SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — NH Investment & Securities Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net income of 270.5 billion won (US$235.2 million), up 17.3 percent from a year earlier.The company said in a regulatory filing that operating profit for …
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases hit a fresh high of over 1,800 on Thursday with mass infections from a virus-hit naval unit, while authorities are increasingly inclined to extend the toughest virus restrictions in t…
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — South Korean stocks snapped their four-day losing streak Thursday, as hopes for robust second-quarter earnings boosted investor sentiment despite the surge in new virus cases. The Korean won rose against the U.S. dollar.The b…
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — South Korean household goods and cosmetics maker LG Household & Health Care Ltd. said Thursday its net profit surged to a record high in the second quarter this year, thanks to robust sales of luxury-brand cosmetics in China….
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — Kia Corp. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net income of 1.34 trillion won (US$1.2 billion), up 963.2 percent from a year earlier.Operating profit for the April-June period was 1.48 trillion won, up 924.5 percent from …
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday its second-quarter net profit more than quintupled compared with a year earlier on a base effect and strong sales of its high-end sport utility vehiclesNet profit for the three mo…
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — Vietnam has expressed regrets over the recent cremation of a South Korean resident without consent from his family after he died following COVID-19 infection, the foreign ministry said Thursday.The Korean man in his 50s teste…
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) — An art foundation said Thursday it is pushing to create commercial digital tokens of “Hunminjeongeum,” an official manuscript describing the principles of the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, and details on its letters and sounds.Th…