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Stock market faces limited impact from summit collapse

South Korea‘s stock markets erased their morning loss in the afternoon Friday, dwarfing investor concerns about US President Donald Trump’s announcement to cancel a planned summit with North Korea le...

May 25, 2018
Finance
BOK freezes key rate on emerging market woes

South Korea’s central bank kept the interest rate steady at 1.5 percent for six straight months in a unanimous board decision Thursday, citing external uncertainties due to an upshot in capital influ...

May 24, 2018
Finance
CME sanctions Hana Financial Investment's derivatives trading

US exchange operator CME Group has immediately suspended South Korea’s brokerage Hana Financial Investment‘s access to electronic trading or clearing platforms and markets run by the US derivatives e...

May 23, 2018
Finance
[Herald Interview] Gopax seeks to win back public trust in cryptocurrency

The Korea Herald is publishing a series of interviews on promising startups in the financial technology industry. This is the 15th installment. - Ed. Four cryptocurrency exchanges -- Upbit, Bithumb,...

May 22, 2018
Finance
Korean banks to see eased regulation on offshore expansion

Banks in South Korea will see eased regulation when opening physical offshore units, as a revision bill gained approval from the Cabinet on Monday. (Yonhap) Following the revision of the Enforcemen...

May 21, 2018
Finance
Kospi-listed firms see higher indebtedness in 2017: KRX

Companies listed on South Korea’s top-tier stock market Kospi saw their debt-to-capital ratio come to 111.4 percent in 2017, up 0.9 percentage point on-year, data showed Monday. (Yonhap) The combin...

May 21, 2018
Finance
Daejeon offers to partner with Adobe to bolster digital literacy

The Daejeon Metropolitan City Government offered to partner with US computer software company Adobe Systems, seeking to bolster the digital literacy of its citizens, officials said Sunday. Han Sun-h...

May 20, 2018
Technology
Ledger-free blockchain to tokenize 1st business

PureChain, a ledger-free blockchain running on an inter-device communication system, seeks to tokenize its first business that it expects to shape the “gift economy,” its developers said Thursday. C...

May 17, 2018
Finance
Advocacy group urges policy for defense against hostile activist funds

The nonprofit Korea Listed Companies Association, which represents some 2,000 listed companies, urged the government Wednesday to come up with a policy to allow companies to defend against hostile mo...

May 16, 2018
Industry
Korean stocks newly added to MSCI EM moderately rally

Large and mid-cap South Korean stocks set to be added to global and regional equity indexes by MSCI moderately rallied Tuesday, after an announcement by the US index publisher to rebalance its indexe...

May 15, 2018
Finance
Kakao Games applies for IPO on Kosdaq

Kakao Games, South Korea‘s online and mobile game software developer and publisher, has applied for a preliminary screening for an initial public offering on the second-tier Kosdaq, according to the ...

May 14, 2018
Technology
[Kosdaq Star] 3-D inspection tech pioneer Koh Young avoids market slump

This is the 55th in a series of articles analyzing major companies traded on the tech-heavy Kosdaq market. -- Ed. While leading sectors of South Korea’s second-tier stock market Kosdaq have suffered...

May 14, 2018
Finance
[News Focus] Samsung BioLogics’ alleged accounting fraud brings 2015 merger back under scrutiny

Growing allegations that biopharma firm Samsung BioLogics fabricated financial statements, coupled with checks by authorities and activist shareholders, are bringing questions on a controversial deal...

May 11, 2018
Industry
BMW opens dealer‘s largest cultural complex in Songdo

German carmaker BMW said Thursday that it had opened a large-scale cultural complex on a 13,200-square-meter site in Songdo International City in Incheon, South Korea. The cultural complex was buil...

May 10, 2018
Automode
SK E&C sets sights on $15b canal project in Turkey

South Korean builder SK Engineering and Construction’s top official has expressed intent to lead a canal project in Turkey, citing its track record in multiple projects in the nation. Dubbed Canal I...

May 10, 2018
Industry

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