#. A person in their 40s living in Gyeonggi Province, identified as A, had forgotten about shares in an unlisted company invested in long ago. After receiving a notice about the "intensive campaign to help find unclaimed shares," A visited the Korea Securities Depository (KSD), confirmed that the company had been listed a year ago, and recovered shares worth 2 billion won and 7 million won in dividends.
A said, "My address had changed, so without the campaign I would never have been able to find them," adding, "Now I can put it toward my child's tuition."
The Korea Securities Depository (KSD) said on the 23rd that it has wrapped up the "2025 intensive campaign to help find unclaimed shares." Through the five-week campaign from on the 1st of last month to on the 2nd of this month, it helped a total of 2,135 shareholders recover about 43.3 billion won (43.1 billion won in shares and 200 million won in proceeds).
The Korea Securities Depository (KSD) said it identified shareholders' actual residence through the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and, in cooperation with 10 listed companies, delivered shares even to long-term unclaimed shareholders who could not be notified due to real-name number errors or death.
A person in their 60s living in Seoul, identified as B, had not been receiving notices due to a real-name number error related to employee stock ownership received while working at a company in the 1980s, but was able to claim them this time.
Brothers in their 60s living in Seoul, identified as C and D, also received the notice despite having different addresses and together collected shares worth 1 billion won and about 2 million won in dividends.
An official at the Korea Securities Depository (KSD) said, "We will continue campaigns in cooperation with administrative agencies and issuers not only to recover unclaimed shares but also to protect the property rights of people in blind spots, such as heirs and shareholders with real-name number errors."