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*Counted based on SOOP’s headquarters in Pangyo

  • Employee Overview

    Employee Overview
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Total employees Persons 575 645 720
    Gender Male 409 456 515
    Female 166 189 205
    Age Under 30 161 129 223
    Less than 30 412 516 497
    More than 30~Less than 50 2 0 0
    Employment type Full-time All 573 642 719
    Male 407 453 514
    Female 166 189 205
    Contract All 2 3 1
    Male 2 3 1
    Female 0 0 0
    Non-affiliated workers in workplace1) All - - 51
    Nationality South Korea - - 718
    China - - 1
    Vietnam - - 1
    Others - - 0
    Percentage of foreign employees2) % - - 0.3
    1) Workers employed to work in SOOP’s workplace on a dispatch, service agreement, or contract basis
    2) Percentage of employees in management positions(managers and those in higher positions) by nationality: Korea 100%; No employees in management positions from China, Vietnam, or other nations
    *Statistical data on non-affiliated workers in the workplace, number of officers/employees by nationality, and the percentage of foreign employees have been aggregated since 2023

  • New Recruitment

    New Recruitment
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Newly recruited employees Persons 118 141 133
    Region3) Domestic 118 141 133
    International - - -
    Gender Male 81 91 90
    Female 37 50 43
    Age Under 30 70 92 71
    Less than 30 48 49 62
    More than 30~Less than 50 - - -
    Average hiring cost per person KRW 1,000 339 383 279
    3) Classification by the location of the place of business

  • Internal Recruitment

    Internal Recruitment
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Percentage of internal recruitment4) % 18.4 14.5 6.0
    4) Proportion of open positions filed with internal reassignment of employees to all open positions required to be filled with new employment

  • Resignation

    Resignation
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Total resignations Persons 72 70 58
    Voluntary resignations 68 64 50
    Gender Male 43 38 27
    Female 25 26 23
    Age Under 30 26 23 26
    Less than 30 42 40 24
    More than 30~Less than 50 - 1 -
    Employee turnover rate5) % 0.12 0.10 0.07
    5) Number of voluntary resignations/Total employees
    *[Number of voluntary resignations/Total resignations]: 94.4% in 2021, 91.4% in 2022, 86.2% in 2023

  • Female Talent

    Female Talent
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Total number of female employees Persons 166 189 205
    Total number of employees 575 645 720
    Ratio % 29 29 28
    Total number of female senior managers
    (team leader or above)    		 Persons 16 15 17
    Total number of senior managers
    (team leader or above)    		 71 89 99
    Ratio % 23 17 17
    The number of female executive officers1) Persons 4 3 2
    Total number of executive officers2) 13 13 12
    Ratio % 31 23 17
    The number of female executive officers and
    employees in IT and Technology fields3)    		 Persons - - 16
    Total number of executive officers and
    employees in IT and Technology fields4)    		 - - 121
    Ratio % - - 13
    1), 2) Based on the number of unregistered officers
    3), 4) Based on the number of R&D officers and employees in headcount in technology research institutes which has been aggregated from 2023

  • Hiring of Socially Vulnerable Individuals

    Hiring of Socially Vulnerable Individuals
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    People with disabilities Persons 8 8 5
    Percentage of people with disabilities5) % 1.4 1.2 0.7
    5) Due to the nature of SOOP’s business operations, it is prioritized to secure employees with specific skills, such as developers, and SOOP has made various efforts to hire people with disabilities by creating new positions for the people with disabilities. However, SOOP has not been able to meet the requirement for the proportion of employees with disabilities to the total number of its employees as the total number of its employees has increased rapidly every year(by about 12%)

  • Parental Leave

    Parental Leave
    Category Gender Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Total eligible employees6) Male Persons 72 71 81
    Female 22 21 25
    Employees on parental leave Male 1 2 0
    Female 7 7 13
    Employees who have returned to work Male 0 1 0
    Female 1 0 7
    Employees on working more than 12+ months after returning Male 1 1 1
    Female 3 6 2
    Percentage of employees
    returning to work7)    		 Male % - - -
    Female 25 67 88
    6) Number of employees with a child who is 8 years old or younger or in the second grade or lower at an elementary school in the relevant year, with statistics aggregated only for employees who provided information on their children
    7) Number of returnees from the parental leave in the relevant year / Total number of employees scheduled to return to work in the relevant year after using parental leave

