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A global fund owns a meaningful stake in a Korean listed company before annual general meeting season. The agenda looks routine at first: director elections, au...
June 16, 2026
For foreign institutional investors, Korea director pay votes used to look like routine annual meeting items. A Korean listed company would ask shareholders to...
June 14, 2026
A foreign fund buys what looks like a 7% position in a Korean listed company and prepares for an annual general meeting. The fund models the vote against all is...
June 9, 2026
Introduction For many global funds, Korea board diversity engagement begins with a familiar AGM problem: the board is technically compliant, but director indepe...
June 7, 2026
A foreign fund screens Korean listed companies for yield and finds several issuers with attractive payout ratios, improving governance scores, and rising foreig...
June 2, 2026
A foreign institutional investor owns a minority stake in a Korean listed company. The company has underperformed for years, related-party transactions are poor...
May 31, 2026
A foreign fund finds a Korean listed company trading below intrinsic value. The shareholder register shows several long-term holders who may be willing to sell,...
May 26, 2026
A foreign fund owns 4.8% of a Korean listed company and notices that the issuer sells a large portion of its output to an affiliate controlled by the same found...
May 24, 2026
Korea director injunction rights are becoming an important governance tool for foreign shareholders who need to stop a transaction before value is lost. Imagine...
May 19, 2026
A foreign institutional investor builds a 5.3% position in a Korean listed company that trades below book value, holds excess cash, and keeps treasury shares wi...
May 17, 2026
Introduction A foreign fund suspects that a Korean listed company approved a related-party transaction after only a brief board discussion. The public disclosur...
May 12, 2026
A foreign fund manager holds a meaningful but non-controlling stake in a Korean listed company. The company trades below global peers, the board is chaired by a...
May 10, 2026
Introduction Foreign investors have long cited language barriers as a hidden cost of investing in Korea. While DART provides comprehensive disclosure, key filin...
May 5, 2026
For many global investors, the hardest part of a Korean annual meeting is not deciding how to vote. It is proving, on time and in the right format, who has the...
May 4, 2026
A foreign fund may think it owns only 3.8 percent of a Korean listed company and is therefore comfortably below the large-shareholding threshold. Then it coordi...
May 3, 2026
Treasury shares used to be one of the easiest places for Korean boards to postpone a hard capital allocation decision. A listed company could buy back stock, ho...
May 2, 2026
Introduction A fund can build economic exposure to a Korean issuer long before the public market sees a headline shareholding filing. That exposure may sit in o...
May 1, 2026
A foreign fund may look at a Korean listed company, see a meaningful treasury-share balance, and assume it represents optional upside. Maybe management will can...
April 30, 2026
Introduction A foreign fund accumulates a meaningful stake in a Korean listed company after months of private engagement. Management keeps promising governance...
April 29, 2026
Foreign investors often focus on economic ownership and forget that AGM outcomes in Korea are shaped just as much by voting mechanics. A fund may own a meaningf...
April 28, 2026
A foreign fund can support a Korean restructuring in principle and still be deeply concerned about the exit mechanics for dissenting shareholders. That tension...
April 27, 2026
For years, global investors bought Korean stocks with one recurring frustration in the back of their minds. Companies could repurchase shares, hold large treasu...
April 26, 2026
Korea has spent the past two years removing practical barriers that kept many foreign investors on the edge of its equity market. The abolition of the old forei...
April 25, 2026
An overseas asset manager builds a meaningful position in a Korean listed company and becomes convinced that management approved an affiliate transaction on ter...
April 24, 2026
The Korea 5% rule is familiar to most global investors in name. The operational problem is that many foreign funds still underestimate the acting-in-concert ana...
April 23, 2026
Introduction For global investors, one of the biggest frustrations in Korea has not been the lack of shareholder rights on paper. It has been the lack of decisi...
April 22, 2026
Introduction A foreign fund owns a meaningful minority stake in a Korean company and suspects value leakage through affiliate transactions, unusual consulting f...
April 21, 2026
Introduction For foreign institutions investing in Korea, Korea cumulative voting requests at AGMs have become much more than a niche governance topic. In 2026,...
April 20, 2026
For foreign funds investing in Korea, the annual general meeting is no longer just a vote-counting exercise. In 2026, Korea AGM engagement increasingly starts m...
April 19, 2026
Korea dual listing reform in 2026 has moved from policy debate to a real transaction issue for foreign investors, activist funds, and listed-company boards. For...
April 18, 2026
Introduction Korea AGM voting results and pay disclosures are becoming materially more useful for foreign investors in 2026. For years, global funds complained...
April 17, 2026
A global fund group can cross Korea’s 5% threshold without a single dramatic block trade. The trigger often comes from ordinary portfolio activity spread across...
