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Pension funds 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 ...

Rights offerings Korea Zinc to raise $1.8 bn in rights issues amid face-off with MBK

Korea Zinc Inc. will raise 2.5 trillion won ($1.8 billion) in rights issues in December following its share buybacks and allocate 20% of them to its...

Banking & Finance S.Korea's Hana Card, KFCC launch first PLCC

South Korea's Hana Card said on Tuesday it launched the first private label credit card (PLCC) product, the "MG+ Credit Card Primo Hana Card" of the...

Korean stock market KRX launches Korea Value-up Index featuring 100 best practice firms

South Korea’s securities exchange operator, Korea Exchange, launched a new corporate value-up index on Tuesday, a key plank for the government...

Electric vehicles Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW offer deep discounts amid EV phobia in Korea

Imported vehicle dealers in South Korea are offering deep price cuts amid the growing electric vehicle phobia following a Mercedes-Benz EV blaze tha...

Banking & Finance Hana Card, Toss Bank jointly launch PLCC card

South Korea's Hana Card announced on Friday that it partnered with Toss Bank to launch its first private label credit card (PLCC), the Toss Bank Cre...

The KED View Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage

To the world, South Korea is well known as home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., but it is...

Travel & Leisure KTO holds Visit Korea Alliance exhibition for foreigners

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Monday that it will hold a VK Alliance Products and Services Special Exhibition for foreigners thr...

Korean stock market Krafton shares sink as SK Square taps 2.2% block trade

Shares of Krafton Inc., South Korea’s gaming behemoth, lost about 8% on Tuesday on news that SK Square Co., an investment arm of the country&r...

Infrastructure Infrastructure secondaries continue to rise amid inflation: Stafford

Secondaries have become one of the most sought-after assets amid market uncertainty as they provide early exit opportunities and portfolio diversifi...

Banking & Finance KB Kookmin Card launches card for overseas payments

KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, announced on Monday that it launched the WE:SH Travel credit card that offers benefits sp...

Airlines Jin Air offers up to 15% discount on Japan routes

South Korea's low-cost carrier Jin Air announced on Friday that it will offer various benefits to passengers on its Japan routes until Mar. 24.Jin A...

Electric vehicles Hyundai Motor launches trade-in program to revive EV sales

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, said on Thursday it introduced a trade-in program in the country for electric vehicles to boos...

Electric vehicles Hyundai, Kia offer up to $7,500 discounts for EVs in US

Hyundai Motor Group., the No. 2 electric vehicle brand in the US, is offering discounts of up to $7,500 for their EVs in the country — the max...

Travel & Leisure Seoul kicks off Korea Grand Sale 2024 to double foreign tourists

South Korea on Thursday kicked off a push to nearly double the number of foreign tourists visiting the country this year to 20 million by hosting a ...

Airlines Asiana, Korea Univ. to jointly attract medical tourism

South Korea's Asiana Airlines Inc. announced on Monday that it has partnered with Korea University Anam Hospital to promote medical tourism. The agr...

Business & Politics South Korea set to abolish financial investment gains tax: Yoon

South Korea plans to abolish capital gains taxes on financial investments to revitalize the lackluster domestic financial market and help individual...

Electronics LG Display plans $1 bn rights offering for smaller OLED biz

LG Display Co., the world’s top manufacturer of large-size organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, said on Monday it plans to raise 1.36 t...

The KED View Beware political risk, No.1 factor in Korea Discount

Corporate governance and management transparency have long been the big issues influencing the so-called Korea Discount, alongside labor strife and ...

Electric vehicles Hyundai bets big on deep discounts to survive EV plateau

Hyundai Motor Co. is going all out to revive drivers’ interest in electric vehicles with significant price cuts in the US, the world’s s...

E-commerce China’s Temu challenges homegrown e-commerce platforms in Korea

Temu, a popular Chinese discount e-commerce platform that landed in South Korea just a few months ago, has apparently cracked homegrown players&rsqu...

Retail Homeplus enters Mongolian market with PB products

South Korean big-box retailer Homeplus has entered the Mongolian market for the first time, signing a strategic partnership with the country's ret...

Airlines S.Korea's airline industry waging fierce price war in fall

South Korea's airline sector is meeting high travel demand during the extended Chuseok (Thanksgiving) holidays late this month by aggressively offer...

Retail S.Korea's duty-free sector expects boom from Chinese tourists' return

South Korea's duty-free stores are over the moon thanks to the resumption of Chinese group tours after a hiatus of six years and five months, with m...

Electric vehicles Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition

Global electric vehicle and battery makers are fiercely competing to secure talent with high salaries and various incentives as their workforces a...

Tech, Media & Telecom KakaoPay launches discount promotion in Japan

South Korea’s Kakao Pay Corp. announced on Friday that it has prepared a large-scale discount promotion in collaboration with PayPay, the top ...

Retail S.Korea resumes egg imports in 13 months due to soaring prices

As egg prices soared due to the spread of bird flu or avian influenza, the South Korean government resumed imports of eggs to ease price pressure.It...

Logistics Korea's Traders Wholesale Club launches paid membership program

S.Korea's big-box store Traders Wholesale Club officially launched its paid membership program called Traders Club on Sunday.The store has secured...

Korean stock market Korea to revise dividend policy to ease ‘Korea discount’ concerns

South Korea plans to revise its stock dividend policy as part of a broader financial market reform to help attract foreign investors and obtain MSCI...

ASK 2022 KIC sees secondary and deep value investments as attractive

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is eyeing secondary and deep value strategies, the sovereign wealth fund’s Senior Director of Private Equit...