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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul district court has ruled Samsung Securities Co. must compensate investors for half of their damages incurred due to a 2018 dividend error by an accidental stock issuance, judicial sources said Sunday. The Seoul Central District Court recently ruled partially in favor of three investors who filed damages [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Ten cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea have filed applications to register with the nation’s anti-money laundering body to continue their businesses under tougher regulations, according to the body Friday. By Friday midnight, both foreign and local cryptocurrency exchanges targeting Korean investors are required to register with the Korea Financial [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading internet-only lender Kakao Bank said Thursday its customer number has surpassed the 17 million mark nearly four years after its launch. Kakao Bank, led by Kakao Corp., the operator of the country’s dominant messaging app KakaoTalk, said its customers numbered 17.17 million as of the end [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s banking industry is performing a variety of experiments to ensure efficient and cost-effective branch operations, while, at the same time, speeding up the restructuring of branches as a way to promote a digital transformation. KEB Hana Bank and the state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) joined hands to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The use of non-face-to-face bank loans that can be applied for simply through several clicks online is on a steady rise. The outstanding balance of non-face-to-face loans at the nation’s 18 commercial banks as of the end of June 2021 totaled 111.8 trillion won (US$94.4 billion), an almost threefold [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday raised its 2021 growth outlook for the South Korean economy to 4 percent, amid the country’s strong exports and fiscal support. The latest outlook is a 0.2 percentage-point rise from its May estimate of 3.8 percent growth for Asia’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Medium-sized cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea have discontinued trading pairs and payment services using the Korean currency as financial regulators are set to enforce tougher rules, according to market watchers Friday. By next Friday, both foreign and local cryptocurrency exchanges targeting Korean investors must register with the nation’s anti-money [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwang Jae-min checks out his smartphone apps several times a day to search for new homes up for sale so he can move to another house. When the 41-year-old bought a three-room flat in Yongin, a satellite city south of Seoul, six years ago, he called several real estate [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Stock transactions in South Korea spiked more than 70 percent in 2020 amid an investment craze among retail investors, data showed Friday. The value of stock trading in Asia’s fourth-largest economy stood at 35,397.3 trillion won (US$30.2 trillion) last year, up 70.5 percent from a year earlier, according to [...]