DI Dongil will pay stock dividends.
According to the Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure system on the 19th, DI Dongil decided through a board resolution to pay stock dividends for 2025. The record date for dividends is Dec. 31, and shareholders who hold the stock through that date will receive 0.05 share per share.
A DI Dongil official said, "This stock dividends decision goes beyond a short-term share price boost and was made to strengthen the sustainability of shareholder returns and enhance shareholder value over the mid to long term," adding, "Even in a challenging internal and external business environment, we valued our relationship of trust with shareholders in making this decision."
Meanwhile, DI Dongil was previously targeted by a stock manipulation ring. The financial authorities said in September that they are investigating allegations that wealthy individuals such as hospital directors and academy directors, in collusion with employees of financial firms, carried out stock manipulation worth 100 billion won and pocketed 40 billion won in illicit gains over 1 year and 9 months.
During this process, DI Dongil became linked to an activist fund, triggering a management control dispute. The market sees the situation as stock manipulation forces filing lawsuits to make it look like a dispute exists and using that as grounds to demand shareholder returns.