Hancom sold its equity in HANCOM InSpace for 31.9 billion won. The company plans to use the funds secured from the equity sale to expand its global business.
Hancom said on the 18th it sold 3,094,234 shares of HANCOM InSpace it held (equity ratio 26.08%). The acquisition price per share was 3,516 won, and the disposal price per share was 10,317 won.
With this sale, Hancom secured 31.9 billion won. It recorded an investment return of 269.87% compared with the total investment of 8.63 billion won. A company official said, "About six years after HANCOM InSpace was consolidated in 2020, we have realized investment performance and secured funds for future growth investments."
Hancom also plans to sell, on the same terms, 719,442 shares of equity (equity ratio 6.2%) held by its affiliate Hancom WITH.
Hancom plans to use the cash secured this time to accelerate entry into overseas markets and expand its global customer base. Through operating a global beta service, expanding overseas partnerships, and discovering local customers, it plans to secure a global customer base for the Agentic operating system (OS).
The Agentic OS is a platform that supports operating AI agents by connecting internal organizational data, external AI models, and work systems, and is a core business in Hancom's ongoing AI transformation strategy.
In the course of this sale, Hancom also decided to support HANCOM InSpace's future growth and push for an initial public offering (IPO), and to make an employee stock ownership contribution to encourage employees who contributed to technology development.
Hancom CEO Kim Yeon-su said, "We will focus the secured funds on acquiring global customers for the Agentic OS and generate tangible sales and results in overseas markets."