Guides

How the Korean filings behind this site work, in plain English.

Most figures on this site come from DART, the Korean disclosure system. These guides explain what those filings contain and in what order to read them, and link through to the IPO calendar, demand results, filings and glossary.

How a Korean IPO subscription worksThe order of a Korean IPO: registration statement, book-building, subscription days, equal and pro-rata allocation, refunds, listing day and the tradable float.Reading Korean DART filingsWhat each common Korean disclosure contains and which number to check: supply contracts, capital raising, buybacks, 5% stake reports and preliminary earnings.Trading hours and rules on the Korean marketKorea Exchange session times in KST, the opening and closing auctions, the 30% daily price limit, tick sizes, T+2 settlement, volatility interruptions and circuit breakers.Reading Korean quarterly earningsWhen Korean listed companies report, how provisional results differ from the filed statements, consolidated versus separate figures, and why fourth-quarter numbers are derived.What a Korean "theme stock" isWhy Korean coverage groups companies into themes such as HBM, nuclear and defense, how those lists are built, and what being on one does and does not tell you.How to follow Korean filings without reading KoreanWhere Korean regulatory filings appear in English, what is only published in Korean, and a practical order for tracking a KOSPI or KOSDAQ company from abroad.How dividends work on Korean stocksWhen Korean companies pay, how the record date and T+2 settlement interact, what withholding applies to non-residents, and which figures in the filings to read.Reading a spike in Korean news coverageWhat it means when a Korean listed company jumps from two articles a day to fifty, the five situations that usually cause it, and what the number cannot tell you.

How these guides are written

The English guides are written separately rather than translated line by line from the Korean pages: an international reader needs context a Korean reader already has. The sources are the filings companies publish on DART and the rule descriptions published by the Korea Exchange and the Financial Supervisory Service. Rule-based figures — price limits, deposit ratios, withholding rates — are current as of September 2026 and carry an updated date on each guide.

No guide recommends a stock or forecasts a price. They say where a number is filed and what it means, and stop there. How this site collects and calculates its data is set out on the about page, which also says who runs it and how the automated articles are produced.

If something here is wrong or missing, tell us and we will correct it. Korean-language guides cover more topics and are listed on the Korean guides page.