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New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (NYSE:EDU) Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call April 23, 2025 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Sisi Zhao - Director, Investor Relations
Stephen Yang - Executive President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Felix Liu - UBS
Lucy Yu - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Alice Cai - Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Timothy Zhao - Goldman Sachs
Elsie Sheng - CLSA Limited
Charlotte Wei - HSBC Global Research
DS Kim - JPMorgan Chase and Company

Operator

Good evening, and thank you for standing by for New Oriental's Third Fiscal Quarter 2025 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (NYSE:EDU) 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ
2025๋…„ 4์›” 23์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 8์‹œ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฐ„)

์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž
ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ธก:
Sisi Zhao - ํˆฌ์ž์ž๊ด€๊ณ„(IR) ์ด์‚ฌ
Stephen Yang - ์ด๊ด„์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž(CFO)

์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ:
Felix Liu - UBS
Lucy Yu - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Alice Cai - Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Timothy Zhao - Goldman Sachs
Elsie Sheng - CLSA Limited
Charlotte Wei - HSBC Global Research
DS Kim - JPMorgan Chase and Company

์ง„ํ–‰์ž:
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. New Oriental์˜ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋Š” ์ฒญ์ทจ ์ „์šฉ ๋ชจ๋“œ๋กœ ์ ‘์†๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
After the managementโ€™s prepared remarks, there will a question-and-answer session. Today's conference is being recorded. [Operator instructions]

I would now like to turn the meeting over to your host for today's conference, Ms. Sisi Zhao. Sisi Zhao

Thank you. Hello, everyone, and welcome to New Oriental's third fiscal quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Our financial results for the period were released earlier today and are available on the company's website as well as on Newswire services. Today, Stephen Yang, Executive President and Chief Financial Officer and I, will share New Oriental's latest earnings results and business updates in detail with you.
๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ํ›„์—๋Š” ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์žˆ์„ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์ง„ํ–‰์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ]

์ด์ œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜์‹ค ์‹œ์‹œ ์ž์˜ค ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์‹œ ์ž์˜ค

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ๋‰ด ์˜ค๋ฆฌ์—”ํƒˆ์˜ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์ ์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ผ์ฐ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์™€ ๋‰ด์Šค์™€์ด์–ด ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ์–‘ ์ด๊ด„์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž์™€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‰ด ์˜ค๋ฆฌ์—”ํƒˆ์˜ ์ตœ์‹  ์‹ค์  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
After that, Stephen and I will be available to answer your questions. Before we continue, please note that the discussion today will contain forward-looking statements made under the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. As such, our results may be materially different from the view expressed today. A number of potential risks and uncertainties are outlined in our public filings with the SEC. New Oriental does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required under applicable law. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.์ดํ›„ Stephen๊ณผ ์ €๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์† ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์•ž์„œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋…ผ์˜๋˜๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์—๋Š” 1995๋…„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฆ๊ถŒ๋ฏผ์‚ฌ์†Œ์†ก๊ฐœํ˜๋ฒ•์˜ ๋ฉด์ฑ…์กฐํ•ญ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์—๋Š” ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์ด ์ˆ˜๋ฐ˜๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ‘œ๋ช…๋œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด์™€ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž ์žฌ์  ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ SEC์— ์ œ์ถœํ•œ ๊ณต์‹œ ์ž๋ฃŒ์— ์„ค๋ช…๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. New Oriental์€ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์—์„œ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•  ์˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์€ ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In addition, a webcast of this conference call will be available on New Oriental's Investor Relations website at investor.neworiental.org. I will now first turn the call over to Mr. Yang. Stephen, please go ahead. Stephen Yang

Thank you, Sisi. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us on the call. Our Q3 results reflect a steady performance, reinforcing our ongoing commitment to long-term value creation and our visional consistency. Despite, our revenue decrease by 2% year-over-year, but the total net revenue excluding revenues generated from East Buy increased by 21.2% year-over-year.
๋˜ํ•œ ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์˜ ์›น์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” New Oriental์˜ IR(ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„) ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์ธ investor.neworiental.org์—์„œ ์‹œ์ฒญํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ Yang ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ํ†ตํ™”๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen๋‹˜, ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

