TMR Founders

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, the mastermind behind the Terra-Luna cryptocurrency collapse, has had most of his assets in South Korea frozen, a...

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...

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

Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI) is eyeing a controlling stake in DB HiTek Co. as the activist fund became the second-largest shar...

South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Group aims to transform into a drug developer by generating 40% of sales from new medicines by 2030 as it is...

South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Group’s founder Seo Jung-jin has returned to management two years after his departure, pledging to mer...

South Korea’s Kakao Corp. has secured 40% of SM Entertainment Co. as planned, wrapping up its 1.25-trillion-won ($960 million) takeover bid fo...

Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s largest biosimilar maker, said on Tuesday it has studied a possible acquisition of the biopharma solutions unit ...

A South Korean court on Friday ruled in favor of SM Entertainment Co. Founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man to block the company from sellin...

SM Entertainment Co., mired in conflict with its founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man, is seeking to sell its shares in three key arms, wor...

On Jan. 19, SM Entertainment Co. founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man received a 17-page document written by South Korea’s largest la...

HYBE Co., the music label behind K-pop sensation BTS, is poised to acquire a controlling stake in its South Korean rival SM Entertainment Co. with m...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

The South Korean blockchain ecosystem is facing a string of management disputes, hit by worsening conditions of the global cryptocurrency market.&nb...

South Korea's fifth-richest man Kwon Hyuk-bin and his wife Lee Hwa-jin appear to be headed for divorce, according to industry insiders on Monday.&nb...

When Oaktree Capital Management Co-Founder and Co-Chairman Howard Marks appears on TV, he is often asked whether to embrace a risk-on or risk-off st...

South Korean mobile and online game developer and publisher Com2uS Corp. acquired a whopping 67 billion won ($47 million) worth of SM Entertainment ...

South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...

Institutional investors gathered momentum for shareholder activism in South Korea not only to boost their values but also to improve corporate gover...

SM Entertainment Co. announced Thursday it is considering terminating the production contract with Like Planning, wholly owned by its founder Lee So...

A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant to Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency ecosystem that imploded earlier this year. ...

The wife and two daughters of Nexon’s late founder Kim Jung-ju have inherited all his shares in the game developer’s holding company NXC...

Hyundai Motor Group will redirect the core functions of its Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) division and AIRS Company to its recently acquired se...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group will set up an artificial intelligence research center in the Boston area to develop AI-driven robotics tech...

South Korea’s over-the-top (OTT) platform Watcha Inc. is in talks with some companies to sell off its shares, according to investment banking ...

Krafton Inc. founder and chairman Chang Byung-gyu is a rare example of a serial entrepreneur in South Korea – a country dominated by family-ow...

Amid escalating market uncertainties, M&As are not just a growth tactic but survival tools for businesses, Euan Rellie, co-founder and managing ...

TagHive Inc. is an education technology startup building a bridge between South Korea and India. The company’s founder and CEO Pankaj Aga...

Maye Musk, the mother of Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk, has been named the global ambassador for South Korea’s Ceragem Co., a manufacturer of therm...

Terraform Labs' founder and CEO Do Kwon has reemerged on Twitter, after making his account private for a couple of days. Two weeks after Terra&...