regulatory reform

South Korea’s near-monopoly power company Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is expected to raise electricity rates and lessen its outsized re...

More retirees of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) are snagging new jobs at private companies such as the banks they regulated during their te...

The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), the voice of the conglomerates that formed the engine of the South Korean economy for more than five deca...

  Jin Roy Ryu, chairman of South Korea’s leading copper smelter and defense equipment maker Poongsan Corp., has been chosen to lead the ...

Come September, South Korean investors will be able to freely and safely buy and sell fractions of artwork and even live cows just as they do with t...

Corentec Co., a South Korean company that develops artificial joints and spinal implants, is making a full-fledged entry into the Japanese market. T...

Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to...

MSCI Inc. regards the South Korean stock market as not ready for its developed market status despite a series of reforms, dampening the country&rsqu...

Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...

In a country like South Korea with few natural resources to run its economy, innovations or brilliant business ideas are crucial to its survival.It ...

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in South Korea on Thursday said it seeks to make the nation Asia's top business hub on the 70th anniversar...

The Hyundai Motor Group is set to become South Korea’s first conglomerate to disclose dividend allocations ahead of the ex-dividend date, a mo...

Korean Air Lines Co. has suspended a plan to revamp its mileage program after it drew harsh criticism from both its customers and government officia...

Korea United Pharm. Inc. announced on Monday that it signed a contract to supply nine types of medicines, including 11 anticancer drugs, to Saudi ph...

South Korea’s major business lobby group the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) will become a more open and future-oriented business group ...

From now on, companies in South Korea that have raised funds by issuing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) bonds will have to answer questi...

South Korean molecular diagnostics companies are increasingly buying high-quality laboratories in the US that meet federal regulatory standards in a...

South Korea will reform financial market regulations to attract more foreign investments and to achieve MSCI Inc.’s developed market status fo...

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of Hyundai Motor Group, said Monday it has completed its co...

South Korea plans to revise its stock dividend policy as part of a broader financial market reform to help attract foreign investors and obtain MSCI...

Come this Thursday, 10 select startups will duke it to prove their business-to-business (B2B) model has the best chance of success. The start...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is set for its new Chairman Kim Tae-hyun, a former CEO of state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corp....

Align Partners Capital Management, a South Korean activist fund, has threatened legal action against entertainment behemoth SM Entertainment Co., re...

As Yoon Suk-yeol’s presidency hits an early rough patch, it’s hard not to view his troubles through the lens of Japan’s Shinzo Abe...

Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, is expected to accelerate the restructuring of its corporate governance to help Vice Chairm...

Woori Card Co. is set to start the installment finance business in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy as the credit card unit of Sout...

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. has significantly improved its financial health, with its debt-to-equity ratio tumblin...

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. plans to drastically change the way KakaoTalk, the country’s top mobile messe...

The Carlyle Group, a US private equity giant, visited South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis Co. last week to discuss steps to boost the value of the Hy...

South Korea’s Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki reiterated the country will take reform measures such as the extension of the local currency's trad...