Sisi๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋น„์ „์˜ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, East Buy์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ์ด ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 21.2% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The continued growth of our new ventures has contributed to the company's revenue and we anticipate further progress in the future. New Orientalโ€™s bottom line performance of our core educational business has also shown stable returns. To better reflect New Orientalโ€™s core educational business, we have excluded the operating margin generated from East Buy for this quarter. Our operating margin and non-GAAP operating margin excluding operating margin and non-GAAP operating margin generated from East Buy for the quarter reached 12.1% and 13.3% respectively, resulted from the substantial efforts invested in our offerings and platforms.์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ–ฅํ›„์—๋„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ง„์ „์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. New Oriental์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๋„ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. New Oriental์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” East Buy์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. East Buy์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ๊ณผ ๋น„GAAP ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ๊ณผ ๋น„GAAP ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 12.1%์™€ 13.3%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์™€ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋Œ€์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Now I would like to spend some time to talk about each business lines and new initiatives to you in detail. Our key remaining business are showing promising trends and our new initiatives have demonstrated positive momentum. Breaking it down, the overseas test prep business recorded a revenue increase of 7% in dollar terms year-over-year for this quarter. The overseas study consulting business reported the revenue increase of about 21% in dollar terms year-over-year for this quarter. The adults and university students business recorded a revenue increase of 17% in dollar terms year-over-year for this quarter.์ด์ œ ๊ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฌ์—…๋“ค์€ ์œ ๋งํ•œ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค๋„ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๋ถ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œํ—˜ ์ค€๋น„ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 7%์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด์™ธ ์œ ํ•™ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 21%์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์ธ ๋ฐ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 17%์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Meanwhile, our ongoing investment in new educational business initiatives primarily focused on facilitating students' all-around development have sustained steady growth, further driving the company's momentum. Firstly, the non-academic tutoring business, we have now rolled out to around 60 cities for students. We're happy to see increased market penetration in those markets we have tapped into especially in high tier cities. The top 10 cities contribute over 60% of this business.ํ•œํŽธ, ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ์ „์ธ์  ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—… ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ, ๋น„๊ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์™ธ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์•ฝ 60๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ๋กœ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ƒ์œ„๊ถŒ ๋„์‹œ๋“ค์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์ถœ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ์นจํˆฌ์œจ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ์œ„ 10๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ์—… ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 60% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Note: The translation maintains formal business language (์˜ˆ: ~ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค) and accurately conveys financial concepts while keeping the positive but professional tone of the original. Key terms like "market penetration" (์‹œ์žฅ ์นจํˆฌ์œจ) and "non-academic tutoring" (๋น„๊ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์™ธ) are appropriately translated using standard Korean financial terminology.
Secondly, the intelligent learning system and device business, we have tested the adoption of this new initiative in approximately 60 existing cities and we're pleased to see improvement to customer retention and scalability. The top 10 cities contribute approximately 50% of the business. As for the smart education business, education material and digitalized smart study solutions, they have all continued healthy development. In summary, our new education business initiatives combined have recorded the revenue increase of 35% year-over-year for this quarter.๋‘˜์งธ๋กœ, ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ํ•™์Šต ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋ฐ ๋””๋ฐ”์ด์Šค ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ์•ฝ 60๊ฐœ์˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์˜ ๋„์ž…์„ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ๊ณผ ํ™•์žฅ์„ฑ์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์œ„ 10๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ „์ฒด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์•ฝ 50%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๊ต์œก ์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธํ™”๋œ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ํ•™์Šต ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—… ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์„ ํ•ฉ์‚ฐํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 35% ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
With regards to our integrated tourism-related business line, it's performed exceptionally with the revenue increase of 85% year-over-year for this quarter. We received very positive feedback with our range of cultural travel, china study tour, global study tour, and camp education products. We have also conducted study tours and research camp both internationally and domestically for the students of K-12 and university age in around 55 cities across the country. And the top 10 cities revenue contribution is over 50%. Middle-aged and senior audience targeted tours and products are also available in 30 featured provinces in China and internationally.ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๊ด€๊ด‘ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 85%์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™” ์—ฌํ–‰, ์ค‘๊ตญ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ํˆฌ์–ด, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ํˆฌ์–ด, ์บ ํ”„ ๊ต์œก ์ƒํ’ˆ๋“ค์ด ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ตญ ์•ฝ 55๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ์ดˆ์ค‘๊ณ ์ƒ(K-12) ๋ฐ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ํˆฌ์–ด์™€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์บ ํ”„๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ์œ„ 10๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋„๊ฐ€ 50% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ค‘์žฅ๋…„์ธต ๋ฐ ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด์ธต์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ํˆฌ์–ด์™€ ์ƒํ’ˆ๋“ค๋„ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋‚ด 30๊ฐœ ํŠน์ƒ‰์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ(็œ)๊ณผ ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This business line has begun to demonstrate its potential to contribute meaningful revenue to the group. While we're encouraged by positive achievements across our various business lines, we remain committed to provide the best to our customers. We have been and will continue strategically investing in our business to elevate the overall user's experience, driving greater efficiency and capacity. Building on the progress from the previous quarter, we have continued to refine our online-merge-offline teaching platform.์ด ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋‘” ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์ƒ์˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์•ฝ์†์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง€์ผœ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ๋” ํฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ-์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ์œตํ•ฉ(OMO) ๊ต์œก ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
$29.7 million have been invested in this quarter to improve and maintain our OMO teaching platform, which provide us the flexibility to continue our high quality service to students. Beyond OMO, I would like to take this chance to highlight our investments in AI and how we integrate AI to our teaching ecosystem. It is an area we have looked at and invested in over a long period of time. New Oriental has leveraged a combination of open source large language models, such as DeepSeek and GPT, and self-developed AI technologies to develop innovative education solutions and enhance learning experience.๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— OMO(Online-Merge-Offline) ๊ต์œก ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ๊ฐœ์„  ๋ฐ ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜์— 2,970๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. OMO๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ AI ํˆฌ์ž์™€ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ต์œก ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„์— ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํˆฌ์žํ•ด ์˜จ ๋ถ„์•ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‰ด ์˜ค๋ฆฌ์—”ํƒˆ์€ DeepSeek์™€ GPT์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜คํ”ˆ์†Œ์Šค ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์–ธ์–ด ๋ชจ๋ธ๊ณผ ์ž์ฒด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๊ต์œก ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œ์ผœ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
AI powered tools such as essay grading, speaking assessment, and error correction notebooks deliver intelligent evaluations and customized learning plans, ultimately improving the students' outcomes while saving the time for both teachers and parents. To further drive internal efficiency, we introduced an AI content creation platform and student performance feedback applications to support lesson planning and strengthen home school communication. These tools has also allowed us to collect meaningful data on learning habits and the user engagement, giving us deeper insights into how students and families interact with our services.์—์„ธ์ด ์ฑ„์ , ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ํ‰๊ฐ€, ์˜ค๋ฅ˜ ์ˆ˜์ • ๋…ธํŠธ๋ถ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ์ง€๋Šฅ์ ์ธ ํ‰๊ฐ€์™€ ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ํ•™์Šต ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ต์‚ฌ์™€ ํ•™๋ถ€๋ชจ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ํ•™์Šต ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ์ˆ˜์—… ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•™๊ต-๊ฐ€์ • ๊ฐ„ ์†Œํ†ต์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ AI ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์ œ์ž‘ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๊ณผ ํ•™์ƒ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์„ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•™์Šต ์Šต๊ด€๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ์–ด, ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์™€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In addition, we have built an AI-supported comprehensive FAQ knowledge database with analysis of our sales conversations. By using the database, we're able to reduce the training cost for our salespeople and boost the sales efficiency and the conversion rates. As an industry leader, we're dedicated to driving long-term revenue growth by strengthening our product capability and optimize managementโ€™s efficiency. We look forward to sharing tangible results from our investment in AI integration and their positive impact on our performance. Now, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about our share repurchase actions.๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์˜์—… ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ํฌ๊ด„์ ์ธ FAQ ์ง€์‹ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์˜์—…์‚ฌ์› ๊ต์œก ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜์—… ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ „ํ™˜์œจ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๊ณ„ ์„ ๋„๊ธฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์™€ ๊ฒฝ์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI ํ†ตํ•ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ป์€ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์™€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์‹ค์ ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ํ™œ๋™์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The company's Board of Directors further approved extending the effective time of the share repurchase program to May 31st, 2025, and increasing the aggregate value of the shares that the company is authorized to repurchase from $400 million to $700 million. As of April 22nd, 2025, the company repurchased an aggregate of approximately $14.4 million ADS for approximately $695.5 million from the open market and of the share repurchase program. Now, I will turn the call over to Sisi to share with you about the key financials. Sisi, please go ahead. Sisi Zhao

