SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares of South Korea’s two chipmakers — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. — have withered in recent days despite upbeat news that they are going to post record quarterly sales backed by brisk memory chip businesses. In its third-quarter earnings guidance released earlier this month, Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The costs of air and maritime cargo shipping surged to their all-time highs in South Korea, as logistics giants reduced their international schedules amid the COVID-19 pandemic, industry data showed Sunday. The average air freight rate from the benchmark Hong Kong-United States routine stood at US$9.74 per kilogram as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Viva Republica Inc., the company behind popular South Korean financial app Toss, said Friday it will acquire a 60 percent stake in VCNC, the operator of ride-hailing service Tada, in a move to enter the country’s competitive mobility market. The fintech-focused company said it signed a three-way memorandum of [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Real estate rental businesses in South Korea have been on a roll over the past five years amid a booming property market, data showed Friday. Property leasing companies in Asia’s fourth-largest economy registered 453.3 trillion won (US$381 billion) in combined revenue between 2016-20, according to the data that the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of apartment complexes are providing concierge services that perform daily chores on behalf of residents, while providing a variety of living conveniences. For the residents of the Gwanggyo IPARK apartment complex in Suwon, Gyeonggi province, built by HDC Hyundai Development Co., robots bring ordered delivery food [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean economy is facing increasing downside risks as the uptick in COVID-19 cases is delaying the recovery of private spending amid heightened uncertainty about the global economic recovery, a state-run think tank said Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy is on a recovery track driven by solid exports, but [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s internet banking services continued to grow in the first half, with the number of users and daily transactions rising to new highs, central bank data showed Wednesday. The number of internet banking users, including mobile banking, came to 186.5 million as of end-June, up 5.6 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean financial companies’ overseas units saw their earnings jump more than 27 percent in the first half of the year despite the coronavirus pandemic, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. According to CEO Score, 222 overseas subsidiaries of major banks and other financial institutions posted a combined net income [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s stock prices fell 6.91 percent on-quarter in the third quarter due to uncertainty over the U.S. tapering of asset purchases, marking the first quarterly decline since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Sunday. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) ended at 3,068.82 on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Bank of Korea (BOK) said Tuesday it will expand its purchase of stocks and bonds related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns, in a move to help transform South Korea to a greener economy. As of June, the BOK had purchased US$7.12 billion worth of ESG stocks [...]