SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — KB Kookmin Card Co. said Thursday it is pushing to tap into Myanmar’s credit card market after getting the nod to set up an office in the Southeast Asian country. KB Kookmin Card, a unit of South Korea’s banking giant KB Financial Group Inc., said it won approval from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a major shipyard here, said Thursday that it has clinched a 927 billion won (US$818 million) deal to build five container vessels. In a regulatory filing, Daewoo Shipbuilding said it will deliver the vessels by March 15, 2020. The shipbuilder did not reveal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said Thursday the regulator seeks to build an innovation-friendly financial environment to help the growth of the financial technology industry. Choe Heung-sik, governor of the FSS, made the remarks during a conference in Seoul to debate how best the financial industry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday that the Federal Reserve’s decision to trim its balance sheet is likely to have a limited impact on Asia’s fourth-largest economy. “I don’t think the Fed’s decision will have a big impact on the domestic financial markets,” Bank of Korea Gov. Lee Ju-yeol told reporters [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – After holding talks with CEOs of credit card companies in July and August, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) publicly disclosed that modifications to payment processing procedures will be implemented. One of the key points of the announced modifications is a system that will allow groups of restaurant-goers to split [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korean consumers are buying auto insurance online in search of lower premiums and more convenience, an industry think tank said Tuesday. According to the Korea Insurance Development Institute, 20.5 percent of the nation’s 15.4 million car insurance policyholders filed their applications through cyber marketing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will decide soon whether to sell its remaining stake in Woori Bank, the nation’s top financial regulator said Monday. As part of a plan to privatize Woori Bank, the government sold a 28 percent stake to seven institutional investors last year but still holds an 18 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tourism industry has been hit hard by a diplomatic row with China over the deployment of a U.S. missile shield here that has sent the number of Chinese visitors tumbling, a report said Friday. In mid-March, China banned the sale of group tours to Seoul in retaliation [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Group’s decision to pull its supermarket chain out of China after months of politically motivated retaliation from the Chinese government is triggering fears it could cause a domino effect among South Korean companies. After being subject to incessant retaliation – including raids by safety authorities from the Chinese government [...]
TAMPERE, Finland, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province said on Friday that Finnish drilling machine specialist Robit Plc. has agreed to invest US$10 million in a factory park in the province. Governor Nam Kyung-pil and Robit Chairman Harri Sjoholm signed a memorandum of understanding at the company’s headquarters in Tampere, under which the [...]