Thank you, Stephen. Now, I'd like to share our key financial details for the quarter.
์ด์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ 2025๋…„ 5์›” 31์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ฐ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ , ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ž… ๊ถŒํ•œ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌ๋ฐ›์€ ์ฃผ์‹์˜ ์ด์•ก์„ 4์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 7์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ฆ์•กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ 4์›” 22์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์•ฝ 6์–ต 9,550๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์•ฝ 1,440๋งŒ ADS(๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ˆํƒ์ฆ๊ถŒ)๋ฅผ ๋งค์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹œ์‹œ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์‹œ, ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์‹œ ์ž์˜ค

์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operating costs and expenses for the quarter were $1,058.5 million, representing a 3.2% decrease year-over-year. Cost of revenues decreased by 17.6% year-over-year to $531.6 million. Selling and marketing expenses increased by 13% year-over-year to $182.2 million. G&A expenses for the quarter increased by 19.8% year-over-year to $344.7 million. Total share-based compensation expenses, which are allocated to related operating costs and expenses, decreased by 41.3% to $16.1 million in the third quarter of 2025. Operating income was $124.5 million, representing a 9.8% increase year-over-year.๋‹น๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์˜์—…๋น„์šฉ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3.2% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ 10์–ต 5,850๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 17.6% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ 5์–ต 3,160๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 13% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 1์–ต 8,220๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 19.8% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 3์–ต 4,470๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€๋ จ ์˜์—…๋น„์šฉ์— ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„๋œ ์ฃผ์‹๊ธฐ์ค€๋ณด์ƒ๋น„์šฉ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 41.3% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ 1,610๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์—…์ด์ต์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 9.8% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 1์–ต 2,450๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Non-GAAP income from operations, excluding share-based compensation expenses and amortization of intangible assets resulting from business acquisitions, was $142.1 million, representing a 0.2% decrease year-over-year. Net income attributable to New Oriental for the quarter was $87.3 million, representing a 0.1% increase year-over-year. Basic and diluted net income per ADS attributable to New Oriental were $0.54 and $0.54 respectively. Non-GAAP net income attributable to New Oriental for the quarter was $113.3 million, representing a 14.3% decrease year-over-year. Non-GAAP basic and diluted net income per ADS attributable to New Oriental were $0.70 and $0.70 respectively.์ฃผ์‹ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ณด์ƒ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์—… ์ธ์ˆ˜๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋ฌดํ˜•์ž์‚ฐ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ Non-GAAP ์˜์—…์ด์ต์€ 1์–ต 4,210๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 0.2% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ New Oriental์— ๊ท€์†๋˜๋Š” ์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 8,730๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 0.1% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. New Oriental์— ๊ท€์†๋˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๋ฐ ํฌ์„ ADS๋‹น ์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 0.54๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ 0.54๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ New Oriental์— ๊ท€์†๋˜๋Š” Non-GAAP ์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 1์–ต 1,330๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 14.3% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. New Oriental์— ๊ท€์†๋˜๋Š” Non-GAAP ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๋ฐ ํฌ์„ ADS๋‹น ์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 0.70๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ 0.70๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Net cash flow generated from operation for the third fiscal quarter of 2025 was approximately $1 million and capital expenditure for the quarter were $52.4 million. Turning to the balance sheet, as of February 28, 2025, New Oriental had cash and cash equivalents of $1,418.8 million, $1,411.7 million in term deposits and $1,853.6 million in short-term investments, totaling approximately $4.7 billion. The company is in a healthy financial position.2025๋…„๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์˜์—…ํ™œ๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ˆœํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์€ ์•ฝ 100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ž๋ณธ์ง€์ถœ์€ 5,240๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, 2025๋…„ 2์›” 28์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ New Oriental์€ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ฑ์ž์‚ฐ 14์–ต 1,880๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ์ •๊ธฐ์˜ˆ๊ธˆ 14์–ต 1,170๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ๋‹จ๊ธฐํˆฌ์ž์ž์‚ฐ 18์–ต 5,360๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด, ์ด ์•ฝ 47์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
New Oriental's deferred revenue, which represents cash collected upfront from customers and related revenue that will be recognized as the services and goods are delivered at the end of the third fiscal quarter of 2025, was $1,749.9 million, an increase of 15% compared to $1,521.7 million at the end of the third quarter of last fiscal year. Now, I'll hand over to Stephen to go through our outlook and guidance. Stephen Yang

