The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) publishes its own record of who’s been designated as a reused-battery safety inspection body under KC 10031, and that record shows designations landing every single year since the regime took effect in October 2023 — 16 bodies confirmed as of May 2026. Year by year: 4 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 2 so far in 2026 through May. Within that count, though, the number of bodies cleared to inspect repurposed battery systems — not just modules — has sat at four for over two years, unchanged since June 2024.

The most recent addition to that record, going by a single news report, is Revoltics — designated No. 2026-3 effective September 1, per Kyongsang Ilbo (September 8). KATS’s own designation-status document, last updated in May 2026, doesn’t yet reflect this case, so what follows on Revoltics specifically is sourced to that one report and flagged as such up front.

What an inspection body actually does

Repurposing a used battery for another application requires clearing a safety inspection under KC 10031, and only a body KATS has designated for the purpose can perform it. ARC Current covered the inspection items, the procedure, and the module/system distinction in KC 10031: How Korea Actually Inspects Repurposed Batteries. This piece focuses on how the roster of bodies running that regime has grown.

Designation history: confirmed by KATS’s own record

Designations began with Jeju Techno Park (No. 1) in October 2023 — 4 that year — then 6 in 2024 and 4 in 2025, followed by Busan Techno Park (2026-1) and Gyeongnam Techno Park (2026-2) through May 2026. That designations haven’t skipped a year in nearly three running is a fact confirmed by KATS’s document alone.

That count shouldn’t be read as direct evidence that inspection demand is rising, though — how many bodies get designated tracks how many applicants come forward and how fast KATS processes them, not how much inspection volume is actually moving through the system. Still, that applications and reviews haven’t stopped for three straight years is reasonable grounds to read KC 10031 as having moved past its rollout phase into a standing, routinely-administered regime.

System inspection: stalled for over two years

KC 10031 governs repurposed battery modules and repurposed battery systems under different requirements. Module inspection just requires full — not sampled — pre-inspection and electrical inspection, while system inspection requires a functional safety review built on KC 62619 Clause 8, which only a KOLAS-accredited body can run. Only four bodies are designated for system inspection — KTL, KTC, KTR, and HCT — and that list hasn’t grown since HCT’s designation in June 2024. Seven more bodies were designated for module inspection alone over that same stretch. System inspection simply carries heavier requirements than module inspection does.

The latest case: Revoltics, No. 2026-3

Kyongsang Ilbo reported that Revoltics was designated No. 2026-3 effective September 1, with scope limited to repurposed battery module inspection. That number falls right after the last KATS-confirmed entry (2026-2), so it fits the sequence, and a module-only scope is consistent with the pattern every designation since June 2024 has followed. To repeat: this designation itself isn’t independently confirmed in a KATS document — it rests on Kyongsang Ilbo’s report alone. If Revoltics is in fact a private company, as reported, it would mark the first time a private firm has entered this sequence since RTL in July 2025, following four straight designations that went to regional techno parks between November 2025 and May 2026.

ARC’s take

What’s actually verifiable here is less about one company’s designation than the trend it belongs to. Three years of designation history, confirmed by KATS’s own record, shows KC 10031 settling into routine, repeat execution — but within that record, system-inspection capacity hasn’t widened since June 2024. A business that needs to handle a repurposed battery system as a finished product is still choosing from the same four bodies it had two years ago. Whether that gap comes down to the KOLAS accreditation requirement or to system-level reuse demand simply not being large yet isn’t something this record alone can settle.

Source: [Kyongsang Ilbo] “Revoltics Designated a Reused-Battery Safety Inspection Body” (Sep. 8, 2026) (https://www.ksilbo.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1066669)

Source: [KATS] “Reused-Battery Safety Inspection System Guidebook and Designated-Body Status” (https://www.kats.go.kr/content.do?cmsid=13&cid=24418&mode=view)

Source: [ARC Current] “KC 10031: How Korea Actually Inspects Repurposed Batteries” (https://current.arc.ai.kr/en/posts/kc-10031-reused-battery-inspection/)