inheritance
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Regulations
Heavy inheritance, gift taxes spur rich Koreans to emigrate to Singapore
A South Korean co-CEO of a blockchain investment firm with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets moved to Singapore last year to avoid the North...
Oct 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Samsung heiress sells $326 mn worth of Samsung Elec shares
Samsung Group heiress and Hotel Shilla Chief Executive Lee Boo-jin sold 441.2 billion won ($325.9 million) worth of Samsung Electronics Co. shares i...
Apr 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
LG Electronics spins off X-UP, 4 other in-house venture firms
LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday it is spinning off five promising in-house venture firms as separate entities to strengthen South Korea’s...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
S.Korea should cut inheritance, gift taxes to OECD levels: SME lobby chief
South Korea, which imposes some of the highest inheritance and gift taxes on businesspeople among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Deve...
Jan 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung heirs tap $2.1 bn block sale for inheritance taxes
The heirs of late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee are seeking to sell their shares in Samsung Electronics Co. and other Samsung affiliates worth ...
Jan 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
S.Korea to put $3.6 bn shares in gaming giant NXC on sale
The South Korean government said on Monday it will launch a tender offer to sell off a 29.3% stake, valued at around 4.7 trillion won ($3.6 billion)...
Dec 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
3rd-gen. corporate succession in S.Korea slashes stake from 100% to 16%
South Korea's business sector is urging reform of the domestic inheritance tax system to alleviate problems in corporate succession, citing difficul...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai’s N Vision 74 praised at Italy’s classic-concept car show
Hyundai Motor Co., which has stunned the auto industry with its rebuilt 1974 Pony Coupe concept, has again enthralled car enthusiasts with its ...
May 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
S.Korea advised to slash corporate inheritance tax to 30%
South Korean entrepreneurs are imposed heavy inheritance taxes of up to 60% to hand down wealth to their children, the highest level among Organizat...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo sued over inheritance in family feud
Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, has been sued over the distribution of inherited wealth, including a s...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Nearly half of South Korea's economists urge repeal of inheritance tax
Nearly half of South Korea's economists want the inheritance tax abolished, according to a survey.The Korea Economic Association on Thursday release...
Nov 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Nexon late founder’s family inherits all his shares
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...
Sep 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung family set to sell $320 mn worth of SDS shares
Samsung Group family is set to sell a 3.9% stake in Samsung SDS Co. worth 390 billion won ($319.5 million) through a block deal. The seller is one o...
Mar 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Tax burden pushes Samsung heirs to sell $1.8 bn worth of shares by April 2022
The heavy inheritance tax burden in South Korea is pushing the heirs of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee to sell about 2.2 trillion won (...
Oct 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Heirless, baby boomer SME owners in search of buyers
The son of a South Korean manufacturing company's owner, with a Ph.D degree in engineering, has refused to take over his father's business and inste...
Aug 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Banks keen to lend to Samsung heirs for inheritance tax
South Korean banks are queuing up to extend credit to Samsung Group's de-facto leader Jay Y. Lee and his family who are due to pay over 2 trillion w...
Apr 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung heirs may face record-high $10 bn inheritance tax bill
The Samsung Group heirs, including Samsung Electronics Co.'s de facto leader Jay Y. Lee, may be looking at a record-high $9.9 billion inheritance ...
Dec 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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