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Posco volunteers for local communities in 53 nations

A total of 62,000 employees and executives of South Korean steelmaker Posco working in 53 nations participated in an annual weeklong volunteer event for each of their working communities, the firm sa...

May 30, 2018
Industry
Samsung Securities survey indicates HNWI's inclination for foreign investment

High-net-worth-individuals who subscribe to private banking products were more inclined to invest in foreign countries than domestic, showed a survey by Korea’s brokerage house Samsung Securities. (...

May 29, 2018
Finance
QARASoft launches AI-powered app beta for financial market forecasting

South Korean financial technology startup QARASoft on Tuesday launched a beta version of an artificial intelligence-powered application to forecast financial market movements. (QARASoft) Dubbed “Ko...

May 29, 2018
Finance
Hyundai Steel labor union extends social responsibility

The Pohang chapter of Hyundai Steel’s labor union said Tuesday it had carried out a social responsibility program for 19 children from a local child welfare center. Members of Hyundai Steel labor un...

May 29, 2018
Industry
Regulators to cross check foreign stock transactions

South Korea’s financial regulator unveiled Monday plans to create an electronic system to track real-time foreign stock transactions and changes in outstanding stocks, in order to ramp up oversight o...

May 28, 2018
Finance
SC offers maximum 1.7% rate to investors looking to park cash

Amid widening market volatility on looming rate hikes at home and abroad, investors have been taking to money market accounts to park their cash. One of such accounts by Standard Chartered Bank Kore...

May 28, 2018
Finance
[Herald Interview] Crypto frenzy to give way to market sophistication

Four years have passed since Alex Tapscott, then a Canadian investment banker, published a seminal white paper that pictures bitcoin blockchain’s potential financial use free of intermediaries. The ...

May 25, 2018
Finance
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

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