Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>The most important reason for KT's excellent results in 2Q 2025 was due to the major hacking incident at SK Telecom in May 2025.</li>
<li>The company's growing AI business and successful real estate sales also contributed to the company's improving results in 2Q 2025. </li>
<li>KT is likely to benefit from higher profits and returns on capital in the next couple of years as the penetration of 5G service surpasses more than 80%.</li>
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The most important reason for KT's excellent results in 2Q 2025 was due to the major hacking incident at SK Telecom in May 2025.
The company's growing AI business and successful real estate sales also contributed to the company's improving results in 2Q 2025. 
KT is likely to benefit from higher profits and returns on capital in the next couple of years as the penetration of 5G service surpasses more than 80%.


KT Corp: Excellent 2Q 2025 Earnings Driven by Market Share Gain and Improving AI/Cloud Businesses

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<li>We have a Positive view of KT Corp (030200 KS) due to three main reasons.</li>
<li>First, KT has started to implement aggressive capital return policy (returning 50% of net income through dividends and share buybacks/cancellations). Two other reasons include Corporate Value Up and higher Smartscore.</li>
<li>KT Corp has been the best performing stock among the three major Korean telcos in the past one year. KT Corp's shares are up 27.9% in the past one year.</li>
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We have a Positive view of KT Corp (030200 KS) due to three main reasons.
First, KT has started to implement aggressive capital return policy (returning 50% of net income through dividends and share buybacks/cancellations). Two other reasons include Corporate Value Up and higher Smartscore.
KT Corp has been the best performing stock among the three major Korean telcos in the past one year. KT Corp's shares are up 27.9% in the past one year.


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

Korea Stock Exchange Kospi Index / Event-Driven

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<li>Martial law has been declared 11 times since 1945, but this is the first since Korea’s post-‘90 democratization.</li>
<li>The Martial Law Command's first proclamation blocks parliament, raising legal questions about its constitutionality and making any immediate attempt to end martial law uncertain.</li>
<li>Defense and telecom stocks could outperform short-term due to martial law, making them strong trading targets to watch.</li>
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Martial law has been declared 11 times since 1945, but this is the first since Korea’s post-‘90 democratization.
The Martial Law Command's first proclamation blocks parliament, raising legal questions about its constitutionality and making any immediate attempt to end martial law uncertain.
Defense and telecom stocks could outperform short-term due to martial law, making them strong trading targets to watch.


Breaking: Korea Drops Martial Law, Local Markets in Turmoil—What’s the Short-Term Trade Play Here?

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>There are some major surprises (both inclusions and exclusions) in the Korea Value Up index. </li>
<li>In particular, the telecom sector (SK Telecom and KT) and large cap holding companies (Samsung C&amp;T and LG Corp) are surprising exclusions in the index.</li>
<li>There are many surprising inclusions in the Korea Value Up Index. We provide 30 companies are surprising inclusions in the Korea Value Up Index (19 KOSDAQ and 11 KOSPI listed).</li>
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There are some major surprises (both inclusions and exclusions) in the Korea Value Up index. 
In particular, the telecom sector (SK Telecom and KT) and large cap holding companies (Samsung C&amp;T and LG Corp) are surprising exclusions in the index.
There are many surprising inclusions in the Korea Value Up Index. We provide 30 companies are surprising inclusions in the Korea Value Up Index (19 KOSDAQ and 11 KOSPI listed).


Korea Value Up Index - Surprising Inclusions and Exclusions

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<li>In this insight, we discuss a pair trade between Coupang (CPNG US) (short) and CJ Logistics (000120 KS) (long).</li>
<li>There are six major factors that have negatively impacted Coupang in the past several weeks including a massive data breach, loss of customers, and potential ban on early dawn deliveries. </li>
<li>Coupang's daily active users (DAU) were 16.2 million as of 5 December, down by 1.8 million (10%)  from 18 million as of 1 December. </li>
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In this insight, we discuss a pair trade between Coupang (CPNG US) (short) and CJ Logistics (000120 KS) (long).
There are six major factors that have negatively impacted Coupang in the past several weeks including a massive data breach, loss of customers, and potential ban on early dawn deliveries. 
Coupang's daily active users (DAU) were 16.2 million as of 5 December, down by 1.8 million (10%)  from 18 million as of 1 December. 


A Pair Trade Between Coupang (Short) And CJ Logistics (Long)

South Korea

KT Corporation provides telecommunication services including local, long distance, and international calling, satellite communication, data transmission, and wireless telephone services in South Korea.  The Company also offers network portal and high-speed Internet access services using asymmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSLs).

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KT Corp (030200 KS)

Asian Dividend Gems: KT Corp

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Douglas Kim

Breaking: Korea Drops Martial Law, Local Markets in Turmoil—What’s the Short-Term Trade Play Here?

Breaking news: Korea has declared martial law, causing local markets to be in turmoil—what’s the short-term trading strategy moving forward?

Sanghyun Park

Korea Value Up Index - Surprising Inclusions and Exclusions

There are many surprising inclusions and exclusions in the Korea Value Up Index. We provide 30 companies that are surprising inclusions and 10...

Douglas Kim

A Pair Trade Between Coupang (Short) And CJ Logistics (Long)

We discuss a pair trade between Coupang (short) and CJ Logistics (long). Coupang's daily active users were 16.2 million as of 5 December, down by...

Douglas Kim

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KT Corp: Excellent 2Q 2025 Earnings Driven by Market Share Gain and Improving AI/Cloud Businesses

KT reported excellent results in 2Q25 due to the major hacking incident at SK Telecom. KT's growing AI business and successful real estate sales...

Douglas Kim

Asian Dividend Gems: KT Corp

​Positive outlook on KT Corp (030200 KS) due to aggressive capital return policy, Corporate Value Up, and higher Smartscore leading to strong stock...

Douglas Kim

Breaking: Korea Drops Martial Law, Local Markets in Turmoil—What’s the Short-Term Trade Play Here?

Breaking news: Korea has declared martial law, causing local markets to be in turmoil—what’s the short-term trading strategy moving forward?

Sanghyun Park

Korea Value Up Index - Surprising Inclusions and Exclusions

There are many surprising inclusions and exclusions in the Korea Value Up Index. We provide 30 companies that are surprising inclusions and 10...

Douglas Kim

A Pair Trade Between Coupang (Short) And CJ Logistics (Long)

We discuss a pair trade between Coupang (short) and CJ Logistics (long). Coupang's daily active users were 16.2 million as of 5 December, down by...

Douglas Kim

Positive outlook on KT Corp (030200 KS) due to aggressive capital return policy, Corporate Value Up, and higher Smartscore leading to strong stock...