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Article 2
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"Public Tender Offer" as referred to in these Regulations means purchase of securities from unspecified persons bypassing the centralized securities exchange market or the over-the-counter (OTC) markets, and instead using public announcement, advertisement, radio broadcast, telecommunication, letters, telephone, presentation show, explanation delivering or other methods to make a public offer.
The scope of public tender offers to purchase securities under Paragraph 2 of Article 43-1 of the Act includes purchase of issued shares, new shares entitlement certificates, warrants, preferred shares attached with warrants, convertible corporate bonds, corporate bonds attached with warrants, depositary receipts, and any other securities approved by the Financial Supervisory Commission (hereinafter "FSC") of a company, which has already completed the public issuance or supplemental public issuance of the above-mentioned securities in accordance with the Act.
No private-placement securities may be the subject of a public tender offer unless supplemental procedures for public issuance have been carried out.
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