6-K 1 d926039d6k.htm FORM 6-K

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of May 2020

Commission File Number 1-14926

KT Corporation

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

90, Buljeong-ro,

Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si,

Gyeonggi-do,

Korea

(Address of principal executive offices)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Dated: |  | May 13, 2020
KT Corporation
By: |  | /s/ Seunghoon Chi
Name: |  | Seunghoon Chi
Title: |  | Vice President
By: |  | /s/ Youngkyoon Yun
Name: |  | Youngkyoon Yun
Title: |  | Director

KT 1Q20 Earnings Release

Disclaimer This presentation has been prepared by KT Corp.(the “Company”) in accordance with K-IFRS. This presentation contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. This presentation is being presented solely for your information and is subject to change without notice. No presentation or warranty, expressed or implied, is made and no reliance should be placed on the accuracy, actuality, fairness, or completeness of the information presented. The Company has applied new accounting standard of K-IFRS 1115 as of Jan 1st, 2018 and K-IFRS 1116 ‘Leases’ as of Jan 1st, 2019. There are no obligation to apply the new standard to previous financial statements. The Company, its affiliates or representatives accept no liability whatsoever for any losses arising from any information contained in the presentation. This presentation does not constitute an offer or invitation to purchase or subscribe for any shares of the Company, and no part of this presentation shall form the Basis of or be relied upon in connection with any contract or commitment. Any decision to purchase shares of the Company could be made solely on the Basis of information, which has been publicly filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Korea Stock Exchange and distributed to all investors. The contents of this presentation may not be reproduced, redistributed or passed on, directly or indirectly, to any other person or published, in whole or in part, for any purpose. If you have any related questions to this material, please contact IR department. Tel : +82-2-3495-3557, 3254, 3564, 5344 Fax : +82-2-3495-5917 2

2 Business Overview 3 Appendix 3

1 Sales Classification Change • Renewed sales classification for effective communication—AI and B2B related business are newly defined from KT sales—Subsidiaries’ business record is classified from the collective sales performance As-is To-be Wireless Wireless Wireless Broadband Telephony B2C IPTV Fixed Line Broadband Telephony Line lease KT Line lease, B2B Broadband, etc. Media Media & B2B B2B IT/Solution Contents Contents AI/DX Finance BC card, etc. Real estate Devices Wired/Wireless Devices IT/Solution Others Real estate BC card Skylife Others Subsidiaries Contents subsidiaries Devices KT Estate Merchandise Construction, etc. Others 4

K-IFRS / Consolidated 2 Income Statement • Although COVID-19, Wireless, Media and B2B biz have grown, raising service revenue by +1.0% YoY • Operating Income down by -4.7% due to subsidiaries’ lowered contributions—Operating income: KRW 296.6 billion (YoY +1.1%), KT standalone—Subsidiary operating income contributed: KRW 83.5 billion (YoY -21.5%) (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 QoQ YoY Operating Revenue 5,834.4 6,098.5 6,213.7 6,195.5 5,831.7 -5.9% 0.0% Service Revenue 5,055.5 5,225.2 5,199.6 5,289.8 5,107.0 -3.5% 1.0% Handset Revenue 778.9 873.3 1,014.1 905.7 724.7 -20.0% -6.9% Operating Expense 5,432.3 5,810.3 5,901.2 6,047.2 5,448.6 -9.9% 0.3% Operating Income 402.1 288.2 312.5 148.3 383.1 158.4% -4.7% Margin 6.9% 4.7% 5.0% 2.4% 6.6% 4.2%p -0.3%p Deficit Deficit Non-op. Income/Loss -4.4 -4.7 -42.2 -120.2 -15.9 Decreased Increased Income before taxes 397.7 283.6 270.3 28.1 367.2 1,207.4% -7.7% Net Income 259.8 203.0 213.3 -6.8 226.6 TB -12.8% Margin 4.5% 3.3% 3.4% -0.1% 3.9% 4.0%p -0.6%p EBITDA 1,309.5 1,191.3 1,209.8 1,079.3 1,295.8 20.1% -1.0% Margin 22.4% 19.5% 19.5% 17.4% 22.2% 4.8%p -0.2%p 5

