South Korean stocks opened higher Tuesday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street.

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index added 18.64 points, or 0.73 percent, to 2,586.46 in the first 15 minutes of trading.

Overnight, the Dow Jones Indust…

South Korea reaffirmed its position to China via diplomatic channels after Beijing reacted against a joint statement by South Korea, the United States and Japan on the South China Sea, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday.

Last week, the three c…

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, predicted Tuesday that its fourth-quarter operating profit may decline 35 percent from a year earlier, in signs that weak demand for its mainstay semiconductor was persistent.

For the t…

Today (%) Previous Session(%) Change (BP)

1-year TB 3.424 3.455 -3.1

2-year TB 3.355 3.393 -3.8

3-year TB 3.255 3.297 -4.2

10-year TB 3.323 3.344 -2.1

2-year MSB 3.320 3.370 -5.0

3-year CB (AA-) 4.004 4.045 -4.1

91-day CD 3.800 3.810 -1.0

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Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung will leave hospital Wednesday, eight days after he was stabbed in the neck in a knife attack and underwent surgery, a party official said.

Lee, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), has since recovere…

South Korea’s trade ministry said Tuesday that Guatemala has formally signed a deal to join Seoul’s free trade agreement (FTA) with a group of Central American nations.

The inclusion came around three years after South Korea and five Central America…