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South Korea saw its fertility rate, which has been already the world’s lowest in the past few years, hit its historic low of 0.78 last year, a...

South Korea’s central bank said on Tuesday it regards the current interest rate as tight, suggesting the monetary authority may hold the polic...

Lexus, the premium brand of Japanese carmaker Toyota Corp., offers the best after-sales service among imported cars in South Korea, followed by Swed...

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, introduced a new version of its Creta compact SUV at the Indonesia International Motor Sho...

South Korea’s low-income households are feeling the pinch of rising food prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by a local t...

Oasis Corp., a South Korean grocery delivery platform, decided to withdraw its local initial public offering plan on Feb. 13 amid tepid interest fro...

The yield on South Korea’s benchmark three-year treasury bonds has stayed below the base rate for a month, out of sync with monetary policies ...

South Korea’s sea flag carrier HMM Co. is expected to suffer an over-80% plunge in operating profit this year due to a downward spiral in cont...

Banks in South Korea last month saw deposits plummet over 45 trillion won ($35.5 billion) from the previous month due to a decline in deposit intere...

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. saw lukewarm interest from domestic institutional investors during the Feb. 7-8 bookbuilding for ...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is gearing up for its largest-ever corporate bond issue in South Korea at lower-th...

South Korean aircraft engine maker and defense utility company Hanwha Aerospace Co. has signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ro...

SK Bioscience Co., a biopharmaceutical arm of South Korea's SK Group, announced it has received a BBB rating in its latest environmental, social, an...

Korean Air Lines Co. had its strongest performance ever in 2022, as it successfully cashed in on a thriving cargo business and a full recovery in pa...

MGRV Community & Space, a South Korean startup that operates co-living facilities under the brand "Mangrove," announced on Wednesday it has attr...

South Korean kids learning platform Norit won the monthly pitch competition hosted by D.Camp, a Seoul-based startup accelerator, on Jan. 26.Norit ma...

Galaxy S23, the latest mobile handset of South Korea's electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co.,  obtained the Canstar Blue 2023 Most Satisfie...

Retirement pensions at banks in the fourth quarter of last year emerged as a haven for money that tried to generate a stable return, shunning away f...

The Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong on Wednesday said, "We will focus on inflation this year but also closely consider tradeoffs to preserve ...

South Korea's Hyosung Chemical has failed to receive a single purchase order in its demand forecast for corporate bond issuance.Investment banking s...

South Korea’s central bank on Friday raised interest rates by a quarter point to 3.5%, while signaling a further cut in its economic growth fo...

South Korea’s secondhand car market is cooling rapidly as both dealers and buyers are reeling from elevated interest rates, which also bode il...

South Korea’s move to privatize container shipping line HMM Co. to recover taxpayer money is gaining traction as government officials start lo...

South Korea's KB Asset Management Co. is set to sell two three-star hotel buildings in Myeong-dong, one of the most popular spots for foreign touris...

South Korea's two major importers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), E1 Corp. and SK Gas Corp., have both cut their supply price of LPG in the first ...

Woori Financial Group said on Thursday it has earned an AA rating for the second consecutive year in the global ESG rating announced by Morgan Stanl...

SK Inc., SK Group's investment arm, won the highest AAA ratings from both Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) and the Dow Jones Sustainabili...

South Korean politician Yang Hyang-ja, a Samsung Electronics Co. executive-turned-lawmaker, criticized her fellow lawmakers' decision to raise the p...

LIG Nex1 Co. said on Friday that it has signed an agreement with the Naval Logistics Command for the Maritime Surveillance Radar-II project, which w...

In October, commercial building sales in Seoul plunged to the level of the 2008 global financial crisis.According to an analysis of actual transacti...