Common stock
Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEP)
Korea Electric Power Corporation trades as KEP on NYSE. This page collects what it has actually paid — every recorded payment, the calendar-year totals, the forward and trailing 12-month yields side by side against the last price, and the dates already declared.
Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (7 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.
The two yields above are different measurements and are not interchangeable. The forward yield annualises the last regular payment; the trailing 12-month yield counts the cash actually paid over the last 365 days. Neither is an interest rate, a bond's yield to maturity or an index effective yield, and none of those may be compared with these as like for like. See how we compute these numbers.
Our stored payment history for KEP begins in 1994. The run of increases above ends inside that history rather than at its edge, so the figure is measured within what we hold and is not a floor. A streak is counted on the split-adjusted payment, so a share split does not read as a cut.
A yield is just a payment divided by a price, so it moves every day even when the payment does not. The forward number is an estimate of the next twelve months; the trailing number is what was actually paid over the last twelve. Ex-date is the cut-off: own the shares before it and the next payment is yours, buy on or after it and the seller keeps it.
What KEP is
Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) functions as a comprehensive electric utility, responsible for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity within South Korea and in various international markets. Its operations are organized into key segments: Transmission and Distribution, Nuclear Power Generation, Thermal Power Generation, and a broader 'Others' category. KEPCO boasts a diverse energy portfolio, generating power from a wide array of sources including nuclear, coal, oil, liquefied natural gas (LNG), internal combustion engines, combined-cycle plants, integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) facilities, hydroelectric dams, wind and solar farms, fuel cells, biogas, and other emergent technologies. As of December 31, 2021, the company commanded an impressive generation fleet comprising 763 units, encompassing nuclear, thermal, hydroelectric, and internal combustion facilities, collectively boasting an installed capacity of 82,459 megawatts. Its robust transmission network featured 34,923 circuit kilometers of lines, including 765 kilovolt lines and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) infrastructure, supported by 892 substations equipped with a combined transformer capacity of 344,286 megavolt-amperes. The distribution system further extended this infrastructure, incorporating 132,376 megavolt-amperes of transformer capacity, 9,940,440 support units, and a vast network spanning 532,348 circuit kilometers. KEPCO serves a broad spectrum of consumers, delivering electricity to residential homes, commercial enterprises, educational institutions, industrial facilities, agricultural operations, street lighting, and for specific overnight power applications. Beyond core electricity provision, the corporation offers a range of auxiliary services. These encompass the maintenance of utility plants, resource development initiatives, specialized electric power information technology solutions, general facility maintenance, electric meter reading, sec
KEP is a common stock. Any income comes from a dividend the board declares out of the company's profits and cash flow. There is no obligation to declare one, no par value to fall back on, and no arrears to make up if a payment is skipped — the board simply decides each period. That discretion is what separates a dividend from a coupon.
Four dates matter: the declaration date the board announces it, the ex-dividend date after which new buyers do not receive the payment, the record date that fixes the holder list, and the pay date the cash arrives. Qualifying US corporate dividends held long enough are taxed at long-term capital-gains rates as qualified dividends. Read how dividend stocks work.
Figures on this page are computed by Income Investing from the payment history and last price stored in our own database; the payment records come from fmp and the price from fmp, last recomputed Aug 25, 2026. They describe what has been paid, not what will be paid. Yield, payout ratio, our data sources and our methodology are explained elsewhere on the site.
Payment history
Each row is one payment as recorded by our data provider, newest first. The final column compares it with the nearest payment about a year earlier.
The table lists the 23 most recent recorded dividends for KEP, newest first, with ex-dates running from Dec 23, 1994 to Dec 31, 2025. The latest is $0.5220 per share in USD, ex-date Dec 31, 2025, pay date Apr 29, 2026. Measured against the nearest payment about a year earlier, 9 are higher, 10 lower and 0 unchanged; the remaining 4 have no comparable payment in the record. None is flagged as a special or one-off payment. Payment records supplied by fmp.
How to read this table: one row is one payment, newest at the top, and the amount is what a single share received on that one date. It is not an annual figure — the yearly ones are in the tiles above and in the totals further down. A row marked Special is a one-off the issuer chose to make rather than part of the regular schedule, which is why it is left out of the year-on-year comparison and out of those yearly totals. Whether the amount repeats for several rows or moves every time is a fact about the structure rather than a sign of health: a company usually resets its dividend once a year, while a fund's distribution can change with every payment.