K-IFRS / Consolidated 3 Operating Expenses (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 QoQ YoY Operating Expenses 5,432.3 5,810.3 5,901.2 6,047.2 5,448.6 -9.9% 0.3% Labor Cost 983.8 1,006.1 959.4 1,001.8 1,003.9 0.2% 2.0% General Expense 2,327.1 2,459.3 2,433.5 2,579.7 2,259.5 -12.4% -2.9%—Depreciation 907.4 903.0 897.4 931.0 912.7 -2.0% 0.6% Cost of Service Provided 685.6 711.7 759.1 798.9 759.2 -5.0% 10.7% Selling Expense 572.2 613.9 592.3 499.5 551.6 10.4% -3.6% Cost of Handset sold 863.6 1,019.3 1,156.9 1,167.3 874.4 -25.1% 1.3% ï,§ Selling Expense (KT Separate) (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 QoQ YoY Selling Expense 581.0 612.4 620.3 566.0 575.8 1.7% -0.9% ? Membership points used in FY19 are deducted from selling expense in 4Q19. 6

K-IFRS / Consolidated 4 Financial Position (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q 19 4Q 19 1Q 20 QoQ YoY Assets 33,247.8 34,061.3 32,631.0 -4.2% -1.9% Cash & Cash Equivalents 2,765.0 2,305.9 1,627.1 -29.4% -41.2% Liabilities 18,509.4 18,874.3 17,559.4 -7.0% -5.1% Borrowings 6,790.1 7,298.9 7,286.9 -0.2% 7.3% Equity 14,738.5 15,187.0 15,071.6 -0.8% 2.3% Capital Stock 1,564.5 1,564.5 1,564.5 0.0% 0.0% Net Debt 4,025.1 4,993.0 5,659.8 13.4% 40.6% Debt / Equity 125.6% 124.3% 116.5% -7.8%p -9.1%p Net Debt / Equity 27.3% 32.9% 37.6% 4.7%p 10.2%p 123.1% 125.6% 123.1% 121.0% 124.3% 108.6% 118.5% 116.5% Debt/Equity Net Debt/Equity 32.9% 37.6% 30.2% 26.8% 27.3% 26.7% 28.1% 24.8% 2Q 18 3Q 18 4Q 18 1Q 19 2Q 19 3Q 19 4Q 19 1Q 20 7

K-IFRS / Separate 5 CAPEX • 2020 CAPEX guidance as 3.1 trillion won and executed 406.9bn won in 1Q20 (13.1%)—Access Network 225.7bn, Backbone Network 55.1bn, B2B communications 77.4bn, others 48.7bn (Unit: KRW bn) 3,711 Access Network 3,313 3,257 Backbone Network B2B Others 2,514 2,397 2,359 2,475 2,250 1,870 1,977 2,199 1,362 1,133 1,316 1,196 1,035 466 476 452 428 241 492 497 408 448 261 394 517 407 367 736 362 298 305 499 330 227 258 259 284 189 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 1Q20 8

Business Overview Appendix 9

/ Separate 1 KT—Wireless â^™ Wireless service revenue up by +2.2% YoY on net addition of MNO subscribers and its ARPU increase â^™ Number of total 5G subscribers as 1.78 million (13% of Handset subscribers) in 1Q20 (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 QoQ YoY Wireless 1,702.8 1,712.5 1,726.4 1,705.4 1,735.7 1.8% 1.9% Service 1,596.9 1,612.7 1,626.0 1,607.1 1,632.4 1.6% 2.2% Interconnection 105.9 99.7 100.4 98.3 103.3 5.1% -2.5% Subscribers 21,549 21,771 21,922 21,975 20,920 21,120 21,333 20,378 20,662 (Unit: Thousands) 419 1,419 1,778 1,055 14,090 14,124 14,165 14,232 13,968 13,993 14,049 13,918 13,952 (5G included) (5G included) (5G included) (5G included) 3,254 3,416 3,529 3,691 3,856 3,985 4,100 2,877 3,065 3,584 3,644 3,698 3,711 3,755 3,768 3,792 3,772 3,643 1Q18 2Q18 3Q18 4Q18 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 MVNO 2nd Device/IoT Handset 5G 10

K-IFRS / Separate 2 KT – Fixed Line/IPTV â^™ Broadband revenue up by +0.5% YoY on GiGA subscriber increase â^™ IPTV revenue went up by +11.9% on high-ARPU customers and platform revenue increase (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 QoQ YoY Telephony 400.6 400.4 397.0 382.5 372.5 -2.6% -7.0% Broadband 500.0 503.0 500.3 498.8 502.5 0.7% 0.5% IPTV 373.2 405.7 410.4 410.2 417.7 1.8% 11.9% Broadband Subscriber IPTV Subscriber (Unit: Thousands) (Unit: Thousands) 8,849 8,904 8,962 8,962 8,698 8,729 8,782 8,351 8,422 8,653 8,659 8,113 8,229 7,851 7,966 7,672 7,775 7,573 61.0% 62.1% 59.0% 60.1% 54.2% 56.0% 57.6% 51.9% 48.9% 1Q18 2Q18 3Q18 4Q18 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 1Q18 2Q18 3Q18 4Q18 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 Subscribers % of GiGA ? Number of IPTV subscribers above deviates from MSIT’s released figure below following IPTV law—Number of KT pay TV subscriber is 7,081,177 in 1H 2019 (6 month average) 11

