KCGI’s ascent to intensify family feud over DB control; DB stocks rally

KCGI’s ascent to intensify family feud over DB control; DB stocks rally

A sibling feud over management control of DB Group is expected to intensify following the ascent of South Korean activist fund Korea Corporate Gover...

VIP Asset’s new mutual fund to forgo operating fees if it posts losses

VIP Asset’s new mutual fund to forgo operating fees if it posts losses

VIP Asset Management Co., a leading South Korean asset manager, said on Friday it is launching a new mutual fund, and its managers won’t take ...

CEOs of Samsung, LG group companies buying back their stocks

CEOs of Samsung, LG group companies buying back their stocks

Leading executives of major South Korean corporations Samsung Electronics Co., LG Energy Solution Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc. are buying back their...

Chip foundry DB HiTek's stock near 10-month peak on activist fund

Chip foundry DB HiTek's stock near 10-month peak on activist fund

South Korean leading foundry chipmaker DB HiTek’s stock price hit a near 10-month high this week as a domestic activist fund bought a stake to...

Glass Lewis votes for Tcha Partners' proposal to change Namyang auditor

Glass Lewis votes for Tcha Partners' proposal to change Namyang auditor

Global proxy advisory giant Glass, Lewis & Co. has voted for three out of the four proposals made by Seoul-based Tcha Partners Asset Management ...

Hyundai Rotem signs high-speed rail car deal with Korail

Hyundai Rotem signs high-speed rail car deal with Korail

Hyundai Rotem Co., a company under the Hyundai Motor Co. Group that specializes in manufacturing rolling stock, defense products and plant equipment...

Will S.Korean games benefit from China’s deregulation?

Will S.Korean games benefit from China’s deregulation?

China is loosening its grip on foreign online games with approvals on 27 titles, raising hopes that South Korean publishers will expand their presen...

Korea’s Micro Digital to supply bioreactors to major US firm

Korea’s Micro Digital to supply bioreactors to major US firm

Micro Digital Co., South Korea’s only bioreactor maker, is set to ink a supply deal with a major US biopharmaceutical producer to expand its g...

Samsung gets $191 million profit valuation from investment in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung gets $191 million profit valuation from investment in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung Electronics Co. is found to have earned 250 billion won ($191 million) in profit valuation from its investment made two months ago in Rainbo...

Korean ETP market doubles amid increasing distrust of fund managers

Korean ETP market doubles amid increasing distrust of fund managers

South Korea’s exchange-traded product (ETP) market has doubled in four years as more investors preferred their own trades to discretionary inv...

Qoo10 to buy another Korean rival for unit’s Nasdaq listing

Qoo10 to buy another Korean rival for unit’s Nasdaq listing

Southeast Asia-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 Pte. Ltd. is poised to take over a smaller South Korean rival through a stock swap deal, in a bid to ...

Foreign investors net buyers of Korean stocks for 5th straight month

Foreign investors net buyers of Korean stocks for 5th straight month

Foreign investors bought more South Korean stocks in February, extending their buying spree to five months.The Financial Supervisory Service of Kore...

KT&G’s hidden saviors in activist fight: In-house funds

KT&G’s hidden saviors in activist fight: In-house funds

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, will likely get support from in-house shareholders in a battle against activist funds...

Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally

Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally

South Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion Group’s founder and Honorary Chairman Seo Jung-jin is readying to return to management just two...

Hyundai's Namyang R&D Center acquires safety management certification

Hyundai's Namyang R&D Center acquires safety management certification

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday that the polymer materials analysis lab and the metal component analysis lab in the Basic Materials Research...

S.Korea's NPS likely to log 8.2% loss for 2022, record-low return

S.Korea's NPS likely to log 8.2% loss for 2022, record-low return

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is expected to post a negative return of 8.2% for 2022, according to its preliminary report on Th...

Activist fund Tcha Partners calls for Namyang Dairy to buy back shares

Activist fund Tcha Partners calls for Namyang Dairy to buy back shares

Seoul-based activist fund Tcha Partners Asset Management Co. on Monday demanded that South Korea’s Namyang Dairy Products Co. buy back half of...

KT&G potential target of aggressive activist shareholder

KT&G potential target of aggressive activist shareholder

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is likely to face a tougher battle against activist shareholders as an aggressive hed...

Will CATL’s bargain sales hurt Korean EV battery makers?

Will CATL’s bargain sales hurt Korean EV battery makers?

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL), the leading global electric vehicle battery manufacturer, has started a price war in the w...

Stock inflows to Korea slow on weak currency, valuation

Stock inflows to Korea slow on weak currency, valuation

A weaker South Korean currency and worries about valuation have deterred foreign investors’ appetite for local shares, casting expectations of...

HYBE not to raise tender offer price for SM Entertainment

HYBE not to raise tender offer price for SM Entertainment

HYBE Co., the label behind the world’s top boyband BTS, said it does not plan to raise its buying price for SM Entertainment Co., denting hope...

Samsung C&T to cancel $2.3 bn worth of treasury shares, stocks up

Samsung C&T to cancel $2.3 bn worth of treasury shares, stocks up

Samsung C&T Corp.’s share price zoomed on Thursday on news that the company will cancel its entire treasury stock holdings worth about 2.9...

KB Securities launches AI-based RoboNews on US stocks

KB Securities launches AI-based RoboNews on US stocks

South Korea's KB Securities announced the launch of KB RoboNews on Monday, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) service that provides insight...

Individual investors in S.Korea betting on stock market's decline

Individual investors in S.Korea betting on stock market's decline

Despite South Korea's Kosdaq stock market growing this month following the "January rally," individual investors in the country are still betting on...

Korea seeks legal system for independent equity research firms

Korea seeks legal system for independent equity research firms

South Korea is set to establish a legal system for independent equity research providers this year to protect individual investors, who could be dam...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...

S.Korea's online K Bank withdraws plan for Kospi listing

S.Korea's online K Bank withdraws plan for Kospi listing

South Korea's K Bank has withdrawn its highly anticipated plan to hold an IPO this year in the judgement of a lower corporate value due to the slugg...

Bank's retirement pension soars 15% to $107 bn last year

Bank's retirement pension soars 15% to $107 bn last year

Retirement pensions at banks in the fourth quarter of last year emerged as a haven for money that tried to generate a stable return, shunning away f...

S.Korean stock issuance volume declines 24% in 2022

S.Korean stock issuance volume declines 24% in 2022

The volume of stock issuance in South Korea declined sharply last year due to the softening stock market. Amid rising interest rates, the amount of ...

S.Korean brokerage lowers stock forecast for S-Oil over poor prospects

S.Korean brokerage lowers stock forecast for S-Oil over poor prospects

South Korea's Eugene Investment & Securities on Monday cut S-Oil Corp.'s target share price from 140,000 won ($113.5) to 133,000 won due to a lo...

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