South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade (NXT) started trading on Tuesday, challenging the Korea Exchange’s (KRX) long-standing monopoly. The new exchange, designed to introduce ...

Global credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) announced on Friday that it upgraded SK Innovation Co.'s long-term credit rating from a non-investment grade of "BB+" to an investment grade of "BBB ...

Sweden’s EQT Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms, has launched the sale of Acuon Capital Corp. and Acuon Savings Bank Co., in what could become one of the largest financial-sector M ...

MBK Partners, a North Asia-focused private equity firm, has completed the second closing of its sixth buyout fund at $5 billion, on course to reach its target of $7 billion at the final close. On ...

East Asia’s petrochemical industry is entering its largest restructuring in decades, with planned closures of aging naphtha cracking facilities in China, Japan and South Korea expected to remove more ...

TOKYO – In the 1980s, Japanese chipmakers dominated the world’s semiconductor industry. Companies like NEC, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Mitsubishi Electric together controlled half the global semiconductor ...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) said on Wednesday it has promoted Lee Hoon, its former head of investment strategy and innovation division, to the post of chief investment officer with immediate ...

South Korea and the United States have reached a trade agreement setting the new US tariff rate at 15%, down from the previously announced 25%, with revitalizing the US shipbuilding sector at the ...

South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc. is seeking to sell its entire stake in a Chinese stainless steel joint venture as it faces growing competition with Chinese steelmakers amid a supply glut.

Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s largest full-service carrier, has undergone a major makeover of its corporate identity (CI) for the first time in more than four decades in the lead-up to its ...

F&F Co., a South Korean outdoor fashion retailer, has notched a success selling US Major League Baseball (MLB) apparel in China. This comes despite Chinese young people's growing preference for ...

South Korean pharmaceutical company Medytox Inc. on Tuesday announced its plan to enter the Chinese market for botulinum toxins (BTX) with its cutting-edge product Newlux developed by affiliate Numeco ...