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Korean stock market on bull run on signs of trade war thaw

South Korea’s stock market benchmark indexes were moderately higher Thursday on signs of abating trade strife between the United States and China. The top-tier benchmark Kospi inched up 0.6 percent ...

December 13, 2018
Finance
Korean golf course operator hits price ceiling on Jim Rogers nomination news

A listed South Korean golf course operator with a track record of doing business in North Korea hit the price ceiling Tuesday on anticipation that US business guru Jim Rogers had been nominated as th...

December 11, 2018
Finance
Kyobo Life Insurance seeks to go public next year

Kyobo Life Insurance, South Korea’s third-largest life insurance firm by total assets, announced Tuesday it would seek an initial public offering by the second half of next year to raise capital in t...

December 11, 2018
Finance
KRX lifts suspension of Samsung BioLogics stock trading

The Korea Exchange, South Korea’s sole securities market operator, decided Monday to resume transactions of Samsung BioLogics shares, about a month after the company was slapped with a trading suspen...

December 10, 2018
Finance
Woori Bank opens 4th foreign banking center

Woori Bank, South Korea’s fourth-largest commercial bank by total assets, has opened its fourth foreign banking center in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, according to the bank on Monday. An internal view ...

December 10, 2018
Finance
Foreign flight from Korean securities market wanes in Nov.

Foreign investors’ flight from the Korean securities market eased by the end of November, followed by signs of relief in stock performances, monthly data showed Monday. Foreign investors net purchas...

December 10, 2018
Finance
KRX to discuss fate of troubled Samsung BioLogics this week

The Korea Exchange, the operator of the nation’s equity market, seeks to review this week the accounting misconduct of the country’s second-largest biotech company by market cap, which could result i...

December 9, 2018
Finance
[Global Finance Awards] Mirae Asset Global Investments makes history in overseas business

Ten years have passed since Mirae Asset Global Investments became the first South Korean asset management company to draw investment from foreign clients. Today, as Korea’s leading asset management ...

November 28, 2018
Finance
[Herald Interview] WeWork Korea scales to meet soaring demand

When New York-based coworking space operator WeWork set foot in Seoul in August 2016 with its first office in the affluent Gangnam-gu district, the staff’s main task was to overcome uncertainties in ...

November 27, 2018
Industry
Samsung’s Bixby to have investment management service with voice recognition

An investment management service that works through voice recognition will be added to Bixby, Samsung Electronics’ flagship artificial intelligence-based platform. Through voice commands, Bixby will...

November 23, 2018
Finance
Chief financial regulator urges for more risk-bearing IPOs

Financial Services Commission Chairman Choi Jong-ku said Wednesday more risk-bearing initial public offerings in the Korean stock bourse are prerequisites for a breakthrough in the growth of Korean c...

November 21, 2018
Finance
Korea urges financial firms to advance into Thailand

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service and the Korea Federation of Banks on Tuesday co-hosted a seminar to encourage South Korean financial institutions to advance into Thailand, a move in line ...

November 20, 2018
Finance
Large-scale executive reshuffles loom in Korea’s banking sector

South Korea’s financial groups are facing potentially massive reshuffles of their executive teams as a majority of the incumbents at commercial lenders and their holding companies approach the end of...

November 19, 2018
Finance
[News Focus] State-sponsored ‘Zero-Pay’ scheme brings sustainability into question

South Korea’s capital city is poised to set up a state-sponsored financial infrastructure project aimed at lowering card payment-processing costs for small merchants. But there are already doubts ab...

November 18, 2018
Finance
Conglomerates' spending on business assets jumps 10.9%

Affiliates and subsidiaries of South Korea’s top 30 conglomerates spent a combined 64.9 trillion won ($57.3 billion) on acquiring business assets, such as facilities and projects for research and dev...

November 18, 2018
Industry

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