shareholder return policy

South Korea is taking a page from Japan to boost its stock market. There are certainly some low-hanging fruits to pick, but the country’s larg...

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 has approved the construction of two nuclear power plants, officially ending its anti-nuclear policy pursued by the previous Moon Jae-in...

For 37 years, a simple microwave made by Samsung Electronics Co. sat in the kitchen of Kim Kyu-won, providing much more than convenience.It was ther...

TAIPEI – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are racing to supply their advanced DRAM ...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 9.71% investment return for the first half of ...

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 Korea’s Tmax Group bought back the software making unit it had sold to a local private equity firm two years ago to try to boost synergy...

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...

South Korea’s central bank is likely to reduce interest rates in the next three months as inflation is expected to ease amid a slowdown in Asi...

KCC Corp., a paint and glass maker but better known as a white knight for South Korean conglomerates, holds more than 4 trillion won ($3 billion) wo...

SK Bioscience Co., a drug-making arm of South Korea's No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, has sold a stake in Nasdaq-listed vaccine developer Novavax Inc. ...

South Korea’s largest biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. said on Friday that it has scrapped a plan to merge with Celltrion Pharm Inc., an R&...

South Korea’s household debt is expanding at the fastest pace in over three years, clouding growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy and ...

South Korean confectionery giant Lotte Wellfood Co. will merge its Indian subsidiaries — Lotte India Co. and Havmor Ice Cream Pvt — to b...

Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services holding company, plans to significantly enhance its shareholder va...

SK Signet Inc., South Korea’s electric vehicle charger manufacturer, joined hands with a local renewable energy startup backed by global asset...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. is set to become the largest shareholder of a local hydrogen-powered-vehicle charging station operator to boos...

South Korean Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group’s founding family is set to conclude an ongoing feud as the group’s top individual shareholder h...

Meritz Financial Group Inc. became the first South Korean financial holding company to unveil a concrete shareholder return plan, pledging to alloca...

Jollibee Foods Corp., the Philippines’ largest fast-food chain, is set to take over a majority stake in Compose Coffee Co., South Korea’...

South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...

SK Group has put its shares in Korea Superfreeze Inc., a cold chain logistics company jointly owned by EMP Belstar and Goldman Sachs, on the market,...

Middle market direct lending can mean different things to different lenders and investors. Many, if not most, would agree that companies with over $...

Following the pandemic, hotels and casinos are enjoying a renewed tourist boom with Chinese tourists returning to South Korea, particularly its top ...

South Korea will put the adoption of poison pills and dual-class shares on the new policy agenda at a meeting with business leaders this month, wher...

South Korean individual investors’ US stockholdings swelled to a record $82.19 billion as of early June amid the US stock market rally, while ...

South Korea’s headline inflation slowed to a 10-month low in May as the Bank of Korea kept its interest rate policy tight, adding to the centr...