Each KT Corporation ADR represents half a common share, so the quarterly 600 won dividend arrives as 300 won per ADR and every per-share figure needs halving.
Korea's privacy regulator fined KT Corporation 53.98bn won on 30 July over a femtocell breach that exposed 16,647 users between October 2024 and September 2025.
KT Corporation's first-half operating profit fell 33.6% to 1.13tn won and profit attributable to shareholders fell 35.5%, while the quarterly dividend held at 600 won.
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| Period | 030200 | KOSPI | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 week | -0.4% | -1.5% | +1.1% |
| 1 month | +3.8% | +5.2% | -1.3% |
| 3 months | -0.4% | -22.6% | +22.2% |
| 6 months | -1.1% | +31.3% | -32.4% |
| Year to date | +3.2% | +58.7% | -55.5% |
| 1 year | +2.6% | +108.9% | -106.3% |
Closed at 29% of the way from its 52-week low (₩48,250) to its 52-week high (₩68,900).
| Grade | Now | 3M | 6M |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valuation 0.72x parent equity of 18.6tn won; ~8.1x annualised H1 EPS of 3,290 won; ~4.5% gross dividend yield | B | — | — |
| Profitability H1 operating margin 8.40%, down from 11.94%; revenue fell 5.7% while operating costs fell only 1.9% | C+ | — | — |
| Financial Health Gross debt 11.27tn won, net 8.22tn; current borrowings up 67% to 4.18tn against 3.05tn of cash | C+ | — | — |
| Growth H1 revenue -5.7% and Q2 -10.1% on a property-gain base effect; operating profit -33.6% | D+ | — | — |
| Dividend Support 600 won a quarter held through a 35% profit decline; H1 operating cash flow 2.17tn won, but PP&E fell 562bn | B | — | — |
The headline transaction is tiny: 3,109 shares disposed off-market on 24 July at 52,700 won, worth 164m won, to employees who met the vesting conditions on restricted stock units. That is 0.001% of the company, and KT filed a formal material-event report to do it — including the broker's name. The useful content is the treasury table underneath. KT held 13,889,877 of its own shares, 5.51% of the 252,021,685 issued. During 2026 it acquired 3,071,295 through a trust arrangement running from 10 March to 9 September and disposed of 108,040. The retirement column is empty: nothing has been cancelled. That matters for anyone reading KT's commitment to repurchase and cancel 750bn won of stock across 2026 to 2028. Shares cancelled are gone permanently; shares held in treasury can be reissued, as this filing itself demonstrates. The buying has happened. The cancelling has not, and in Korea it requires its own separate disclosure — the same share-cancellation resolution (주식소각결정) form KB and Shinhan each filed in July.
KT declared 600 won a share for the second quarter, unchanged, with a record date of 29 July and payment on 13 August. The 142.6bn won total is calculated on 237,631,385 dividend-eligible shares — well short of the 252,021,685 issued, because the 5.51% sitting in treasury receives nothing. The filing warns both figures may move, since the buyback is still running. The board held the rate in a half when profit attributable to shareholders fell 35.5%. Annualised, 600 won a quarter is about 4.50% against the 53,300 won close, which makes KT the highest-yielding large Korean company with a New York listing. The 1.09% in the filing is the Korean convention — that quarter alone, against the average close over the preceding week. For a US holder of the ADR, each ADR represents half a common share, so the payment is 300 won per ADR, and Korean withholding at the 15% treaty rate takes the net yield to roughly 3.82%.
KT is Korea's incumbent telecommunications carrier and the country's largest fixed-line and broadband operator, with the second-largest mobile subscriber base behind SK Telecom. Beyond the network it runs IPTV, a data centre and cloud business, and a set of non-telecom subsidiaries that a US reader would not expect inside a phone company: BC Card, one of Korea's largest card processors; a stake in the internet-only K bank; a substantial real estate arm holding land inherited from the state monopoly era; and content and satellite operations. The closest US comparison is Verizon or AT&T — a mature, cash-generative network operator in a saturated three-player market, valued mainly on the dividend rather than on growth. The differences are that KT's non-telecom subsidiaries are a larger share of the whole than at any US carrier, and that the Korean regulator has direct influence over retail tariffs. KT was founded in 1981 as the state Korea Telecom Authority, privatised in 2002, and has no controlling shareholder — the National Pension Service is typically the largest holder. That ownership structure makes it unusually exposed to government pressure on pricing and to contested chief executive successions. It trades in New York as an ADR under the ticker KT.
| Sector | Telecommunications | Employees | |
| Market | KOSPI | Founded | 1981 |
| Korean name | 케이티 | Head office | Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea |
| Symbol | Last Price |
|---|---|
| 017670SK Telecom Co., Ltd. | ₩92,500 +3.9% |
| 032640LG Uplus | ₩14,760 -0.3% |