Featured Business & Economy 7 December 2022 Truckers Strike Again for Minimum Guaranteed Pay Truck drivers are demanding continuation and expansion of the Freight Safety Fee.
Featured Business & Economy 28 November 2022 Coupang Finally Turns Profit After Eight Years After years of terrible labor conditions and decline in share price, Coupang is finally making money.
Featured Business & Economy 21 November 2022 Legoland Bond Crisis Spreads Internationally as Heungkuk Life Rocked Asian Bond Market Heungkuk's Life's non-call of its 30 year bond shook the confidence in Asian bonds generally.
Featured Business & Economy 16 November 2022 Legoland Bond Crisis Continues to Choke off South Korea's Capital Market Yoon Suk-yeol administration demanded the Bank of Korea to print more money. The central bank declined.
Featured Business & Economy 11 November 2022 Lack of Safety Measures at SPC Pastry Factory Kills Worker While the Government Attempts to Roll Back Regulation Industrial accident sparked a mass boycott, but the Yoon administration proposed relaxing the Serious Disasters Act.
Featured Business & Economy 9 November 2022 Legoland Default Levels South Korea's Bond Market Lotte E&C takes an emergency loan of KRW 700b while Seoul's largest redevelopment is at the brink of failure.
Featured Business & Economy 4 November 2022 The Politics of the Legoland Bond Crisis Newly elected far-right governor of Gangwon-do Province set off an entirely unnecessary credit crisis.
Featured Business & Economy 3 November 2022 Kakao Talk Outage Leaves South Korea Stranded Data center fire shut down the super-app for days, inviting criticism for poor planning.
Business & Economy 31 October 2022 Largest Gap Ever Between Regular and Irregular Workers: Data South Korea's labor market bifurcation gets worse.
Featured Business & Economy 26 October 2022 Proposed ‘Yellow Envelope Act’ Seeks to Protect Striking Workers The proposed law would stop corporations from suing the striking union members in retaliation.
Featured Climate Change 12 October 2022 Samsung Electronics Signs Onto RE100 Amid Yoon Administration’s Hostility to Renewable Energy Samsung Electronics, South Korea's largest consumer of electricity, will transition into 100% renewable energy by 2050.
Featured Business & Economy 7 October 2022 Google and Meta Receive Record Fine for Privacy Violation The two companies were under investigation for collecting user data without permission.
Featured Business & Economy 5 October 2022 Real Estate Price Dropping at Record Pace: Data The softening real estate market makes it hard for the Yoon administration to raise the benchmark interest rate.
Featured Business & Economy 28 September 2022 Frieze Seoul Marks South Korea as a New Hub of Modern Art Asia's first Frieze fair sold more than USD 450m worth of artwork.
Featured Society 23 September 2022 Inflation Hurting the Chuseok Table: Data More than half said they are simplifying the Chuseok spread because of rising food costs.
Featured Business & Economy 21 September 2022 South Korea Loses Arbitration to Lone Star, Ordered to Pay USD 216.5m The investor-state arbitration against a US-based private equity fund was one of the biggest business litigations South Korea has faced.
Featured Business & Economy 14 September 2022 “A Back-of-the-Head Strike”: US Protectionism of Electric Vehicles Draws Ire New low cuts off government assistance for EVs manufactured by South Korean carmakers.
Featured Business & Economy 9 September 2022 Chicken Game: Bargain Priced Fried Chicken Poised to Disrupt Once criticized as undercutting mom-and-pop shops, cut-rate fried chicken is now welcome as inflation rages.
Featured Business & Economy 7 September 2022 The Quietly Roaring Private Equity Market of South Korea South Korea's maturing economy is a fertile ground for financiers.
Featured Business & Economy 31 August 2022 South Korean Shipbuilding Dominant Through July Korea's shipbuilders fended off China's challenge with a healthy demand for LNG transports.
