SEOUL/SEJONG, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tax earnings from the country’s 30 largest conglomerates are expected to shrink 15 percent this year, economic sources said Monday, as the business community claims rates are already high for a trade-dependent nation. Official data by Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) and corporate tracker Chaebul.com said the business groups [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean lenders saw their combined net profit soar 60.4 percent last year from a year earlier as they set aside less reserves against bad loans, the financial watchdog said Friday. The combined net income of 18 local banks stood at 6.2 trillion won (US$5.7 billion) in 2014, up [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors’ net purchases of South Korean stocks nearly doubled in 2014 from the previous year thanks to ample liquidity in the United States and other major economies, data showed Sunday. Offshore investors bought a net 8.21 trillion won (US$7.47 billion) worth of local stocks in the first 11 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Women in their 20s and 30s are reportedly known to be the most frequent victims of phishing scam, according to the Financial Supervisory Service. By region, people living in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam and Seocho districts are most easily fallen by the financial fraud. The financial regulator released a report on November 11 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Yuhan Corporation, the first runner in terms of sales and net profit among Korean drug companies, is expected to reach one trillion won sales this year, for the first time as a pharmaceutical company. In a recent electronic disclosure to the Financial Supervisory Service, Yuhan said that its preliminary [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As the issue of anti-money laundering (AML) is getting more critical all over the world, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) ordered the Korean branches of four international banks that do not have any adequate internal system to closely monitor money laundering activities, with relevant regulations set up and consolidated. Of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, ordinary people can get private financial “advice” via the Internet like private banking service that people with a large amount of assets use. Common people will get the financial consulting service from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) by typing in their basic financial data like monthly income, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A parliamentary investigation disclosed that the volume of earned surplus stocked up by large corporations has increased at a fast pace for the past few years. According to Congressman Lee Jong-kul (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) on October 18 based on data submitted by the Financial Supervisory Service, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – It is expected that from the year of 2018 the more drivers may have accidents, the more they will pay insurance premiums, regardless of the damage size. According to the revision of the auto insurance premium ratings system by the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), the current system determined by the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – As the number of overseas subsidiaries to Korea-based companies rises, the financial authorities are strengthening their supervision on these companies’ accounting practices. According to the Financial Supervisory Service on August 20, of the 1,594 publicly traded companies that close their books in December as much as 76.2 percent (1,214 firms) [...]