SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Yonhap) — An appeals court in the Balkan country of Montenegro has overruled an earlier decision to extradite Do Kwon, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, to the United States to face fraud charges, the court’s website showed Tuesday. Earlier, the High Court in Podgorica ruled that Kwon should be [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s inflation ticked up to over 3 percent in a month in February on high prices of fresh food items and energy, data showed Wednesday. Consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 3.1 percent on-year last month, compared with a 2.8 percent increase a month earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The financial regulator said Wednesday it will work to quickly provide up to 5 trillion won (US$3.75 billion) in financial support to local firms this year, while pushing to create an additional 3 trillion-won investment fund for businesses. The government earlier announced plans to provide more than 76 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the significant increase in fruit and vegetable prices, government interventions to regulate import quantities as a means to manage inflation are not feasible for apples, which have seen substantial price hikes, earning them the nickname “golden apples.” The stringent quarantine system is the primary barrier. According to the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) –The South Korean government and financial institutions have initiated a campaign to assist employees in reclaiming unclaimed retirement pensions, which have accumulated to more than 110 billion won due to workers not claiming them. As of the end of last year, the Ministry of Employment and Labor reported that unclaimed [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) –The Financial Services Commission (FSC) announced plans to intensify disclosure requirements related to mergers among publicly listed companies. Under the proposed amendments to the Enforcement Decree of the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act and the Regulations on Issuance and Disclosure of Securities, listed companies will be mandated to [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As predictions of declining real estate values gain momentum, the scale of reverse mortgage guarantees in South Korea is set to hit an all-time high this year, signaling an increased adoption among homeowners. Reverse mortgages, available to individuals over 55, allow homeowners to secure a loan against their property to [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industrial output inched up in January despite the marked fall in semiconductor production, data showed Monday. Industrial output gained 0.4 percent on-month last month, the third consecutive on-year increase, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. But the output in the overall mining manufacturing sector shed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Inflation could rise over 3 percent in South Korea in February on high prices of global oil and fresh food items, the finance ministry said Thursday, vowing all-out efforts to curb inflation. In January, consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 2.8 percent on-year, marking the first fall [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Employees of foreign companies in South Korea who receive shares from their overseas headquarters as performance rewards will now be able to sell them directly without needing to transfer them to a domestic brokerage firm first. The Financial Services Commission announced on February 27 that a revision to the “Enforcement [...]