Samsung Asset leads H1 AUM rankings amid ETF boom
South Korea’s asset management industry posted stellar growth in the first half of 2025, buoyed by a 28% surge in the country’s benchmar...
Affinity Equity nets $220 mn from block sale of Shinhan Financial
Affinity Equity Partners has unloaded its remaining shares in Shinhan Financial Group, the second largest banking group in South Korea, for about 58...
Samsung flexes financial muscle as insurance, card units top rankings
Samsung Group’s financial affiliates are closing in on KB Financial Group for the top spot in South Korea’s financial services sector, u...
Mubadala, Goldman Sachs to invest $700 mn in Kakao Mobility
United Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co. and Goldman Sachs are set to invest a combined $700 million in Kakao Mobil...
Hana Asset Management to merge with Hana Alternative Asset
Hana Financial Group, the parent of Hana Bank and Hana Securities Co, will merge its two asset management arms to bolster its non-banking services, ...
Hana Financial CEO set for reappointment with foreign investor backing
More than half of the foreign shareholders in Hana Financial Group have thrown their support behind Chief Executive Ham Young-joo for a second term,...
Foreigners return to Korean debt market; Korea on course to join WGBI
Foreigners scooped up South Korean government bonds in January despite the country’s ongoing political upheavals, betting big on the country&r...
Shinhan Bank reclaims top spot as S.Korea’s leading lender
Shinhan Bank, a key arm of Shinhan Financial Group, reclaimed its position as South Korea’s top lender posting its largest-ever profit in 2024...
KB Financial to buy back $359 bn in shares after record net profit in 2024
KB Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s largest financial holding group, will spend nearly 1.8 trillion won ($1.2 billion) to boost shareholder...
Foreign investors sells $3.86 bn in S.Korean stock market
The Bank of Korea (BOK) said on Wednesday that the foreign investors' net selling in the South Korean stock market was $3.86 billion in December las...
S.Korea's personal mobilities firm GCoo enters Africa
South Korean personal mobility (PM) company Gbike, the operator of PM sharing service platform Gcoo, said on Wednesday it started the electric kick ...
RaonSecure to supply biometrics to SBI Sumishin Net Bank
South Korean cybersecurity firm RaonSecure Co. said on Monday it signed a $2.5 million contract with SBI Sumishin Net Bank, the largest internet ban...
Korean pension funds buy a net $1.2 bn in Kospi stocks in November
South Korean pension funds continued their Kospi market buying spree for a fourth straight month in November, notching their largest net purchases o...
Hyundai's new CEO Munoz vows to proactively respond to Trump policy
LOS ANGELES – José Muñoz, the incoming chief executive of South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor Co., said on Thursday the co...
Hyundai Motor taps US unit chief Jose Munoz as new CEO
Hyundai Motor Co. on Friday named Jose Munoz, its global chief operating officer (COO) and head of North and South American operations, as its new a...
Mirae Asset’s TIGER Nasdaq 100 ETF crosses $2.8 bn in net assets
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments said on Tuesday that that its TIGER Nasdaq 100 ETF has become the second US-focused ETF listed in South...
S.Korean retail investors rush to buy Indian stocks on dips
South Korea's mom-and-pop investors have upped their stake in Indian stocks, hoping that Donald Trump's return to the White House will boost the Sou...
S.Korea set to scrap financial investment income tax
South Korea is set to scrap a plan to impose a tax on gains from financial investments – a scheme slated to be introduced early next year &nda...
In South Korea, cash is king on US election, Samsung uncertainties
South Korean investors are hoarding cash as Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, hurts local stocks and uncertainties ov...
LG Elec builds EV chargers safety net for fire prevention
LG Electronics Inc. equipped its slow electric vehicle (EV) chargers with dual overcharge prevention technology to alleviate customer concerns and a...
Foreign appetite for Korean stocks wanes with $5.5 bn in September sales
Foreign investors' appetite for South Korean stocks turned sour with sales of 7.36 trillion won ($5.5 billion) worth of shares on the Korean bourse ...
Korea Securities to expand its ultra-high net worth business
Korea Investment & Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Arceon Group to strengthen its o...
NPS logs 9.71% return in H1 led by US tech stocks
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 9.71% investment return for the first half of ...
Hyundai Motor’s 1st overseas plant in Turkey makes decent turnaround
Back in the late 1990s, South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. built its first overseas plant in Turkey, betting on the European and Mi...
Korea's KEDI-based ETFs boom; net assets double in 2 months
South Korean exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking KEDI, an index set created by The Korea Economic Daily, are booming on growing investor demand fo...
SK seeks sale of specialty gas unit for around $3 bn
SK Group, the second-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is considering selling global leading specialty gas producer SK Specialty Co. for around 4...
Korea’s retail investors buy stocks on dips in turmoil
South Korea’s individual investors took the recent turmoil in stock markets as an opportunity to buy shares at home and abroad on dips, bettin...
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...
Korean e-commerce startup funding sharply drops since 2022
South Korean e-commerce companies have seen a sharp decline in series A funding over the past three years amid intensifying competition with Chinese...
LG Electronics posts record Q2 profit, to accelerate transition into AI leader
LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean electronics maker, on Thursday posted its highest quarterly operating profit and sales for the April-Jun...
