SEOUL, South Korea’s exports fell 7.8 percent on-year in the first 20 days of this month due mainly to fewer working days, data showed Wednesday.
Outbound shipments reached US$30.72 billion in the Feb. 1-20 period, compared with $33.33 billion tallie…
SEOUL, South Korea’s No. 1 container shipper HMM Co. said Wednesday it has clinched a “leadership score” in climate change from a global sustainable management ratings agency.
Last year, HMM received an A- score from Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) i…
SEOUL, South Korea’s producer prices rose for the second consecutive month in January, driven in part by soaring prices in agricultural goods and service fees, central bank data showed Wednesday.
The producer price index, a major barometer of consume…
SEOUL, Hiring of wage worker jobs in South Korea grew at a slower pace in the third quarter of 2023 amid an economic slowdown, and newly added paid employee jobs for people in their 40s fell for the first time in four years, data showed Wednesday.
Th…
SEOUL, South Korea and the European Union have begun the second round of talks on a bilateral digital trade agreement in an effort to seek broader partnership in the digital domain, Seoul’s industry ministry said Wednesday.
The negotiation kicked off…
SEOUL, Hanwha Ocean Co. on Wednesday reported its fourth-quarter net profit of 286 billion won (US$214.1 million), turning from a loss of 430.3 billion won a year earlier.
The company said in a regulatory filing that it continued to post an operating…
