Shareholder value

Coupang Inc. founder and Chief Executive Bom Kim will sell shares and donate additional ones in the South Korean e-commerce platform for tax payment...

Dalton Investments Inc., a US-based activist fund, has secured a 5.02% stake in South Korea’s Kolmar Holdings Co., stoking speculation the wor...

MBK Partners’ takeover bid for Korea Zinc Inc. aims to improve corporate governance and shareholder value at the world’s largest lead an...

US entertainment tycoon Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is expected to invest about $5 million in Musicow Inc., South Korea’s music copyright trading...

South Korea’s leading rice cooker and small appliance maker Cuckoo Holdings Co. is said to be seeking to list its Malaysian unit in the Southe...

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s largest home appliances maker, on Tuesday announced plans to unlock value by accelerating its transformation ...

Korea Zinc Inc. succeeded in taking control of Young Poong Precision Corp., a key player in the management battle against North Asia-focused private...

South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group will resume the merger of Doosan Bobcat Inc. and Doosan Robotics Inc. using a new me...

Align Partners Capital Management Inc., a South Korean activist fund, has called on Doosan Bobcat Inc., a global construction machinery maker owned ...

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. won the top prize at the 2024 Korea IR Awards, organized by the Korea Investor Relations Service (KIRS), the...

UK-based activist fund Palliser Capital Ltd. is calling on SK Square Co., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK G...

Activist investor Palliser Capital has built a stake in the holding company of highflying artificial-intelligence chip maker SK Hynix Inc. and is pu...

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) will aggressively explore early investment opportunities in sectors undergoing AI-driven in...

Sono Hospitality Group, South Korea’s largest resort operator, will add low-cost carrier Air Premia Inc. to its bulging portfolio after agreei...

Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s most valuable company in terms of market capitalization, saw its brand value top $100 billion for the f...

Microsoft Corp. and KT Corp., one of South Korea's top three telecom companies, will drive artificial intelligence transformation in the Korean firm...

LG Innotek, a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, said on Wednesday it developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can filter ou...

South Korea’s securities exchange operator, Korea Exchange, launched a new corporate value-up index on Tuesday, a key plank for the government...

South Korea's Lotte Energy Materials Corp. said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) last Friday with Isu Petasys regardin...

Hyundai Motor Group has officially become the largest shareholder of South Korea's major telecommunications company KT Corp., following a public int...

KCGI, a South Korean private equity firm, has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Hanyang Securities Co. for 220.3 billion won ($166 million), slig...

South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. said on Thursday that it was selected as the cable supplier for a 320kV voltage-type high-voltage dire...

SINGAPORE – At Seatrium Admiralty Yard on Jurong Island, southwest of Singapore, some 2,000 workers are busy welding gas pipes and doing other...

A number of junior bankers at the Korean offices of major global investment banks such as Morgan Stanely and J.P.Morgan have resigned since July wit...

HYBE Co. has finally removed Min Hee-jin from ADOR, the label behind girl group NewJeans, as chief executive some four months after it failed to kic...

SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s largest energy company, has won majority support from its shareholders for a merger with its liquefied natura...

South Korean Husteel Co.'s long-term investments in Saudi Steel Pipe Co. are paying off as its share price surges on the back of deals with the king...

Yanolja Co., South Korea’s leading travel and accommodation booking platform operator, may delay its Nasdaq initial public offering plan due t...

Lotte Fine Chemical Co., a subsidiary of South Korea's Lotte Chemical Corp., said on Friday that it signed a Clean Ammonia Value Chain Agreement (JC...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), manager of the world’s third-largest public pension fund, said on Thursday it is set to ve...