shareholder policy

Institutional investors gathered momentum for shareholder activism in South Korea not only to boost their values but also to improve corporate gover...

CJ OliveNetworks Co., a South Korean digital software developer, has joined hands with bemyfriends, a startup specializing in the global K-pop fando...

Samsung Group’s four heirs to the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee have seen their group company shareholdings shrink by a combined 11 trillion won (...

South Korean firms wholly owned by foreign companies sent more than 1.1 trillion won ($800 million) back home for the fiscal year of 2021 in aggrega...

South Korea may keep the National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest such fund, from increasing its power for shareholder deriva...

South Korean private equity firms are set to take over NexFlex Co., the country’s largest manufacturer of flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL...

MBK Partners’ talks to buy a controlling stake in South Korea’s MegaStudyEdu Co. have collapsed, the company said on Friday, a deal esti...

South Korea is planning to set up a new subsidy policy for electric vehicle purchases, which will be commensurate to the EV makers’ after-sale...

Taekwang Industrial Co., a South Korean petrochemical and textile company, reported its first quarterly loss in 10 years amid weakness in its key bu...

POSCO International Corp., the trading unit of Korean steel giant POSCO, will merge with its unlisted affiliate POSCO Energy Co. to reinforce its en...

LX Pantos Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s LX Group, is looking to acquire a controlling stake in local budget carrier Air Premia Co.,...

Kolon Global Corp., an affiliate of South Korean conglomerate Kolon, will spin off its car import business unit to improve management efficiency and...

South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. is set to spend 15 trillion won ($11.4 billion) by 2026 to diversify business amid the volatility...

South Korea’s Kakao Corp. has voluntarily removed an external payment link from the country’s largest messaging app KakaoTalk in complia...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has halted updates to Kakao Corp.'s KakaoTalk, South Korea's most popular messaging app. An employee of Kakao told...

Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook, and Seoul National University (SNU) jointly launched an extended reality (XR) research center in So...

South Korea's Hyundai Oilbank Co. on Wednesday won preliminary approval for an initial public offering on the Korea Exchange, which may provide its ...

K-pop sensation BTS’ decision to temporarily split up and launch solo careers was made known after a pre-recorded video came out Wednesday of ...

When French carmaker Groupe Renault dropped Samsung from its South Korean unit's company name in March, it aroused worries that the firm may not be ...

South Korea’s Hanwha Corp. discussed on June 10 its ESG activities in the first half of this year and is set to announce plans for enhancing s...

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced Wednesday it has selected 60 promising startups to which it will provide financial assistance and expert...

South Korean conglomerate LG Corp., known as LG Group, announced on May 27 that it will buy back 500 billion won ($398.1 million) of its own share...

Dongwon Group, South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate, is changing the merger ratio of its two major affiliates, accepting a...

CJ Group, one of South Korea’s largest family run conglomerates, or chaebol, is venturing into the fandom platform business with a 22.4 billio...

South Korea’s travel and airline stocks are expected to shine as Japan plans to ease its border controls in June. Korea’s Shinhan Inve...

Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s largest company by market capitalization, has tried to boost its recently battered share price -- espec...

Elon Musk’s successful bid to buy out the social media platform Twitter for around $44 billion is a kind of deal unlikely to happen in South K...

A South Korean leading seafood and logistics conglomerate Dongwon Group’s corporate restructuring plan hit a roadblock as institutional invest...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world's third-largest pension fund with 948.7 trillion won ($768.9 billion) in assets under man...

Lionheart Studio Corp., the firm behind South Korea’s popular mobile game Odin, is preparing to go public as early as this year, with its ente...