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South Korea to loosen corporate governance rules to supercharge AI investment

By Wooyoung Lee ( December 12, 2025, 06:16 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea is pushing for what could be the largest corporate-governance reform in decades as part of a national strategy to accelerate investment in artificial intelligence. The government plans to relax a long-standing rule requiring holding companies’ "grandchild" subsidiaries to own 100 percent of their own subsidiaries, which are the holding companies’ great-grandchildren subsidiaries, by lowering the threshold to 50 percent. The aim is to ease capital burdens, enable more flexible structures for new businesses and attract local and foreign investment for AI.South Korea is pushing for what could be the largest corporate-governance reform in decades as part of a national strategy to accelerate investment in artificial intelligence....

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