KOREA ZINC COMPANY, LTD.

• BALLARD PARTNERS $3,000,000 Outside firm · 6 filings
• MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC $2,410,000 Outside firm · 7 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• 2026 $2,880,000 6 filings
• 2025 $2,530,000 7 filings

• Natural Resources 13
• Energy/Nuclear 7
• Environment/Superfund 7
• Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 7
• Trade (domestic/foreign) 7

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• SENATE 11
• Defense, Dept of (DOD) 10
• Energy, Dept of 9
• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7
• Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 5
• Executive Office of the President (EOP) 5
• Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 5
• State, Dept of (DOS) 5
• Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) 4
• Office of Administration 2
• White House Office 2

• YOUNG POONG GROUP South Korea named on 1 filing · highest disclosed ownership 100% · largest disclosed contribution $0

Section 7 of the LD-2: a foreign company or government that owns part of the client, pays toward the lobbying, or benefits from it. Figures are the highest single disclosure across these filings, not a sum: the same stake is re-disclosed each quarter.