| Ex-dateOwn it before this day and this payment is yours. | Pay date | Amount per shareWhat one share received on that date, before tax. | Cadence tagged by provider | Type | vs. a year earlier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.5220 | Annual | Regular | +599.45% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | Apr 29, 2025 | $0.0746 | Annual | Regular | — |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Apr 21, 2022 | $0.4874 | Annual | Regular | -10.25% |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Apr 28, 2021 | $0.5431 | Annual | Regular | — |
| Dec 28, 2017 | Apr 27, 2018 | $0.3692 | Annual | Regular | -57.29% |
| Dec 29, 2016 | Apr 27, 2017 | $0.8644 | Annual | Regular | -36.79% |
| Dec 30, 2015 | Apr 27, 2016 | $1.3674 | Annual | Regular | +490.46% |
| Dec 30, 2014 | May 01, 2015 | $0.2316 | Annual | Regular | +434.66% |
| Dec 29, 2013 | May 09, 2014 | $0.0433 | Annual | Regular | — |
| Dec 27, 2007 | Apr 04, 2008 | $0.3773 | Annual | Regular | -29.92% |
| Dec 28, 2006 | Apr 27, 2007 | $0.5384 | Annual | Regular | -3.17% |
| Dec 27, 2005 | Apr 24, 2006 | $0.5560 | Annual | Regular | -0.90% |
| Dec 28, 2004 | Apr 26, 2005 | $0.5610 | Annual | Regular | +24.20% |
| Dec 26, 2003 | Apr 26, 2004 | $0.4517 | Annual | Regular | +36.34% |
| Dec 26, 2002 | — | $0.3313 | Annual | Regular | +43.42% |
| Dec 26, 2001 | May 03, 2002 | $0.2310 | Annual | Regular | -7.60% |
| Dec 27, 2000 | Apr 27, 2001 | $0.2500 | Annual | Regular | -7.51% |
| Dec 28, 1999 | Apr 27, 2000 | $0.2703 | Annual | Regular | +9.97% |
| Dec 28, 1998 | Apr 28, 1999 | $0.2458 | Annual | Regular | +63.87% |
| Dec 26, 1997 | May 13, 1998 | $0.1500 | Annual | Regular | -28.57% |
| Dec 26, 1996 | Apr 20, 1997 | $0.2100 | Annual | Regular | -35.19% |
| Dec 27, 1995 | May 24, 1996 | $0.3240 | Annual | Regular | +653.49% |
| Dec 23, 1994 | Jun 05, 1995 | $0.0430 | Annual | Regular | — |
The cadence column is the tag our provider attached to that individual payment (fmp), not the security's established schedule. The two can disagree, which is why the cadence shown in the tiles above is only accepted after three consecutive payments were tagged the same way.
A blank comparison means there was no comparable payment within sixty days of the same point a year earlier — a new payer, a changed cadence, or a gap in the record. Special and one-off payments are labelled and are excluded from the comparison.
Dividends by calendar year
Calendar-year totals, bucketed by ex-dividend date: every regular dividend whose ex-dividend date fell in that year, for the last ten complete years on record. These are amounts actually paid, never a forward estimate, and they are not the issuer's own annual dividend figure.
The chart covers 10 complete calendar years for KEP, 2016 to 2025, per share, in USD. Each bar totals the regular dividends with an ex-dividend date in that calendar year. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, which is not necessarily the issuer's own dividend year. Our stored payment history for KEP begins in 1994. The total went from $0.8644 in 2016 to $0.5220 in 2025 — 40% lower. Within that span 1 year was higher than the year before and 5 lower. The three most recent years shown are 2023 $0.0000, 2024 $0.0746 and 2025 $0.5220. The current year is still in progress and is left out, and special or one-off payments are excluded. This is a record of what was paid, not a projection. 4 of the years shown do not hold the 1 dividends the recorded cadence implies: 2018 (0 payments), 2019 (0 payments), 2022 (0 payments) and 2023 (0 payments). Those years are marked on the chart and named in the table. A year with one more or one fewer payment than the cadence implies is usually a payment whose ex-dividend date moved across a year end rather than a change in the payment itself: the payment lands in the neighbouring calendar year, so one year reads high and the next reads low while the rate never moved. The change-on-the-year-before column carries the same distortion, because it compares two totals rather than two payment rates. These totals are arithmetically right for what they measure — regular dividends bucketed by ex-dividend date — but they are not the annual dividend the issuer reports for that year, and where the two disagree the issuer's own published dividend history is the authority.
Each bar, and each row underneath it, is one calendar year of regular payments added together for a single share. Read left to right and you are reading whether the payment has grown, held or been cut — a record of what was paid, never a forecast of what will be. One thing to watch for: a year here is decided by the date the payment went ex, so when that date slips across a year end one year holds an extra payment and its neighbour is one short while the payment itself never moved. Any year where that has happened is drawn as a dashed bar and marked with an asterisk, and it is the usual reason these totals differ from the annual figure the issuer itself publishes.
| Year | Paid per share that yearEvery regular payment dated in that year, added up, for one share. | Payments in the yearA count that differs from the usual one means a payment moved across a year end. | Change on the year before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $0.86 | 1 | -36.79% |
| 2017 | $0.37 | 1 | -57.29% |
| 2018 | $0.00 | 0 — cadence implies 1 | -100.00% |
| 2019 | $0.00 | 0 — cadence implies 1 | — |
| 2020 | $0.54 | 1 | — |
| 2021 | $0.49 | 1 | -10.25% |
| 2022 | $0.00 | 0 — cadence implies 1 | -100.00% |
| 2023 | $0.00 | 0 — cadence implies 1 | — |
| 2024 | $0.07 | 1 | — |
| 2025 | $0.52 | 1 | +599.45% |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| BEPC | Brookfield Renewable Corporation | $33.39 | 4.58% | $1.53 | Quarterly |
| EIX | Edison International | $74.78 | 4.63% | $3.46 | Quarterly |
| ENIC | Enel Chile S.A. | $4.57 | 4.22% | $0.19 | Irregular |
| NWE | Northwestern Energy Group Inc | $70.88 | 4.70% | $3.33 | Quarterly |
| AES | The AES Corporation | $14.73 | 4.78% | $0.70 | Quarterly |
Every row in this table is on the same basis — cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days, divided by that security's last price — so the column can be read down. Forward estimates are deliberately not used here, because they exist for some securities and not others and a mixed column would invite a comparison that does not hold. A dash means no payment was recorded in the last 365 days, or no price is on file. Open a security to see both of its yields.
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