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.
Featured Business & Economy 26 August 2022 Meta Backs off on Personal Information Collection South Korea was the only market in which Meta threatened to terminate membership for those who did not agree to provide personal information.
Featured Recommendations 19 August 2022 Candid Look at South Korea’s Start-Up Scene: Book Review Krafton Way is an unusually in-depth look at South Korea's start-up scene.
Featured Business & Economy 12 August 2022 End of Daewoo Shipbuilding Strike Averts Disaster The subcontractors' union was facing pressure from every direction, including other workers.
Featured Business & Economy 29 July 2022 Minimum Wage and How South Korea Avoided Japanization South Korea's high minimum wage made its export-dependent economy more resilient.
Featured Society 23 July 2022 Family Tragedy from Crypto Crash Grips Korea Desperate investors have turned to the government for help.
Featured Business & Economy 22 July 2022 Price Hike for Power and Gas Pressures the Government The administration is trying to deflect the blame to the previous one with bald-faced falsehood.
Featured Business & Economy 13 July 2022 The Triple Quandary: Stock Market, Inflation, and KRW-USD Exchange Rate One causes another, which causes yet another.
Featured Business & Economy 30 June 2022 Ghost of Real Estate Future: Troubled Redevelopment in Dunchon-dong Conservatives won thanks to the sizzling real estate market. What would happen if the market turned?
