MBK letter to shareholder

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, has begun actively exercising its voting rights in invested companies.Ac...

Asia’s private equity giant MBK Partners Ltd. is set to accelerate fundraising for its new fund, which is expected to become the firm’s ...

Drama & Company, the developer of South Korea’s popular cloud-based business card management app Remember, is readying its next business w...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest battery maker, has confirmed it will receive a 1.2 trillion won ($908.7 million) investment for a minorit...

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners has put Golfzon County Co., the biggest golf course operator in South Korea, on sale at an estim...

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemical materials company, is slated to buy a controlling stake in semiconductor chip test maker ISC Co., in a deal estima...

South Korea is set to require pre-disclosures of major shareholders’ listed company stake sales in an aim to prevent tumbles in stock prices.A...

The three-month saga over the control of the K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. early this year was a painful lesson about activist funds: Don&rsquo...

Amorepacific Group, South Korea’s cosmetic giant, announced on Thursday that Chairman Suh Kyung-bae has donated a 2.5% stake to his second dau...

Back in the early 2000s, Meritz was an obscure, lesser-known insurance-related company in South Korea’s financial arena.Part of Hanjin Group, ...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest battery maker, is slated to attract 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) from a consortium of US private equit...

Private equity firm MBK Partners is set to acquire Pierre Marcolini, a Belgian chocolate brand called "Hermes of Chocolate."MBK bought the South Kor...

Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder and partner at private equity firm MBK Partners, has topped the ranking of the 50 richest South Koreans by net worth...

LG Corp., the holding firm of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group, saw its share price soar in the local market on Wednesday as...

Private equity giant MBK Partners focused on defending its portfolio last year, especially Chinese companies during the lockdown, while being active...

SK Innovation Co. is set to consider providing stocks of its electric vehicle battery subsidiary to its shareholders when SK On Co., the world&rsquo...

NKGen Biotech, the US affiliate of South Korea's natural killer (NK) cell therapy developer NK Max, on Friday said it signed a letter of intent (LOI) ...

The MBK Partners-Unison Capital Korea (UCK) consortium said on Wednesday it will conduct a second tender offer for shares in Osstem Implant Co., a f...

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, the world's two biggest advisory bodies for shareholder voting rights, have recommended op...

MBK Partners agreed to buy NexFlex Co., South Korea’s top flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL) producer, as the leading Northeast Asian priva...

Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. are urging shareholders of JB Financial Group Co., a South Ko...

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea's Samsung Group, has acquired a 33.39% stake in Emro Inc., Korea's top suppl...

Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of the BTS label HYBE Co., has kicked off his campaign to gather support from institutional investors to take con...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) plans to actively voice its opinions on portfolio companies' management over the next two years to tighten its re...

South Korea’s JB Financial Group Co. has refused a local activist fund’s request to raise dividend payouts, stressing such a measure wil...

The world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G’s battle against activist investors intensified as a group of funds sued the South Kore...

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is likely to face a tougher battle against activist shareholders as an aggressive hed...

South Korea's listed companies have cancelled 11 trillion won ($8.6 billion) worth of shares over the past three years.The Korea Exchange said on Su...

South Korea’s major retailer Hyundai Department Store Group Co. gave up a plan to split off its core high-end shopping mall affiliate and conv...

Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), one of the country’s most aggressive shareholder activists, plans to sell its stake in Oss...