A messy succession at the parent company of Korean Air shows why
’s shares, roughly as much as each of his two sisters, who are rumoured to be unhappy with the’s decision. The company denies this. Either way, divvying up the father’s 17.84% stake among family members will take months.continue to dominate the South Korean economy, despite repeated pledges by successive governments to rein them in. The Hanjin squabble is a reminder of how far they have to go to meet modern standards of corporate governance.
shareholdings and, in a few cases, have managed to improve accountability. But owner-families and the management remain hard to tell apart. In late March Elliott, an American activist hedge fund, failed to get the dividend raised or an external director elected at Hyundai, the second-biggest.
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