Thank you, Sisi. With the evolving market dynamics, we will remain committed to resilience and focus on achieving steady sustainable growth across our business line in the coming quarter.
New Oriental์˜ ์ด์—ฐ์ˆ˜์ต(ํ˜„๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜์ทจํ•˜์—ฌ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง์— ์„œ๋น„์Šค์™€ ์žฌํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ œ๊ณต๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ธ์‹๋  ์ˆ˜์ต)์€ 17์–ต 4,990๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ 15์–ต 2,170๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ 15% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  Stephen์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Sisi. ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ํšŒ๋ณตํƒ„๋ ฅ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Note: The translation maintains key financial terms like "์ด์—ฐ์ˆ˜์ต" (deferred revenue) and preserves the formal, professional tone typical of earnings calls while ensuring natural Korean flow.
Leveraging our experience in navigating shifting conditions, we're confident in our ability to advance our business lines as an industry leader. The strong performance of our diverse operations and the depth of the educational resources further strengthen our confidence in a sustainable growth. We expect the total net revenue, excluding revenue generated from the East Buy in the coming quarter, March 1, 2025 to May 31, 2025, to be in the range of $1,009.1 million to $1,036.6 million, representing year-over-year increase in the range of 10% to 13%.๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•ด์˜จ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ์—…๊ณ„ ์„ ๋„๊ธฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผœ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”๋œ ์‚ฌ์—… ์šด์˜์˜ ๊ฒฌ์‹คํ•œ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ๊ต์œก ์ž์›์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์ด ํ•œ์ธต ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ 3์›” 1์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 5์›” 31์ผ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ East Buy ๊ด€๋ จ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ์ด ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 10์–ต 910๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 10์–ต 3,660๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 10%์—์„œ 13% ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We project the increase of the revenue in our functional currency, RMB, is expected to be in the range of 12% to 15% for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. In addition, the slowdown in the revenue growth of our overseas-related business and investments in newly integrated tourism-related business have led to the short-term impact on our operating margin this quarter. We have initiated our cost control and efficiency enhancements across all business lines since this quarter and expect these actions to take effect in the coming quarters. We anticipate the non-GAAP operating margin for the educational business will expand year-over-year in the coming fourth quarter.๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅํ†ตํ™”์ธ ์œ„์•ˆํ™”(RMB) ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด 12%์—์„œ 15% ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‘”ํ™”์™€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋œ ๊ด€๊ด‘ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ธˆ๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ „์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ ๋ฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ œ๊ณ  ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๋น„(้ž)GAAP ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ง๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I must say that these expectations and forecasts reflect our considerations of latest regulatory measures, as well as the current and preliminary view, which is subject to change. To conclude, New Oriental is dedicated to delivering premium offerings to our customers while pursuing sustainable growth through a strategic blend of capabilities. We will continue investing in our business and different applications of advanced technologies, including AI. Our aim is to strengthen our competencies, driving growth, and improve operating efficiency.๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ธก์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ์˜ˆ๋น„์  ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๋‰ด ์˜ค๋ฆฌ์—”ํƒˆ์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” AI๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‘์šฉ ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ , ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We will also continue to seek guidance from and cooperate with government authorities in China, ensuring compliance with the relevant policies, guidelines, and any related implementations, regulations, and measures, and adjust our business operations as required. As always, we will work diligently to enhance the nation's education level, to strengthen its leading position, unlocking further potential across all of our business lines, and realizing our vision. This is the end of our fiscal year 2025 Q3 summary. At this point, I would like to open the floor for questions. Operator, please open the call for these. Thank you.๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€ ๋‹น๊ตญ์˜ ์ง€์นจ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ด€๋ จ ์ •์ฑ…๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ผ์ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์‹œํ–‰๋ น, ๊ทœ์ • ๋ฐ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์„ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•„์š”์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์‚ฌ์—… ์šด์˜์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Š˜ ๊ทธ๋ž˜์™”๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ต์œก ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์„ ๋„์  ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•˜๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋น„์ „์„ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ฑ์‹คํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์š”์•ฝ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

โ€ข ์ฃผ์š” ์‹ค์  ์š”์•ฝ:
- ์ด์ŠคํŠธ๋ฐ”์ด(East Buy) ์ œ์™ธ ๋งค์ถœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 21.2% ์ฆ๊ฐ€
- ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ต์œก์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ (์ด์ŠคํŠธ๋ฐ”์ด ์ œ์™ธ) 12.1%, ๋น„GAAP ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  13.3% ๊ธฐ๋ก
- ํ•ด์™ธ์‹œํ—˜ ์ค€๋น„์‚ฌ์—… 7% ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์œ ํ•™์ปจ์„คํŒ… 21% ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์„ฑ์ธ/๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ ๊ต์œก 17% ์„ฑ์žฅ

โ€ข ์‹ ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ๊ณผ:
- ๋น„๊ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์™ธ์‚ฌ์—…์ด 60๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€, ์ƒ์œ„ 10๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 60% ์ฐจ์ง€
- ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๊ด€๊ด‘์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 85% ์„ฑ์žฅ, 55๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ์šด์˜ ์ค‘
- ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ต์œก์‚ฌ์—… ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ 35% ์ฆ๊ฐ€

โ€ข ์ „๋žต์  ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฐ ์ „๋ง:
- AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋ฐ OMO(์˜จ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ํ†ตํ•ฉ) ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ์ง€์† ํˆฌ์ž
- 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค: 10-13% ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง (RMB ๊ธฐ์ค€ 12-15%)
- ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ ๋ฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ์กฐ์น˜ ์‹œํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ๊ต์œก์‚ฌ์—… ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

Thank you. The question-and-answer session of this conference call will start in a moment. [Operator Instructions] We will now take our first question from the line of Felix Liu from UBS. Please ask your question, Felix. Felix Liu

Thank you, and good evening, management. Thank you for taking my question. My question is on the overseas-related businesses. You mentioned that the slowdown in overseas test prep and consulting caused the deceleration in Q4 growth. May I just check what has been the major drivers of the slowdown? Do you think the situation could get worse with these ongoing tariffs?
์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต

์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์˜ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์„ธ์…˜์„ ๊ณง ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์ง„ํ–‰์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ] ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ UBS์˜ Felix Liu๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Felix๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Felix Liu

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‘”ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œํ—˜ ์ค€๋น„์™€ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋‘”ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‘”ํ™”์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์›์ธ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋” ์•…ํ™”๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
And what is your outlook for this business, especially when do you think growth will bottom out? Thank you. Stephen Yang

I think the overseas-related businesses, including the overseas test prep and the consulting business, the slowing down is due to the impact of the macro economy situation and the international relations change situation. And so, based on our current guidance of the Q4, I think the overseas-related business will be growth in the range of 5% to 10% in the Q4. And in the coming new year, we have not finished the budget, but we anticipate the overseas test prep business will grow by 5% to 10% in the new year.
์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ง์€ ์–ด๋– ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŠนํžˆ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์–ธ์ œ ์ €์ ์„ ์ฐ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…๋“ค, ์ฆ‰ ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œํ—˜ ์ค€๋น„ ๊ต์œก๊ณผ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‘”ํ™”๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— 5%์—์„œ 10% ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆํ•ด์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์•„์ง ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ํŽธ์„ฑ์€ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œํ—˜ ์ค€๋น„ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์ƒˆํ•ด์— 5%์—์„œ 10% ์ •๋„ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And the overseas consulting business, I think the growth will be zero or flattish in the coming new year. But what I'm saying now is based on the conservative estimation for the new year, Felix. Operator

Thank you. We will now take our next question from the line of Lucy Yu from Bank of America Securities. Please ask your question, Lucy. Lucy Yu

Thank you so much. So, my question is more on the fourth quarter guidance. You did mention that overseas test prep is going to slow down. May we have a breakdown of the other business growth in the fourth quarter? Thank you. Sisi Zhao

