KT Corporation (NYSE:KT) Q2 2022 Results Conference Call August 10, 2022 2:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Seung Hoon Chi - Investor Relations Officer
Young Jin Kim - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Joonsop Kim - KB Securities
Hoi Jae Kim - Daishin Securities
Seyon Park - Morgan Stanley
Operator
Good morning, and good evening. Thank you all for joining this conference call. And now we will begin the conference of the 2022 second quarter earnings results by KT.
We would like to have welcoming remarks from Mr. Seung-Hoon Chi, KT IRO; and then Mr. Young Jin Kim, CFO, will present earnings results and entertain your questions.
[Operator Instructions] Now we would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Seung-Hoon Chi, KT IRO.
Seung-Hoon Chi
Good afternoon. I am Seung-Hoon Chi, KT's IRO. Let us begin KT's Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Presentation. This earnings release call is being webcast live on our website, and you can follow the slides as you listen in on the call.
Before we begin, please note that today's presentation includes financial estimates and operating results under the K-IFRS standards that have not yet been reviewed by an outside auditor. As we cannot ensure accuracy and completeness of financial and business data, aside from historical performances, please be reminded that these figures may be subject to changes.
With that, I will hand it over to our CFO, Young Jin Kim, to present on Q2 '22 earnings.
Young Jin Kim
Good afternoon. I am KT's CFO, Young Jin Kim. Let me begin with KT's key highlights for Q2 2022.
In 2022, the second quarter, we firmly established the group's portfolio around growth businesses with a successful transition to a digital platform company and the ramping up of our business portfolio around finance, media and content and real estate businesses.
2022 marks the third year since the pledge as a DIGICO, achieving record high performance of first half consolidated operating revenue of KRW12,589.9 billion as we successfully broadened the playing field.
In the B2B business, we are leading the market, catering to corporate demand for DX or digital transformation, leveraging our core DX technologies and the biggest fixed and wireless infrastructure that we have in Korea. By offering differentiated services for each customer segment and by bringing AI, big data and cloud capabilities to our existing businesses to drive digital transformation, we plan to further power growth of these services.