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The significant fall in seaborne freight rates of late is expected to boost earnings prospects for South Korea’s major companies, benefitting ...

HMM Co., formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine, announced on Thursday that it has received the "Gold" rating for environmental, social and gover...

LB Investment Inc., a venture capital firm associated with the LG founder's family, has achieved a remarkable competition rate of over 1,000 to 1 fo...

South Korean biotech GI Innovation Inc. is slated to debut on the local public market at less than half of its pre-IPO investment value, facing luke...

South Korea confirmed that inflation eased while Asia’s fourth-largest economy continued to slow, adding to expectations that the government m...

Samsung Electronics Co.'s Neo QLED was recently awarded "Best Gaming TV" by Consumer Reports, a leading American consumer magazine. The magazine tes...

South Korea's semiconductor foundry company DB HiTek Co. last month saw its capacity utilization rate rise to the mid-80% level thanks to rising dem...

HD Hyundai Co., the owner of South Korea’s biggest shipbuilding group, opened an in-house daycare center at its new headquarters building in K...

Kumho Petrochemical Co. announced on Wednesday that it had received a "BB rating" in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) evaluation by Mo...

The South Korean won currency on Wednesday suffered its largest depreciation in more than a month as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signal...

South Korean central bank chief on Tuesday defied calls for an interest rate cut this year despite growing risks of a recession in Asia’s four...

South Korea’s headline inflation gain eased in February, rising at the slowest pace in 10 months on a drop in oil product prices but utility p...

South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. said on Thursday it had the lowest carbon emission intensity on East Asia–US West Coast rou...

South Korea’s central bank held its policy interest rate unchanged on Thursday as it slashed forecasts for economic growth and inflation altho...

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...

The South Korean won skidded to a near two-month low on Friday as hotter-than-forecast US inflation data added to expectations that the Federal Rese...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...