SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean construction companies’ overseas orders increased 20 percent in the January-August period from a year earlier to exceed US$20 billion, industry data showed Sunday. Local builders obtained $21.9 billion worth of overseas orders between January and August, up from $18.3 billion worth of deals in the same period [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — On Thursday, Kasa, a real estate securities trading platform, announced that the subscription rate for its seventh public offering building, ‘Apgujeong Commerce Building,’ exceeded 56 percent on the first day of the public offering. On Wednesday, the initial day of the public offering, the company raised 9.4 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) —A recent survey has revealed that a majority of South Korean consumers are recognizing the need for a shift in holiday gifting practices. Often, holiday gifts are deemed excessively priced and overpackaged. With the Chuseok holiday season approaching, it’s worth noting that meat is the most coveted food gift across [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s financial regulator on Thursday asked foreign securities firms to beef up efforts to prevent illegal stock short selling amid an increase in such cases. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) made the request in a meeting with compliance officers of 23 foreign securities companies here, calling for an [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) —Mirae Asset Securities announced on Wednesday the inclusion of two prominent entities, Studio Genius, a domestic content production company, and Solaire Partners, an investment firm, in the Security Token Working Group. This collaborative effort aims to advance the commercialization of tokenized securities linked to film and drama investment ventures. Studio [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Real wages, after adjusting for inflation, experienced a decline of 1.5 percent year-on-year during the first half of the current year, as revealed by a recent survey. This marks a significant turning point since 2011 when the Ministry of Employment and Labor expanded its survey coverage to encompass “enterprises [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean banks’ second-quarter net profit was flat from the previous quarter as an increase in the Korea Development Bank’s (KDB) net profit offset a decline in ordinary banks’ net profit, preliminary data showed Tuesday. The combined net profit of 20 banks in the April-June period was 7.1 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies are choosing to reduce the issuance of corporate bonds and are instead turning to bank loans to secure funds during an unexpectedly prolonged period of high interest rates, data showed Monday. Net repayments in the corporate bond market have shown a consistent upward trend, with the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s consumer prices are expected to grow at a faster pace in the coming months after a monthslong downtrend due mainly to rising global oil prices, officials said Sunday. Consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, are forecast to rise more than 3 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of young South Koreans are struggling to cover even modest monthly interest payments due to job instability, data showed Tuesday. Some 24.5 percent of South Koreans in their 20s, who availed microloans for their sustenance, faced difficulties in meeting interest obligations as of Aug. 4, according [...]