Corporate governance
Shareholder activism
US PE firm Miri Capital ups stake in Korea’s STIC Investments
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor taps ex-CPPIB private equity head Suyi Kim for board role
Hyundai Motor Co. has tapped Suyi Kim, former private equity head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Benjamin Tan, an ex-portfol...
Feb 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Korean activist investors to routinize campaigns throughout year
South Korea’s activist investors are set to routinize campaigns all year long rather than launch fresh moves only before annual general meeting...
Jan 03, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hanmi Pharm’s chair poised to win management feud with her son
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group Chairman Song Young-sook is poised to claim victory in a year-long dispute with her eldest son Lim Jong-yoon to take contr...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
LG Group affiliates unveil value-up plans
LG Group affiliates— LG Display Co., LG Innotek, LG Chem Ltd., and LG Energy Solution Ltd. —unveiled their ambitious growth strategies on...
Nov 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Korea’s Hanmi family feud to end as key shareholder mediates
South Korean Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group’s founding family is set to conclude an ongoing feud as the group’s top individual shareholder ha...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Woori adopts Samsung culture index for internal controls
Woori Financial Group has adopted Samsung Electronics Co.'s Samsung Culture Index (SCI) to tighten its internal controls, which will be given more we...
Jun 25, 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 Nat...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hanmi to fire founder's wife, entering new round of family feud
South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group is set to enter a new chapter of an ongoing family feud less than two months after the founding family...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hanwha Vision joins UNGC
South Korea's Hanwha Vision Co. announced on Monday that it joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), an international initiative for corporat...
Apr 29, 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 Na...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
JB investors urged to oppose Align's call for board overhaul
Global proxy advisors International Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. have expressed their opinion that there is no need for ...
Mar 25, 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. bo...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Lotte Group to give more authority to outside directors
Food-to-retail conglomerate Lotte will expand the authority of outside directors by separating the roles of chief executives and board chairs at its ...
Mar 20, 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 C...
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&rsqu...
Mar 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
NPS to veto adding Hyosung chair, vice chair to board
The National Pension Service (NPS) will veto the appointment of the chairman and vice chairman of Hyosung Corp. as inside board members of the de fac...
Mar 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hanwha Group extends RSU to all affiliates
South Korea’s Hanwha Group announced on Wednesday that it will extend the restricted stock unit (RSU) to its all affiliates. Next year, RSU wi...
Feb 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Kakao to replace K-pop pioneer SM execs over poor governance
Kakao Corp. is set to replace executives of SM Entertainment Co., who ousted its founder Lee Soo-man when the South Korean mobile giant acquired the ...
Jan 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Kakao inspects SM Entertainment’s management
Kakao Corp. has embarked on a special inspection of SM Entertainment Co.'s financial reporting for the first time since the South Korean internet gia...
Jan 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Group chair exits Schindler-invested unit board
Hyundai Group's chairwoman on Friday resigned from the board of its elevator unit, whose No. 2 shareholder is Schindler Holding AG, amid mounting sha...
Nov 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Samsung Group introduces senior outside director system
Samsung Group has created the position of senior outside director, granted as much authority as the chair of a board of directors, for the first time...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
SK Ecoplant seeks to establish eco holding firm, sell 40% stake to PEFs
SK Ecoplant Co. is seeking to establish an interim holding firm for its waste management subsidiaries and sell its stake to private equity firms as p...
May 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Amorepacific chairman's 2nd daughter emerges as 3rd-largest shareholder
Amorepacific Group, South Korea’s cosmetic giant, announced on Thursday that Chairman Suh Kyung-bae has donated a 2.5% stake to his second daug...
May 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyosung’s sibling feud continues with second son in court on trial
It all began in July 2014 when Cho Hyun-joon, currently the Hyosung Group chairman, was sued by his younger brother Cho Hyun-moon on charges of embez...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor, Lotte chairs rank as S.Korea’s highest-paid heads
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was ranked as South Korea’s highest-paid business owner in 2022 thanks to the group's record-high pro...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Samsung suspends business with select software partner companies
Samsung Electronics Co. has recently “suspended transactions” with select software partner companies through regular auditing, with aroun...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Google, Microsoft laying off staff in S.Korea
The South Korean branches of Google and Microsoft have started efforts to cut staff in line with what analysts call large-scale restructuring of glob...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
SK Group affiliates hire more female outside directors
Major affiliates of South Korea’s SK Group are recruiting a large number of female outside directors with the arrival of the season of regular ...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C
POSCO Engineering & Construction, the builder affiliate of South Korea's POSCO Group, has changed its name to "POSCO E&C" to mark the first a...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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