SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean companies across manufacturing industries are accelerating their transition to a greener, more sustainable business as investors are increasingly taking account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. ESG investing focuses on companies that support environmental protection, social justice and ethical management practices. Among the criteria, climate [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies are accelerating their shift toward renewable energy to meet tighter emission goals and get ahead in the clean technology development. Major companies have committed to use 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 to join the global clean energy RE 100 initiative led by the international nonprofit [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Trendsetting companies from various fields including communications, credit card and others will join hands to build South Korea’s first private-sector ‘data dam’. SK Telecom Co., jointly with Shinhan Card Co., Korea Credit Bureau Co., GS Retail Co. and Real Estate 114 Inc. have formed a data alliance, announcing plans [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will expand tax incentives for companies to increase investments and permit more firms seeking innovative technologies to receive tax credits on research and development (R&D) costs, the finance ministry said Wednesday. The country will expand the scope of corporate assets eligible for tax credits and offer more [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean companies in carbon intensive industries are jacking up investment in hydrogen across sectors to cut their greenhouse emissions and capture new business opportunities in the emerging energy sector. Hydrogen can offer solutions in fields ranging from transport to energy storage as an alternative to fossil fuels [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies’ earnings declined by the most in 11 years in 2019, as the manufacturing sector remained sluggish amid the global economic slowdown, data showed Tuesday. Their combined before-tax net profit reached 102 trillion won (US$93.3 billion) in 2019, down 37.1 percent from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Corporate ownership of land in South Korea has been on a steady rise in recent years amid rising criticism of conglomerates’ real estate investment, government data showed Tuesday. South Korean companies owned 6.953 square kilometers of land in 2019, up 1.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies on average spent 5.34 million won (US$4,584) each month to hire one worker in 2019, up 2.8 percent from the previous year, the labor ministry said Wednesday. The figure, which includes monthly salary, severance pay, insurance fees and miscellaneous costs, came from data collected from companies [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Large South Korean companies have actively engaged in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) this year despite the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, industry data showed Wednesday. Big businesses in Asia’s fourth-largest economy spent a combined 11.45 trillion won (US$9.7 billion) in 52 M&A cases in the first eights months [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Local companies’ demand for new employees in the second and third quarters has fallen to the lowest level in 11 years, a government report showed Monday, as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh down the job market. According to the report issued by the Ministry of [...]