K-IFRS / Separate 3 KT – B2B and others â^™ B2B sales up by +8.2% YoY on continuous IDC business growth and expansion of Cloud business toward public and finance sector (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 QoQ YoY B2B 623.4 684.8 684.9 725.9 674.8 -7.1% 8.2% B2B Fixed Line 263.0 266.1 266.2 268.9 267.5 -0.5% 1.7% B2B IT/Solution 253.2 298.6 294.2 316.2 269.5 -14.8% 6.4% AI/DX 107.2 120.1 124.6 140.8 137.8 -2.2% 28.5% Real estate 45.3 44.9 46.8 45.6 45.8 0.4% 1.2% Handset revenue 688.9 807.3 939.8 837.8 680.1 -18.8% -1.3% [B2B Sales] B2B IT/Solution 39.9% B2B Fixed Line Line lease, Kornet B2B IT/Solution SI, Global ICT, Energy, Video security, etc. B2B Fixed Line AI/DX IDC, Cloud, bizmeka, AI Platform, AI/DX 39.6% 20.4% Block chain, Smart mobility, etc. 12

4 Major subsidiaries • BC card’s revenue down by -7.7% due to decreased transactions of credit card usage under COVID-19 outbreak • Skylife underperformed its revenue by -1.6% YoY due to the decrease of satellite broadcasting subscribers • Contents subsidiaries’ revenue surged by +12.0% YoY with substantial growth in T-Commerce biz and steady increase in Genie Music subscribers Sales Revenue (Unit: KRW bn) 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 QoQ YoY BC card 865.7 880.6 868.8 921.4 799.4 -13.2% -7.7% Skylife 170.7 174.2 182.3 167.4 167.9 0.3% -1.6% Contents 158.8 177.6 178.7 189.1 177.9 -5.9% 12.0% subsidiaries KT estate 116.4 113.4 125.6 129.8 106.7 -17.8% -8.4% 114.7 Operating Income contributed 105.6 97.1 (Unit: KRW bn) 94.4 by subsidiaries in total 83.5 1Q19 2Q19 3Q19 4Q19 1Q20 13

