Hancom (030520.KS) reported first-quarter revenue of 46.5 billion won and operating profit of 17.6 billion won on a standalone basis, the company said Tuesday.
Revenue rose 2.4% and operating profit increased 2.7% from a year earlier. On a consolidated basis, the company posted revenue of 63.6 billion won and operating profit of 8.5 billion won.
"These results surpass the same period last year, when we recorded our highest-ever quarterly earnings, and demonstrate the company's solid fundamentals through a successful transformation into an artificial intelligence (AI) business model," a Hancom official said. "In particular, growth in the AI business division led the overall top-line expansion, firmly establishing its role as a foundation for future growth."
Hancom has achieved solid top-line growth for three consecutive years through a strategy of transitioning from its traditional installed package software business toward AI and cloud offerings. Standalone revenue rose steadily from 128.1 billion won in 2023 to 175.3 billion won in 2025, and the company has disclosed an annual revenue target of 210 billion won this year, aiming to surpass the 200 billion won threshold for the first time since its founding.
According to Hancom, this reflects the adoption of its core AI products — which perform document parsing and unstructured data extraction — as essential components in the B2G and B2B markets seeking to build AI infrastructure, along with the successful expansion of its product lineup in AI and cloud.
Based on the performance of its AI business, whose market demand has been validated, Hancom plans to launch its next-generation vision, the "Twin-type Agentic OS," within the first half and pursue full commercialization within the year.
The "Twin-type Agentic OS" is a technology that implements a "digital twin (AI agent)" replicating the user's work style. Even after the user leaves the office, the agent autonomously completes tasks around the clock. It serves as an "intelligent control tower" that modularizes 36 years of accumulated document structuring technology and AI capabilities, organically connecting various AI models and existing business systems.
Through this, Hancom aims to elevate its corporate valuation framework from that of a traditional package software company to the level of a global AI platform company.
Above all, with Hancom's technology rapidly expanding on GitHub, the world's largest open-source community, the company plans to focus on global market expansion. Hancom's OpenDataLoader PDF recently surpassed 20,000 stars on GitHub and unveiled the first open-source AI-based PDF accessibility tag auto-generation feature, drawing significant attention in the global AI market.
Hancom is focused on converting this organically expanding ecosystem beyond mere open-source adoption into tangible global commercialization. The strategy is to establish its parsing and preprocessing technologies — which global AI agents must use to access Korea's vast knowledge assets — as a "global data standard," then supply them to the global market in the form of advanced commercial APIs and modules.
As part of this commercialization, Hancom has actively adopted the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard integration specification. This has established a technical bridgehead enabling Hancom's commercial AI modules to be instantly plugged into any platform environment worldwide, and the company plans to gradually convert its technological leadership in the open-source ecosystem into a solid business revenue model.
"Our first-quarter 2026 results clearly show in numbers that Hancom is being re-evaluated as an AI technology company beyond a traditional software firm," Hancom CEO Kim Yeon-soo said. "Based on our current stable profit structure and building on the technology ecosystem potential confirmed on platforms such as GitHub, we will concentrate company-wide capabilities on developing our next-generation vision, the 'Agentic OS,' and expanding into the global market."
