Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Equity Capital Markets

<p>In this insight, we provide a scenarios analysis of the current situation between Kakao Pay and the financial regulators in Korea. The timing of this uncertainty is awful as the company is getting ready to complete its IPO next month. </p><div class="content-highlight"><ul>
<li>In our view, Kakao Pay is most likely to find some kind of a compromise with the regulators in order to continue to operate its financial services. </li>
<li>The higher probability scenario is for Kakao Pay make changes to how its current app operates (including having separate buttons that guide the users to separate subsidiaries windows) so that it is very clear from the consumers' point of view what subsidiaries/companies that are purchasing various financial services from. </li>
<li>Our guess is that it is likely to add one or two extra steps/layers for the consumers that use Kakao Pay to access the various financial services under the new system, as compared to the current system. In that sense, it would remove one of the key advantages that Kakao Pay has had in making the system more convenient to use as compared to its leading competitor Toss. </li>
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In this insight, we provide a scenarios analysis of the current situation between Kakao Pay and the financial regulators in Korea. The timing of this uncertainty is awful as the company is getting ready to complete its IPO next month. 
In our view, Kakao Pay is most likely to find some kind of a compromise with the regulators in order to continue to operate its financial services. 
The higher probability scenario is for Kakao Pay make changes to how its current app operates (including having separate buttons that guide the users to separate subsidiaries windows) so that it is very clear from the consumers' point of view what subsidiaries/companies that are purchasing various financial services from. 
Our guess is that it is likely to add one or two extra steps/layers for the consumers that use Kakao Pay to access the various financial services under the new system, as compared to the current system. In that sense, it would remove one of the key advantages that Kakao Pay has had in making the system more convenient to use as compared to its leading competitor Toss. 


Kakao Pay - One Third of Revenues in Jeopardy or Reach a Compromise with the Regulators?

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

<div><p>Kakao Pay (KP), one of South Korea’s largest payment and financial services apps, aims to raise up to US$1.3bn in its South Korean IPO. Kakao held a 55% stake prior to listing, with Ant Financial holding the balance 45% stake.</p></div><div><p>As of 1H21, KP had a total of 36m users and around 20m monthly active users (MAU). It processed a total GMV of KRW66.9tn in 2020 and it had already generated KRW47.9tn GMV in 1H21 itself. As of the end of 1H21, it had dealings with more than 610,000 affiliated stores and 100 financial institutions.</p></div><div><p>Since spinning out from Kakao in 2017, the number of MAUs have grown 14x from 2Q17 to 2Q21, while the quarterly transaction amount grew 61x from KRW0.4tn in 2Q17 to KRW24.5tn in 2Q21. </p></div><div><p>Over the past few years the company has been expanding its offering beyond payment processing to include other financial products. On the back of this, its revenue has been growing faster than its GMV.</p></div><div>
<p>We have covered most aspects of the deal in our earlier notes, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/kakao-pay-ipo-guided-by-ant-financial-to-be-a-mini-ant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kakao Pay IPO - Guided by Ant Financial to be a mini Ant </a>and  <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/kakao-pay-ipo-peer-comparison-local-and-international" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kakao Pay IPO - Peer comparison - local and international</a>.</p>
<p>In this note we will talk about valuations and the latest announcement by the regulators.</p>
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Kakao Pay (KP), one of South Korea’s largest payment and financial services apps, aims to raise up to US$1.3bn in its South Korean IPO. Kakao held a 55% stake prior to listing, with Ant Financial holding the balance 45% stake.As of 1H21, KP had a total of 36m users and around 20m monthly active users (MAU). It processed a total GMV of KRW66.9tn in 2020 and it had already generated KRW47.9tn GMV in 1H21 itself. As of the end of 1H21, it had dealings with more than 610,000 affiliated stores and 100 financial institutions.Since spinning out from Kakao in 2017, the number of MAUs have grown 14x from 2Q17 to 2Q21, while the quarterly transaction amount grew 61x from KRW0.4tn in 2Q17 to KRW24.5tn in 2Q21. Over the past few years the company has been expanding its offering beyond payment processing to include other financial products. On the back of this, its revenue has been growing faster than its GMV.
We have covered most aspects of the deal in our earlier notes, Kakao Pay IPO - Guided by Ant Financial to be a mini Ant and  Kakao Pay IPO - Peer comparison - local and international.
In this note we will talk about valuations and the latest announcement by the regulators.


