Follow the Cash: When Raised Capital Doesn't Move
On 18 September 2026, a KOSDAQ-listed company called Satoshi Holdings (223310) filed an amendment to a disclosure it had already made. The placement itself stayed recognisable: 5,509,745 new shares to a single investment partnership at KRW 2,668 per share, KRW 14.7bn in total, locked up at the Korea Securities Depository for one year. What the amendment changed was the table underneath. Working capital fell from KRW 3,999,999,660 to KRW 2,999,999,660. Debt repayment rose from KRW 10,700,000,000 to KRW 11,700,000,000. And the list of debts being repaid gained an entry: the company's 13th-series convertible bond, held by an investment partnership. Eight days before that, on 10 September, the same company had disclosed something that makes the amendment legible. It was buying back, early, a KRW 7.0bn private convertible bond — its 12th series, issued on 9 March 2026 with a maturity of 9 March 2029. The buyback price, principal plus interest, was KRW 7,000,649,003. The disclosure nam...