Korea / Special Situations, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Situations

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>NPS said it would add 50 KOSPI stocks to KOSPI 200 for direct management. However, the key was when this would be implemented and which ones would be included.</li>
<li>SBS, one of Korea's major networks, exclusively reported that NPS finalized the constituent stocks of the NPS-KR250 and started rebalancing trading on the 50 additional KOSPI stocks from January.</li>
<li>Hence, tracing and identifying who these additional 50 KOSPI stocks are is becoming the hottest topic in Korea's local market at this point.</li>
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NPS said it would add 50 KOSPI stocks to KOSPI 200 for direct management. However, the key was when this would be implemented and which ones would be included.
SBS, one of Korea's major networks, exclusively reported that NPS finalized the constituent stocks of the NPS-KR250 and started rebalancing trading on the 50 additional KOSPI stocks from January.
Hence, tracing and identifying who these additional 50 KOSPI stocks are is becoming the hottest topic in Korea's local market at this point.


Korea NPS Reportedly Finalized Additional 50 KOSPI Stocks in Its BM for Direct Management

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We believe that Jeju Air is in a sweet spot right now. Jeju Air is one of the major beneficiaries of the travel resurgence in Asia.</li>
<li>Jeju Air is a potential inclusion candidate in the KOSPI 200 index in 2023. There are 42 companies in KOSPI 200 which have lower market cap than Jeju Air. </li>
<li>Outbound travel from Korea recovered strongly with 6.6 million outbound tourists from South Korea in 2022, up 436% YoY. However, this is still 77% lower than the figure in 2019. </li>
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We believe that Jeju Air is in a sweet spot right now. Jeju Air is one of the major beneficiaries of the travel resurgence in Asia.
Jeju Air is a potential inclusion candidate in the KOSPI 200 index in 2023. There are 42 companies in KOSPI 200 which have lower market cap than Jeju Air. 
Outbound travel from Korea recovered strongly with 6.6 million outbound tourists from South Korea in 2022, up 436% YoY. However, this is still 77% lower than the figure in 2019. 


Jeju Air: A Big Beneficiary of Travel Resurgence in Asia + A Likely Inclusion in KOSPI 200 in 2023

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<li>On 26 August, Jeju Air (089590 KS) announced a rights offering worth 320 billion won, representing 39% of its market cap. </li>
<li>The expected rights offering price is 11,750 won (29% lower than its current price of 16,550 won) and the expected rights offering shares are 27.23 million shares.</li>
<li>Overall, we are negative on this rights offering mainly because we believe it is likely to result in too much dilution for the existing shareholders.</li>
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On 26 August, Jeju Air (089590 KS) announced a rights offering worth 320 billion won, representing 39% of its market cap. 
The expected rights offering price is 11,750 won (29% lower than its current price of 16,550 won) and the expected rights offering shares are 27.23 million shares.
Overall, we are negative on this rights offering mainly because we believe it is likely to result in too much dilution for the existing shareholders.


Jeju Air Rights Offering Worth 320 Billion Won Diluting Existing Shareholders

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>In this insight, we discuss the recent buying and selling by the Korea National Pension Service (NPS) of Korean stocks.</li>
<li>Of the 176 Korean stocks in which NPS reported changes in ownerships in 2Q 2022, NPS increased its stakes in 115 companies and reduced stakes in 61 companies.</li>
<li>NPS mostly increased stakes in aerospace, defense, construction equipment, and energy sectors while reducing stakes in telecom and tourism related stocks.</li>
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In this insight, we discuss the recent buying and selling by the Korea National Pension Service (NPS) of Korean stocks.
Of the 176 Korean stocks in which NPS reported changes in ownerships in 2Q 2022, NPS increased its stakes in 115 companies and reduced stakes in 61 companies.
NPS mostly increased stakes in aerospace, defense, construction equipment, and energy sectors while reducing stakes in telecom and tourism related stocks.


NPS Sells SK Bioscience, Naver, & LG Electronics and Buys Kakao Bank, Lotte Corp, & Samyang Foods

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<li>There were 128k visitors to South Korea in April, up 32% MoM which was the biggest jump in MoM change in visitors to South Korea in the past year.</li>
<li>There were 215k outbound people from South Korea in April 2022, up 48% MoM and up 202% YoY.</li>
<li>Among the 21 major reopening plays in Korea, we prefer certain sectors including casino related plays (GKL, Paradise, and Kangwon Land) as well as F&amp;B related (Hitejinro and CJ Cheiljedang).</li>
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There were 128k visitors to South Korea in April, up 32% MoM which was the biggest jump in MoM change in visitors to South Korea in the past year.
There were 215k outbound people from South Korea in April 2022, up 48% MoM and up 202% YoY.
Among the 21 major reopening plays in Korea, we prefer certain sectors including casino related plays (GKL, Paradise, and Kangwon Land) as well as F&amp;B related (Hitejinro and CJ Cheiljedang).


Significant MoM Increase in Inbound & Outbound Visitors in Korea in April 2022

South Korea

Jeju Air Co., Ltd. operates as an airline carrier in the aviation industry.   The Company provides air transportation services for passengers, baggage, and cargo within South Korea, Japan, and Southeastern Asian countries.

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Jeju Air (089590 KS)

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Significant MoM Increase in Inbound & Outbound Visitors in Korea in April 2022

There were 128k visitors to South Korea in April, up 32% MoM. There were 215k outbound people from South Korea in April 2022, up 48% MoM.

Douglas Kim

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