  • Employee Training

    Employee Training
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Training costs KRW thousand 329,242 451,253 563,539
    Book printing costs 52,795 105,528 155,184
    Total training costs 382,037 556,781 718,723
    Average training cost per person 667 867 1,000
    Average training hours per person1) Hours - - 12
    Gender Male - - 12.3
    Female - - 12.4
    Employment type Full-time - - 12.4
    Contract - - 0
    *Training costs, book printing costs, and total training costs are aggregated on a consolidated basis, and average training costs and training hours per person are divided by the number of employees on a separate basis
    1) The average training time per person has been aggregated from 2023

  • Occupational Health and Safety

    Occupational Health and Safety
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Rate of absenteeism2) % 0.12 0.17 0.25
    Work-related industrial accidents Employees The number of accidents and injuries Cases 0 0 0
    Accident rate % 0 0 0
    The number of deaths Persons 0 0 0
    Business partners The number of accidents and injuries Cases 0 0 0
    Accident rate % 0 0 0
    The number of deaths Persons 0 0 0
    2) (Total number of days of sick leaves used)/(Total number of working days)*100
    *Criteria for sick leave: sick leave, recuperation leave
    **Based on the total number of working days: It is based on the total sum of the number of working days of all current officers and employees as of the end of the relevant year
*Counted based on SOOP’s headquarters in Pangyo

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions3)

    Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Scope 1 tCO₂eq 86.779 87.725 131.768
    Scope 2 275.828 296.305 289.465
    Total 362.607 384.03 421.233
    Intensity4) tCO2eq/
    KRW 100 million    		 0.1381 0.1262 0.1291
    3) There are no third-party assurance statements for greenhouse gas emissions
    4) The intensity was calculated by sales on a separate basis

  • Energy Consumption

    Energy Consumption
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Electricity TJ 5.369 5.747 5.617
    Heat(steam) 0.526 0.575 0.558
    Oil 1.284 1.296 1.943
    Total amount of usage5) 7.178 7.618 8.119
    Intensity6) TJ/KRW 100 million 0.0027 0.0025 0.0025
    5) The figures for 2021 and 2022 changed due to the inclusion of oil in the calculation of the amount of energy usage
    6) The intensity was calculated by sales on a separate basis

  • Water Usage

    Water Usage
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Amount of water usage m³ 1532 1748.65 1873
    Amount of water withdrawal7) - - - -
    ㄴ Tap water m³ 1532 1748.65 1873
    Percentage of water consumption in high water stress areas % N/A N/A N/A
    7) The volume of intake is the same as the volume consumed

  • Waste Disposal

    Waste Disposal
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Total amount of general wastes8) kg 127.8 127.8 136.3
    Method of disposal Incineration 127.8 127.8 136.3
    Landfill - - -
    Recycling - - -
    8) Since it is not possible to measure the amount of wastes discharged by building tenants or waste type, it was calculated by
    considering SOOP’s share of the wastes(waste woods) generated from places of business of the entire building, and all of such wastes were incinerated
*Counted based on SOOP’s headquarters in Pangyo

  • Ownership Structure

    (As of Dec. 31, 2023)
    Ownership Structure
    Shareholder Number of Shares Value
    (KRW 1,000)    		 Ownership(%)
    Saint International Co., Ltd. 2,961,109 1,480,554 25.8
    National Pension Service 773,311 386,655 6.7
    Other Specially Related Persons 66,3521) 33,176 0.6
    Treasury Stock 771,351 385,675 6.7
    Others 6,922,644 3,461,324 60.2
    Total 11,494,767 5,747,384 100.0
    1) Including ESOP(Employee Stock Ownership Plan)

  • Stock Ownership of Executive Directors

    (As of Dec. 31, 2023)
    Stock Ownership of Executive Directors
    Executive Directors Chan-Yong Jung Number of shares 43,755 Shares
    Multiple of base salary 5.37X

  • Ethics Trainings

    Ethics Trainings
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Ethics training for new employees Hours 118 0 0
    Ethics & human rights training 2,097 2,456 1,224
    Disability awareness improvement training 724 702 892
    Training on sexual harassment 642 678 869
    Training on workplace bullying 448 701 892

