Shareholder activism

South Korea’s energy-to-retail conglomerate GS Group has increased its spending to become the largest shareholder in Hugel Inc., the country's...

  Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF) has bought a 5% stake in online game developer Nexon Co., the gaming...

South Korea's POSCO Co. will transform into a holding company structure on Mar. 2, after its plan to split itself into a holding firm and a steelmak...

South Korea's Osstem Implant Co., battered by the country's largest-ever embezzlement scandal for a listed company, is now being courted by investme...

The National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea, the largest shareholder of POSCO Co., has given its nod to the steelmaking giant’s plan to spli...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the largest shareholder of POSCO Co., was recommended by all its four proxy advisors to vote for the s...

Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. has raised 62.1 billion won ($51.6 million) in a rights issue from its largest shareholder Investment C...

US private equity juggernaut The Carlyle Group Inc. has bought a 10% stake in Hyundai Glovis Co., worth approximately 611 billion won ($510 million)...

Coupang Inc.'s second-largest shareholder Geenox Capital sold about 1.6 trillion won ($1.4 billion) worth of shares in the South Korean e-commerce p...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, the world’s largest shipbuilder, is set to showcase its latest and next-generation mobility technology related...

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean 3D image measurement tech company listed on the Kosdaq, has earned the highest AA rating from Sustinvest, ...

An activist fund has again urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell part of its stake in SK Bioscience or buy back treasury shares and cancel ...

Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), a prestigious national research university in South Korea, is slated to establish a ...

South Korea’s POSCO Co. is set to split off the company to launch an investment holding firm, 21 years after its privatization. The move aims ...

Mirae Asset Global Investment Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, has participated in a $260 million Series B funding for Jokr, a New ...

South Korea's largest steelmaker POSCO is considering splitting up the company to launch an investment holding firm as part of efforts to enhan...

It appears the world’s top boy band BTS will have to serve in the South Korean military as lawmakers in the country have so far failed to agre...

Teton Capital Partners, a US-based activist fund, has taken legal action to block IMM Private Equity from exercising its management rights over Hans...

South Korea’s Korea Scientists and Engineers Mutual-Aid Association (SEMA) said on Nov. 12 that it has invested $500 million in a joint acquis...

SM Line Corp. on Wednesday became the latest South Korean company to drop its initial public offering plan on disappointing institutional interest.T...

POSCO International Co., the trading unit of South Korean steelmaker POSCO, has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) for the development of an...

SeAH Group, a South Korean mid-size special steel conglomerate, is set to post record earnings this year on the back of the global steel supercycle ...

Namyang Dairy Products Co.'s top shareholder and Chairman Hong Won-sik will be barred from exercising his shareholder rights at the company's genera...

Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, is in negotiations with South Korea's SK Telecom Co. to invest in the mobile carrier's non-telecom ...

Shareholders of South Korea’s SK Innovation Co. on Thursday approved the company's plan to separate its battery business into a new entity.Und...

For many South Koreans, particularly among the older generation, Dongwon is the name of the company that makes canned tunas, for which the food make...

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday imposed a fine of 207.4 billion won ($180 million) on Google, alongside a correction order, aft...

South Korea's antitrust body has launched an investigation into Kakao Mobility Corp. on allegations of discrimination against taxi drivers not subsc...

SK E&S Co., the natural gas business unit of SK Group, has acquired Key Capture Energy LLC (KCE), a US operator of energy storage projects, as t...

South Korea's ruling Democratic Party has called on the Bank of Korea (BOK) to take a more active role to aid pandemic-hit small business operators ...