Yeah.
ํ•ด์™ธ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ƒˆํ•ด์—๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์ œ๋กœ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ •์ฒด๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒˆํ•ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ถ”์ •์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ํŽ ๋ฆญ์Šค ๋‹˜. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฑ…ํฌ ์˜ค๋ธŒ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด ์ฆ๊ถŒ์˜ ๋ฃจ์‹œ ์œ  ๋‹˜์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฃจ์‹œ ๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฃจ์‹œ ์œ 

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œํ—˜ ์ค€๋น„ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ๋‘”ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์—…๋“ค์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๋‚ด์—ญ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์‹œ ์ž์˜ค

๋„ค.
So, roughly, like based on our forecast for Q4, in the RMB term, the overseas-related business will grow around 8%. And domestic university students' business will grow maybe around 19%. And the high school business growth will be around 16%, 17%. And the new K-9, new business, educational business will grow maybe around 30% to 35%. So, that's the rough estimation based on our current forecast for Q4. This is RMB growth. And if you want U.S. dollar growth, maybe each line roughly deducts by roughly 2% to 3%. Stephen Yang

But, you know, we must mention that we're using the conservative measures to give the guidance of Q4. Sisi Zhao

Yes. Stephen Yang

Lucy. Lucy Yu

Understood.
4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์œ„์•ˆํ™” ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์•ฝ 8% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์•ฝ 19% ์ •๋„ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ์•ฝ 16~17% ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ ๊ทœ K-9 ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์•ฝ 30~35% ์ •๋„ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋žต์ ์ธ ์ถ”์ •์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์œ„์•ˆํ™” ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—์„œ ๋Œ€๋žต 2~3%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

๋‹ค๋งŒ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์€, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•  ๋•Œ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Sisi Zhao

๋„ค. Stephen Yang

์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Lucy Yu
Thank you so much. Stephen Yang

Thank you. Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Alice Cai from Citibank. Please ask your question, Alice. Alice Cai

Stephan and Sisi, I noticed that K-9 offline enrollment grew by 15% year-over-year this quarter, which is slower than expected. But our learning device users increased by 54% year-over-year. Are learning device started to replace offline courses and much of the slower K-9 growth is simply because they are difficult? Thanks. Stephen Yang

Can you repeat again? I think, you know, we cannot hear you very clearly. Can you repeat the question again? I think that you're --

Sisi Zhao

Your line is not clear, Alice.
๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์‹œํ‹ฐ๋ฑ…ํฌ์˜ Alice Cai ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Alice ๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Alice Cai

Stephan๊ณผ Sisi๊ป˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. K-9 ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๋“ฑ๋ก๋ฅ ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 15% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ํ•™์Šต๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 54% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•™์Šต๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ์ˆ˜์—…์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  K-9์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  ๋‘”ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์–ด๋ ค์›€ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๊ท€ํ•˜์˜ ์Œ์„ฑ์ด ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?

Sisi Zhao

Alice ๋‹˜, ํ†ตํ™” ์Œ์งˆ์ด ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Stephen Yang

Yes, Alice. Alice Cai

Can you hear me now? Sisi Zhao

A bit better. Yeah. Please say again your question. Thank you. Alice Cai

Okay. I noticed that the K-9 offline enrollment grew by 15% year-over-year this quarter, which is slower than expected. While learning device users increased by 54% year-over-year, are learning device starting to replace offline courses? And how much of the slower K-9 growth is simply because the [base] are getting bigger? Is that clear now? Sisi Zhao

Yeah. Yeah. Actually, the enrollment growth for the non-academic tutoring business this year is a little bit impacted by the timing, difference of cutoff of each quarter.
Stephen Yang

๋„ค, Alice๋‹˜.

Alice Cai

์ง€๊ธˆ ์ œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?

Sisi Zhao

๋„ค, ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์ž˜ ๋“ค๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Alice Cai

๋„ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ K-9 ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๋“ฑ๋ก๋ฅ ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 15% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ํ•™์Šต๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 54% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ํ•™์Šต๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ์ˆ˜์—…์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  K-9 ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  ๋‘”ํ™”๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์ด์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์ž˜ ์ „๋‹ฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”?

Sisi Zhao

๋„ค, ๋„ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋น„๊ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์™ธ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ก๋ฅ  ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๊ฐ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„ ๋งˆ๊ฐ ์‹œ์ ์˜ ์ฐจ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And also because we have some enrollments that last year divided into two parts for the spring quarter and autumn quarter. But this year, some cities combined as one enrollment. So that's also explained the relatively slower growth of the enrollment if you're comparing that with the revenue growth. And the learning path for middle school students mainly is also growing very, very fast. And this year, the number of users increased dramatically compared with last year. Yes.๋˜ํ•œ ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ๋ด„ ํ•™๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ฐ€์„ ํ•™๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ด์›ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ๋‹จ์ผ ๋“ฑ๋ก์œผ๋กœ ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋“ฑ๋ก๋ฅ  ์ฆ๊ฐ€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋”๋”˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ค‘ํ•™์ƒ ๋Œ€์ƒ ํ•™์Šต ๊ณผ์ •๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค.

Note: The translation maintains the professional tone while accurately conveying the financial and operational context. Key terms like "enrollment" (๋“ฑ๋ก), "revenue growth" (๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ), and "learning path" (ํ•™์Šต ๊ณผ์ •) are appropriately translated using standard Korean financial terminology.
And next year, we also continue to believe that the K-9 business, including mainly the elementary school, non-academic tutoring and the middle school learning path business will continue to drive the overall growth, will be the fastest growth category. Stephen Yang

Yeah. So within the Q4 guidance, you know, the K-9 business, you know, we expect the K-9 business will grow by over 35% year-over-year in the Q4. Alice? Alice Cai

Okay, thank you so much. Very clear. Operator

Thank you. We will now take our next question from Timothy Zhao from Goldman Sachs. Please ask your question, Timothy. Timothy Zhao

Sure. Thank you, management for taking my question.
๋‚ด๋…„์—๋„ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๋น„๊ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์ •๊ณผ ์ค‘ํ•™๊ต ํ•™์Šต ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๋Š” K-9 ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์ „์ฒด ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ถ„์•ผ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

๋„ค, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, K-9 ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 35% ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Alice? Alice Cai

๋„ค, ๋งค์šฐ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ Timothy Zhao ๋‹˜์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Timothy๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Timothy Zhao

