President Park Geun-hye asked leaders of the country's 10 largest businesses Wednesday to increase investments and employment ...

Previously kept hidden under a veil of secrecy, heirs of chaebol, or Korean family-run conglomerates, are increasingly venturing into the public eye as professional entertainers or through social ...

As a result, chaebols can still fill their boardrooms ... Additionally, the ambiguous Korean regulatory climate and poor enforcement regime remain road blocks. A case in point is the recent ...

Videos about South Korea’s first-generation entrepreneurs ... first-generation entrepreneurs with corruption and close chaebol-government relations, but younger generations are more impressed ...

YouTube creators draw millions of views by peeling back the polished image of South Korea to reveal its lesser-known struggles Over the past year, a flood of English-language YouTube clips has ...

Control of Korea Zinc, the world’s largest producer of zinc, is at stake in a battle challenging the country’s entrenched chaebol system of powerful conglomerates. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

South Korea tackled difficult economic reforms following the crisis, including restructuring some chaebols, increasing labor market flexibility, and opening up to more foreign investment and imports.

With the possibility of there being changes, Korean chaebol leaders have been ramping up efforts to expand their contact with the Trump administration to manage risk. Hyundai Motor Group has ...

At the beginning of his activism, Jang describes himself as a “gadfly” on the elephantine body of the chaebol. The notion of shareholder rights barely existed in Korea at the time, nor was there an ...