The Korea Exchange on Monday held a meeting with companies included in the Korea Value-up index, chaired by its chairman, Eunbo Jeong.

The meeting was arranged after the Korea Value-up index hit a record high, and 10 listed companies attended, including 7 from the KOSPI and 3 from the KOSDAQ.

As of Dec. 14, 65 of the 100 companies included in the Korea Value-up index had completed disclosures of their corporate value enhancement plans.

Companies attending the meeting were W Games, Dongjin Semichem, Myoung Shin Industrial, Binggrae, Samsung Electronics, LS ELECTRIC, COSMAX, Park Systems, JYP Ent., and SK Gas.

Jeong said that since the value-up index was announced last year, net asset value in 13 exchange-traded products (ETPs) exceeded 1 trillion won as of the end of November this year. He said the share of foreign trading value also expanded sharply to 24.8 percent from 7.8 percent at launch. Jeong said interest in the value-up programme is rising quickly among the market and investors.

Assets in value-up ETPs increased to 1.15 trillion won as of the end of November 2025 from 511.0 billion won at the time of listing in November 2024.

Jeong said value-up disclosures are an important channel to ease information asymmetry and communicate with shareholders in a systematic and effective way. He said he hopes index constituent companies will take a leading role in participating in value-up disclosures to meet market expectations.

Companies attending the meeting said they are pursuing active shareholder returns and profitability improvements, and are also reviewing value-up disclosures.

Some companies, however, are conducting internal reviews of how institutional changes such as amendments to the Commercial Act could affect management, and plan to flesh out their corporate value enhancement plans after finalising their year-end results.

The Korea Exchange said that under its plan to build the index in phases centred on companies that make disclosures, it will from the regular review in June 2026 compose the index mainly of companies that disclose and implement corporate value enhancement plans.