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National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...

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...

Rising interest rates amid a slowing global economy rattled South Korean companies’ market capitalization rankings, bumping online players suc...

South Korean biopharmaceutical firms are facing challenges in clinical trials overseas alongside the rising Korean won to the US dollar exchange rat...

Pension Foundation of Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK Pension), a South Korean retirement plan for pastors and churches, is poised to hire several...

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...

South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...

Global private equity firm Cinven Ltd. has attracted €550 million ($551.3 million) from South Korean institutional investors for its eighth fla...

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

CJ OliveNetworks Co., a South Korean digital software developer, has joined hands with bemyfriends, a startup specializing in the global K-pop fando...

Shares in EcoPro BM Co., a cathode material maker used in electric vehicle batteries, topped the list of South Korean stocks, for which an increased...

Samsung Group’s four heirs to the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee have seen their group company shareholdings shrink by a combined 11 trillion won (...

South Korean firms wholly owned by foreign companies sent more than 1.1 trillion won ($800 million) back home for the fiscal year of 2021 in aggrega...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, has partially restarted its blast furnaces at its main plant in ...

South Korea may keep the National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest such fund, from increasing its power for shareholder deriva...

South Korean private equity firms are set to take over NexFlex Co., the country’s largest manufacturer of flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL...

MBK Partners’ talks to buy a controlling stake in South Korea’s MegaStudyEdu Co. have collapsed, the company said on Friday, a deal esti...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea had an 8% negative return during the first half of 2022, its investment management arm announced on Au...