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Shareholders' right to make proposals means a right to make a proposal to directors that certain matters be raised as agenda items for a general meeting of shareholders (under Article 363-2 of COMMERCIAL ACT).

One or more shareholders who in aggregate hold a given percent of the total number of issued and outstanding shares may make such a proposal (under Article 363-2 (1) and Articles 542-6 (2) and (9) of COMMERCIAL ACT.

1) Date shareholders’ right to make proposals exercised by: at least six weeks prior to the date set for the general meeting of shareholders.

Shareholders’ right to make proposals for the 78th general meeting of shareholders must be exercised by no later than (as of March 31, 2026): February 19, 2025

2) Method of shareholders’ right to make proposals to be exercised: In writing or by an electronic document.

※ If sent in writing: Manager of Shareholders’ Meeting in Financial Strategy Team, Dong-A Socio Holdings Tower, 64, Cheonho-daero, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul., Korea

E-mail: ir@donga.co.kr

3) Any shareholder fulfilling one of the following criteria is entitled to shareholders’ right to make proposals:

① Shareholders who hold no less than 3 percent of the total number of issued shares with voting rights (under Article 363-2 (1) of COMMERCIAL ACT

② Shareholders who have continued to hold stocks equivalent to no less than 1 percent of the total number of issued shares with voting right for more than six months.

※ Calculation of any period above shall count from the previous date of shareholders’ right to make proposals exercised (in writing or by an electronic document).

- Required Documents: Certificate of Beneficial Ownership, Transaction Statement, etc. (evidencing the period of shares held) issued by Korea Securities Depository.

- Processes: Legal review of the shareholders’ entitlement to shareholders’ right to make proposals, followed by making decisions on raising proposed matters as agenda items for a general meeting of shareholders, and notification of such decisions to the shareholders in writing or by an electronic document. If a proposed matter is raised as an agenda item, the shareholder having made such proposals is given an opportunity to explain the proposal at a regular meeting of shareholders and provide details of the proposed matter.

※ Note: A company may not accept a proposal made by the duly entitled shareholder(s) if (Article 12 of ENFORCEMENT DECREE OF THE COMMERCIAL ACT):

1) Another proposal is presented again within three years from the date on which a proposal with the same contents was rejected because it obtained merely less than 10/100 of the votes at a general meeting of shareholders;

2) The proposal concerns a shareholder's personal grievance;

3) The proposal concerns a matter that involves a right of minority shareholders obligated to hold shares in excess of a certain ratio to exercise shareholders' rights;

4) The proposal concerns a matter that involves the removal of an incumbent executive officer; or

5) The proposal concerns a matter that the company is unable to materialize, is based on an evidently false ground, or defames a particular person.