Digital lender Kakao Bank Corp made a stunning debut on Friday, surging 65% from its IPO price to become South Korea’s biggest financial services firm by market value. The country’s first purely …
Kakao Bank becomes S.Korea’s biggest lender by market value in stellar debut
Digital lender Kakao Bank Corp made a stunning debut on Friday, surging 65% from its IPO price to become South Korea’s biggest financial services firm by market value. The country’s first purely …
Shares of South Korea’s Kakao Bank jump 70% on first day of trading
Kakao Bank’s IPO soared as high as 74.36% from its issue price on Friday in South Korea, the country’s largest listing since 2017.
Olympics-Table Tennis-Japan beat South Korea to win bronze in men’s team event
Japan’s trio of Jun Mizutani, Koki Niwa and Tomokazu Harimoto clinched bronze at the men’s team event on Friday after a 3-1 win over South Korea. Mizutani and Niwa guided the team event, which …
U.S., South Korea diplomats discussed dialogue with North Korea, Seoul says
U.S. and South Korean director-level diplomats addressed North Korea dialogue for the first time since the restoration of a military communication hotline.
Vietnam and South Korea send more students to US than Japan
But in 2019 and 2020, Japan fell to eighth place, outpaced by China, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan … While progress in the Japanese business community to institute fall and year …
Once No. 1, Japan topped by Vietnam and South Korea for study in US
Japan is no longer home to the most international students studying in the U.S., as there are now fewer Japanese students than those hailing from China, India, South Korea and Vietnam. As the COVID-19 …
South Korea Economic Rebound Threatened by New COVID Wave
A key risk to the near-term economic outlook of South Korea is the sharp upturn in daily new COVID-19 cases during July, with the highly transmissible Delta variant having become the dominant strain i …
Google’s ‘anti-competition’ practice under scanner in South Korea
South Korea’s antitrust regulator said in Thursday it will hold its final review of whether Google LLC abused its market dominance in the mobile operating system and app markets.
North Korea releases wartime rice reserves amid food crisis
North Korea has released military rice reserves to tackle a food crisis in the country, South Korea’s spy agency has said, as a heatwave and drought hit food supplies. The national intelligence …