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AvoidConfidence mediumCoverage 85%Evidence strong10-year outlook: High risk

(주)세라젬

High risk for a healthy 3-10 year stay.

Verdict
Avoid
Signal score
17/100
Evidence coverage
85%
Red flags
5
Generated
7/18/2026

Overall opinion

The report indicates survival-mode pressure, supported by a 17/100 score with medium confidence. Operating profit remained negative from 2023 through 2025, leverage pressure remains material, and the larger tracked employment series recorded 137 leavers versus 118 joiners over the recent 12-month period, despite net hiring in April and May 2026. Labor restructuring conflict and a high-severity unfair advertising penalty add employee-experience and operational risk. Ongoing patent and trademark activity is a positive signal, but the report lacks public funding, commercial traction, or procurement signals, and does not provide role-specific working conditions.

Immediate red flags
  • Financial trend is weakening.
  • Employment trend is weak.
  • High severity compliance risk: Unfair advertising penalty.
  • Medium severity layoff risk: Labor restructuring dispute.
  • High severity other risk: Profitability and leverage pressure.

Employment outlook

A job-seeker view of whether this looks like a healthy 3-10 year place to join.

Company state
Survival mode
Resource pressure
High
Career upside
Reasonable
Peak to now
Severe
Employee experience risk
Medium

Company signals point to preservation mode; confidence is medium.

Resource pressure looks high enough to affect team conditions.

Employee-experience risk exists and should be checked.

Outlook drivers

  • Company state: survival-mode signal
  • Peak-to-now decline: severe
  • Resource pressure: high
  • Employee risk: medium
  • Career upside: reasonable

Next checks

  • Validate runway, attrition, and team load before accepting.
  • Verify the main weak signal in interviews.
  • Review the report's underlying sources for the original checks.

Score by category

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  • OpenDART normalized financial API was empty; parsed public audit report filing.
  • Operating profit is negative.
  • Revenue trend is positive across available history.
  • Operating profit trend is weakening.
  • Borrowings detected: 1486.6억 원.
  • Headcount is large enough to reduce single-team risk.
  • NPS history shows high recent churn.
  • More people left than joined over the last 12 months.
  • Headcount rose across recent NPS history.
  • Recent NPS history shows net employee loss.
  • NTS/Hometax status: 계속사업자.
  • The company has operated for at least five years.
  • NTS/Hometax tax type: 부가가치세 일반과세자.
  • High severity compliance risk: Unfair advertising penalty.
  • Medium severity layoff risk: Labor restructuring dispute.
  • High severity other risk: Profitability and leverage pressure.
  • No public funding, commercial traction, or procurement signal found.
  • Official average annual salary is 0원.
  • Official average tenure is 0 years.

Decision notes

Positives

  • The business is classified as continuing, and its registered e-commerce operation is listed as normal.
  • Borrowings declined from KRW 527.88 billion in 2023 to KRW 148.66 billion in 2025, while the 2025 liquidity ratio reached 150%.
  • The company shows ongoing intellectual-property and research activity, with 44 patent mentions and 49 trademark mentions, including recent 2025–2026 records.
  • The larger tracked employment series turned net positive in April 2026 (+5) and May 2026 (+17) after earlier monthly losses.

Risks

  • Operating profit was negative in 2023, 2024, and 2025; the 2025 operating loss was KRW 3.19 billion, and the 2025 net income figure was negative in the report.
  • The larger tracked employment series recorded 137 leavers and 118 joiners over the recent 12-month period, with monthly net losses reaching -33 and churn reaching 7% in February 2026.
  • The report identifies a labor restructuring dispute and a high-severity unfair advertising penalty, creating meaningful labor-relations and compliance concerns.
  • The report flags profitability and leverage pressure, while the 2025 debt ratio remained 134% despite improving from 2024.
  • Official average salary and tenure are both reported as zero, so compensation competitiveness and retention cannot be assessed from this data.

Next checks

  • Ask whether the role is a backfill or new headcount, and verify overtime expectations, recent team turnover, staffing plans, and benefit changes.
  • Request the latest role-relevant financial outlook, including revenue, operating-profit recovery, cash usage, and borrowing repayment or maturity plans; revenue data is missing for the latest reported years.
  • Clarify the current status and scope of the labor restructuring dispute, including affected roles, future restructuring plans, and the company’s remediation of the advertising penalty.
  • Verify team-level salary, average tenure, promotion practices, and attrition because the official salary and tenure fields are both zero.
  • Ask what concrete commercial or procurement results support the company’s expansion plans, since the report found no public traction signal.

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