Three newcomers buck the trend, including Kim Jung-soo & Chun In-jang, the couple behind spicy Buldak noodles.

Kim Hyung-tae was a billionaire in South Korea, but a significant fall in share prices have reduced his worth down to $725 million. Nevertheless, the game designer is still one of the richest ...

The collective net worth of Korea’s 50 Richest on the 2025 Forbes list fell to US$99 billion from $115 billion last year.

The growing K-beauty craze catapulted Jung Sung-jae, founder of beauty device maker Classys, into the ranks of Korea’s 50 Richest list for the first time.

In 2016, Gabriel Zucman, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told The New York Times that "the ...

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong retained his position as Korea's wealthiest stockholder in the first quarter of the year, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Lee's stock holdings were ...

and even details about their families – posing real threats to their safety and allowing anonymous users to harass women directly. Since South Korea’s largest digital sex exploitation case ...

and filed a defamation lawsuit against Ms. Kim’s family. But the scandal has already begun burning Mr. Kim’s career and highlighted the perils of celebrity in South Korea, where personal ...

Stellar Blade is one of last year’s best action games and for South Korean studio Shift ... has subsequently become one of the richest people in Korea, but it isn’t because of Stellar Blade.

Adding to South Korea's political drama ... by jumping off a cliff amid a corruption investigation involving his family. Moon's party condemned the prosecution Thursday, calling the indictment ...