The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) designates large business groups each year — statutorily on May 1, this year on April 29 — based on total group assets. Once designated, groups are subject to ownership disclosure requirements, restrictions on self-dealing, and regulatory oversight that intensifies with scale. This page is refreshed after each annual KFTC announcement.
Cross-shareholding & circular investment banned. Debt guarantees between affiliates prohibited. Voting rights of financial affiliates restricted.
Full disclosure of ownership structure and major internal transactions required, even for unlisted affiliates. Self-dealing (unfair related-party transactions) prohibited.
Korea's Fair Trade Commission refreshes its list of designated business groups each year — reshaping the disclosure, intragroup-transaction, and cross-shareholding rules each group must follow. The 2026 list was announced on April 29. Below: our running coverage of the entities driving that review.
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Sources: DART OpenAPI (revenue, operating income, net income, employees, foreign ownership) · KRX live close (market cap). Group and affiliate names are AI-translated from Korean. Rankings exclude groups whose underlying DART metric is not yet indexed; foreign ownership is market-cap-weighted across listed affiliates. Figures may lag the latest filing — informational only, not investment advice.