae Park as new head of investment strategy on Dec. 8, a week...

Lotte Non-Life Insurance Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group, is looking to US infrastructure and private debt markets in Europ...

Korea Post’s Savings Bureau has been shifting overseas investment focus into relatively low-risk assets such as fixed-income assets since last year to...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has selected London-based consultancy, Albourne Partners Ltd., as an advisor to undertake operational due...

Incoming World Bank’s director of the investment management division, Heung-sik Choo, said that the international financial institution, which man...