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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...

South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...

South Korean private equity firm Unison Capital Korea is set to focus on boosting the corporate value of Osstem Implant Co., once the PE manager and...

South Korea’s undersea cable company KT Submarine Co. plans to buy a cable laying barge from LS Cable & System Ltd., its major shareholder...

K-pop behemoth SM Entertainment Co. said on Jan. 20 it has decided to tap Lee Chang-hwan, the CEO of local activist fund Align Partners Capital Mana...

A Singapore-based activist fund has stepped up pressure on the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G Corp. to reform governance and boo...

South Korea’s Hyosung Group and its longtime rival Kolon Group in the fiber, textile and petrochemical businesses are poised to give up their ...

South Korea’s SM Entertainment Co. will increase the number of outside directors and ban its chief executive from chairing the board as part o...

South Korea's Anda Asset Management Co. said on Tuesday it applied for an injunction Jan. 9 to view and copy the shareholders’ list of KT&...

South Korean private equity firm Align Partners Capital Management Inc. is set to lead shareholder activism against the country’s top financia...

South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. has named current chief executive Ku Hyeon-mo the sole candidate for its next CEO during a board meeting ...

Seo Won-joo, the new chief investment officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, said on Dec. 27 that the pension fund will stren...

South Korea is set to allow individual shareholders to sell their stocks at prices before a split-off if they oppose a company’s separation pl...

South Korea's Truston Asset Management has changed the purpose of its stock investment in the chemical and textile company Taekwang Industrial Co. f...

Scalardata, a South Korean start-up running an electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure integration platform "evmodu.kr," announced on Monday t...

Overseas card spending by residents in South Korea rose to a nearly three-year high in the third quarter as international travel surged with countri...

South Korean clothing and footwear distributor Youngone Corp. acquired 30 billion won ($22.8 million) worth of Hanjin KAL Corp. shares in August of ...

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, appointed Goldman Sachs as an advisor to improve corporate governance after a Singapo...

Culligan, the biggest water treatment company in the United States, is set to become a major shareholder in South Korean water purifier rental firm ...

South Korea’s leading cable manufacturer LS Cable & System Ltd. is poised to become the largest shareholder of undersea cable construction...

Korea's POSCO International, the trading arm of POSCO Group, on Friday formally merged with POSCO Energy, which handles liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, has appointed South Korea’s top-tier law firm Kim & Chang to take action ag...

Sweden’s EQT Partners AB is set to acquire a 36.87% stake in South Korean security services provider SK Shieldus Co. from a consortium led by ...

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

Insider trading without due process.This is what South Korea's Truston Asset Management, the No. 2 stakeholder of underwear giant BYC with 8.13%, ha...

Shares in South Korea’s scandal-hit biotechnological company SillaJen Inc. soared on Thursday after the local exchange decided to maintain the...

South Korea’s LS Group will become the No. 2 shareholder in KT Submarine Co. after buying the undersea cable construction company’s new ...

Samsung Electronics Co. set up a task force team dedicated to increasing its shareholder value last month, according to industry sources on Oct. 4. ...

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

South Korea's autonomous transportation startup 42dot, owned by Hyundai Motor Group, on Monday unveiled a driverless electric shuttle installed with...