Korea

SEOUL:  South Korea’s exports, which form the main pillar of the country’s economy, decreased 5.9 percent in September, compared to...

SEJONG: South Korea's exports backtracked 5.9 percent from a year earlier in September due mainly to sluggish shipments of cars...

SEOUL: South Korea’s exports and imports growth in annual terms is expected to have dropped below zero again in September...

SEOUL: South Korea has outlined plans to develop its ports, promising to spend KRW14.7trn ($13.4bn) through to 2020. The nation’s...

SEOUL: The usually conservative The Bank of Korea (BOK) has investigated into the effects of a negative interest rate policy...

SEJONG: South Korea and Britain held a trade meeting on Wednesday to discuss ways to expand bilateral economic cooperation after...

SEOUL: South Korea will release August industrial production (IP) on 30 September. Standard Chartered (SC) expects IP to have fallen...

SEJONG: Cargo processed at South Korean seaports shrank nearly 6 percent in August from a year earlier despite a slight...

ABU DHABI: From 2010 to 2015, the UAE-South Korean trade recorded Dh122.7 billion of which Dh115.8 billion was the volume...

HANOI:  Vietnam had spent US$485 million importing 1.06 million tons of fuels from South Korea in the year to August,...

SEOUL: South Korea's crude oil imports from Iran rose 112.3 percent in August from a year earlier, while its total...

SEOUL: Following the closure of four of South Korea's nuclear reactors and three of the country's liquefied natural gas (LNG)...

SEOUL: South Korea's chief financial regulator called on the nation's umbrella bank union Wednesday to withdraw its plan to go...

SEOUL: Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) announced on Sept. 19 that it signed a bituminous coal purchase contract and a...

SEOUL: South Korea has imported over 400 tons of foods grown with radiation exposure in Fukushima, Japan, over the past...

SEOUL: South Korea's coal imports rose 1.6 percent in August compared with a year earlier, customs data showed on Monday....

SEOUL: Income inequality among elderly South Korean is the highest in the OECD, a new study shows. The problem stems...

SEOUL: South Korea’s imports of Iranian crude oil nearly doubled from a year ago in August, as Tehran continues to...

SEOUL: The Bank of Korea yesterday held its key interest rate unchanged for a third month, citing rising household debt...

SEJONG: About 30 percent of manufactured goods consumed by South Koreans in their daily lives were imported from abroad in...