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South Korea saw a record-high number of foreign tourists post-COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2024. The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Spor...

Kia Corp., the second-largest automaker in South Korea, posted record quarterly profit and revenue for the first three months of this year, backed b...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Thursday it has swung to a profit in the fir...

Fast food giant McDonald’s Corp. achieved record revenue of 1.29 trillion won ($815.9 million) last year in Korea, according to its regulatory...

South Korean tire makers are betting big on premium tires fitted for sports utility vehicles, full-size sedans and electric vehicles, after bigger a...

Corporate bond issuance in South Korea hit a record in the first quarter of this year amid growing expectations of the Federal Reserve’s rate ...

LG Electronics Inc. raked in its largest-ever quarterly revenue in the first quarter of this year, maintaining upward momentum after a stellar 2023,...

CJ Foodville, the food service subsidiary of South Korea's CJ Group and the operator of bakery chain brand Tous les Jours saw a record-high operatin...

Foreign investors gobbled up a record 15.8 trillion won ($11.7 billion) worth of stocks listed in South Korea during the first three months of this ...

South Korea’s top shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said on Friday it has won a $463 million contract to build four warships for Per...

While the economic impact of US singer Taylor Swift is so powerful that pundits coined words like “the Taylor Swift economy,” no less st...

South Korean retail investors, hunting for bargains, have flocked to shovel in the Japanese currency hovering around its record low value in anticip...

South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Monday that its pop-up stores of the three virtual idol groups at The Hyundai Seoul attracted ove...

South Koreans’ spending on private education hit a new record high of 27.1 trillion won ($20 billion) in 2023, as the government’s annou...

South Korean major banks aim to accelerate their expansions in other countries as their overseas investments paid off with record profits last year ...

When South Korean private equity firm JKL Partners acquired a 77% stake in Lotte Insurance Co. for about 730 billion won ($546.3 million) in 2019, m...

South Korea’s Seoul Semiconductor Co. said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint against multinational commerce giant Amazon with the European U...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 13.59% annualized return last year, makin...

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...

South Korea’s top four financial services groups – KB, Shinhan, Hana and Woori -- booked 1.97 trillion won ($1.5 billion) of loans as lo...

HYBE Co., the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, last year logged the highest-ever annual revenue for a South Korean entertainment company, backed b...

South Korea’s top shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said on Monday it has secured a $1.08 billion con...

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, aim to raise sales by 4.2% in India this year after logging record vehi...

South Korea’s CJ Group, which operates the country’s largest food and beverage company CJ CheilJedang Corp. and entertainment giant CJ E...

South Korea’s car exports to the US surged 44.6% on-year to a record high of $32.2 billion in 2023, making up the lion’s share of South ...

South Korean companies paid more corporate taxes than their rivals in developed countries in 2022, losing competitiveness, with the nation’s c...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest rechargeable battery maker, drew a record 5.61 trillion won ($4.2 billion) in bids for a S...

KB Financial Group and Kakao Bank, top players in South Korea’s offline and mobile banking sector, respectively, achieved their highest-ever p...

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. faces a record-breaking fine to the tune of about 20 billion won ($15 million) over it...

South Korean investors armed with ample liquidity have rushed to buy corporate debts to enjoy high yields before rates head south later this year, l...