Corporate art museums in South Korea are shifting from social contribution spending to revenue platforms as companies recast them as ESG assets. Hanwha will open Pompidou Center Hanwha at Seoul\'s 63 Building in June, setting ticket and membership prices and positioning it as a multi-purpose cultural space. Earlier, Samsung, Lotte and POSCO tied museums to branding and ESG, with examples including the Lee Kun-hee Collection donation and formal ESG metrics for museum operations.

The Samsung family has completed payment of 12 trillion won in inheritance tax on the estate of the late former chairman Lee Kun-hee over five years, finishing six installments, heirs said on Saturday. The amount is about 50 percent more than South Korea’s 2024 inheritance tax revenue of 8.2 trillion won and is the largest such payment since the country’s founding. The estate included stakes in affiliates and real estate.