Youkyung Lee

SK Hynix’s 40 trillion won buy-back plan has added pressure on Samsung to return more cash to shareholders, who point to the electronics giant’s swelling reserves.

South Korea’s leveraged ETFs tied to chipmakers saw outflows near $1 billion this month as investor fervor over the AI trade cooled and regulators stepped up measures to curb demand.

An activist investor has offered a 45% premium for Samsung affiliates’ stakes in S-1 Corp., setting up an early test of how board directors handle their expanded fiduciary duties under South Korea’s revised corporate law.

An activist investor has offered a 45% premium for Samsung affiliates’ stakes in S-1 Corp., setting up an early test of how board directors handle their expanded fiduciary duties under South Korea’s revised corporate law.

Samsung Biologics Co. is seeking to raise about 3 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in a rights offering to fund its acquisition of PolyPeptide Group.

An onerous mock trading course is becoming an effective tool for South Korea to cool investor fervor over risky products that have turned the country’s $4.3 trillion stock market extremely volatile.

South Korean ruling party lawmakers proposed expanding disclosure requirements for corporate takeovers, the latest effort to strengthen minority-shareholder protections and tackle the chronic valuation gap dogging the nation’s stock market.

Samsung Electronics Co.’s anticipated equity buyback is raising investor expectations that the Korean giant will buy up non‑voting preferred shares, narrowing a steep discount and setting an example for others.

(Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co.'s anticipated equity buyback is raising investor expectations that the Korean giant will buy up non‑voting preferred shares, narrowing a steep discount and setting an example for others.

Fund managers wading back into South Korean memory makers’ stocks got a fresh gut check after DeepSeek’s latest artificial intelligence model raised doubts on the strength of demand.