Management

Lotte Cinema-Megabox Merger, with MOU Deadline Expired, Is Off the Table

LOTTE SHOPPING CO., LTD. and ContentreeJoongAng corp.: "Procedures Suspended Due to Expiration of MOU"

[Edaily Reporter KYUNG GYEYOUNG ] The merger between Lotte Cinema and Megabox, which had drawn attention as a major deal in the movie theater industry, has ultimately fallen through.

LOTTE SHOPPING CO., LTD.(023530) ContentreeJoongAng corp.(036420)On the 1st, Lotte Cultureworks and Megabox Central each announced in a regulatory filing that the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed to pursue a merger between the two companies had expired on June 30, thereby halting all merger-related procedures.

Previously, in May of last year, the two companies signed an MOU to pursue a merger and requested preliminary consultation on the business combination from the Fair Trade Commission, but no progress was made in the merger discussions.

The two companies had previously extended the MOU’s term once on March 30. However, it is understood that they did not extend the MOU further after MegaBox Central—the parent company of MegaBox—and its major shareholder, ContentreeJoongAng corp., filed for the commencement of rehabilitation proceedings with the Seoul Rehabilitation Court last month.

Lotte Cultureworks, which operates Lotte Cinema, plans to continue its independent efforts to restructure the company.

(Photo courtesy of respective companies)

Economy

Corporation

IT·Science

Economy

A Semiconductor Fabless Company Founded by SK Hynix’s Youngest-Ever Executive [VC Cradle]

The biggest bottleneck for AI servers is memory. As the KV cache—where large language models (LLMs) store past computations—accumulates, the required memory capacity increases exponentially. This prob…
2026-07-04 09:00:07

Corporation

Genosco, Tax Risk?… “Lecraza Is ‘Royalty Income’; Its Value Remains Unchanged”

Concerns about “tax risks” have been raised in some quarters of the financial investment, pharmaceutical, and biotech markets regarding Genosco, a subsidiary of OSCOTEC Inc.(039200)specializing in new…
2026-07-04 08:31:02

IT·Science

Celltrion Pharm Inc. Builds a Plant, AriBio Secures Investment… K-Bio in ‘Expansion Mode’ [Weekly Bio Roundup]

As July began (June 29–July 3), the pharmaceutical and biotech industries turned their attention to Celltrion Pharm Inc.’s large-scale investment in production facilities and AriBio’s successful fundr…
2026-07-04 09:01:02