Hanwha seeks to buy Paraspara Seoul from developer tied to Banyan Tree Busan fire

Hanwha seeks to buy Paraspara Seoul from developer tied to Banyan Tree Busan fire

Hanwha Hotels & Resorts Co. is in talks to acquire Paraspara Seoul, a five-star hotel and resort, up for sale by a property developer facing lia...

Elliott loses appeal over $19 mn claim against Samsung C&T

Elliott loses appeal over $19 mn claim against Samsung C&T

A South Korean appellate court has rejected Elliott Investment Management Corp.’s claim for 26.7 billion won ($19.3 million) in interest for a...

RedotPay lands in Seoul with crypto cards

RedotPay lands in Seoul with crypto cards

RedotPay, a Hong Kong-based blockchain fintech company, has arrived in South Korea with its cryptocurrency-based payment cards and is poised to disr...

Korea’s Naver Pay partners with WeChat Pay for mobile payments in China

Korea’s Naver Pay partners with WeChat Pay for mobile payments in China

South Korean tech giant Naver Corp. said on Tuesday it has partnered with WeChat Pay to offer a Naver Pay mobile pay and digital wallet service usin...

SK Biopharm submits NDA of epilepsy drug to China

SK Biopharm submits NDA of epilepsy drug to China

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. said on Tuesday it submitted the new drug application (NDA) for its flagship epilepsy drug Cenobamate to Chi...

Toss Securities names Richard Hagen as CEO of TSAF

Toss Securities names Richard Hagen as CEO of TSAF

South Korea's Toss Securities said on Tuesday that it has appointed Richard J. Hagen as CEO of its US subsidiary, TSA Financial LLC (TSAF), and plan...

South Korea’s Viva Republica drops Korean IPO plan, seeks US debut

South Korea’s Viva Republica drops Korean IPO plan, seeks US debut

Viva Republica Inc., a leading South Korean fintech unicorn and operator of mobile financial super app Toss, has dropped its plan to go public in th...

Kia, KEPCO collaborate to build power ecosystem using PBV

Kia, KEPCO collaborate to build power ecosystem using PBV

South Korea's Kia Corp. and Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run utility company, said on Thursday that they signed a memorandum of und...

Samsung Bioepis eyes record sales in 2024 after stellar Q3

Samsung Bioepis eyes record sales in 2024 after stellar Q3

Samsung Bioepis Co., Samsung Biologics Co.'s fully owned biosimilar subsidiary, is expected to post its best-ever annual revenue this year after sal...

Naver Pay partners with GLN International

Naver Pay partners with GLN International

South Korea's Naver Pay announced on Wednesday that it partnered with Hana Bank’s global payment network subsidiary, GLN International, to lau...

LG to invest $762 mn in webOS to transform into platform-based tech giant

LG to invest $762 mn in webOS to transform into platform-based tech giant

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, plans to invest more than 1 trillion won ($762 million) in its multitasking operating ...

Hana Card's debit card overseas payment reaches 50%

Hana Card's debit card overseas payment reaches 50%

South Korea's Hana Card reported on Friday that its domestic market share in overseas debit card payments has reached nearly 50%.The number of sub...

BC Card, Uzbekistan to connect payment network

BC Card, Uzbekistan to connect payment network

South Korea's BC Card said on Monday that it signed a contract with Uzbekistan's state-run payment operator National Interbank Processing Center (NI...

Samsung’s Monimo set to disrupt Korea’s financial app market

Samsung’s Monimo set to disrupt Korea’s financial app market

Samsung Group, South Korea’s most powerful business group, is poised to crack the country’s financial app market — now crowded wit...

KT posts Q2 profit drops on pay raises, bonus payments

KT posts Q2 profit drops on pay raises, bonus payments

KT Corp., South Korea’s No. 1 telecom service provider, on Friday reported a 14.3% drop in second-quarter operating profit despite steady reve...

Hana Card, Toss Bank jointly launch PLCC card

Hana Card, Toss Bank jointly launch PLCC card

South Korea's Hana Card announced on Friday that it partnered with Toss Bank to launch its first private label credit card (PLCC), the Toss Bank Cre...

Toss Securities to establish New York subsidiary

Toss Securities to establish New York subsidiary

South Korea's Toss Securities will establish a subsidiary in New York, the US to to expand its overseas business. The company announced on Tues...

Qoo10’s Korean units delay seller payments amid expansions

Qoo10’s Korean units delay seller payments amid expansions

Southeast Asia-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 Pte.’s units in South Korea delayed seller payments as industry sources said the online shoppin...

BOK, Indonesia to cooperate on cross-border payments

BOK, Indonesia to cooperate on cross-border payments

The Bank of Korea (BoK) announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bank Indonesia (BI) for the bilateral cooperatio...

Shinhan Financial builds disaster response system

Shinhan Financial builds disaster response system

South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group announced on Sunday that it established a disaster response system to provide swift and substantial assistance...

CU to accept Japan's Ponta Points for payments

CU to accept Japan's Ponta Points for payments

South Korea's BGF Retail, the operator of the leading domestic convenience store chain CU, announced on Sunday that it signed a memorandum of unders...

S.Korea’s travel payment card market competition heats up

S.Korea’s travel payment card market competition heats up

Competition in the South Korean travel payment card market intensified as increasing overseas trips and cross-border shopping prompted credit card i...

Korea’s BC Card starts QR code payment service in Malaysia

Korea’s BC Card starts QR code payment service in Malaysia

South Korea’s credit card issuer BC Card Co. introduced its QR code payment service in Malaysia through cooperation with the country’s n...

Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, an affiliate of South Korea's Webcash Co., announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a business agreement with BC Card Vietna...

Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade

Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade

Cash dividend payments by companies listed on the Korea Exchange, the country's main bourse, have nearly tripled in a decade. They have returned a l...

KB Kookmin Bank, Cambodian Central Bank to build payment system

KB Kookmin Bank, Cambodian Central Bank to build payment system

South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Bank of Cambodia to establish...

South Korea to accept Indonesia’s KF-21 project cost cut proposal

South Korea to accept Indonesia’s KF-21 project cost cut proposal

South Korea plans to accept Indonesia’s request to cut its share of payments for a joint fighter jet development project to one-third of the o...

Ediya Coffee introduces Taiwan Pay

Ediya Coffee introduces Taiwan Pay

South Korea's homegrown coffee chain Ediya Coffee announced on Tuesday that it introduced Taiwan's popular mobile payment platform Taiwan Pay (TWQR)...

Korean banking group's Q1 profits drop on ELS sales

Korean banking group's Q1 profits drop on ELS sales

The combined net profit at South Korea’s four largest financial services firms, including KB Financial Group, are estimated to have dropped ne...

Toss Bank exceeds 10 mn customers

Toss Bank exceeds 10 mn customers

South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank saw that its subscribers surpassed 10 million. According to the company, it's been two years and...

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