2 Business Overview 3 Appendix 14

1 K-IFRS Income Statement (Unit: KRW bn) Consolidated 1Q 19 2Q 19 3Q 19 4Q 19 2019 1Q 20 KT Separate 1Q 19 2Q 19 3Q 19 4Q 19 2019 1Q 20 Operating revenue 5,834.4 6,098.5 6,213.7 6,195.5 24,342.1 5,831.7 Operating revenue 4,334.3 4,558.5 4,705.7 4,606.2 18,204.7 4,429.1 Service revenue 5,055.5 5,225.2 5,199.6 5,289.8 20,770.0 5,107.0 Service revenue 3,645.4 3,751.3 3,765.9 3,768.5 14,931.0 3,749.0 Device revenue 778.9 873.3 1,014.1 905.7 3,572.0 724.7 Device revenue 688.9 807.3 939.8 837.8 3,273.7 680.1 Operating expense 5,432.3 5,810.3 5,901.2 6,047.2 23,191.0 5,448.6 Operating expense 4,037.8 4,367.4 4,508.0 4,552.3 17,465.5 4,129.5 Service expense 4,568.7 4,791.0 4,744.3 4,879.9 18,983.9 4,574.2 Service expense 3,325.3 3,493.6 3,504.9 3,551.7 13,875.5 3,368.7 Labor cost 983.8 1,006.1 959.4 1,001.8 3,951.1 1,003.9 Labor cost 543.6 573.7 528.5 537.5 2,183.2 555.1 General expense 2,327.1 2,459.3 2,433.5 2,579.7 9,799.6 2,259.5 General expense 1,595.7 1,671.8 1,690.7 1,800.3 6,758.4 1,613.3 Cost of svc provided 685.6 711.7 759.1 798.9 2,955.3 759.2 Cost of svc provided 588.1 618.4 649.0 688.2 2,543.6 608.9 Selling expense 572.2 613.9 592.3 499.5 2,277.9 551.6 Selling expense 598.0 629.7 636.7 525.7 2,390.2 591.4 Cost of device sold 863.6 1,0193 1,156.9 1,167.3 4,207.1 874.4 Cost of device sold 712.5 873.8 1,003.1 1,000.6 3,590.1 760.8 Operating income 402.1 288.2 312.5 148.3 1,151.1 383.1 Operating income 296.4 191.1 197.7 53.9 739.2 299.6 N-OP income (loss) -4.4 -4.7 -42.2 -120.2 -171.4 -15.9 N-OP income (loss) 100.7 -1.8 -99.5 -112.0 -112.6 134.2 N-OP income 181.5 199.2 208.4 94.7 683.8 290.5 N-OP income 271.7 179.4 195.2 60.1 706.4 389.0 N-OP expense 186.5 199.1 252.3 214.0 851.9 302.9 N-OP expense 170.9 181.2 294.7 172.2 819.0 254.8 Equity Method (G/L) 0.7 -4.8 1.7 -0.9 -3.3 -3.5 Income bf tax 397.7 283.6 270.3 28.1 979.7 367.2 Income bf tax 397.2 189.4 98.2 -58.1 626.6 433.8 Income tax 138.0 80.5 57.0 34.9 310.4 140.6 Income tax 104.5 49.7 25.8 14.8 194.8 113.8 Income from con. op 259.8 203.0 213.3 -6.8 669.3 226.6 Income from disc. op 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Net income 259.8 203.0 213.3 -6.8 669.3 226.6 Net income 292.6 139.7 72.4 -72.9 431.8 320.0 NI contribution to KT 231.1 173.9 189.7 24.4 619.2 208.3 EBITDA 1,309.5 1,191.3 1,209.8 1,079.3 4,790.0 1,295.8 EBITDA 1,108.1 997.7 999.3 872.6 3,977.8 1,113.5 EBITDA Margin 22.4% 19.5% 19.5% 17.4% 19.7% 22.2% EBITDA Margin 25.6% 21.9% 21.2% 18.9% 21.9% 25.1% 15

2K-IFRS Balance Sheet (Unit: KRW bn) Consolidated 1Q 19 2Q 19 3Q 19 4Q 19 1Q 20 KT Separate 1Q 19 2Q 19 3Q 19 4Q 19 1Q 20 Assets 33,247.8 33,469.4 33,661.3 34,061.3 32,631.0 Assets 26,837.7 26,959.8 27,076.4 27,733.9 27,069.1 Current assets 12,396.1 11,818.3 11,716.7 11,725.1 10,887.2 Current assets 7,307.3 7,052.4 6,961.4 7,113.2 6,884.5 Cash & cash equi. 2,765.0 2,250.1 2,128.4 2,305.9 1,627.1 Cash & cash equi. 1,750.1 1,394.9 1,189.2 1,328.4 754.0 Trade & other rec 4,129.5 4,364.8 4,108.2 3,931.5 4,121.3 Trade & other rec 3,357.8 3,451.0 3,300.9 3,108.0 3,490.2 Inventories 646.4 607.6 636.2 665.5 634.7 Inventories 446.4 404.8 437.6 477.1 439.4 Other current asset 4,855.2 4,595.7 4,843.9 4,822.2 4,504.1 Other current asset 1,753.1 1,801.7 2,033.7 2,199.7 2,200.8 -Prepaid_Contractcost 1,106.3 1,165.2 1,318.5 1,389.5 1,362.5 -Prepaid_Contractcost 1,134.5 1,210.6 1,368.1 1,432.1 1,408.2 -Contract assets 330.9 377.8 430.6 409.8 393.7 -Contract assets 300.2 339.1 384.4 382.2 359.2 Non-current assets 20,851.8 21,651.1 21,944.6 22,336.2 21,743.8 Non-current assets 19,530.4 19,907.4 20,115.0 20,620.6 20,184.6 Trade & other rec 690.4 867.9 943.6 1,238.0 996.7 Trade & other rec 641.7 806.4 888.0 1,186.5 954.4 Tangible assets 12,811.1 13,192.8 13,349.7 13,785.3 13,497.4 Tangible assets 10,656.7 10,914.5 11,092.4 11,448.0 11,284.6 Other current assets 7,350.3 7,590.4 7,651.3 7,312.9 7,249.7 Other current assets 8,232.0 8,186.5 8,134.5 7,986.2 7,945.7 -Prepaid_Contractcost 364.4 403.5 460.3 459.8 461.3 -Prepaid_Contractcost 351.4 398.9 457.0 444.2 448.8 -Contract assets 94.1 111.3 126.5 147.3 147.2 -Contract assets 84.0 101.4 112.5 95.8 93.6 Liabilities 18,509.4 18,464.8 18,430.1 18,874.3 17,559.4 Liabilities 14,099.7 14,076.5 14,122.0 14,837.2 14,133.3 Current liabilities 9,926.8 9,908.1 9,973.8 10,074.9 9,171.5 Current liabilities 6,283.8 6,238.7 6,471.1 6,728.1 6,486.4 Trade & other payables 7,264.0 7,980.9 7,709.7 7,597.5 6,524.1 Trade & other payables 4,472.4 5,118.4 5,006.4 5,025.7 4,560.1 Short-term borrowings 1,149.0 583.6 915.7 1,185.7 1,271.3 Short-term borrowings 948.5 380.4 744.7 1,052.5 1,168.5 Others 1,513.8 1,343.6 1,348.4 1,291.7 1,376.2 Others 862.9 739.9 720.0 649.9 757.8 -Contract liabilities 302.9 304.4 304.1 313.6 314.6 -Contract liabilities 302.1 306.7 304.2 314.5 316.7 Non-current liabilities 8,582.5 8,556.7 8,456.4 8,799.5 8,387.9 Non-current liabilities 7,815.9 7,837.8 7,650.9 8,109.1 7,646.9 Trade & other payables 1,132.7 1,110.0 1,125.6 1,082.2 801.7 Trade & other payables 1,524.9 1,476.1 1,454.2 1,371.5 1,061.2 Long-term borrowings 5,641.1 5,673.2 5,492.6 6,113.1 6,015.6 Long-term borrowings 5,502.7 5,549.0 5,371.1 5,975.5 5,854.5 Others 1,808.7 1,773.5 1,838.2 1,604.1 1,570.6 Others 788.3 812.6 825.6 762.1 731.1 -Contract liabilities 44.3 42.7 45.0 52.0 58.5 -Contract liabilities 41.4 40.1 42.4 49.1 55.5 Equity 14,738.5 15,004.6 15,231.1 15,187.0 15,071.6 Equity 12,738.0 12,883.3 12,954.3 12,896.7 12,935.8 Retained earnings 11,269.5 11,438.9 11,627.4 11,637.2 11,575.1 Retained earnings 10,741.7 10,880.2 10,952.9 10,870.0 10,919.6 16

