South Korea joins the jurisdictions mapping out how global sustainability standards could enter national reporting rules.
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has announced a major expansion of its English-language electronic disclosure system (DART) to improve accessibility for foreign investors.
At the start of July, the Korean Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced that, from 2025, KOSPI- and KOSDAQ-listed financial companies with assets exceeding KRW 10 trillion must adopt XBRL for their financial disclosures. In their 2025 semi-annual reports, these companies will be required to tag the financial statements notes in XBRL.
With South Korea expanding the scope of XBRL tagging to include the notes to accounts, FNN news recently interviewed Hyeong-nam Lee, Director of Deloitte’s XBRL Center, about their experiences with the standard.
Recent developments in Korea include a shift in mandatory sustainability-related disclosure timelines.
South Korean authorities are set to tackle the country’s valuation gap with a comprehensive set of reforms that aim to enhance the visibility and attractiveness of Korea’s public markets.
A few weeks ago we reported that the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) in Korea was looking to increase the scope of XBRL in financial disclosure to align with global standards and improve market transparency. On 30 March, these plans were finalised.
South Korea’s financial regulator, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), has announced that it is considering phasing in mandatory XBRL disclosure and expanding the scope of XBRL to also tagging financial statement annotations and notes.
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