Every figure on The Accidental Order comes from one of four sources. This page records which source each field comes from, and how any number can be traced back to the document it was taken from.
The four sources
| Source | What it provides | As-of marker |
|---|---|---|
| DART (Financial Supervisory Service) | Filing text, financial statements, share counts, treasury stock, ownership reports | Receipt number (rcept_no) |
| FSC stock price data (Korean public data portal) | Closing prices, market capitalisation, trading volume | Base date (bas_dt) |
| Bank of Korea ECOS | KRW/USD rate, base rate, treasury bond yields | Per-indicator as_of |
| Yahoo Finance | KOSPI, KOSDAQ, the three US indices, exchange-traded fund closes | Per-indicator as_of |
Every figure traces to a receipt number
Values taken from filings carry a 14-digit receipt number. The first eight digits are the receipt date; the rest is that day’s sequence. For example, 20260826000626 is a document received on 26 August 2026.
Searching that number on DART opens the form the figure was written on. Any cell in a table can be checked against the document it came from. Articles print the receipt number alongside each figure they quote.
If a filing does not contain the number, the cell is left empty. It is not filled with an estimate. An empty cell often carries a note explaining why the value could not be closed — for instance, when financial liabilities are not named as borrowings and net cash cannot be settled.
Prices carry a delay
Share prices come from public data and are not real time. Each figure carries its own base date, and that date is printed on screen. When a label reads “as of the 25 Aug close”, the number belongs to that date.
Macro indicators differ from one another in the same way. Indices are the previous session’s close, the exchange rate is same-day, and the base rate is as of its last change. Indicator tables therefore carry a separate as-of column.
How the figures are calculated
Which value was divided by which denominator, and what was included or excluded, is set out in the data room methodology. Two ratios with the same name produce different numbers when the denominator differs, so that definition is the place to start.
If something in the figures looks wrong, please tell us through Report an error. Because each value carries a receipt number, it can be checked against the original document.