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Banking & Finance
Korean banks to cut corporate loans for profitability
South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...
22 HOURS AGO
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Corporate restructuring
SK puts shares in Goldman-backed Korea Superfreeze on market
SK Group has put its shares in Korea Superfreeze Inc., a cold chain logistics company jointly owned by EMP Belstar and Goldman Sachs, on the market,...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Korea to put poison pill adoption on new policy agenda
South Korea will put the adoption of poison pills and dual-class shares on the new policy agenda at a meeting with business leaders this month, wher...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Dim outlook for Korean biotech firms’ rights offerings
South Korea’s bio and tech-heavy Kosdaq-listed Shaperon Inc. raised 12.7 billion won ($9.2 million) from its latest rights offering, selling o...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharm mulls acquiring firms, drug sales rights in US
SAN DIEGO, California -- South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. is considering acquiring firms in the US, or the sales rights to some of thei...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Facephi to supply ID verification solutions to Samsung Securities
South Korea's Hancom Inc. announced on Monday that Facephi, a Spain-based AI biometric recognition company in which Hancom had recently acquired equ...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS corp governance committee taps SNU professor as member
A corporate governance committee of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, has named a Seoul Na...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Block deals of Korean stocks surge ahead of tighter regulation
Block trades of South Korean listed shares have surged by six times so far this year from the same period in 2023, according to the Financial Superv...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Meritz leaves door open for an M&A, to stay shareholder friendly
Meritz Financial Group Inc., boasting the fourth-biggest market capitalization among South Korean financial holding companies, will look into an acq...
May 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Korea Inc. ups dividend payouts despite falling net income
South Korean companies listed on the main bourse Kospi raised their dividend payouts between 2021 and 2023 despite falling net income in the same pe...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
POSCO Future M publishes responsible minerals report
South Korea's POSCO Future M Co. announced on Tuesday that it released a responsible minerals report detailing establishing a sustainable supply cha...
May 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hankook Tire buys $1 bn Hanon Systems stake from Hahn & Co.
Hankook Tire and Technology Co. on Friday reached a preliminary agreement to buy 1.37 trillion won ($1 billion) worth of shares in Hanon Systems Cor...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS loses $1.2 bn in local stocks in Q1 on weak battery shares
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, lost 1.66 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in domestic stock ...
Apr 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
MBK eyes stake in Korean software developer Tmaxsoft
North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is eyeing shares of South Korean enterprise software developer Tmaxsoft Co. around two years aft...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
Korean companies’ 2024 facility investment doubles to $39.4 billion
South Korea’s major companies invest heavily in facilities to seek new growth engines and drive up their corporate value amid tough business c...
Apr 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS' former key players move to law firms as its voting power increases
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is seeing more and more of its former senior managers moving to top-tier domestic law firms. Ther...
Apr 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
NPS sells shares in KT, making Hyundai the top shareholder
Hyundai Motor Group has become the top shareholder of South Korea’s leading mobile carrier KT Corp., after the country’s National Pensio...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
KKR, Hanmi heirs likely to join hands for controlling stake
The two sons of Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group’s founding family, who were approved as board members of the holding firm Hanmi Science Co. at its ...
Apr 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korea, Japan lead Asia's buyout markets: MBK Partners
South Korea and Japan are the two most important markets for buyouts in Asia, and China is still a significant private market with potential for mid...
Apr 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanmi’s planned merger with OCI scrapped as sons win family feud
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group’s proposed merger with OCI Holdings Co. has collapsed after two sons of the group’s founding family, who oppo...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hanmi Science-OCI merger may gain traction with NPS' support
The merger of South Korea’s pharmaceutical holding firm Hanmi Science Co. and chemicals giant OCI Holdings Co. is likely to gain momentum as N...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Universal Music acquires 10-year distribution rights to HYBE music
The world’s largest music company Universal Music Group (UMG) has struck an exclusive deal to distribute music from HYBE Co., the South Korean...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Shareholder activism in Korea swells 9 times since 2019
The number of South Korean firms targeted by activist funds has risen by nearly nine times over the past five years, the largest increase among majo...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Ecoplant, Vietnam’s BCGE tie up for 700 MW wind, solar projects
SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, said on Friday it has agreed with BCG Energy (BCGE), a wholly...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
NPS to vote in favor of KT&G CEO candidate Bang
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is slated to vote in favor of the KT&G Corp. b...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
S.Korea, Kazakhstan agree to expand air transport rights
South Korea and Kazakhstan have agreed to expand air transport rights during the South Korea and Kazakhstan aviation talks held in Almaty, Kazakhsta...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BTS, Blackpink economy: Korea’s IP rights trade surplus hits record high
While the economic impact of US singer Taylor Swift is so powerful that pundits coined words like “the Taylor Swift economy,” no less st...
Mar 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Samsung C&T defeats activist funds in proxy battle
Activist funds arm in arm to demand higher dividends from Samsung C&T Corp. got defeated in a proxy fight against the de facto holding firm of S...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
ISS urges KT&G shareholders to vote against CEO candidate Bang
Global leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that stakeholders of South Korean tobacco maker KT&G ...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
KT&G’s No. 1 shareholder IBK vetoes naming Bang as CEO
South Korea’s KT&G Corp., the world’s leading tobacco maker, is facing challenges in its chief executive appointment as the firm&rsq...
Mar 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)