  • Hotline Report Status

    Hotline Report Status
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Total reports Cases 2 2 3
    Type of
    violation    		 Workplace bullying 2 2 2
    Sexual harassment 0 0 0
    Breach of duty / embezzlement 0 0 0
    Violation of regulations 0 0 1
    Leakage of personal information 0 0 0
    Others 0 0 0
    Actions
    results    		 Reprimand 0 1 2
    Demotion 1 0 0
    Suspension 0 0 0
    Dismissal 1 12) 1
    Firing 0 03) 0
    Others(pay cut, etc.) 0 0 0
    2), 3) Due to the misstatement of corresponding numbers in the report for the previous year, such numbers were corrected

  • Compliance, Anti-Corruption and Anti-Competitive Behavior

    Compliance, Anti-Corruption and Anti-Competitive Behavior
    Category Unit 2023
    Legal violation The number of violations Cases 0
    Amount of charges based on monetary sanctions KRW million 0
    The number of non-monetary sanctions Cases 0
    Confirmed cases of corruption and actions taken against them Total number of corruption cases detected 0
    Total number of incidents in which a member was fired or disciplined due to a detected corruption incident 0
    Total number of incidents where contracts with business partners were terminated or not renewed due to corruption-related violations 0
    Public law cases resulting from corruption cases of the organization or its members during the reporting period and the outcome of those cases 0
    Incidents of unfair trade practices, including anti-competitive behavior and monopolization, and actions taken against them The number of ongoing or completed legal actions related to anticompetitive behavior and violations of antitrust/antimonopoly laws in which the organization was involved during the reporting period 0
    Total amount of monetary losses resulting from violations of laws and regulations due to anti-competitive behavior KRW million 0

  • Distribution of Economic Values

    Distribution of Economic Values
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Streamers Commission KRW million 346,324 388,080 476,068
    Employees1) Commission 50,767 63,014 77,456
    Shareholders Dividend 8,047 7,963 9,115
    1) Sum of salaries, benefits, stock compensation expenses and retirement benefits for officers and employees on a consolidated basis

  • R&D Investment

    R&D Investment
    Category Unit 2021 2022 2023
    Wage2) KRW thousand 8,176,846 12,064,467 10,589,754
    R&D expense 14,841,897 19,503,018 18,689,235
    R&D expenses as a percentage of revenue % 5.45 6.19 5.38
    R&D personnel3) Persons 108 111 115
    Percentage of R&D personnel % 18.8 17.2 16.0
    2) Including major medical and retirement benefits
    3) Excluding assistants

  • Association Membership

    SOOP strictly prohibits donations and sponsorships for political purposes using company assets, budgets, etc. in accordance with relevant(Korean) laws and regulations, including the Political Funds Act, and its code of ethics stipulating the prevention of bribery and corruption. However, SOOP is a member of certain associations and industry associations for which political neutrality is guaranteed for the following purposes of membership.

    Association Membership
    Name of Association4) Purpose of Membership Responsible Team
    Korea Software Property-Right
    Council(SPC)    		 Fostering the software industry and protecting copyright General Affairs Team
    Korea Internet Corporations
    Association    		 Responding to congressional and government regulations and contributing to ICT industry growth External Cooperation Division
    Korea VR-AR Content
    Association    		 Elaborating and promoting the VR/AR industry, developing government project External Cooperation Division
    KOSDAQ Listed Companies
    Association    		 KOSDAQ market disclosure support and legal advice and education IR Division
    Korea Listed Companies
    Association(associate member)    		 Providing legal and accounting tax information for publicly traded companies, advising on investments and disclosures IR Division
    Korea Digital Advertising
    Association    		 Identify digital advertising industry information and trends, proactively respond to the advertising market, and create an external environment for parliament and government to regulate digital advertising Advertising Department
    4) Association spending in 2023(top three organizations’ association fees combined): KRW 14,300,000

  • 2023 Awards and Recognitions

    2023 Awards and Recognitions
    Year and Month Award Organizer
    2023.03. Selected as a ‘KOSDAQ Market Disclosure Excellent Company’ in 2022 Korea Exchange
    2023.06. Selected as an excellent information security investment company Korea Internet & Security Agency
    2023.10. Director Ji-Yeon Kim(responsible for IR) selected as the winner of the Best IRO Award Korea Investor Relations Service
    2023.11. Won the ‘ESG Management Award’ at the ‘15th Korea KOSDAQ Awards Ceremony’ KOSDAQ Listed Companies Association
    2023.12. Awarded by the Minister of Gender Equality and Family for Youth Protection Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
    2023.12. Re-selected as a certified family-friendly company in 2023 Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
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