April 16, 2026
A global fund plans a large sell-down of a KOSPI-listed position through a block trade. In many markets, the transaction is executed quietly after hours and dis...
April 14, 2026
Today's Topic: Korea omnibus account voting for foreign institutional investors Korea omnibus account voting has become a critical operational issue for global...
April 11, 2026
Korea preemptive rights are a central protection for minority shareholders, yet they are frequently misunderstood by foreign investors buying into Korean compan...
April 10, 2026
A Korea spin-off listing can unlock value, but it also creates governance risk. When a listed parent separates a business and then lists the spin‑off, minority...
April 9, 2026
Korea stock options are an increasingly popular tool for retaining foreign executives and aligning incentives with global investors. Yet many foreign companies...
April 7, 2026
Korea public tender offer process is the core pathway for foreign investors who want to acquire meaningful stakes in Korean listed companies while managing regu...
April 6, 2026
Introduction Share lending is a standard tool for global funds, but it creates a hidden governance risk in Korea: votes follow the share, not the lender. If you...
April 5, 2026
Korea shareholder proposal rules have become a core tool for foreign institutional investors seeking governance improvements in Korean listed companies. The leg...
April 4, 2026
For foreign funds and institutional investors, proxy solicitation in Korea is no longer optional. As stewardship expectations rise and activism becomes more com...
April 3, 2026
For global asset managers, Korea 5% disclosure compliance is not a single filing—it is a continuous governance system. A single trade that pushes a fund group a...
April 2, 2026
Introduction: Why appraisal rights define exit economics in Korea In Korean M&A, minority shareholder outcomes often hinge on Korea appraisal rights. When...
March 31, 2026
Large share trades in Korea are not just a market event—they are a compliance event. The Korea major shareholder trade disclosure framework determines when, how...
March 30, 2026
Korea’s 5% disclosure rule is one of the most consequential compliance obligations for foreign investors in listed Korean companies. Crossing the 5% threshold t...
March 29, 2026
Shareholder meeting notice in Korea is more than a formality. It is the legal gatekeeper that determines whether investors can meaningfully vote, propose agenda...
March 28, 2026
Korea record date planning is a quiet but decisive factor in shareholder activism, proxy voting, and AGM outcomes. For foreign institutional investors, missing...
March 27, 2026
Foreign funds investing in Korean listed companies often focus on disclosure thresholds like the 5% reporting rule. Yet one of the most consequential compliance...
March 26, 2026
Introduction A global asset manager suspects that a listed Korean company is routing profits to a related party, but the public filings do not show the full pic...
March 24, 2026
Institutional investors entering Korea often focus on financial disclosures, board composition, and voting outcomes. But one of the most powerful tools for enga...
March 23, 2026
Introduction Virtual shareholder meetings in Korea are no longer a temporary pandemic workaround. As foreign ownership grows and institutional investors demand...
March 22, 2026
Foreign investors have long criticized the opacity of Korean shareholder meetings. In 2026, that changes. Korea AGM voting result disclosure is now a key govern...
March 21, 2026
Foreign institutional investors often assume that board influence in Korea is a matter of informal engagement. But the cumulative voting mechanism under the Kor...
March 20, 2026
Korea short selling regulations have been one of the most dynamic areas of capital‑markets compliance in recent years. Foreign investors who previously treated...
March 18, 2026
Korea’s governance reform agenda is entering a new phase, and one rule is attracting immediate attention from foreign investors: the aggregated 3% rule in Korea...
March 17, 2026
Korea insider trading rules can catch even sophisticated funds off guard, especially when Korea‑based executives sit on global committees or when information ci...
March 16, 2026
Korea’s treasury stock rules matter more than ever for foreign investors Foreign institutional investors increasingly see share buybacks in Korea as a key lever...
March 15, 2026
The Korea stewardship code has moved from a soft‑law aspiration to a practical expectation for institutional investors operating in Korean markets. In 2026, for...
March 14, 2026
Korea mandatory tender offer discussions have moved from policy debate to real transaction planning. Foreign funds and strategic buyers now need to consider how...
March 13, 2026
Introduction A global asset manager buys a $60 million stake in a Korean listed company and then misses a material disclosure that would have changed the invest...
March 10, 2026
Introduction A U.S. pension fund holds $90 million in a Korean blue-chip but cannot attend the AGM in person. The outcome of a contested director election hinge...
March 10, 2026
Introduction Foreign investors acquiring significant stakes in Korean listed companies face a critical regulatory obligation: the 5% large shareholding disclosu...
March 10, 2026
Introduction A foreign fund takes a $25 million position in a Korean mid-cap and then discovers a related-party contract that looks off-market. The local manage...
March 10, 2026
Introduction Korea's corporate governance landscape is undergoing a historic transformation. Long criticized for the so-called "Korea Discount" --- the persiste...
March 8, 2026