The three countries pledged to continue working together to counter North Korea’s destabilising activities, including weapons development and cyber attacks.
September 1, 2023The FTC sent investigators to the offices of Samsung Securities, Meritz Securities, Kiwoom Securities and KB Securities and seized documents.
June 22, 2023The Fair Trade Commission conducted inspections at Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank, Shinhan Bank and Woori Bank.
June 15, 2023The sanctions were imposed in the absence of a working multilateral mechanism to respond to its North Korea's latest ICBM launch.
March 23, 2023A fire occurred at a data centre where Kakao operates 32,000 servers that support the vast majority of its mobile services.
October 19, 2022Foreign investors have complained about the current dividend policy, registration requirements, and a lack of corporate filings in English.
September 22, 2022The FSS has launched an inspection of Morgan Stanley’s short-selling practices. Similar inspections at BAML and Goldman Sachs will come next.
August 30, 2022The new disclosures are expected to push banks to increase the interest rates they pay on deposit products, and slow down the pace of interest rate hikes on loans.
August 24, 2022October inspections will focus on firms with high volumes of short selling transactions. Probe into crypto-related FX transactions still underway.
August 17, 2022The FSS will be led by former prosecutor Lee Bok-hyun, while the FSC will be led by Kim Joo-hyun, who helped guide Korea through the 2008 crisis.
June 21, 2022