3 Subscribers Wireless 1Q 19 2Q 19 3Q 19 4Q 19 1Q 20 QoQ YoYSubscribers (Unit: Thousands)1)Total 21,333 21,549 21,771 21,922 21,975 0.2% 3.0% Net additions 213 216 222 150 53 -64.8% -75.2% Gross additions 1,181 1,133 1,077 1,067 928 -13.0% -21.4% Deactivation2) 968 917 855 917 875 -4.5% -9.6% Churn rate 1.5% 1.4% 1.3% 1.4% 1.3% -0.1%p -0.2%pLTE 17,393 17,383 17,169 17,153 17,033 -0.7% -2.1%5G 419 1,055 1,419 1,779 25.3% -LTE+5G Penetration rate 81.5% 82.6% 83.7% 84.7% 85.6% 0.9%p 4.1%pARPU (KRW)3) 31,490 31,727 31,906 31,341 31,773 1.4% 0.9%Note 1) Subscribers: MSIT’s new guidelines for subscriber disclosure (Retroactively applied from 1Q14, MVNO included) Note 2) Deactivation: Mandatory deactivation included Note 3) ARPU = Wireless revenue* / Wireless subscribers*** Wireless revenue(3G, LTE, 5G, IoT included): Revenue of Voice and Data usage (Interconnection/Subscription fee excluded), VAS, Contract/ Bundled Discounts, and etc. included** Wireless subscribers: Based on MSIT’s guidelines for average billed subscribers in quarterFixed Line/IPTV 1Q 19 2Q 19 3Q 19 4Q 19 1Q 20 QoQ YoYSubscribers (Unit: Thousands)Telephony 14,830 14,554 14,386 14,185 14,033 -1.1% -5.4% PSTN 11,489 11,343 11,192 11,052 10,898 -1.4% -5.1% VoIP 3,340 3,211 3,194 3,133 3,135 0.1% -6.1% Broadband 8,782 8,849 8,904 8,962 8,962 0.0% 2.1% IPTV (OTV+OTS) 7,966 8,113 8,229 8,351 8,422 0.8% 5.7% Number of IPTV subscribers above deviates from MSIT’s released figure below following IPTV law- Number of KT pay TV subscriber is 7,081,177 in 1H 2019 (6 month average