SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners withdrew more money than they injected into South Korea’s stock markets for the fourth straight month in May amid worries over economic slowdowns in major countries and the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine, central bank data showed Thursday. Net foreign money outflows from the main bourse, [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Securities firms are lowering their forecasts for Samsung Electronics Co.’s share price despite the company’s optimistic projections. The average target price proposed by brokerage houses for the giant chipmaker last Thursday was 93,100 won, down by more than 9 percent over the past 12 months, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea had the highest household debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio among 36 major economies in the first quarter, a global finance report said Monday. The country’s household debt-to-GDP ratio came to 104.3 percent in the January-March period, followed by Lebanon with 97.8 percent, Hong Kong with 95.3 percent, [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean investors are continuing to buy shares in electric vehicle leader Tesla Inc. despite the plunging price, data showed Sunday. Local investors bought US$1.03 billion worth of Tesla shares last month, the highest since last December, according to the data from the Korea Securities Depository. As such, South [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean insurance companies have toughened the screening of insurance claims, resulting in growing complaints from policyholders. It has been pointed out that insurance companies are now using on-site investigations excessively. For insurance companies, on-site investigation is an effective way to detect any possible fraud, but the problem is [...]
GWANGJU, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Police transferred a top official of HDC Hyundai Development Co. to the prosecution Friday, wrapping up an investigation into the fatal collapse of an apartment building under construction in the southwestern city of Gwangju in January. Outer wall structures of the 39-story building in the city, 330 kilometers south [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean financial companies are beefing up efforts to foster their own characters based on judgment that they would help attract more customers. Among the characters that are famous in the banking industry is Shinhan Bank’s polar bear “SOL,” designed based on the motif of the Little Bear that [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors have snapped a monthslong selling streak and turned to a buying mode for South Korean stocks, data showed Wednesday, amid eased worries over a global recession and China’s struggle with COVID-19 outbreaks. Foreigners scooped up a net 1.72 trillion won (US$1.38 billion) on the country’s main KOSPI [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Dividend payouts by firms listed on South Korea’s main stock market sank more than 14 percent in 2021 despite a solid rise in their share prices, data showed Tuesday. The combined amount of dividends by top-cap Samsung Electronics Co. and 567 companies listed on the main bourse came to [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined net profit of insurance firms in South Korea dropped by more than 21 percent in the first quarter of this year amid the pandemic and a decline in asset value, regulator’s data showed Monday. The net profit of 53 major insurers here totaled 3.05 trillion won (US$2.45 [...]