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August 01, 2019
S.M. Entertainment effectively rejects merger call, stock price dips

S.M. Entertainment on July 31 effectively refused to merge with Like Agency, a private business entity owned by Executive Producer Lee Soo-man, in its latest response to activist shareholders’ call to improve corporate value. The remarks left shareholders dissatisfied, causing its stock price to...
July 30, 2019
SM under pressure to answer activist shareholders

South Korean entertainment powerhouse SM Entertainment is under pressure to answer demands to improve shareholders’ value by the July 31 deadline. Korea Investment Value Asset Management on July 30 warned that the company will take action if SM’s response is insufficient. “So far, SM is showin...
April 04, 2019
Korean Air chairman’s severance pay excessive: civil activists

Civil activists have vowed to prevent the troubled chief of Korean Air from getting paid billions of won worth severance pay should he leave his post as chairman. Cho Yang-ho, who was ousted from the board of directors on March 27 during a shareholders meeting, heads Hanjin Group which includes th...
April 02, 2019
FSS data lists South Korea’s most-paid execs

Retiring executives -- whether they are members of conglomerates owned by families or professional mangers -- were paid most generously last year, according to data from the country’s financial watchdog Financial Supervisory Service on April 2. Some of the scandal-ridden chiefs took nothing home,...
March 27, 2019
Market welcomes Korean Air CEO Cho Yang-ho’s removal from board seat

Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho’s ouster from the company’s board of directors on March 27 boosted investor confidence, as reflected in the share prices of the airline and its holding company. Almost 36 percent of shareholders who attended the general meeting on March 27 voted against the reapp...
January 28, 2019
Over 100 chaebol scions under 50 serve as execs

[THE INVESTOR] More than 100 members of Korea’s major conglomerate owner families under the age of 50 are serving as executives, with three heading their groups, a corporate tracker said on Jan. 28. A total of 130 members of the nation’s 200 leading conglomerate owner families who were born ...
November 20, 2018
Hanjin VS. KCGI: Second Round

[THE INVESTOR] Fresh tension is brewing at Hanjin Group, which controls Korea’s largest airline, after a local activist fund made a surprise announcement last week that it has acquired a 9 percent stake in its holding firm Hanjin KAL, becoming its second-largest shareholder. The Seoul-based priv...
November 12, 2018
Average age of top 5 chaebol CEOs is 58

[THE INVESTOR] The average age of CEOs leading companies under Korea’s five largest conglomerates came to 58.1 years, raising the possibility of a potential C-suite reshuffle by the year-end, according to a Seoul-based corporate tracker on Nov. 12. They include 122 chiefs of affiliates under Sam...
September 17, 2018
Three chaebol chiefs join Moon’s Pyongyang trip

[THE INVESTOR] Chiefs of South Korea’s three biggest conglomerates -- Samsung, SK and LG -- will join President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Pyongyang this week as part of the 52-member presidential business delegation for the third inter-Korean talks this year, Cheong Wa Dae confirmed on Sept.16. Th...
July 29, 2018
Samsung heir back in control?

[ THE INVESTOR] Is Jay back? That was the question on the minds of many who attended Dream Class camp, in its seventh year run by Samsung Electronics in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. Around 1,600 middle school students on July 27 enrolled in the summer camps opened at six universities across the cou...
June 19, 2018
SK chairman’s wife under fire for allegedly abusing chauffeurs

[THE INVESTOR] The wife of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won came under fire on June 19 after a news report alleged that she abused and verbally assaulted her former chauffeurs. In an interview with local daily Hankyoreh, the chauffeurs claimed they were subject to frequent mistreatment and tantrums...
May 30, 2018
Nexon won’t go to my kids: founder Kim Jung-ju

[THE INVESTOR] Kim Jung-ju , founder of Korea’s largest game developer Nexon, has vowed not to hand over control of the company to his children. “I won’t be passing down Nexon to my kids,” Kim said in a statement on May 29, the day he promised to donate at least 100 billion won (US$92.40 mil...
May 20, 2018
LG to face new management centering on heir Koo Kwang-mo

[THE INVESTOR] The nation’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group will face new management centering on its heir apparent Koo Kwang-mo after his adoptive father and group Chairman Koo Bon-moo died on May 20. Koo Kwang-mo is the son of the late Koo’s younger brother Koo Bon-neung. Under LG’s str...
May 20, 2018
LG Group chairman Koo passes away

[THE INVESTOR] LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo died on May 20 suffering illnesses for the past year. He was 73 years old. "The funeral will be held privately at an undisclosed location as requested by his family, and the details of the funeral will not be made public," the conglomerate said in a ...
May 16, 2018
Women make up 3% of execs at top conglomerates

[THE INVESTOR] The number of female executives at Korea’s top 30 conglomerates came to 3.1 percent of the total last year, a market tracker said on May 16. Among 8,835 executives of 268 affiliates belonging to the business groups, known as chaebol here, that submitted business reports last ye...

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