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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 Hyundai Motor Group is set to become South Korea’s first conglomerate to disclose dividend allocations ahead of the ex-dividend date, a mo...

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 major holding companies are expected to set higher dividends per share (DPS) at end-2022 than in previous years, a Samsung Securi...

South Korea will reform financial market regulations to attract more foreign investments and to achieve MSCI Inc.’s developed market status fo...

South Korea plans to revise its stock dividend policy as part of a broader financial market reform to help attract foreign investors and obtain MSCI...

When South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO Group acquired a 12.5% stake in Australia’s Roy Hill mine for 1.52 trillion won ($1.2 billio...

Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., a South Korean construction equipment company, will pay dividends to its shareholders for the first time in 14 years.A...

South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. is set to spend 15 trillion won ($11.4 billion) by 2026 to diversify business amid the volatility...

IMM Investment Co. and STIC Investments Co., the two most active South Korean private equity firms in 2021 fundraising, made bets on a dividend-focu...

South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) has decided to raise the interest rates of the members’ savings products by 25 to 4...

South Korea’s Hanwha Corp. discussed on June 10 its ESG activities in the first half of this year and is set to announce plans for enhancing s...

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 share...

Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia is planning to raise a total of 674 billion won ($532 million) in loans for South Korea's Acuon Capital a...

Dividend payments of foreign companies operating in South Korea have nearly doubled and the repatriation of profit to their headquarters is expected...

South Korea’s telecommunication stocks are getting a boost from foreign investors’ net purchases. Telecom shares, which are relatively...

US hedge fund Dalton Investments LLC has urged SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s SK Group, to focus more on share buybacks and can...

Seoul based-Glenwood Private Equity, founded in 2014, has been quietly building its presence in the South Korean M&A market, chasing assets deem...

A growing number of LG Group units have unveiled their dividend policies for the next three years for the first time in their history, as they are d...

IMM Private Equity is set to acquire a 1.73 percent stake in Samsung Life Insurance Co., according to investment banking sources on Jan. 27. The sta...

POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, has reaped the rewards of a $1.1 billion investment it made in Australia’s Roy Hi...

South Korean Simone Acc. Collection Ltd., the world’s No. 1 handbag maker, plans to spend 30-40% of net profit for dividends after a listing n...

SK Inc.’s real estate investment trust (REIT) affiliate plans to raise as much as 300 billion won ($266 million) via an initial public offerin...

Samsung Electronics Co. has announced that it will pay record-high dividends to its shareholders this year and raise dividends further in coming yea...

South Korea’s benchmark index Kospi hit a new intraday high on Dec. 28 at 2,834.59 points, just two days before wrapping up the year. However,...

KT&G Corp. has been a laggard on the main bourse for the most part of the year despite its solid financial health, putting South Korea’s dom...