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KB Financial Group has become the first publicly traded company to officially announce a plan to disclose its corporate value enhancement plans during the fourth quarter of this year.

Hyundai Motor Co. wants to increase sales of hybrid vehicles to offset the slowdown in demand for electric vehicles. The South Korean carmaker is planning to spend more on the manufacturing plant it’s building in the US state of Georgia in order to produce hybrids at the facility, Seung Jo…

The landslide victory of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) in Wednesdays general elections is likely to dash many of the governments economic policy plans that require the National Assemblys approval for legislative revisions.

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The risk of Japanification is growing for South Korea, William Pesek writes

Forecasters are singing a different tune about the state of the U.S. economy.

South Korea's Japan-style measures for improving corporate governance may not be enough to boost its undervalued stock markets and tackle the so-called "Korea…

Few want to own stocks in a country that has been as unfriendly to shareholders as South Korea has been. The government is trying to change that by using...

Expectations for the improvement in performance of corporations are rising as the government unveiled a value-up program that will target underperformers in the stock market. Investors are increasingly focused on acquiring stocks with a low price-to-book ratio (PBR), in anticipation of them rebounding.

A solid share of the influence has been claimed by the “Korean Wave,” with the Billboard-topping boy band BTS, the Oscar-winning film Parasite and Netflix's most-watched series Squid Game headlining the sensation.