APR: brands it owns and its ownership tree
APR (KRX: 278470) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea that owns 5 consumer brands across 3 categories.[1]
APR is a Seoul beauty company founded in October 2014 by Kim Byung-hoon, its chief executive and largest shareholder with 31.94 per cent of the shares at the end of 2025. It sells skin care, make-up and fragrance under medicube, aprilskin and Forment, and home beauty devices under medicube AGE-R, which its subsidiary APR Factory builds. Listed on KOSPI since February 2024, it had 2025 revenue of 1.53 trillion won, 80 per cent of it from outside Korea.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- APR Co., Ltd. (also 주식회사 에이피알, 에이피알, APR Corporation)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
- Founded
- 2014
- Tickers
- KRX: 278470
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
APR in numbers
- APR owns 5 consumer brands tracked here across 3 top-level categories; the largest is personal care & beauty with 3 brands.[1]
Everything APR owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Full portfolio, 5 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does APR own?
APR owns 5 consumer brands tracked here, including aprilskin, medicube, Glam.D, Nerdy and Forment.
Is APR a South Korean company?
Yes. APR is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and was founded in 2014.
Who owns APR?
APR is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as 278470 on the KRX.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] APR Co., Ltd. Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART — APR Co., Ltd., Stock exchange filing, published 23 March 2026; retrieved 28 October 2026.
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