South Korea’s Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH) has been implemented for more than three years. The registration deadline for 510 priority existing chemicals (PECs) is approaching and will end 30 Jun 2018. However, so far only 342 PECs have lead registrant (LR) elected (CL news) and joint registration dossiers were submitted to the authority for only 111 PECs (CL news). For some PECs, no consortium has been formed.