Kakao Pay IPO - Valuation and Likely Impact of Latest Announcement

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<div>There have been a lot of concerns in the past year about the two Internet giants in Korea - Naver and Kakao becoming too powerful and dominant in Korea. Most of the discussions have been just talk without concrete actions. However, this is about to change materially as several senior members of the Korean government have provided strong indications that greater levels of restrictions could be placed on these two Internet giants and their affiliates in terms of their business operations.</div>
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<div>The Korean government which is trying to crack down on the two key Internet giants in Korea is similar to how the Chinese government is trying to crack down on the Internet giants in China. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/naver-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:16029:1" rel="noopener">Naver Corp (035420 KS)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kakao-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15002:1" rel="noopener">Kakao Corp (035720 KS)</a> shares declined by 7.9% and 10.1%, respectively today following concerns about greater amount of regulatory restrictions on the company and its affiliates' operations. </div>
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<div>All in all, investors generally despise excessive uncertainty and higher potential for government meddling. These have been key factors that have driven the share prices of the major Chinese Internet tech stocks lower in the past several months.</div>
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<li>Although it remains to be seen how much the Korean government will try to crack down on the Korean Internet giants, the timing of their meddling over the next 3-6 months as we draw closer to the Presidential election in March 2022 is likely to become GREATER, not LESS.</li>
<li>Consequently, we believe that investors should take into consideration the potential for greater government regulations surrounding major business operations of Kakao and Naver and their affiliates in the next 3-6 months, especially on the financial sector.</li>
<li>The higher likelihood is for greater clarity in what they can or cannot do could become more specific after the Presidential election in March 2022. </li>
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There have been a lot of concerns in the past year about the two Internet giants in Korea - Naver and Kakao becoming too powerful and dominant in Korea. Most of the discussions have been just talk without concrete actions. However, this is about to change materially as several senior members of the Korean government have provided strong indications that greater levels of restrictions could be placed on these two Internet giants and their affiliates in terms of their business operations.

The Korean government which is trying to crack down on the two key Internet giants in Korea is similar to how the Chinese government is trying to crack down on the Internet giants in China. Naver Corp (035420 KS) and Kakao Corp (035720 KS) shares declined by 7.9% and 10.1%, respectively today following concerns about greater amount of regulatory restrictions on the company and its affiliates' operations. 





All in all, investors generally despise excessive uncertainty and higher potential for government meddling. These have been key factors that have driven the share prices of the major Chinese Internet tech stocks lower in the past several months.


Although it remains to be seen how much the Korean government will try to crack down on the Korean Internet giants, the timing of their meddling over the next 3-6 months as we draw closer to the Presidential election in March 2022 is likely to become GREATER, not LESS.
Consequently, we believe that investors should take into consideration the potential for greater government regulations surrounding major business operations of Kakao and Naver and their affiliates in the next 3-6 months, especially on the financial sector.
The higher likelihood is for greater clarity in what they can or cannot do could become more specific after the Presidential election in March 2022. 





The Korean Government Could Follow the Chinese Government in Cracking Down on the Internet Giants

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries  / Event-Driven

<div class="content-highlight"><p>Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced its book building results and the IPO has been determined at 60,000 won, which was at the high end of the IPO price range. The demand ratio among the institutional investors was very strong at 1,836 to 1. There were 1,633 institutional investors that participated in the IPO survey of which 1,285 were domestic investors and 348 were overseas investors. </p></div><table class="table table-striped">
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<td colspan="4" style="width: 470pt;"><div><strong>Institutional Investors Demand Breakdown of Hyundai Heavy Industries IPO Bookbuilding Results</strong></div></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Domestic Investors</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong></td>
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<td><strong> </strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong>Asset mgmt companies</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong>Brokerages</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong>Pension funds/insurance/banks</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>Others</strong></td>
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<td>No. of companies</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;">587</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;">40</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;">276</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;">382</td>
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<td><strong>Demand</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>692 to 1</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>46.7 to 1</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>318.1 to 1</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>492.3 to 1</strong></td>
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<td><strong> Overseas Investors</strong></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong></td>
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<td><strong> </strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong>(A)*</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><strong>(B)**</strong></td>
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<td>No. of companies</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;">132</td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;">216</td>
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<td><strong>Demand</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>71.3 to 1</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>215.4 to 1</strong></td>
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<td><strong>Total (No. of companies)</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>1,633</strong></td>
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<td><strong>Total Demand</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; width: 106pt;"><strong>1,835.9 to 1</strong></td>
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<tr><td colspan="5" style="width: 576pt;">Note: (A)* refers to overseas investment mgmt companies that have records of trading with the brokers involved in this deal.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="5" style="width: 576pt;">(B)** refers to overseas investment mgmt companies that do not have records of trading with the brokers involved in this deal.</td></tr>
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</table><p>Unlike major IPOs this year such as <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kakaobank-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33501:1" rel="noopener">KakaoBank (323410 KS)</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-bioscience-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31484:1" rel="noopener">SK Bioscience (302440 KS)</a>, and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sk-ie-technology" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29207:1" rel="noopener">SK IE Technology (361610 KS) </a>which had numerous hallmarks of blockbuster positive outcomes post IPO, Hyundai Heavy Industries is a mixed bag, in our view. Despite surging new orders in 1H 2021, it remains to be seen if this is sustainable. There also remain a lot of question marks about the company's profitability as well as higher steel raw material costs, higher interest rates, and the M&amp;A of Daewoo Shipbuilding which may be blocked by regulators in EU/Japan.</p><p>Even the book building results imply a mixed bag. The high ratios of lock up period and high demand ratio are certainly very positive. Also, it has a low free float and solid employees subscription for the IPO shares. However, why did the institutional investors not indicate higher prices for the IPO (above 60,000 won)?</p>

