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Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea's Samsung Group, has acquired a 33.39% stake in Emro Inc., Korea's top suppl...

Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of the BTS label HYBE Co., has kicked off his campaign to gather support from institutional investors to take con...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) plans to actively voice its opinions on portfolio companies' management over the next two years to tighten its re...

South Korea’s JB Financial Group Co. has refused a local activist fund’s request to raise dividend payouts, stressing such a measure wil...

Seoul-based activist fund Tcha Partners Asset Management Co. on Monday demanded that South Korea’s Namyang Dairy Products Co. buy back half of...

The world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G’s battle against activist investors intensified as a group of funds sued the South Kore...

South Korean companies with a large proportion of sales to emerging Asia are expected to shine in the stock market this year as their revenue from t...

LG Electronics Inc. and South Korea’s Yonsei University are searching for talented human resources to build software platforms for smart TVs.T...

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is likely to face a tougher battle against activist shareholders as an aggressive hed...

South Korea’s central bank said on Tuesday it regards the current interest rate as tight, suggesting the monetary authority may hold the polic...

South Korea's listed companies have cancelled 11 trillion won ($8.6 billion) worth of shares over the past three years.The Korea Exchange said on Su...

South Korea’s major retailer Hyundai Department Store Group Co. gave up a plan to split off its core high-end shopping mall affiliate and conv...

  South Korea’s leading telecommunications company KT Corp. will pick a new chief executive after it came under fire over its CEO select...

Medytox Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that it is selling off approximately 2.19 million shares of Evolus, Daewoong Pharmaceutical's ...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...

The sport-utility vehicle (SUV) Hyundai Genesis GV70 electric vehicle in the first half of the year is expected to be eligible for subsidies in the ...

South Korean private equity firm Unison Capital Korea is set to focus on boosting the corporate value of Osstem Implant Co., once the PE manager and...

Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Sunday that it would introduce the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Jellppo." Jellppo is an AI-based one-o...

South Korea’s undersea cable company KT Submarine Co. plans to buy a cable laying barge from LS Cable & System Ltd., its major shareholder...

Employees at South Korea’s oil refiners are expected to receive hefty bonuses after their companies posted record earnings last year amid hi...

K-pop behemoth SM Entertainment Co. said on Jan. 20 it has decided to tap Lee Chang-hwan, the CEO of local activist fund Align Partners Capital Mana...

South Korea’s 30th novel medicine K-CAB Tab (active ingredient: tegoprazan), a gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) treatment of HK inno.N, ...

A Singapore-based activist fund has stepped up pressure on the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G Corp. to reform governance and boo...

South Korea’s Hyosung Group and its longtime rival Kolon Group in the fiber, textile and petrochemical businesses are poised to give up their ...

South Korea’s SM Entertainment Co. will increase the number of outside directors and ban its chief executive from chairing the board as part o...

The much-awaited launch of Intel Corp.’s latest processors dubbed Sapphire Rapids is a boon for leading memory chipmakers such as Samsung Elec...

South Korea's Anda Asset Management Co. said on Tuesday it applied for an injunction Jan. 9 to view and copy the shareholders’ list of KT&...

The South Korean government plans to raise tax breaks for facility investments by big companies, including chipmakers, to as much as 25% following P...

South Korean private equity firm Align Partners Capital Management Inc. is set to lead shareholder activism against the country’s top financia...