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24 stories tagged “disclosure”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Korean business segment reporting, by company size: the biggest disclose eight, the smallest disclose one
Half of 737 Korean listed companies report a single business segment. Among companies above $10bn in market value only 23% do — and their median is eight. Segment disclosure is not in the accounts tape; it is in the annual report text.
A 2021 Drama Licensing Deal Was Kept Secret for Five Years. The Embargo Just Ended.
Samhwa Networks signed a $5.6 million global streaming license for its drama Now, Showtime! in 2021 and was allowed to withhold the amount. The filing disclosing it, five years later, states why: the embargo period ran out.
A Coupang Robotics Contract Shrank by 40% — After the Work Was Done
CMES Robotics disclosed a ₩1.19 billion Coupang warehouse-automation contract as 17.2% of revenue. Its amendment, filed after the contract ended, revises it down to ₩713 million — 10.34% — the amount actually collected.
K3I's Buyer Has ₩5.8 Billion in Assets. It's Paying ₩21 Billion for Control.
J's Commerce, formed in 2018, is buying a 39.96% stake in K3I from the founder's family for ₩21 billion. Its own filed balance sheet shows ₩5.836 billion in total assets — far below the purchase price.
Namhwa Construction Amended a ₩7.68 Billion Contract — Only the Timeline Changed
Namhwa Construction's supply contract with Daegwang Community Credit Cooperative, worth 13.56% of revenue, was amended on 23 September. The filing states only the contract period changed — the amount did not.
Spear Won't Name Its Aerospace Customer. The Filing Still Gives Up 12%.
Spear disclosed an ₩11.58 billion special-alloy contract worth 12.1% of revenue. The counterparty is withheld, described only as a 'US global aerospace launch company' — but the amount and ratio are not.
Two Korean Companies Filed Share Cancellations the Same Day. One Retires Nearly 10% of Its Stock.
Intem and KTis both filed board-approved share cancellation decisions on 23 September. Intem is retiring 4.74% of its shares; KTis is retiring 9.76% — more than double the ratio, from already-acquired treasury stock in both cases.
Hyundai Rotem's Taiwan Rail Contract Is 5.9% of Last Year's Revenue
A ₩344.5 billion supply contract with Taiwan's Taoyuan Department of Rapid Transit Systems runs through October 2034 — eight years, filed the same day as two other same-industry disclosures.
SK Biopharmaceuticals Signed a 9% Supply Contract — With Its Own Subsidiary
The ₩63.3 billion deal names SK Life Science, Inc. as the counterparty, and the filing states the relationship: SK Biopharmaceuticals' own subsidiary. The filing ties it to XCOPRI, the company's US-marketed epilepsy drug.
A Korean Controlling Shareholder Crossed 51% in One Filing
Hantop's largest shareholder reported a 9.16-point jump to 51.56% on 8 September — one filing combining a related party's private-placement share purchase with a change to pledged loan collateral.
A Korean REIT Issued Two Convertible Bonds the Same Day. Together They're 8.13% Dilution.
Koramco Life Infra REIT's board approved two private convertible bonds on 21 September — same conversion price, same coupon, same maturity date — worth a combined 34 billion won and 8,308,894 potential new shares.
Cellid Raised 10 Billion Won by Diluting Shares 16 Percent
A single third-party placement filed today adds 4.8 million new Cellid shares to a base of 29.5 million — 16.26% dilution, with the company's own filing marking 9.999 billion of the roughly 10 billion won raised as general operating funds.
Four Korean Dilution Filings Landed in Three Weeks. One Tops 100 Percent.
Korea Advanced Materials issued two same-day, same-price convertible bonds worth a combined 20.62% dilution — the fourth of four unrelated dilution filings we checked from early September to today, ranging from 8% to 164%.
More Than Half of Korea's Material Filings Are Corrections of Earlier Ones
Of 816 material disclosures Korean listed companies filed in 28 days, 430 — 52.7% — are re-filings marked as corrections. Convertible bonds 72%, capital raises 65%, supply contracts 60%. Not advice.
One Korean Convertible Bond Is Worth 164% of the Company's Shares. A Second, Filed a Day Later, Is 13%.
THE CODI's board approved a 30 billion won convertible bond on 7 September that would create more shares than the company has outstanding — 163.75% dilution by its own figure — then a smaller bond the next day.
POSCO Holdings' Stake in Two Units Landed Right at the 50% Line, Same Day
Two 5%-ownership disclosures filed the same day show POSCO Holdings' stake falling to 50.01% in POSCO International and exactly 50% in POSCO DX — both crossing more than 15 percentage points down in a single filing.
A Company Paid a 9.6% Premium to Cancel a Convertible Bond It Had Sold Three Months Earlier
Emgen Solution sold a private convertible bond in June 2026. In September it bought the whole issue back for 9.6% over face value -- canceling 8.3% worth of potential dilution, 32 months before the bond was due.
Samsung C&T's 1.83 Trillion Won Project Is a Construction Selection, Not Yet a Contract
Samsung C&T disclosed being chosen to build a 1.8275 trillion won Seoul redevelopment project -- 4.49% of its FY2025 revenue. The filing itself says the amount can still change and the actual contract has not been signed.
Seohee Construction's New Contract Is 29% of Last Year's Revenue. It Doesn't Start for 21 Months.
A single apartment contract filed today equals 28.93% of Seohee Construction's most recent revenue. Construction starts in June 2027 — and this exact contract type has fallen through for the company before.
Zero Korean companies changed CEO or owner for 17 straight trading days. Then seven did, in one.
DART recorded zero CEO-change and control-change disclosures on 17 straight scanned days. On September 18, three companies replaced their CEO and four filed ownership-change corrections.
10 Korean-listed companies filed delisting-risk disclosures on one day
DART recorded delisting-risk disclosures from ten separately listed companies on September 18 — zero on any other day this week. We could not confirm why they clustered on this date.
Across Korea's listed companies, women's average pay is 73% of men's
Companies file average pay by gender. Across 2,720 listed firms the median woman's pay is 73.2% of the median man's, and four in ten sit below 70%. It is mostly a gap in who holds which job, not pay for the same work. Not advice.
Who watches Korea's private fund managers? Less of the market than you would think
A licensed manager can run hundreds of billions of won, trade listed shares daily on its own account, and disclose none of it in a form the public can search. Here is exactly where the record stops.
Why Korean market data has a 1-business-day legal lag — and one exception
The data this site publishes settles on a one-business-day lag — not by editorial choice but because that is what the redistributable sources release. One exception changes what is possible.