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Breakingviews – K-pop showdown amplifies shareholder voices
Breakingviews - K-pop showdown amplifies shareholder voices,Worldwide boy-band sensation BTS may be on hiatus, but refreshing new financial acts threaten to upend the world of K-pop, and perhaps South Korea. The country’s largest potential hostile takeover hangs in the balance, as music agency Hybe , best known for managing the popular seven-member group vies for control of rival SM Entertainment . The saga showcases a stubborn founder, a rising activist investment fund and a potential white knight. Look past the spectacle, however, and there are signs of real progress for shareholders.

Breakingviews – K-pop showdown amplifies shareholder voices

Worldwide boy-band sensation BTS may be on hiatus, but refreshing new financial acts threaten to upend the world of K-pop, and perhaps South Korea. The country’s largest potential hostile takeover hangs in the balance, as music agency Hybe , best known for managing the popular seven-member group vies for control of rival SM Entertainment . The saga showcases a stubborn founder, a rising activist investment fund and a potential white knight. Look past the spectacle, however, and there are signs of real progress for shareholders.