Sustainability Leadership

Leading Global Sustainable
Management

KT, as a globally responsible telecom company, is promoting sustainable management across the company to create a sustainable future for humanity as demonstrated by its international partnership with the UN Global Compact and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. KT’s innovative activities and performances in economic·environmental·social aspect have been highly praised by the world renowned sustainability assessment indexes such as DISI and CDP, which has established the company as a global telecom service provider.

  • Implementing UN Sustainable Development Goals
    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
    • MediaUN SDG
      Secure quality of education
    • Smart EnergyUN SDG
      Sustainable energies
    • Improveb
      Corporate·Public
      Values      UN SDG
      Infrastructure and
      industrialization
    • Financial
      Transaction      UN SDG
      Economic growth and jobs
    • Disaster·SafetyUN SDG
      Sustainable cities

    UN Sustainable Development Goals are the UN’s 17 mid- to long-term development objectives to solve global economic·environmental·social issues during the period from 2016 to 2030. KT actively supports and participates in the UN Sustainable Development Goals of making life on Earth better by providing GiGA infrastructure and innovative technology·services. To realize the new UN sustainable plan, the company is committed to achieving those core objectives closely related to telecom business.

  • Officially Signing and Endorsing the UN Global Compact
    THE GLOBAL COMPACT
    • Human RightsRespect human rights, prevent human
      rights violations
    • LaborGuarantee freedom of association,
      eliminate forced labor Abolish child
      labor, prohibit discrimination
    • EnvironmentProtect environment, increase
      environmental responsibility, develop
      eco-friendly technologies
    • Anti-corruptionOppose all types of corruption

    KT joined the UN Global Compact, an international treaty on social responsibility in 2008 to take on the roles and responsibilities of a responsible corporate citizen. The company actively practices 10 principles in the 4 areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption and secured policy basis by establishing new ethical management principles, human rights policy, and environmental management policy. We are spreading the principles of UN Global Compact across the company and value chain and creating common social value.

  • Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Global Top-tier
    MEMBER OF Dow Jones Sustainability Indices In Collaboration with RobecoSAM
    • 2009Admitted to DJSI Asia-Pacific
      (Initially)
    • 2010Admitted to DJSI World
      (top 10% in world telecom industry)
    • 2013Selected as a DJSI Industry Leader for
      3 consecutive years
      (World No. 1 in telecom industry)
    • 2016Selected to DJSI Gold Class
      (top 1% in world telecom industry)

    KT joined the world renowned DJSI assessment in 2009, which evaluates internal and external sustainable management capabilities and promotes internal improvement. Since 2010 when KT was first selected to participate in DJSI World, the company has gained the best evaluation result every year through continuous system improvement and sustainable management. It was selected as the global no. 1 telecom company for 3 consecutive years from 2011 to 2013, which enhanced its position as an industry leader. DJSI is an investment index and assessment model developed by Dow Jones & Company, an American financial information and publishing firm, and RobecoSAM, a Swiss investment company, and evaluates the world’s top 2,500 market cap companies in terms of economic, environmental and social sustainability every year.

  • Awarded Honors Club in Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
    CDP(DRIVING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMISES)
    • 2008Participated in CDP
      (Initially)
    • 2013Initially awarded the carbon
      management honors club
      (World No. 1 in telecom industry)
    • 2015Awarded the carbon management
      honors club for 3 consecutive years
      (World No. 1 in telecom industry)
    • 2016Awarded the carbon management
      honors club for 4 consecutive years
      (World No. 1 in telecom industry)

    KT has promoted companywide environmental management based on environmental management policy and worked to make the telecom industry eco-friendly since 2008 by participating in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) annually. CDP is the most-credible environmental management index for global companies which comprehensively assesses climate change response level, carbon management capabilities and carbon emissions. The company was selected as the No. 1 global telecom company with 100 points out of 100 scale in carbon disclosure for 2016, which recognized its effort to promote eco-friendly management and its outcome during the period.