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All posts tagged "Merger"

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  BBCN and Wilshire merger to create $12.3 billion Korean American bank giant

  By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff BBCN’s buy-out of Wilshire Bancorp, which when completed will create the largest Korean American bank with assets totaling $12.3 billion, was officially announced by executives Monday. Gathered inside the Oxford...

  • Posted December 8, 2015
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  Merger approval boon for Samsung owner family, but challenges still ahead

  SEOUL, July 17 (Yonhap) — Shareholders’ outright approval of a proposed merger of two key Samsung units gives momentum to the leadership transfer at Samsung Group, South Korea’s top conglomerate, market watchers said Friday. But potential legal...

  • Posted July 17, 2015
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  Samsung removes online cartoons after criticisms of anti-Semitism

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Samsung company on Wednesday removed online cartoons attacking a U.S. hedge fund’s founder as a ravenous, big-beaked vulture after Jewish organizations protested similar smears in South Korea’s media. The hedge fund,...

  • Posted July 15, 2015
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  Seoul court orders stop to Hana-KEB merger process

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ordered a suspension of merger moves between two local banks, siding in part with one of the bank’s unions which accused the other of violating a promise not to...

  • Posted February 4, 2015
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  [WSJ] Daum Kakao Faces Questions Over Ability to Grow Outside South Korea

     SEOUL—A new technology company emerged Wednesday in South Korea, the product of a tie-up between two of the country’s dominant Internet players—one from the PC era, one from the mobile era. Shares of Daum Communications Corp....

  • Posted October 3, 2014
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  Kakao officially acquires Daum Communications

  By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff On Wednesday morning, Kakao officially acquired Daum Communications Corp., a fellow South Korean tech giant that specializes as a web search tool. Known for its popular mobile messenger app that...

  • Posted October 1, 2014
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