Article 26(Business Affairs) #
(1) KAMCO shall perform the following business affairs to achieve the purpose of this Act:
1. The following business affairs to efficiently dispose of non-performing assets:
(a) Undertaking the preservation and collection (including all acts related to auctions, litigation, etc. under the Civil Procedure Act and the Civil Execution Act; hereinafter the same shall apply) of non-performing loans, and acquisition and disposal thereof;
(b) Purchasing non-performing loans and acquiring equity securities following the swapping of such non-performing loans for equity;
(c) Acquiring bonds or securities issued by a special purpose company, etc. under Article 3 (1) of the Asset-Backed Securitization Act;
(d) Lending money to a corporation whose equity securities have been acquired under item (b) or in which investments have been made under subparagraph 4 (d) (hereinafter referred to as "invested corporation") and providing a payment guarantee within a limit of 500/100 of the sum of the paid-in capital, revenue reserve, and reserve for business expansion of KAMCO, as prescribed by Presidential Decree;
(e) Providing financial support, including the deferred payment sale of the assets (including collateral) acquired by KAMCO to purchasers; ensuring the management normalization of the debtors of the non-performing loans acquired; lending and managing money necessary for the efficient disposal of non-performing assets such as the preservation of and increase in the value of collateral; and providing a payment guarantee within a limit specified in item (d) (excluding a payment guarantee with regard to the principal of and interest on loans);
(f) Preserving and collecting non-performing loans and investigating property owned by persons related to debts;
(g) Providing counseling services on, and conducting business affairs by proxy related to, the disposal of overseas non-performing assets and other matters; and making contributions to or investments in companies, etc. prescribed by Presidential Decree for the purpose of investing in overseas non-performing assets;
2. The following business affairs to support the management normalization of enterprises showing signs of insolvency and restructuring enterprises:
(a) Undertaking the management and sale of assets subject to a self-rescue plan of an enterprise showing signs of insolvency; and acquiring and disposing of such assets;
(b) Providing counseling services to support management diagnosis of enterprises showing signs of insolvency and restructuring enterprises and the normalization of such enterprises; and assisting mergers and acquisitions of enterprises;
(c) Making contributions to special-purpose corporations to lend money to enterprises, etc. which file an application for commencing rehabilitation procedures with a court under Article 34 or 35 of the Debtor Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Act or to provide such enterprises, etc. with a payment guarantee; in such cases, enterprises to be lent money or to be provided with a payment guarantee, methods therefor, and the scope of a payment guarantee shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree;
(d) Managing and selling assets for non-business use or assets of restructuring enterprises; brokering the purchase and sale thereof; and acquiring and disposing of such assets;
(e) Making contributions to or investments in investment schemes, etc. related to ships to support the management normalization of enterprises showing no signs of insolvency and restructuring enterprises; and providing a payment guarantee with such enterprises within a limit specified in subparagraph 1 (d);
3. The following business affairs to enhance the value of public assets:
(a) Selling attached property on behalf of a State agency, local government, public institution under Article 4 of the Act on the Management of Public Institutions, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "State agency, etc.") pursuant to statutes or regulations; engaging in follow-up management such as distribution of payments; and purchasing and developing related property (including limited real rights, such as mortgages; hereinafter the same shall apply) to preserve and increase the value of the relevant property and to achieve other purposes;
(b) Managing, disposing of, developing property undertaken by a State agency, etc. under statutes or regulations; preserving and collecting claims; and purchasing and developing related property to preserve and increase the value of the relevant property and to achieve other purposes;
(c) Liquidating a company where the State owns at least 1/2 of its stocks or equity pursuant to the State Property Act;
4. The following business affairs related to those prescribed in subparagraphs 1 through 3:
(a) Managing and operating the Non-Performing Loan Resolution Fund established under Article 38 and the Restructuring Fund established under Article 43-2;
(b) Performing business affairs related to the management of securitization assets entrusted under Article 10 (1) of the Asset-Backed Securitization Act;
(c) Establishing, operating, and lending a system for the management and disposal of assets using information and communications networks, etc., and providing other related support;
(d) Making contributions or investments related to the performance of the business affairs of KAMCO;
(e) Performing business affairs related to trust for real estate collateral and trust for the management and disposal of real estate of restructuring enterprises among trust business under the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act;
(f) Purchasing and developing assets related to the performance of the business affairs prescribed in subparagraphs 1 (excluding item (g)), 2 (a) and (d), and 4 (b);
(g) Acting for a company established to perform the business affairs prescribed in item (d) (including a company, etc. which KAMCO make contributions to or investments in under item (d)).
(2) Where necessary for performing business affairs incidental to those specified in paragraph (1), such as adding subject matters, methods, scope, etc., to achieve the purpose of this Act, KAMCO shall perform such incidental business affairs with the approval of the Financial Services Commission.
(3) When KAMCO performs the business affairs prescribed in paragraph (1) 4 (e), trust business shall be deemed authorized under the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act.
(4) When KAMCO performs business affairs related to the collection of claims under paragraph (1) 1 (a) and (f), 3 (b), or 4 (b), credit information business defined subparagraph 4 of Article 2 of the Credit Information Use and Protection Act and claims collection service defined in subparagraph 10 of that Article shall be deemed permitted.
(5) The KAMCO may charge fees and expenses incurred in performing any business affairs prescribed in paragraph (1) 1 (excluding business affairs related to contributions or investments made to or in companies, etc. prescribed by Presidential Decree for the purpose of investing in overseas non-performing assets, among the business affairs prescribed in item (g)), subparagraphs 2 (a), (b), and (d), and 4 (a) through (c) and (g) of that paragraph, and paragraph (2), as determined by the Committee, and it may charge fees and expenses with regard to any business affairs specified in paragraph (1) 3 and 4 (e), as prescribed by relevant statutes or regulations.
(6) Matters necessary for the scope, criteria, etc. of real estate to be developed under paragraph (1) 4 (f) shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.
(7) Matters necessary for a limit on contributions or investments made under paragraph (1) 1 (g), a risk-control system, etc. shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.
(8) KAMCO shall prepare a business manual necessary for performing the business affairs prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) and shall finalize it following resolution by the Committee. This shall also apply where any change is made to such business manual.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Aug. 17, 2021]