Shareholder activism

Meritz Financial Group Inc., boasting the fourth-biggest market capitalization among South Korean financial holding companies, will look into an acq...

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...

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...

South Korea is ramping up exports of botulinum toxin to the US and China, the world’s two top consumers of the neurotoxin protein, with its pr...

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 ...

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is eyeing shares of South Korean enterprise software developer Tmaxsoft Co. around two years aft...

MILAN, ITALY – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has for years been desperate to catch up to US Big Tech Apple Inc. in high-end ...

South Korea’s major companies invest heavily in facilities to seek new growth engines and drive up their corporate value amid tough business c...

Coupang Inc. is the only South Korea-native e-commerce platform with more monthly active users than China's e-commerce giants AliExpress and Temu in...

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...

Hyundai Motor Group has become the top shareholder of South Korea’s leading mobile carrier KT Corp., after the country’s National Pensio...

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 ...

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...

Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group’s proposed merger with OCI Holdings Co. has collapsed after two sons of the group’s founding family, who oppo...

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...

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...

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...

Global leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that stakeholders of South Korean tobacco maker KT&G ...

South Korea’s KT&G Corp., the world’s leading tobacco maker, is facing challenges in its chief executive appointment as the firm&rsq...

Goldman Sachs’ Chung Hyung-Jin, co-head of the Seoul office and the leader of the firm’s investment banking (IB) business in South Korea...

Key shareholders of South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co., one of the largest real estate firms in Asia, have decided to halt the process of...

South Korean brokerage house NH Investment & Securities Co. has shortlisted three candidates for its next chief executive as the current CEO Jeo...

Palliser Capital, a London-based hedge fund, said on Sunday it will vote in favor of other activist shareholders’ proposals for Samsung C&...

Samsung Electronics Co. will launch its first Galaxy Ring in the second half of this year as the South Korean tech giant is finalizing research and ...

HYBE Co., the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, last year logged the highest-ever annual revenue for a South Korean entertainment company, backed b...

South Korea’s KT Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will participate in the world's largest mobile exhibition MWC 2024 to be held in Barcelona...

South Korea’s large business groups are in emergency mode to brace for proxy fights with activist funds at annual general meetings (AGMs) next...

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading and rental company actively investing in tech firms in recent years, will step up its efforts to transform i...

The chairman nominee of POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of the world’s No. 7 steelmaker POSCO, is expected to concentrate on improving its cor...

South Korea’s Hanwha Group announced on Wednesday that it will extend the restricted stock unit (RSU) to its all affiliates. Next year, RSU ...