KT Skylife said on the 9th that it posted an operating loss of 11.58 billion won on a consolidation financial statements basis for the fourth quarter of 2025, with the operating loss increasing 105.6% from a year earlier. Revenue was 248.178 billion won, down 3.8% year over year.
An industry official said, "There was an aftereffect from lower revenue due to the slump in the advertising and home shopping markets and the winding down of the home appliance installment business, and the deficit seems to have widened as subscriber acquisition expense increased in the budget mobile communications and TV institutional sector."
Full-year revenue on a consolidation basis was 984.2 billion won, down 3.8% from the previous year (1.0222 trillion won). Last year's operating profit was 23 billion won, turning to the black unlike 2024, when it recorded an operating loss of 1.1 billion won.
The company said the rapid expansion of subscribers to the internet-based TV service "ipit TV" drove the turnaround to profit. Launched in July last year, ipit TV surpassed 124,000 cumulative retained subscribers in six months, with a net increase of 71,000 in the fourth quarter alone. As a result, the total number of skyTV subscribers, combining satellite broadcasting and ipit TV, also turned to net growth.
KT Skylife said that with ipit TV taking hold, both subscriber scale and profitability improved together, and it plans to accelerate service upgrades and strengthen product competitiveness to sustain growth.