SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As minority shareholders are actively engaged in shareholder activities, the number of listed companies introducing electronic voting systems for shareholder meetings is forecast to reach an all-time high this year. At present, a total of two organizations — the Korea Securities Depository and Samsung Securities Co. — provide listed [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More listed units of South Korea’s major business groups have adopted electronic voting and other types of voting this year than a year earlier in a bid to promote small shareholders’ rights, the country’s antitrust regulator said Thursday. As of May, 78.8 percent of 274 listed affiliates of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More listed firms are expected to adopt electronic voting at shareholder meetings this year to make it easier to reach a quorum, corporate officials said Thursday. According to the Korea Securities Depository (KSD), 1,204 companies listed on the main and secondary bourses, or 57 percent of the total, had [...]
SUWON, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi Provincial Council’s Urban Environment Committee passed a bill on the revised ordinance on managing and supporting apartment complexes in Gyeonggi Province. The bill involves subsidizing a certain portion of the costs being paid to mobile carriers when using smartphones to electronically vote to determine or change the [...]