ESG Intelligence RA, Who's Good

Yujin Oh

ESG Intelligence RA

ASIA’S FIRST AI-DRIVEN ESG INSIGHT PROVIDER

Who's Good

Using AI technologies and public data, Who’s Good provides objective and up-to-date corporate ESG insights on Asian companies.

WHY WHO'S GOOD

* Time-sensitive: Time is the essence in finance. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can process vast amount of information in a short span of time. Our powerful algorithm offers real-time in-depth corporate ESG analysis with out compromising its quality.
* Objective: We turned to public big data and news big data as source to base our analysis on and to preserve impartiality. We leverage 350 public big data sources and 93 news data sources in Korea to uncover insights.
* Insightful: Who’s Good ESG analysis coverage extends to all listed and non-listed companies in Korea. This allows us to provide a comprehensive insight into the Korean market.
* Global approach to ESG: Our ESG research framework is built on international standards and principles including UN Global Compact, ISO 26000, ICGN and CFA Guidelines on Corporate Governance to meet the global standards.

HDC Hyundai Development Co-Engineering & Construction / ESG

HDC Hyundai Development Co-Engineering & Construction offers construction services. The Company builds factories, office and retail buildings, hotels, and warehouses. HDC Hyundai Development Co-Engineering & Construction provides its services throughout Korea.

HDC Hyundai Development Co-Engineering & Construction (294870 KS)

HDC Hyundai Development Co-Engineering & Construction

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<li>The result of analyzing 23,940 news articles on 2,722 Korean listed companies released between 1 January and 31 December 2022, reveal that 565 companies (20.7%) had ESG risks.</li>
<li>Companies with ESG risks has decreased compared to 2021, which is the first time a decrease trend has been recorded since Who's Good began conducting ESG analysis in 2015.</li>
<li>Social risk ranked as the highest risk among ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) with the highest ranking ESG issue being 'Supply Chain Management'.</li>
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The result of analyzing 23,940 news articles on 2,722 Korean listed companies released between 1 January and 31 December 2022, reveal that 565 companies (20.7%) had ESG risks.
Companies with ESG risks has decreased compared to 2021, which is the first time a decrease trend has been recorded since Who's Good began conducting ESG analysis in 2015.
Social risk ranked as the highest risk among ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) with the highest ranking ESG issue being 'Supply Chain Management'.


South Korea's Top ESG Risk Trend in 2022: Analysis of News Articles on More than 2,000 Entities

United Nations Global Compact provides a principle-based framework, best practices, resources, and networking events. The Organization operates in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. United Nations Global Compact serves customers worldwide.

United Nations Global Compact (2000877D CH)

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<li>Major index providers and investment management companies reflect on United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles for the assessment of portfolios. This particular UNGC compliance analysis focuses on Korean listed companies.</li>
<li>The evaluation of Korea's 828 listed companies and their sustainable management level utilised Who’s Good’s ESG evaluating framework, ‘Performance Analysis’ and ‘Incident Analysis’ and applied it to the Ten Principles. </li>
<li>Only 10% of the 828 listed companies were members of the UNGC, and 50% of the top 100 companies who scored the highest in UNGC scores, were members of UNGC.  </li>
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Major index providers and investment management companies reflect on United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles for the assessment of portfolios. This particular UNGC compliance analysis focuses on Korean listed companies.
The evaluation of Korea's 828 listed companies and their sustainable management level utilised Who’s Good’s ESG evaluating framework, ‘Performance Analysis’ and ‘Incident Analysis’ and applied it to the Ten Principles. 
Only 10% of the 828 listed companies were members of the UNGC, and 50% of the top 100 companies who scored the highest in UNGC scores, were members of UNGC.  


2022 UNGC Ten Principle Compliance Report on Korean Listed Companies

Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd., a holding company, provides a full range of consumer and commercial banking-related financial services.  The company's main businesses include banking, securities brokerage, trust banking, and assets management to individuals, businesses, and other financial institutions.

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<li>Recently, Shinhan and Woori Bank, biggest commercial banks in Korea, have gone under investigation for their abnormal foreign exchange transactions. </li>
<li>The incident was categorized as "Risk Oversight" of among 17 ESG issues as the banks are failing in internal control</li>
<li>There are various potential ESG risks lie with the transactions of cryptocurrency in corporates.</li>
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Recently, Shinhan and Woori Bank, biggest commercial banks in Korea, have gone under investigation for their abnormal foreign exchange transactions. 
The incident was categorized as "Risk Oversight" of among 17 ESG issues as the banks are failing in internal control
There are various potential ESG risks lie with the transactions of cryptocurrency in corporates.


ESG Risks of Cryptocurrency: Shinhan & Woori Bank Caught in Suspicious Foreign Exchange Transactions

Who's Good provides objective and up-to-date corporate ESG insights. We are operating on evaluating current non-financial (ESG) management performance based on public data; as well as ESG Indicident Analysis, that analyzes companies' ESG risks utilizing news data , and the Sustainability Credit Bureau (SCB), sustainability credit rating service. Most of all we provided analysis and insights on Korean corporates on a local context.

Yujin Oh
ESG Intelligence RA
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South Korea's Top ESG Risk Trend in 2022: Analysis of News Articles on More than 2,000 Entities

Presenting insights into various ESG incidents of Korean companies in 2022, and analysis on trending ESG issue of the year. The analysis is based...

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2022 UNGC Ten Principle Compliance Report on Korean Listed Companies

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ESG Risks of Cryptocurrency: Shinhan & Woori Bank Caught in Suspicious Foreign Exchange Transactions

The insight explains ESG risks of cryptocurrencies and analysis on Shinhan and Woori Bank, in Korea that are under investigation on their...

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