Shareholder value
Mergers & Acquisitions
KKR, Carlyle, Hillhouse race to buy Korean beauty device maker Classys
Mar 26, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Celltrion to cancel $140 mn in treasury shares, stock up
South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer Celltrion Inc. announced on Friday a plan to cancel $140 million worth of treasury shares to im...
Mar 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Hana Financial to boost corporate value by raising shareholder returns
South Korea’s Hana Financial Group aims to increase corporate value by ramping up shareholder returns based on a sustainable profit structure s...
Feb 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
S.Korea’s top financial regulator pushes tax support for value-up program
South Korea is ramping up efforts to encourage companies to enhance shareholder value by providing tax support for its corporate value-up program, a ...
Feb 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korean B2B fintech firm Dozn plans Kosdaq IPO for $202.5 mn market cap
South Korea’s business-to-business fintech service provider Dozn is planning an initial public offering on the Kosdaq in February for an estima...
Jan 31, 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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Shareholder value
LG Electronics to retire about $50 mn treasury stock in 2025
LG Electronics Inc. will retire 761,000 shares in 2025, or around 0.5% of its outstanding shares, to increase shareholder returns, the South Korean c...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity to transform top Korean car rental firms into mobility service providers
Affinity Equity Partners aims to develop leading South Korean car rental companies into mobility service providers to create additional profitability...
Dec 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Celltrion to retire $400 mn treasury stock in January
South Korea’s biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. on Wednesday announced a plan to retire about a quarter of its treasury stock worth 563 billion w...
Dec 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Hyundai Motor to buy back $720 mn in shares
Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday it will buy back 1 trillion won ($720 million) in shares in line with the government campaign to unlock corporate...
Nov 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
SK Square to buy back $72 mn shares amid Palliser's value-up push
SK Square Co., the investment arm of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, announced shareholder-friendly measures on Thursday, in respons...
Nov 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Samsung Electronics to buy back $7.2 bn in shares
Samsung Electronics Co. will buy back 10 trillion won ($7.2 billion) in shares over the next year to prop up its share price, which has plunged more ...
Nov 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Zinc drops $1.8 bn rights issue to regain shareholder support
Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s top lead and zinc smelter, on Wednesday withdrew its 2.5 trillion won ($1.8 billion) rights issue as the move to s...
Nov 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial to use excess capital for share buybacks, dividends
KB Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s largest financial holding group, is set to use its excess capital for share buybacks and dividends next ...
Oct 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
LG Electronics unveils value-up plans, begins Indian arm IPO process
LG Electronics Inc., the world’s largest home appliances maker, on Tuesday announced plans to unlock value by accelerating its transformation i...
Oct 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Doosan to resume Bobcat, Robotics merger with new ratio
South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group will resume the merger of Doosan Bobcat Inc. and Doosan Robotics Inc. using a new mer...
Oct 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Naver to retire $306 mn shares, but stock remains weak
South Korea’s leading internet portal operator Naver Corp. will buy back and retire about 400 billion won ($306 million) worth of shares by the...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS to veto SK Innovation’s merger with LNG affiliate
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), manager of the world’s third-largest public pension fund, said on Thursday it is set to vet...
Aug 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG to seek most of profit from new growth engines
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, aims to generate most of its profit from future growth drivers by 2030 as the South Kor...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean fashion platform Ably to raise $144 mn from Alibaba, others
Ably Corp., South Korea’s top online fashion platform operator, is set to raise 200 billion won ($144 million) from foreign investors such as C...
Jul 02, 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, where...
Jun 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 per...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
SK Square to buy back $152 mn of its stocks by March 2024
South Korean investment firm SK Square Co. will buy back 200 billion won ($151.9 million) worth of corporate shares by March of next year as an effor...
Aug 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Hyundai takes lead in Korea’s dividend policy reform
The Hyundai Motor Group is set to become South Korea’s first conglomerate to disclose dividend allocations ahead of the ex-dividend date, a mov...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Youngone acquires $23 mn worth of Hanjin KAL shares in August
South Korean clothing and footwear distributor Youngone Corp. acquired 30 billion won ($22.8 million) worth of Hanjin KAL Corp. shares in August of t...
Nov 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Samsung leader Lee calls on mgt to raise shareholder value
Samsung Electronics Co. set up a task force team dedicated to increasing its shareholder value last month, according to industry sources on Oct. 4. T...
Oct 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Hanjin KAL loses one-third of value as management issues fade
Shares in South Korea’s Hanjin KAL Co. have wiped out one-third of its value in the past two weeks after one of its major shareholders, once a ...
Sep 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
LG to buy back $398 mn of its own shares
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 shares ...
May 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Tighter rules on business split-ups may benefit SK Inc.
As South Korean securities regulators are moving to tighten their grip on the growing trend of splitting up businesses and listing the spun-off arms,...
Jan 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
POSCO plans to cancel treasury shares in its holding firm
Top management of South Korea's POSCO Co. has decided to cancel treasury shares in its to-be-launched holding company, in an effort to win shareholde...
Jan 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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