Hee-Yeon Kim
Management
Welcome to LG Display's First Quarter Conference Call. My name is Hee Yeon Kim, Head of IR department. I would like to welcome everyone to our global quarterly earnings conference call. I am joined by our IR staff as well as representatives from TV Marketing and IT/Mobile Marketing. J.S. Park is heading up the TV Marketing department. [Seong Choi] (ph) is heading up the IT/Mobile Marketing department. Next slide please. Before we move on to the earnings results, please take a minute to read the disclaimer. I would like to remind everyone that results are based on consolidated K-IFRS accounting standards and are unaudited. Next slide please. This conference call will take about an hour. Before we go into the Q&A session, please allow me to highlight our first quarter results, performance and second quarter outlook. Moving on to revenue and profits on the next slide. With the weaker seasonal demand and inventory adjustment by some customers, the panel shipments declined by 19% quarter-on-quarter and there was some limited ASP decline in selected products. Due to these shipment and ASP changes in the first quarter, we recorded the quarterly revenue at this point KRW 8 trillion, down 22% quarter-on-quarter. Although there was shipment decline in first quarter, we managed to remain (indiscernible) with operating profit of KRW 151 billion by maintaining our differentiated specialty product portion at around 60% of our revenue. Operating profit and margin was 2% while we recorded EBITDA margin of 19%. Income before tax was KRW 41 billion which reflected ForEx related provision loss and interest expense. Net income was KRW 3 billion which included the one-off differentiated a deferred tax asset adjustment and this reflects the new tech policy of the government. It had recently raised the minimum corporate tax rate to 16% from the…