Shareholder activism

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

South Korea's listed companies have cancelled 11 trillion won ($8.6 billion) worth of shares over the past three years.The Korea Exchange said on Su...

South Korea’s major retailer Hyundai Department Store Group Co. gave up a plan to split off its core high-end shopping mall affiliate and conv...

  South Korea’s leading telecommunications company KT Corp. will pick a new chief executive after it came under fire over its CEO select...

Medytox Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that it is selling off approximately 2.19 million shares of Evolus, Daewoong Pharmaceutical's ...

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...

MBK Partners, the largest private equity firm in Northeast Asia, is set to acquire Japanese senior nursing care service company Unimat Retirement Co...

South Korean private equity firm Unison Capital Korea is set to focus on boosting the corporate value of Osstem Implant Co., once the PE manager and...

South Korea’s undersea cable company KT Submarine Co. plans to buy a cable laying barge from LS Cable & System Ltd., its major shareholder...

K-pop behemoth SM Entertainment Co. said on Jan. 20 it has decided to tap Lee Chang-hwan, the CEO of local activist fund Align Partners Capital Mana...

A Singapore-based activist fund has stepped up pressure on the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G Corp. to reform governance and boo...

South Korea’s Hyosung Group and its longtime rival Kolon Group in the fiber, textile and petrochemical businesses are poised to give up their ...

SEOUL—Rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and Pyongyang’s spree of weapons tests are fueling a debate in South Korea over the deploy...

South Korea’s SM Entertainment Co. will increase the number of outside directors and ban its chief executive from chairing the board as part o...

POSCO Chemical Co. will join hands with Dong-Suh Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. to move into the activated carbon business, an eco-friendly material f...

The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry(KCCI) said Thursday that it has established the Carbon Reduction Certification Center, a professional org...

South Korea's Anda Asset Management Co. said on Tuesday it applied for an injunction Jan. 9 to view and copy the shareholders’ list of KT&...

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 telecom giant KT Corp. has named current chief executive Ku Hyeon-mo the sole candidate for its next CEO during a board meeting ...

Seo Won-joo, the new chief investment officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, said on Dec. 27 that the pension fund will stren...

South Korea is set to allow individual shareholders to sell their stocks at prices before a split-off if they oppose a company’s separation pl...

South Korean conglomerates, including LG Electronics Inc., will introduce their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) visions and strategies a...

South Korean airlines launched extensive marketing activities such as increasing international flights and giving free tickets in preparation for mo...

South Korea's Truston Asset Management has changed the purpose of its stock investment in the chemical and textile company Taekwang Industrial Co. f...

Scalardata, a South Korean start-up running an electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure integration platform "evmodu.kr," announced on Monday t...

SK Chemicals obtained the highest grade in a recent ESG (environmental, social, and governance) rating evaluation of 1,033 listed companies, the com...

South Korea’s manufacturing sector faces ballooning losses across industries as the trucker strike entered its eighth day on Thursday, disrupt...

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...