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Daily Brief ESG: South Korea’s Top ESG Risk Trend in 2022: Analysis of News Articles on More than 2 and more

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

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

By Yujin Oh

  • 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’.

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