SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The value of South Korea’s virtual asset market expanded over 50 percent from six months earlier in the second half of last year, on rising prices of cryptocurrencies, data showed Thursday. The market capitalization of the virtual asset market had come to 43.6 trillion won (US$31.8 billion) as of end-2023, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past decade, Taiwan’s 100 largest companies by market capitalization have surpassed their South Korean counterparts in terms of total market value and operating profits, according to a new analysis. A study by the corporate data research firm CEOScore, which examined the top 100 non-financial companies in South Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of listed firms in South Korea swelled nearly 25 percent over the past year amid a bullish stock market, a corporate tracker said Thursday. The market capitalization of 2,607 companies listed on the country’s main and secondary bourses came to a combined 2,503 trillion won (US$1.9 trillion) [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The market capitalization of South Korea’s conglomerates soared more than 350 trillion won (US$273.8 billion) this year amid a bullish trend in the country’s stock markets, data showed Tuesday. The combined value of a total of 338 listed companies owned by 73 business groups reached 1.77 quadrillion won as [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The market value of listed firms in South Korea jumped nearly 19 percent in the first half of 2023 amid a bullish stock market, with Samsung Electronics Co. retaining its top-cap status, a corporate tracker said Thursday. The market capitalization of 2,599 companies listed on the country’s main and [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The market value of listed firms in South Korea swelled nearly 14 percent in the first quarter of 2023, with Samsung Electronics Co. retaining its top-cap status, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The market capitalization of 2,558 companies listed on the country’s main and secondary bourses came to 2,291 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — JYP Entertainment, the agency-label behind K-pop girl groups like ITZY and TWICE, exceeded the market cap of South Korean media and entertainment giant CJ ENM for the very first time. Shares of JYP finished at 63,000 won on Sept. 8 with a market cap of 2.23 trillion won (US$1.65 [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The market value of listed firms in South Korea tumbled by nearly 70 trillion won (US$57 billion) in the first quarter of the year due to a bearish stock market, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The market capitalization of 2,470 companies listed on the country’s main and secondary bourses [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top 30 family-controlled conglomerates have seen their stock market capitalization spike more than 30 percent over the past four years, with Samsung Group taking the top spot, a market tracker said Tuesday. The combined value of 201 listed firms belonging to the leading business groups, known as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Giant chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. saw its presence on the main bourse drop to the lowest in 23 months in terms of market capitalization amid a sharp drop, data showed Sunday. The tech behemoth’s value stood at some 444 trillion won (US$400 billion) as of Friday, or 19.43 percent [...]