Featured Key Players 31 October 2020 Obituary: Lee Kun-hee, Former Chairman of Samsung Group Lee's passing is an end of an era for "Korea, Inc."
Buzzword 26 October 2020 Buzzword: Bittoo Young Koreans are taking out loans to jump into the stock market.
Featured Op-Ed 23 October 2020 South Korea's Public Debt Cap: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish Not spending the resources today may mean less capability for addressing economic challenging tomorrow.
Featured Business & Economy 19 October 2020 No Love for Short Shorts: Korea’s Short-Selling Ban Continues World's broadest and longest short-sale ban may be feeding the stock market bubble.
Featured COVID-19 14 October 2020 See Where the COVID-19 Wrecking Ball Hit Seoul’s Businesses A visual map of all the small businesses in Seoul that have recently closed their doors.
Featured Business & Economy 5 October 2020 Domesticity Businesses Thrive in the Pandemic As Koreans are compelled to spend more time at home, businesses that cater to home improvement are booming.
Featured Business & Economy 1 October 2020 KFTC Enforcement is Coming for Google, Netflix, and Other Online Platforms Korea Fair Trade Commission is one of the world's most active antitrust regulators.
Featured Business & Economy 23 September 2020 Inequality in the Times of COVID-19 The pandemic's economic impact is landing disproportionately on the women, children and the poor.
Business & Economy 21 September 2020 Contactless Kiosks are the New Digital Divide Photo: Unmanned kiosk ordering system in McDonald's in Seoul.Credit: The Blue Roof. Hankook Research 한국리서치 conducted an in-depth survey [https://hrcopinion.co.kr/archives/16318] of Koreans’ attitudes toward digital devices. South Korea is among the world’s most high tech societies, with 99.7% of the
Business & Economy 15 September 2020 New Initiative for Service Industry Exports Six promising service industries are selected for export promotion.
Business & Economy 9 September 2020 Korean Consumer Electronics: Wired to Wireless More wireless devices are entering Koreans' everyday lives.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Japan's Trade War on South Korea, One Year Later Mostly a swing and a miss.
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Make Sejong Great Again: Democratic Party Tries Capital Relocation One More Time The Constitutional Court of Korea 헌법재판소 held in 2006 that Korea’s capital cannot be relocated absent a constitutional amendment. 14 years later, the Democratic Party 민주당 is trying again.
Featured Business & Economy 25 August 2020 Defusing the South Korea’s Jeonse Time Bomb South Korea’s unique method of housing lease that acts as an unregulated capital market.
Recommendations 25 August 2020 How South Korean Shipping Got Its Groove Back How the government resuscitated the shipping business from the disastrous Hanjin bankruptcy
Business & Economy 25 August 2020 The Stonks Tax: New Tax for Profit from Stock and Crypto Trading Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced the 2020 amendments for the Tax Act that in part is aimed at taxing the gains from stock and cryptocurrency trading.