This web version for 'Investment Guide Korean Stock Market' is designed for foreign individuals/institutions who wish to invest in the Korean Stock Market and/or do business with Korean companies.

Information provided herein is based on annual reports, quarterly reports and audit reports for the past four years (or most recent materials in the case of those whose information for the past four years is not available) plus the corporate information database made by the Korea Information Service, as of April 8, 2008. (Please note that for some indicators for which annual figures are required, such as earnings per share or sales per share, on which available information for only part of a year is available necessary adjustments have been made. Please take the fact into account that the annual figures thus adjusted are provided for convenience, and that a given business enterprise's profit structure is not necessarily equally distributed throughout the year.), for the sake of reducing space, we have eliminated the word 'The, Ltd.' from the corporate names.

It is divided into three segments;

Company Analysis which comprises company profile, investment indicators, financial statements and various financial ratios.
Classified Search allows easy reference to financial information by ranks offering relative position/grade of the company in terms of profitability, debt ratio and EVA.
Credit Rating provides credit information on Corporate Bonds and Commercial Paper rated by three major Credit Rating Companies in Korea.

  • Number of Companies
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    A total of 1,649 (i.e. 683 listed on the Stock Market and 966 listed on the KOSDAQ Market) (As of Airpril,8,2008) (Securities-investment firms and those planning to be de-listed from the Stock market or the KOSDAQ market are not included here.)
  • Established
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    is the date the company was registered as a joint stock company.
  • Listed
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    is the date the company was listed on the Korea Exchange.
  • President
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    is the name of the official(s) given as the representative director in audited report submitted to the Financial Supervisory Service.
  • Employees
    • is the number of employees as of the latest balance sheet date.
  • Reference Bank
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    is the bank through which the company does chief financial transactions.
  • Corporate Bonds/CP
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    is the lowest rating for the company's bonds and Commercial Paper recently released by the three major value-providers, KIS, KR, and NICE.
  • Present status
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    contains basic information about the company's operating activities, such as its major products and/or services, its production and cost structure, and its marketing strategies/channels. Performance and outlook of its sales and profitability are also briefly covered.
  • Business Prospects
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    provides information about each company's most recent activities, including important factors and changes in the company's current market situation, its facilities investment, joint venture agreements, development of new productions or technologies, and overseas investment plan. It also covers information about its financial structure and cash flow.
  • Shareholders
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    lists each company's top stock owners and their respective shareholdings as a percentage of total outstanding shares.
  • Cost Breakdown
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    (Expense Breakdown for financial institutions) shows the percentage share of the company's material, labor and overhead cost to total production cost in the given year.
  • Sales Breakdown
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    (Revenues Breakdown for financial institutions) gives the name and percentage share of the company's major products or services to total sales in the given year.
  • Capital Changes
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    lists the five most recent capital changes. The initials used in this sector stand for;
    RI Right Issue BI Bonus Issue
    SD Stock Dividend CB Conversion(CB,BW,etc.)
    MA Merger & Acquisition CR Capital Reduction
    LI Listed SS Stock Split
    RS Reverse (Stock) Split    
  • Ownership Breakdown
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    shows the degree of stock distribution and its changes over four fiscal years.
  • Stock Graph
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    is based on daily closing stock price shows both the moving average line and trading volume.
  • Stock Analysis
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    Beta used KOSPI(Beta) for listed companies and KOSDAQ(Beta) for registered companies. KOSPI(Beta)bigger than 1 indicates that the individual
    company's share price moves more widely than the market while KOSPI(Beta) less than 1 reacts less elastically. For companies having short
    business records since registration, we marked dash(-) as they hardly produce statistically reliable figures.
    Volatility provided here represents annualized standard deviation. When a company's share price has a high standard deviation, its price has
    fluctuated very widely, indicating that there is a greater potential for volatility.
  • Per Share Data

    • PER(H/L) : Yearly highest and lowest stock price/Earnings per share(EPS).
    PBR(H/L) : Yearly highest and lowest stock price/Net assets per share.
    PSR(H/L) : Yearly highest and lowest stock price/Sales Ratio.
    Dividends : Dividends per regular common stock. For stock dividends, the percentage of total outstanding common stock is shown after the symbol 'S'.