yen weakness

Rising borrowing costs coupled with the weakening local currency are forcing an increasing number of South Korean companies to withdraw or halt thei...

South Korea’s battery and semiconductor companies, stock investors’ favorites, failed to revive the local initial public offering market...

South Korea’s game developers aimed to improve earnings with the release of new titles in the second half after reporting disappointing quarte...

TOKYO – South Korea’s minimum wage per hour is poised to exceed Japan’s for the first time as early as this October.A subcommittee...

Episodes of extreme yen weakness don’t tend to go well for Asia. In the late 1990s, early 2010s and today, a sliding yen often proves to be even...

South Korea suffered the largest trade deficit for the first half of a year on surging energy prices and slowing exports, while consumer sentiment i...

The much-touted sale of a controlling stake in Iljin Materials Co., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, is flagging as big spenders are ...

South Korea’s major industries, especially the petrochemical and auto parts sectors, are suffering from surging global commodity prices, a wea...

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

South Korean exporters such as Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are jittery as the country’s won currency hit its strongest level versus the Ja...

The sliding yen has prompted South Korean importers and households to go bargain-hunting for the Japanese currency, which they believe is near its t...

South Korea’s won currency on Monday hit its strongest point against the Japanese yen in more than three years on higher interest rates and co...

South Korea’s won currency skidded to a fresh low in nearly two years as oil prices spiked to a 14-year peak with fears of a prolonged war bet...

Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, dropped a listing plan to raise up ...

South Korean Simone Acc. Collection Ltd. has withdrawn its initial public offering plan on lukewarm demand from institutional investors, investment ...

South Korea’s major battery makers, which have underperformed the broader stock market since the start of the year, remain opaque as fund mana...

POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker, is set to return to a strong performance this year following a lackluster 2020 hit by the fallout...

The three children and the wife of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died on Oct. 25 at the age of 78, is expected to face inheritance taxes of ...

Global memory-chip maker Kioxia Holdings Corp., held by US private equity firm Bain Capital, is expected to raise 85.3 billion yen (953.6 billion won)...

The South Korean won has been stuck in a range between 1,190 and 1,210 to the US dollar in the past two months, down 3% since the start of the year, d...