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South Korean stocks on Tuesday recouped some of their hefty losses caused by the previous day's global panic selling after financial authorities iss...

Logistics centers in Seoul suburbs are suffering oversupply and rising vacancy rates, according to a report from South Korean commercial real estate...

South Korea’s headline inflation remained in the 2% range for the fourth straight month in July despite a reacceleration, complicating the Ban...

South Korea’s treasury bond yields fell to their lowest points in more than two years, slipping below the 3% level for the first time since Ap...

South Korean sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has shortlisted three candidates as the next chief executive officer, who will...

South Korea's four major oil refiners—SK Energy, GS Caltex, S-Oil Corp., and HD Hyundai Oilbank—achieved a record high in petroleum pr...

Prime office transactions in Seoul hit a 10-year low in the second quarter due to delayed fundraising amid uncertainties of the central bank’s...

South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank said on Monday it launched Indonesian language services on its mobile banking platform KB Starbanking to expand its ...

South Korean major bank Woori Bank said on Thursday that it raised $550 million by issuing additional tier 1 (AT1) hybrid bonds on July 17 with call...

South Korean banks are raising mortgage rates again as the government strives to curb household debt growth that grew at its sharpest pace in three ...

The time is ripe to prepare an interest rate cut as consumer prices are holding around South Korea’s target of 2%. But it remains uncertain wh...

Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund with around $770 billion in assets under management, has t...

The Korean won is forecast to continue its downward spiral and soften past the 1,400 threshold against the greenback this year, while the Bank of Ko...

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is set to commit 150 billion won ($108.5 million) in preferred stocks for offices in...

South Korean oil refiner SK Innovation Co. secured an AA rating in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment by Morgan Stanley Capi...

South Korea’s household names Samsung, SK and LG have entered a new race to win the glass substrate market set to surge in the artificial inte...

Kakao Enterprise, an AI-based cloud solutions service subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday that it started the Rocket La...

South Korea's financial regulator said on Wednesday it has officially imposed Credit Suisse Group AG and its affiliate a combined 27.2 billion won...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Sunday that it will provide a credit of $810 million for the construction of the Karnaphuli ...

South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals maker Lotte Chemical Corp. has taken a hit from a lowered credit-rating outlook of the company and its majo...

South Korea's Shinhan Card Co. and the domestic internet bank KakaoBank Corp. said on Wednesday that they signed a business agreement to develop and...

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday it launched an Internet of Things (IoT) credit card in collaboration with KB Kookmin Card. The card us...

South Korea's low-cost carrier (LCC) Jin Air announced on Wednesday that it received an A in the Sustinvest ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) ...

South Korean private equity investments declined last year for the first time since 2016 due to interest rate hikes, high inflation and the Korean w...

South Korea's Hanwha Life Financial Services said on Tuesday it received an A+ (Stable) credit rating from Korea Ratings, becoming the first domes...

Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading defense system developer in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it has received an AA rating in the 2024 environmental, ...

South Korean credit rating agency NICE Investors Service Co. (NICE) downgraded Hyosung Chemical's credit rating outlook from stable to negative on W...