๋„ค, ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ป˜์„œ ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I think you mentioned that in the fourth quarter this year, you do expect the OP margin for the core business to expand on a year-over-year basis. Just wondering, how do you think about the sustainability of the margin expansion into fiscal year 2026? And what kind of measures are you going to take to increase the operating efficiency and the control cost? And how do you think about the balance? The balance in the revenue growth margin. Stephen Yang

Yeah. As I said, you know, we expect the margin expansion in the coming quarter, Q4. And I think this is mainly due to following reasons. Number one, we started to do the cost control and the efficiency enhancement since this quarter.
๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜ฌํ•ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€์˜ ์ง€์†๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๋งํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜์‹ค ๊ณ„ํš์ด์‹ ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋งž์ถ”์‹ค ๊ณ„ํš์ด์‹ ์ง€ ์—ฌ์ญ™๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Stephen Yang

๋„ค, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด์œ ๋“ค ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ œ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Note: The translation maintains the formal business tone appropriate for an earnings call, accurately conveys financial terminology (์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  for OP margin, ๋งˆ์ง„ for margin, ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ for cost control), and preserves the interactive Q&A format while ensuring natural Korean flow.
And we do believe, it will take effect to help the margin profile in Q4 in the next fiscal year. And secondly, I think we continue to focus on improving the utilization facilities. And so, we're doing the cost control in all business lines with the companies because of the slowed income. I think it's reasonable to do at this time. And for the new year, fiscal year 2026, we do believe we'll get the margin expansion for the education business, which excluding the East Buy, the margin expansion in the new year. Tim? Timothy Zhao

Great. Thank you, Stephen. Stephen Yang

Thank you. Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of [Yiqun Zhang] from CITICS.
์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋‹ค์Œ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์‹œ์„ค ๊ฐ€๋™๋ฅ  ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ž… ๊ฐ์†Œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ „ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ˜„ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, East Buy๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€? Timothy Zhao

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ๋‹˜. Stephen Yang

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ CITICS์˜ [Zhang Yiqun] ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Please ask your question, Yiqun. Unidentified Analyst

Hello, Stephan and Sisi. Thank you for taking my question. My question is about the shareholder feedback plan. We are glad to see that we have almost finished our ongoing repurchase plan. So, do we have some more shareholder feedback plan in the future, like dividend or a new repurchase plan? Thank you. Stephen Yang

Yes. You know, we almost finished the $700 million share buyback. And, as well, we have already paid $100 million special dividend in September last year. And so, that means, in last two years, two and a half years, we paid $800 million, already.
์ด๊ตฐ ๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธํ™•์ธ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์Šคํ…ŒํŒ ๋‹˜๊ณผ ์‹œ์‹œ ๋‹˜. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์› ๊ณ„ํš์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ๊ณ„ํš์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น์ด๋‚˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž… ๊ณ„ํš๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์› ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€์š”? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šคํ…ŒํŒ ์–‘
๋„ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 7์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž‘๋…„ 9์›”์— 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ๋„ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์ง€๋‚œ 2๋…„ ๋ฐ˜ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด 8์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And going forward, I think in the near future, I think I will discuss with the Board to do another capital allocation plan to the investors. And yeah, I know, we're piling up the cash and we generate the net cash flow and make profit every year. So, I think it's reasonable for us to pay the capital allocation to investors, either the some dividend, the regular dividend or the special dividend combined with the share buyback. Unidentified Analyst

Thank you. Stephen Yang

Thank you. Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Elsie Sheng from CLSA. Please ask your question, Elsie. Elsie Sheng

Thank you, Stephen and Sisi. My question is more about the outlook next year.
์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋Š”, ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž๋ณธ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋„ค, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ ์ถ•์ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋งค๋…„ ์ˆœํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ •๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น์ด๋‚˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น, ๋˜๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๋ณธ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธํ™•์ธ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ
๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ์–‘
๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง„ํ–‰์ž
๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ CLSA์˜ ์—˜์‹œ ์…ฉ ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜์‹œ ๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—˜์‹œ ์…ฉ
์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ๋‹˜, ์‹œ์‹œ ๋‹˜, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋‚ด๋…„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
So, you mentioned the expectation for the growth of overseas business in next financial year. Could you also update your expectation of growth for other business segments in the next year? Thank you. Stephen Yang

I think Sisi will give you the guidance. Yeah. Sisi Zhao

Yeah. Actually, I think it's reasonable to continue to estimate maybe similar growth with Q4's revenue growth for all the core business lines for next fiscal year. As we said, the continued pressure definitely is from the overseas related business. But we do believe that this business will stabilize. And based on so far's estimation, the single digit growth is okay for us. And it's already conservative for us.
๋‹ค์Œ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ํ•ด์™ธ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋“ค์˜ ๋‚ด๋…„ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง๋„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

Sisi๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค. Sisi Zhao

๋„ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์••๋ฐ•์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์ถ”์ •์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด๋ฉด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ „๋ง์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And for the new business, K-9 new business should grow at around 25%, maybe 25% to 30% growth. You know, the high-end probably growth is from the middle school session and also elementary school students because the higher base, you know, our revenue scale is already bigger than before the policy level. And the growth around this kind of level is also something that will feel sustainable and healthy pace. And high school business continue maybe around 12% to 13% growth, conservatively speaking as well. And the tourism business probably around 15% to 20% growth, also conservative estimation for next year, okay? That's all the core business lines. Elsie Sheng

Okay. Thank you.
์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, K-9 ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์•ฝ 25%, ์•„๋งˆ๋„ 25%์—์„œ 30% ์ •๋„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ค‘ํ•™๊ต ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ •์ฑ… ์‹œํ–‰ ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ปค์ง„ ๋†’์€ ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ •๋„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์†๋„๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ดค์„ ๋•Œ ์•ฝ 12%์—์„œ 13% ์ •๋„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์ง€์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€๊ด‘ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋Š” ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์•ฝ 15%์—์„œ 20% ์ •๋„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ƒ์ด ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—˜์‹œ ์…

๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
It's very clear. Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] We will now take our next question from Charlotte Wei from HSBC. Please ask your question, Charlotte. Charlotte Wei

Thank you, management, for taking my question. I have a question related to the new technology development. So how do you expect AI and large language model will reshape the education industry? Can you share with us your strategy and investment plan for this area? Thank you. Stephen Yang

Yeah. As I said, actually we started to use the AI technology to help the whole process of the teaching and learning from both the teacher side and the students and parents side.
๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์ง„ํ–‰์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ] ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ HSBC์˜ Charlotte Wei ๋‹˜์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Charlotte ๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Charlotte Wei

๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ป˜์„œ ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI์™€ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์–ธ์–ด ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ๊ต์œก ์‚ฐ์—…์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์žฌํŽธํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ท€์‚ฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ํˆฌ์ž ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

๋„ค, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ต์‚ฌ ์ธก๋ฉด๊ณผ ํ•™์ƒ ๋ฐ ํ•™๋ถ€๋ชจ ์ธก๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ต์ˆ˜-ํ•™์Šต ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Yeah, as I said, we have issued some AI tools like the essay grading, speaking assistance, and some error correction notebooks. You know, all of this behavior or all this new technologies help us to grasp more data from the students and to help the students, their study outcome even better. But we don't have the plan to do the, like the big model. I think that the investment will be reasonable going forward. And on the other hand, on the cost control side, you know, I think the AI technology can help us to do like some of the sales, the salespeople and even some on the G&A side, I think it will make us work more efficiently.๋„ค, ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—์„ธ์ด ์ฑ„์ , ์Šคํ”ผํ‚น ๋ณด์กฐ, ์˜ค๋ฅ˜ ๊ต์ • ๋…ธํŠธ๋ถ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ AI ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋“ค์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•™์Šต ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ AI ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œํŽธ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š”, AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์˜์—… ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„(G&A) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We can save some people and expenses on the sale and marketing expenses and G&A expenses. So it will help us to drive the margin up. So this is another benefit from the AI technology. Charlotte Wei

Thank you. Very clear. Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] We will now take a next question from DS Kim from JP Morgan. Please ask your question, DS. DS Kim

Hi, Stephen. Hi, Sisi. Thanks for taking my question. I think most of my questions have already been answered, but two minor stuff. A, can we talk a bit about expansion, the center capacity expansion plan for next year? I got disconnected in the middle, so you may have already discussed that. Sorry if you did that already.
์˜์—… ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ฐ˜๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„์—์„œ ์ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Charlotte Wei

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์ง„ํ–‰์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ] ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ JP Morgan์˜ DS Kim ๋‹˜์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. DS๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. DS Kim

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, Stephen๋‹˜, Sisi๋‹˜. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‚ฌ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ, ๋‚ด๋…„๋„ ์„ผํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์šฉ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์ค‘๊ฐ„์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋Š๊ฒจ์„œ, ํ˜น์‹œ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
That's A. And B, I think we talked a bit about cost control starting this quarter. I'm just wondering what kind of cost control you are planning to do. Like, would it involve some rationalization of our workforce? And if that were the case, would there be some one-off expenses related to like the workforce adjustment? Or when we talk about cost control, it's more about like spending less than previous budget. Hence, there wouldn't be any meaningful one-off around there. And now that I think about it, can I ask one more thing? How do we think about the headquarter overhead cost for 2026?๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. A์™€ B์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ์ธ๋ฐ์š”, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋ ฅ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌํ™” ๋“ฑ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ธ๋ ฅ ์กฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด, ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ผ ํ•จ์€ ๊ธฐ์กด ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€, ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋” ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”, 2026๋…„๋„ ๋ณธ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„์šฉ(headquarter overhead cost)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”?
I think last year, or this fiscal year, we are spending probably about mid to high-teens more than last year on headquarter overhead. How shall we think about that overhead cost into 2026? Thank you so much, sir. Stephen Yang

Three questions. The learning center expansion plan for the new year, right? And so, I think we plan to open 10% to 15% new capacity in the new year. It's a little bit less than fiscal year โ€™25. This year itโ€™s roughly 20% plus. And next year, 10% to 15%. And I think, you know, it will be almost backlogged in Q3 and Q4 to prepare for the year after next year. And so, I think, our key job is to raise the utilization rates up for the new year, fiscal year 2026.
๋ณธ์‚ฌ ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์ž‘๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ 10%๋Œ€ ์ •๋„ ๋” ์ง€์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹˜. Stephen Yang

์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ์„  ์‹ ๋…„๋„ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ผํ„ฐ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๋…„๋„์—๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ˆ˜์šฉ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ 10%์—์„œ 15% ์ •๋„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ 20% ์ด์ƒ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋…„์—๋Š” 10%์—์„œ 15% ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณผ์ œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋™๋ฅ ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The cost control, I think the cost control assignment is not a one-time job. So we started to do the cost control through this quarter, and I think we will keep doing the cost control in the whole year of the fiscal year 2026. I know, we're facing the challenge time of the slowing down of the top line growth. So, I think it's reasonable for us to do the cost control, continuously. And so, it will help the higher efficiency and the margin profile of the whole company. The headquarters expenses. This is roughly, the headquarters expenses is roughly 6% of the total educational revenue and the 6% of the total, the educational core business. DS Kim

Thank you, sir. Just to double check, the six?
๋ณธ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ๊ณผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „์ฒด์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‘”ํ™”๋ผ๋Š” ๋„์ „์ ์ธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ „์‚ฌ์  ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ์‚ฌ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋ณธ์‚ฌ ๋น„์šฉ์€ ์ „์ฒด ๊ต์œก ๋งค์ถœ์˜ ์•ฝ 6%, ์ฆ‰ ๊ต์œก ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ 6% ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

DS Kim

ํ™•์ธ ์ฐจ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 6%๊ฐ€ ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
Stephen Yang

Yeah, 6%. DS Kim

Thank you. So, the ratio would be similar to this year, this year versus next year? Or, sorry, I missed that part. Stephen Yang

Next year, I think our job is to make the percentage even lower. Let's say the 5% or 5% of the total revenue as the headquarters or the expenses. So, that means the -- we will get the leverage on the headquarters expenses in the fiscal year 2026. It will help the margin up. DS Kim

Thank you, sir. I think it's really clear, and I agree that we should focus on the utilization and efficiency in this hard time, and we can deliver margin expansion. Thank you so much. Stephen Yang

Okay. Operator

Thank you.
Stephen Yang

๋„ค, 6%์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

DS Kim

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋น„์œจ์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด์™€ ๋‚ด๋…„์ด ๋น„์Šทํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ์ฃ„์†กํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋†“์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Stephen Yang

๋‚ด๋…„์—๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋น„์œจ์„ ๋” ๋‚ฎ์ถœ ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ์‚ฌ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 5% ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ๋ณธ์‚ฌ ๋น„์šฉ์—์„œ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ƒ์Šน์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

DS Kim

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ€๋™๋ฅ ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ๋™์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋‹จํžˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Stephen Yang

๋„ค.

