POSCO carries out drastic top management reshuffle
POSCO Group on Monday replaced chief executives of key seven units in a drastic overhaul of the South Korean steel-to-battery materials group to shi...
Celltrion to retire $400 mn treasury stock in January
South Korea’s biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. on Wednesday announced a plan to retire about a quarter of its treasury stock worth 563 billion ...
BOK to keep rate at 3.25% in Nov despite dim GDP outlook: survey
South Korea’s central bank is expected to freeze its policy rate at 3.25% during its last monetary policy meeting of the year to prevent any f...
Hyosung Chemical scraps specialty gas unit sale to IMM, STIC
Hyosung Chemical Corp. has failed to reach an agreement with a consortium of IMM Private Equity and STIC Investments Inc. to sell its specialty gas ...
Mobility firms, banks replace battery, K-culture stocks in KEDI 30 Index
Mobility, financial services and biotech companies have elbowed out battery and entertainment stocks in the KEDI Innovator ESG 30 Index in an annual...
Korea’s top landscaping firm Dawon to expand in SE Asia
South Korea’s Dawon Corporation aims to expand its business in Southeast Asia as it beat out major domestic builders such as Samsung C&T C...
Kakao Games reports sharp drop in Q2 operating profit
Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., reported a sharp decline in second-quarter earnings on Wednesday d...
Affirma Capital seeks to sell entire stake in both SeAH FS, S&G Holdings
Affirma Capital, a Singapore-based buyout private equity firm, is seeking to sell its entire stake in both South Korean steel tube maker SeAH FS and...
Korean ELS investors biting nails over sharp falls in Hong Kong shares
Chinese shares listed on the Hong Kong bourse have fallen sharply so far this year, placing the city’s main stock index, the HSCEI, among the ...
S.Korean auditors enjoy sharp pay rise under new laws
The average salary of accountants at Big Four accounting firms in South Korea has more than doubled over the past few years, as financial regulators...
Ransomware attacks targeting S.Korean companies on sharp rise
Global hacker groups' ransomware attacks against domestic companies and organizations in the first quarter of this year have been revealed to total ...
S.Korean semiconductor industry faces sharp decline: report
The Korea Development Institute (KDI), a renowned government-affiliated economic think tank in South Korea, disclosed on Sunday that the domestic se...
Brokerage firms in S.Korea log sharp falls in 2022 earnings
Brokerage firms in South Korea, led by Mirae Asset Securities Co., suffered a 50% plunge in net profit in 2022, as dwindling trading fees outweighed...
S.Korea lags Taiwan in GNI per capita for first time since 2002
South Korea’s gross national income (GNI) per capita dropped 7.7% on-year last year, coming in below that of its smaller rival Taiwan for the ...
JB Financial refuses activist fund's request to increase dividends
South Korea’s JB Financial Group Co. has refused a local activist fund’s request to raise dividend payouts, stressing such a measure wil...
Electric vehicles in S.Korea beat diesel cars in sales
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in South Korea last year including hybrids surpassed those of diesel cars for the first time due to the price of di...
S.Korea fines Tesla $2.2 mn for alleged false advertising
South Korea’s antitrust body has decided to impose a fine of 2.9 billion won ($2.2 million) on Tesla Inc., the world’s top electric vehi...
Fast-shrinking chip lead time clouds semiconductor industry’s future
The global semiconductor industry has been plagued by a chip shortage for a couple of years with automakers and other manufacturers struggling to se...
S. Korea's digital asset exchange operators bulk up despite crypto winter
Despite being in crypto winter, or a period in which prices of major cryptocurrencies have slid and stayed low for weeks on end, South Korea's bigge...
K-beauty sales see sharp drop at China's major shopping event
South Korean cosmetics giants failed to win over Chinese consumers at the 618 Shopping Festival, one of the largest online annual shopping events in...
Carve-out, bolt-on key themes driving M&As: BDA Partners
Amid escalating market uncertainties, M&As are not just a growth tactic but survival tools for businesses, Euan Rellie, co-founder and managing ...
LUNA 2.0 skyrockets to $30 before losing 80% in first day of trade
The price of LUNA 2.0 (LUNA), the brand-new token of the controversial Terraform Labs Ltd., has been on a tumultuous ride since its debut a couple o...
Carmakers gear up for sharp price hikes in 2022
Car prices will likely rise sharply next year alongside the industry shift from combustion engine models to electric vehicles as automakers prepare ...
NFT, metaverse shares face correction, hit by high valuations
Financial shares related to the metaverse and non-fungible tokens, which have been on a surge in recent weeks, are seeing a correction. With forei...
Cookie Run developer enjoys 1126% year-to-date growth in stock price
Devsisters Corporation, the developer of the globally popular mobile game Cookie Run, has become a “ten bagger” stock with its price ris...
Korea Zinc emerges winner despite sharp decline in treatment fees
Just like many other manufacturers around the world, 2020 was a turbulent year for Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter.T...
Delivery Hero seeks more time to sell Korea's Yogiyo
Delivery Hero SE has requested up to another six months to sell South Korea's No. 2 food delivery platform Yogiyo, the estimated value of which was ...
Celltrion rebuts JP Morgan’s heavy downgrade; shares rebound from sharp fall
South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. on Sept. 10 rebutted J.P. Morgan’s massive downgrade of its target price for the biopharmaceutical company. T...
