LY Corporation Selected for Sixth Consecutive Year as Sustainability Yearbook Member in S＆P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment

LY Corporation (the “Company”) has been selected as a member in The Sustainability Yearbook 2026, which is a ranking of companies with outstanding sustainability performance as assessed by S&P Global, a global research and assessment company in the field of ESG investment. The Company was ranked in the top 1% in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) for the Interactive Media, Services & Home Entertainment industry. The Company has been selected as a member of The Sustainability Yearbook for six consecutive years.*1

*1 Total includes years the former Z Holdings Corporation was selected as a member.

S&P Global assesses the sustainability performance of the world's leading companies from the perspectives of the environment, society, and governance (ESG) and selects the top 15% companies in each industry every year as Yearbook Members. These members are announced in The Sustainability Yearbook. In the 2026 edition, 848 companies, including the Company, were named out of over 9,200 companies. Among them, the Company’s score ranked in the top 1% in the Interactive Media, Services & Home Entertainment industry. Across all industries, 70 companies achieved a top 1% score.

In addition to its membership in The Sustainability Yearbook, LY Corporation is included in the Dow Jones Best-in-Class World,*2 Dow Jones Best-in-Class Asia Pacific,*3 and in all six ESG indices*4 for Japanese stocks adopted by Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), including the MSCI Nihonkabu ESG Select Leaders Index.

*2 Renamed from Dow Jones Sustainability World Index on February 10, 2025.
*3 Renamed from Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index on February 10, 2025.
*4 MSCI Nihonkabu ESG Select Leaders Index, MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN), FTSE JPX Blossom Japan Index, FTSE JPX Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index, S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index, and Morningstar® Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index℠

Based on the material topics it identifies, the Company actively promotes and discloses diverse ESG initiatives under its mission statement of "Create an amazing life platform that brings WOW! to our users." In this way, the Company will continue doing its part in resolving social issues and making a sustainable society into a reality.

References:

The Sustainability Yearbook - 2026 Rankings (external website)
https://www.spglobal.com/sustainable1/en/csa/yearbook/2026/ranking

LY Corporation – Sustainability
https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability

LY Corporation – Acknowledgment as a Sustainable Company
https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/sustainability/esg/recognition/