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced its book building results and the IPO has been determined at 60,000 won, which was at the high end of the IPO price range. The demand ratio among the institutional investors was very strong at 1,836 to 1. There were 1,633 institutional investors that participated in the IPO survey of which 1,285 were domestic investors and 348 were overseas investors. 






Institutional Investors Demand Breakdown of Hyundai Heavy Industries IPO Bookbuilding Results
 


Domestic Investors
 
 
 
 


 
Asset mgmt companies
Brokerages
Pension funds/insurance/banks
Others


No. of companies
587
40
276
382


Demand
692 to 1
46.7 to 1
318.1 to 1
492.3 to 1


 
 
 
 
 


 Overseas Investors
 
 
 
 


 
(A)*
(B)**
 
 


No. of companies
132
216
 
 


Demand
71.3 to 1
215.4 to 1
 
 


 
 
 
 
 


Total (No. of companies)
1,633
 
 
 


Total Demand
1,835.9 to 1
 
 
 

Note: (A)* refers to overseas investment mgmt companies that have records of trading with the brokers involved in this deal.
(B)** refers to overseas investment mgmt companies that do not have records of trading with the brokers involved in this deal.

Source: Company data
 
 



Unlike major IPOs this year such as KakaoBank (323410 KS), SK Bioscience (302440 KS), and SK IE Technology (361610 KS) which had numerous hallmarks of blockbuster positive outcomes post IPO, Hyundai Heavy Industries is a mixed bag, in our view. Despite surging new orders in 1H 2021, it remains to be seen if this is sustainable. There also remain a lot of question marks about the company's profitability as well as higher steel raw material costs, higher interest rates, and the M&amp;A of Daewoo Shipbuilding which may be blocked by regulators in EU/Japan.Even the book building results imply a mixed bag. The high ratios of lock up period and high demand ratio are certainly very positive. Also, it has a low free float and solid employees subscription for the IPO shares. However, why did the institutional investors not indicate higher prices for the IPO (above 60,000 won)?

