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CautionConfidence mediumCoverage 100%Evidence strong10-year outlook: Caution

씨제이올리브영 주식회사

Decline signals need careful validation before joining.

Verdict
Caution
Signal score
50/100
Evidence coverage
100%
Red flags
2
Generated
7/2/2026

Overall opinion

The report points to a stable employer with strong public evidence, but the overall employer-risk score is mixed at 50/100 with medium confidence. The positive side is meaningful: operating profit is positive and rising in the parsed filings, 2025 standalone revenue and operating profit were reported to have grown strongly, hiring activity is moderate, the workers’ compensation source matched 16,863 workers, and official IP activity is substantial. However, a 10-year employment decision should be cautious because the report flags high employee-facing risk from an FTC criminal referral and large-scale retail law violations, prior supplier-related unfair trade practices, weak liquidity, and limited usable employment-quality data such as missing employment trends and zero official average salary/tenure fields. This is not an “avoid” signal, but candidates and current employees should verify team-level workload, turnover, compliance culture, and role durability before treating it as a safe decade-long home.

Immediate red flags
  • High severity regulatory risk: FTC criminal referral and large-scale retail law violations.
  • Medium severity compliance risk: Prior supplier-related unfair trade practices and administrative fine.

Employment outlook

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

Company state
Stable
Resource pressure
Medium
Career upside
Reasonable
Peak to now
None
Employee experience risk
High

Company trajectory looks stable; confidence is high.

Resource pressure is present and should be validated.

Employee-experience risk is high enough to verify before accepting.

Outlook drivers

  • Company state: stable signal
  • Peak-to-now decline: none visible
  • Resource pressure: medium
  • Employee risk: high
  • Career upside: reasonable

Next checks

  • Ask what changed since peak and how recovery is measured.
  • Use interviews to confirm the report pattern still holds.
  • Review the report's underlying sources for the original checks.

Score by category

This chart shows which dimensions pull the score up or down.

Category drill-down

Open a category to see the exact reasons used by the report.

  • OpenDART normalized financial API was empty; parsed public audit report filing.
  • Operating profit is positive.
  • Revenue trend is positive across available history.
  • Debt ratio is elevated.
  • Borrowings detected: 1778억 원.
  • Web financial signal is positive.
  • Headcount is large enough to reduce single-team risk.
  • NTS/Hometax status: 계속사업자.
  • The company has operated for at least five years.
  • NTS/Hometax tax type: 부가가치세 일반과세자.
  • High severity regulatory risk: FTC criminal referral and large-scale retail law violations.
  • Medium severity compliance risk: Prior supplier-related unfair trade practices and administrative fine.
  • Web research found positive market momentum.
  • Web research found negative market momentum.
  • IP/R&D public signal is recorded as context only.
  • Hiring velocity is moderate.
  • Official average annual salary is 0원.
  • Official average tenure is 0 years.
  • Web hiring signal is moderate.

Decision notes

Positives

  • Operational stability is supported by available public signals and the employment outlook state is marked stable with high confidence.
  • Financial health is the strongest category at 7.0, with positive operating profit in the parsed audit-report data.
  • Reported 2025 standalone revenue was about KRW 5.83 trillion, up 21.8% year over year, with operating profit about KRW 744.7 billion, up 22.5%.
  • Hiring velocity is moderate, with the company recruiting across multiple job groups and functions.
  • The workers’ compensation source matched 16,863 workers, reducing single-team or very-small-company risk.

Risks

  • Overall score is only 50/100 with medium confidence, so the report does not support an unqualified long-term recommendation.
  • High-severity regulatory risk is flagged: FTC criminal referral and large-scale retail law violations.
  • Medium-severity compliance risk is flagged: prior supplier-related unfair trade practices and an administrative fine.
  • Employee-facing risk is rated high enough to verify before accepting, mainly because of the regulatory and compliance history.
  • Liquidity is flagged as weak, and the 2025 liquidity ratio is 67%, down from 160% in 2023 and 131% in 2024.

Next checks

  • Ask directly about overtime expectations, recent turnover, and whether the role is a backfill or new headcount.
  • Ask how the team has changed its compliance, supplier-management, and internal-control practices after the FTC-related issues.
  • Check team-specific retention, manager stability, and promotion paths rather than relying only on company-level stability.
  • Verify compensation bands, tenure distribution, and benefits with the recruiter because the official salary and tenure fields are not usable in the report.
  • For store, logistics, tech, or head-office roles, ask separately about workload peaks, staffing levels, and role-specific growth plans.

Source mix

Available9
Missing2
Not configured0
Error0