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Executives at all Samsung Group units will work six days a week from as early as this week in a shift to emergency mode. The move comes as the won's...

South Korea’s top financial regulator advised about 10 local savings banks in trouble to increase their capital by the end of this month to pr...

Apples, normally among the most common and available fruit, are poised to be a rarity in South Korea, where people are suffering a so-called “...

A growing number of private real estate firms are being put up for sale in South Korea amid a prolonged market downturn and increasing delinquencies...

The Red Sea crisis, disrupting the passage of ships through the Suez Canal, a central artery for global trade, is a bane for exporters looking for s...

China has halted customs clearance on its exports of urea, a substance used to reduce carbon emissions in diesel vehicles, raising the prospect of a...

Corporate governance and management transparency have long been the big issues influencing the so-called Korea Discount, alongside labor strife and ...

For the first time since Beijing lifted restrictions on group tourism to South Korea, Chinese cruise tourists have flocked to Jeju Island's duty-fre...

Kim Young-shub, former chief executive of information technology service provider LG CNS Co., has been named to head South Korea’s leading tel...

South Korea’s exporting companies are increasingly feeling the heat as its top export market China is sounding alarm bells over the world&rsqu...

South Korea’s central bank chief on Thursday vowed to reduce household debt without causing a severe economic downturn as the Bank of Korea he...

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

South Korea’s exports to China are poised to slide for a 15th straight month with an expected deeper drop in August amid a faltering economic ...

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. hired a top aide of former US President Donald Trump to expand its political network in Washington and se...

Studio Dragon Corp., a South Korean production company of Netflix hits such as "The Glory" and "Crash Landing on You," said on Monday its co-Chief E...

The ratings of Lotte's subsidiaries have been downgraded en masse. Lotte Chemical Corp., the group's cash cow, was cut to AA from AA+.NICE Investors...

Hyosung Chemical announced on Monday that it will invest $120 million in its Vietnamese subsidiary, Hyosung Vina Chemicals Co.Hyosung Vina Chemicals...

The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) on Thursday said it deeply regretted the political role it took in the previous governments and vowed to b...

South Korean institutional investors find secondaries and private debt attractive amid the darkening economic outlook, chief investment officers (CI...

A South Korean lawmaker’s scandal over ownership of cryptocurrencies, including those issued by domestic game developers, is expected to jeopa...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday declared an end to most COVID-19 restrictions including mandatory quarantine for patients of the pa...

Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. are slated to log a combined 150 million units of car sales this month. The carmakers of Hyundai Motor...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it expects the global semiconductor market to rebound in the sec...

South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) has joined hands with JERA, a Japan-based global liquefied natural gas (LNG) corporation, in the wak...

The Korea Development Institute (KDI), a renowned government-affiliated economic think tank in South Korea, disclosed on Sunday that the domestic se...

Yoon Kyoung-lim, the sole nominee to be KT Corp.’s next chief executive, has offered to resign, sending the selection committee of the top S...

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

KT Corp. Chief Executive Ku Hyeon-mo has abandoned his ambitious bid to lead South Korea’s largest telecommunications company for another thre...

Just a few years back, it was Taiwan that was on everyone’s lips in the semiconductor industry.The small East Asian island country, home to th...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is considering slashing its semiconductor production as the company is heading ...