lost decade

Daedong Corp., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, has ended its two-decade-long partnership with Deere & Co., the wor...

A passenger plane carrying 181 people, including six crew members, crashed in southwestern South Korea early Sunday, killing 179 people, according t...

Samsung Electronics Co. will buy back 10 trillion won ($7.2 billion) in shares over the next year to prop up its share price, which has plunged more...

On Aug. 31, 2004, 92 Filipinos, wearing T-shirts and white caps, entered Incheon International Airport determined to make money in South Korea and r...

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun’s love for archery is well-known in South Korea. The executive chairman of Hyundai Motor Co. and Ki...

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean rolling stock and defense equipment maker, has secured a 270 billion won ($196 million) order from Uzbekistan to s...

Cash dividend payments by companies listed on the Korea Exchange, the country's main bourse, have nearly tripled in a decade. They have returned a l...

South Korea is desperately working for inclusion on a global major bond index to save the ailing won, the second worst-performer among emerging Asia...

Humans will be able to control biological age and reverse their age in 10 years with advancements in medical science and live up to around 120, abou...

Trapped in a downward spiral, South Korea saw the country’s total fertility rate hit a new record low of 0.72, also again the world’s lo...

Cleared of wrongdoing charges that shackled his leadership for years, Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee now will actively seek mergers and acquisition...

Smilegate RPG, a South Korean developer of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Lost Ark, faced a 100 billion won ($74.8 millio...

The vast majority of creditors to Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. (Taeyoung E&C) have agreed to start debt restructuring for the tro...

Samsung Electronics Co. seeks to rake in 11.5 trillion won ($8.8 billion) in operating profit from its semiconductor business this year, swiveling f...

South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group has acquired Sharekhan Ltd., India’s 10th-largest brokerage firm, to enh...

South Korean biopharmaceutical company LegoChem Biosciences Inc. is seeking to change its name after it lost in a trademark infringement lawsuit fil...

Investors are experiencing the third “sea change,” facing the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes and its impact on economies and busines...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday announced its planned global release on Wednesday of Galaxy SmartTag2, the improved version of its mobile access...

Samsung Electronics Co. signed a business agreement with KB Kookmin Card and American Express on Tuesday for the launch of an Internet-of-Things (Io...

Back in the 1990s, South Korea was internationally denounced as a country where people eat dog meat.People hardly recognized nor paid attention to t...

Their relationship dates back to 1973 when Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull and Amory Houghton Jr., then-chairman of Corning Inc., met to discuss a b...

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, is stepping up its defense export marketing efforts ...

South Korean investors’ retreat from Chinese equity funds of nearly 10 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in total principal is accelerating amid dee...

China-Korea Petrochemical, a joint venture (JV) between South Korea’s SK Geo Centric and the Chinese public oil company Sinopec, celebrates it...

Once everyone’s darling but now an ugly duckling, Capro Co., South Korea’s sole maker of caprolactam, a nylon raw material, is despera...

"Lost Ark," the popular South Korean MMORPG developed by Smilegate RPG, is set to make its debut in the Chinese gaming market next month. Tencent Ga...

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Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, aims to develop engines for unmanned aircraft within the next decade t...

The South Korean won is underperforming most other currencies as Asia’s fourth-largest economy is gradually losing steam for long-term growth....

YG Entertainment Inc., the K-pop label behind global sensation Blackpink, saw its stock hitting the highest point in more than 10 years as a new gro...