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Global financial markets are facing rising volatility and uncertainty this year as the US stock market rally led by Big Tech is losing steam amid co...

Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s top auto parts maker, has partnered with the country’s biggest lender Shinhan Bank to help its partners...

Hyundai Motor Co. has tapped Suyi Kim, former private equity head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Benjamin Tan, an ex-portfo...

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest ocean carrier, is seeking to buy SK Shipping Co., excluding its liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation busi...

Shin Je-yoon, former chairman of South Korea’s top financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), will likely assume the role o...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) accounted for the majority of disputes over corporate management control in South Korea last year, with th...

Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group Chairman Song Young-sook is poised to claim victory in a year-long dispute with her eldest son Lim Jong-yoon to take cont...

SINGAPORE -- Disney Plus, a global over-the-top (OTT) platform, is expanding its lineup of original Korean titles, buoyed by the popularity of K-dra...

Min Hee-jin, the former CEO of ADOR, HYBE Co. 's label behind the K-pop girl group NewJeans, announced her resignation as the label's internal direc...

SEOUL—Ryu Seong-hyeon doesn’t need to imagine what the thousands of North Korean soldiers deployed to the Russian front line...

A leadership change in Brand X Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top leggings brand Xexymix, is spawning speculation that a management cont...

South Korean sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) announced on Thursday that it has appointed former World Bank Group executive ...

HYBE Co. has suffered a fall of its share price for two consecutive days after its popular girl group NewJeans demanded their former creative direct...

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it will enlist startups to participate in its external startup incubation program C-Lab Outside unt...

To the world, South Korea is well known as home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., but it is...

Offshore investors net purchased nearly 23 trillion won ($16.7 billion) worth of South Korea-listed stocks in the first half of this year. The buyin...

South Korea will put the adoption of poison pills and dual-class shares on the new policy agenda at a meeting with business leaders this month, wher...

Macquarie Group has named two executives at its Seoul-based real asset investment unit, which manages the main Kospi-listed Macquarie Korea Infrastr...

Food-to-retail conglomerate Lotte will expand the authority of outside directors by separating the roles of chief executives and board chairs at its...

South Korea’s KT&G Corp., the world’s leading tobacco maker, is facing challenges in its chief executive appointment as the firm&rsq...

Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group’s aim to merge with chemicals giant OCI Group is hitting some roadblocks amid a prolonged feud between the family o...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO, has nominated former President Chang In-hwa as its next group chair...

Kakao Corp. is set to replace executives of SM Entertainment Co., who ousted its founder Lee Soo-man when the South Korean mobile giant acquired the...

Singapore-based investment management firm Flashlight Capital Partners Pte. (FCP) has urged South Korean tobacco maker KT&G Corp. to sue its inc...

IGIS Asset Management Co., a leading real estate firm in South Korea, said last week it has tapped Oh Taesuk, a real asset expert with more than 20 ...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO, has come under fire for its opaqueness in choosing a new leader a...

South Korean Kakao Pay Corp.'s takeover deal of US-based Siebert Financial Corp. has failed amid the growing legal risks surrounding top executives ...

The South Korean government plans to offer financial support to domestic companies when they import urea, a substance used in diesel vehicles and fe...

Apple Inc. said on Monday that it will open its sixth store in South Korea on Dec. 9. The new store will be located in the Starfield Hanam shop...

Barings LLC has appointed Chong Hak (John) Park as head and sole representative director of its South Korean asset management arm, effective Jan. 1,...