- South Korean regulators are investigating whether nine executives from Samsung, the country's largest conglomerate, used insider trading to profit illegally from the merger of two subsidiaries.
- The executives are said to have bought bought 40B-50B won ($34.5M-$43.1M) worth of shares of a subsidiary, Cheil Industries, shortly before the plan to combine it with Samsung C&T was announced in May.
- The merger was completed after shareholders voted in favor of it in July.