์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
[Operator Instructions] We now have a follow-up question from the line of DS Kim from JP Morgan. Please go ahead, DS. DS Kim

Sorry, and thank you. Just a follow-up since others don't seem to have questions. Sisi, I think earlier you said K-9 new businesses next year, 2026, we expect about 25% to 30% growth in revenue term. Can I double-check if this is only for K-9 excluding other new businesses or new businesses including non-K-9 for 25% to 30%? Sisi Zhao

Including everything. So the key ones are the non-academic and pad, and also we added other minor things together. DS Kim

Thank you. That means K-9 should grow faster than what you give us. Sisi Zhao

Fast, yeah.
[์ง„ํ–‰์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ] JP๋ชจ๊ฑด์˜ DS Kim์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. DS๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. DS Kim

์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์—†์œผ์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Sisi๋‹˜, ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  K-9 ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ๋‚ด๋…„, 2026๋…„์— ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 25~30% ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด K-9๋งŒ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ธ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด K-9 ์ด์™ธ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ „์ฒด ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ธ์ง€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ํ™•์ธ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Sisi Zhao

์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฌ์—…์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋น„๊ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์ •๊ณผ ํŒจ๋“œ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‚ฌ์—…๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. DS Kim

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด K-9 ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. Sisi Zhao

๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
DS Kim

Which is not too bad, actually similar to this quarter. So thank you. Thank you so much. Stephen Yang

Yeah. Operator

Thank you. Our next follow-up question comes from the line of Felix Liu from UBS. Please ask your question, Felix. Felix Liu

Thank you, management. I actually have one additional question on the learning hardware business. I noticed that recently some of our competitors who also sell learning hardwares, they launched new models at cheaper, increasingly cheaper and cheaper prices. So how do you think about our strategy in the learning hardware business and how should we think about competition pressure from price cuts from other players? Thank you. Sisi Zhao

Yeah.
DS Kim

์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋ผ ๋‚˜์˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„ค์š”. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Stephen Yang

๋„ค.

์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ UBS์˜ Felix Liu ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Felix๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Felix Liu

๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•™์Šต ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ €ํฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ํ•™์Šต ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์ ์  ๋” ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ํ•™์Šต ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธํ•˜๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sisi Zhao

๋„ค.
Actually, we're quite confident on the future of these learning pad device model, especially that we leverage our strengths in the educational sector. We have this kind of interactive teaching and learning system. So we have our users create the stickiness of our customers. They not only are buying the products, but also they subscribe the content and the process of using our system to continue their self-study and create the stickiness and can generate recurring revenue. So we're still confident that this is the best model to use and also to leverage our education strengths.์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•™์Šต์šฉ ํŒจ๋“œ ๋””๋ฐ”์ด์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๊ต์œก ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ์˜ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์–‘๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ๊ต์ˆ˜-ํ•™์Šต ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ ์ฐฉ์„ฑ(stickiness)์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๊ธฐ์ฃผ๋„ํ•™์Šต์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ €ํฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ณ ์ฐฉ์„ฑ์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ต(recurring revenue)์„ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ตœ์ ์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ต์œก ๋ถ„์•ผ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ตœ์„ ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And also by using more and more AI technologies, we're now developing all kinds of apps and new functions embedded into our service process so that the learning experience of our customers will enhance going forward gradually and also provide them more and more technology supported and also with the real teacher supporting learning process for them. So we believe that these business will continue to be the key growth driver for our overall revenue and also the operating margin. This year, we have already seen this business to generate over 22%, 23% operating margin, which is similar with our other offline teaching class margin.๋˜ํ•œ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋”์šฑ ํ™œ์šฉํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์•ฑ๊ณผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค์„ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์— ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์ง€์›๊ณผ ์‹ค์ œ ๊ต์‚ฌ์˜ ์ง€์›์ด ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋œ ํ•™์Šต ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ 22~23%์˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ต์œก ํด๋ž˜์Šค์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And also we have confidence that it has potential to continue to enhance the margin because of the involvement of more technology and we can leverage and save more time for our labor cost. And also our teachers can serve more students than before. So the business model is better than even offline training format. Yeah. Felix Liu

Thank you. That's very clear. Operator

Thank you. We are now approaching the end of the conference call. I'll now turn the call over to New Oriental's Executive President and CFO, Stephen Yang, for his closing remarks. Stephen Yang

Again, thank you for joining us today.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋„์ž…๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ธ๊ฑด๋น„๋ฅผ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ต์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์„ ์ง€๋„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ต์œก ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๋” ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค. Felix Liu

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ฃผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์ด ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด New Oriental์˜ Stephen Yang ์ˆ˜์„๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž(CFO)๊ป˜ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Stephen Yang

๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or any of our Investor Relations representatives. Thank you. Operator

That does conclude our conference for today. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.
์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ €๋‚˜ ๋‹น์‚ฌ IR ๋‹ด๋‹น์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ์—ฐ๋ฝ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„ํ–‰์ž

์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

Here's a summary of the earnings call in Korean:

โ€ข ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ์ „๋ง:
- 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ 5-10% ์„ฑ์žฅ ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- K-9 ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ 30-35% ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง
- ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ ์‚ฌ์—… 19%, ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์‚ฌ์—… 16-17% ์„ฑ์žฅ ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- FY2026๋…„์—๋„ K-9 ์‚ฌ์—…์ด 25-30% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ์š” ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ ์—ญํ•  ๊ธฐ๋Œ€

โ€ข ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ :
- 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ ๋ฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ œ๊ณ  ์กฐ์น˜ ์‹œํ–‰
- FY2026๋…„์—๋Š” ๊ต์œก ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ „๋ง
- AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋„์ž…์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ๋ฐ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ์ถ”์ง„

โ€ข ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์š”์ธ:
- ํ•ด์™ธ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ฐ ๊ตญ์ œ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‘”ํ™”
- ํ•ด์™ธ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ์‚ฌ์—…์€ FY2026๋…„ ์ œ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋˜๋Š” ์ •์ฒด ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ œ์‹œ

The tone of management was cautiously optimistic, emphasizing cost control and operational efficiency while acknowledging macro headwinds in overseas businesses.