US monitors NPS, sovereign funds in expanded currency surveillance
Washington will strengthen its monitoring of portfolio investments by pension and sovereign wealth funds of its trading partners as it broadens its ...
Markets in honeymoon with Lee: Kospi, won rally; bond yields spike
South Korea’s financial markets showed strong gains on Thursday, with shares surging to an 11-month high and the won hitting a seven-month hig...
Korean financial firms face growing risks in overseas property investments
South Korea’s financial institutions are increasingly at risk of their overseas real estate investments turning sour, government data showed o...
DB GlobalChip forays into mobile phone OLED driver chip market
DB GlobalChip Co., the chip design subsidiary of South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co., has begun mass-producing organic light-emitt...
Bank of Korea cuts rates, growth forecast on Trump tariff policy
South Korea’s central bank on Tuesday cut interest rates while sharply reducing its economic growth forecast as lingering political turmoil fo...
S.Korea needs to allow short-selling for all listed stocks: FSS chief
Lee Bok-hyun, governor of South Korea’s top financial watchdog body, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), said on Thursday that there shou...
LG Display unveils industry’s brightest OLED panel for AI TVs
LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, on Thursday unveiled a fourth-generation screen optimized for...
Korea sharply cuts 2025 growth forecast, opens door for extra budget
South Korea sharply lowered its economic growth forecast for this year amid the prolonged political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol’...
Samsung foundry ‘relief pitcher’ Han Jin-man vows to improve 2-nm yields
Samsung Electronics Co.'s new contract chipmaking business chief said on Monday he will go all-in to improve the company’s advanced 2-nanomete...
BOK makes 1st back-to-back rate cut since 2009 global crisis
South Korea’s central bank lowered interest rates for a second straight meeting on Thursday in a surprise move and left the door open for anot...
Triple-A rated SK Telecom, KT tap 10-year bond market
South Korean companies with top-notch credit ratings such as SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. are returning to the long-term bond market amid growing int...
NPS expects Korea’s WGBI inclusion to attract $56 billion in foreign funds
The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund and the country’s largest institutional investor, expects some ...
South Korea returns to US FX monitoring watchlist
The United States has reinstated South Korea on its foreign-exchange monitoring watchlist, a year after it removed Asia’s No. 4 economy from t...
S-1 releases CCTV monitoring service
South Korea's security service provider S-1 Corp. said on Monday it launched CCTV Monitoring Service, a system designed to notify customers of any r...
Korea’s economy sees slower-than-expected rebound in Q3
South Korea’s economy rebounded slower than central bank expectations in the third quarter on sluggish exports, adding to predictions that the...
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...
Australia, Asia real estate whet Korean pension funds' appetite
South Korean pension funds and insurance companies are raising their bets on real estate as they diversify their US and Europe-focused portfolios in...
LG Elec to unveil AI home hub ThinQ ON at IFA
LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday that it will unveil LG ThinQ ON, the home appliance industry's first AI home hub equipped with generative artif...
Korean firms rush to sell bonds with yields at over 2-yr low
South Korea’s corporate bond markets are having an unusually busy summer as companies are rushing to sell debts to lock in lower interest cost...
Korean treasury yields fall to lowest level in over 2 years
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...
Samsung, LG bet big on gaming monitors on esports boom
South Korea’s electronics giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are gearing up for a fierce battle in the gaming monitor mark...
LG UltraGear selected as official gaming monitor of EWC
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that its UltraGear gaming monitors were selected as the official monitors of the eSports World Cup (EWC), th...
Korea’s Woori Bank raises $550 mn in AT1 hybrid bond
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...
Won to soften past 1,400, BOK rate cut likely in Oct: poll
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...
Hanwha, KT to cooperate on smart mining
South Korea's Hanwha Global, the global division of Hanwha Corp. and KT Corp. announced on Monday that they signed a memorandum of understanding (...
Samsung Display gets Pantone Validated
Samsung Display announced on Thursday that its monitors and laptop panels received Pantone Validated and SkinTone Validated. The company said i...
Samsung OLED gaming monitor sales surpass 20,000 units
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that its sales of the new Odyssey OLED gaming monitor series have surpassed 20,000 units in a month.&nbs...
Doosan emerges as darling in Korea’s BBB bond market
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 ...
MSCI keeps Korea on emerging market list on short-selling ban
MSCI Inc. maintained South Korean stocks in its emerging market list as the government kept its blanket short-selling ban, denting the country&rsquo...
Samsung unveils new foundry tech; AI chip sales to rise ninefold
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Wednesday unveiled a new contract chipmaking techno...
