South Korean stocks, already this year\u2019s best performers among the world\u2019s major markets, are becoming a magnet for foreign investors as bold regulatory reforms to lift valuations and empower minority shareholders gain traction.<\/p>\n
Just this month, policymakers voted in favor of pivotal law changes<\/a> to make board members legally accountable to all shareholders. They are now focusing on the next wave of reforms \u2014 including improvements to the voting system for selection of board members, and reducing treasury stock holdings \u2014 all with the goal of reining in the nation\u2019s many family-run conglomerates, or chaebols<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean stocks, already this year\u2019s best performers among the world\u2019s major markets, are becoming a magnet for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3774,64,26447,50844,7074,16209,3228,2676,135,3229,8727,67,132,68,3642],"class_list":{"0":"post-95478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-citigroup-inc","11":"tag-corporate-governance","12":"tag-goldman-sachs-group-inc","13":"tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","14":"tag-law","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-stocks","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wall-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114922558848366555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}