Hyundai Heavy Industries - Trading Strategy Post Book Building Results

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

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

<p>Below are KOSPI stocks that will see lockup releases in September. Four of these stocks have recently gone public.</p><table class="table table-striped">
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Name"}'>Name</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ticker"}'>Ticker</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Share type"}'>Share type</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Release date"}'>Release date</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Release volume"}'>Release volume</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"% of SO"}'>% of SO</td>
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ottogi Corp"}' data-sheets-formula='=googlefinance(R[0]C[1], "name")'>Ottogi Corp</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"007310"}' data-sheets-formula='="007310"'>007310</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary"}'>Ordinary</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":44464}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,5,"yyyy. mm. dd",1]'>2021. 09. 25</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":66744}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,2,"#,##0",1]'>66,744</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":0.018176564639087185}' data-sheets-numberformat='{"1":3,"2":"0.00%","3":1}' data-sheets-formula='=R[0]C[-1]/googlefinance(R[0]C[-4], "shares")'>1.82%</td>
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ajusteel Co Ltd"}' data-sheets-formula='=googlefinance(R[0]C[1], "name")'><strong>Ajusteel</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"139990"}' data-sheets-formula='="139990"'><strong>139990</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary"}'><strong>Ordinary</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":44459}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,5,"yyyy. mm. dd",1]'><strong>2021. 09. 20</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":2507518}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,2,"#,##0",1]' data-sheets-formula="=sum('139990'!R[12]C[0]:R[18]C[0])+'139990'!R[24]C[0]"><strong>2,507,518</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":0.09479434764359199}' data-sheets-numberformat='{"1":3,"2":"0.00%","3":1}' data-sheets-formula='=R[0]C[-1]/googlefinance(R[0]C[-4], "shares")'><strong>9.48%</strong></td>
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Y2 Solution Co Ltd"}' data-sheets-formula='=googlefinance(R[0]C[1], "name")'>Y2 Solution</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"011690"}' data-sheets-formula='="011690"'>011690</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary"}'>Ordinary</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":44458}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,5,"yyyy. mm. dd",1]'>2021. 09. 19</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":59000000}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,2,"#,##0",1]'>59,000,000</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":0.40071820384082696}' data-sheets-numberformat='{"1":3,"2":"0.00%","3":1}' data-sheets-formula='=R[0]C[-1]/googlefinance(R[0]C[-4], "shares")'>40.07%</td>
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"SK Bioscience Co Ltd"}' data-sheets-formula='=googlefinance(R[0]C[1], "name")'><strong>SK Bioscience</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"302440"}' data-sheets-formula='="302440"'><strong>302440</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary"}'><strong>Ordinary</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":44457}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,5,"yyyy. mm. dd",1]'><strong>2021. 09. 18</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":56298100}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,2,"#,##0",1]' data-sheets-formula="='302440'!R[4]C[0]+'302440'!R[8]C[0]"><strong>56,298,100</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":0.7359228758169934}' data-sheets-numberformat='{"1":3,"2":"0.00%","3":1}' data-sheets-formula='=R[0]C[-1]/googlefinance(R[0]C[-4], "shares")'><strong>73.59%</strong></td>
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Krafton Inc"}' data-sheets-formula='=googlefinance(R[0]C[1], "name")'><strong>Krafton</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"259960"}' data-sheets-formula='="259960"'><strong>259960</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary"}'><strong>Ordinary</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":44449}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,5,"yyyy. mm. dd",1]'><strong>2021. 09. 10</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":2137478}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,2,"#,##0",1]' data-sheets-formula="=sum('259960'!R[18]C[0]:R[19]C[0])+'259960'!R[25]C[0]"><strong>2,137,478</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":0.0436652687167866}' data-sheets-numberformat='{"1":3,"2":"0.00%","3":1}' data-sheets-formula='=R[0]C[-1]/googlefinance(R[0]C[-4], "shares")'><strong>4.37%</strong></td>
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Krafton Inc"}' data-sheets-formula='=googlefinance(R[0]C[1], "name")'><strong>Krafton</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"259960"}' data-sheets-formula='="259960"'><strong>259960</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary"}'><strong>Ordinary</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":44448}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,5,"yyyy. mm. dd",1]'><strong>2021. 09. 09</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":90000}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,2,"#,##0",1]'><strong>90,000</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":0.0018385565533356573}' data-sheets-numberformat='{"1":3,"2":"0.00%","3":1}' data-sheets-formula='=R[0]C[-1]/googlefinance(R[0]C[-4], "shares")'><strong>0.18%</strong></td>
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<td data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Kakao Bank"}'><strong>Kakao Bank</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"323410"}' data-sheets-formula='="323410"'><strong>323410</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary"}'><strong>Ordinary</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":44445}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,5,"yyyy. mm. dd",1]'><strong>2021. 09. 06</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":3141600}' data-sheets-numberformat='[null,2,"#,##0",1]' data-sheets-formula="='323410'!R[13]C[0]"><strong>3,141,600</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" data-sheets-value='{"1":3,"3":0.006612499332430348}' data-sheets-numberformat='{"1":3,"2":"0.00%","3":1}' data-sheets-formula='=R[0]C[-1]/googlefinance(R[0]C[-4], "shares")'><strong>0.66%</strong></td>
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<tr><td colspan="6" rowspan="1" data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Source: KRX KIND"}'>Source: KRX KIND</td></tr>
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</table><hr><div class="content-highlight"><p><strong>In the DETAIL section below, let's take a look at the flow of the 4 recently listed stocks this month one by one.</strong></p></div>

Below are KOSPI stocks that will see lockup releases in September. Four of these stocks have recently gone public.










Name
Ticker
Share type
Release date
Release volume
% of SO


Ottogi Corp
007310
Ordinary
2021. 09. 25
66,744
1.82%


Ajusteel
139990
Ordinary
2021. 09. 20
2,507,518
9.48%


Y2 Solution
011690
Ordinary
2021. 09. 19
59,000,000
40.07%


SK Bioscience
302440
Ordinary
2021. 09. 18
56,298,100
73.59%


Krafton
259960
Ordinary
2021. 09. 10
2,137,478
4.37%


Krafton
259960
Ordinary
2021. 09. 09
90,000
0.18%


Kakao Bank
323410
Ordinary
2021. 09. 06
3,141,600
0.66%

Source: KRX KIND

In the DETAIL section below, let's take a look at the flow of the 4 recently listed stocks this month one by one.

September Lockup Releases on KOSPI: Looking at Each Stock's Flow Situation

South Korea

KakaoBank Corp. operates bank businesses. The Company provides deposit money, withdraw money, credit cards, stock accounts, linked loans, and other services. KakaoBank conducts businesses in South Korea.

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