List of largest companies of South Korea
This article lists the largest companies in South Korea in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.
Samsung headquarters in Seoul
2019 Fortune list
This list displays all 16 Korean companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2018.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
| Rank | Fortune 500 rank |
Name | Industry | Revenue (USD millions) |
Profits (USD millions) |
Employees | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | Samsung Electronics | Technology | 221,579 | 39,895 | 309,630 | Suwon |
| 2 | 73 | SK Holdings | Holdings | 95,904 | 2,048 | 104,374 | Seoul |
| 3 | 94 | Hyundai Motor | Automotive | 87,999 | 1,371 | 122,217 | Seoul |
| 4 | 171 | POSCO | Steel | 59,223 | 1,556 | 33,784 | Seoul |
| 5 | 185 | LG Electronics | Technology | 55,757 | 1,127 | 72,600 | Seoul |
| 6 | 193 | Korea Electric Power Corporation | Utilities | 54,567 | −1,195 | 46,377 | Naju |
| 7 | 227 | Kia Motors | Automotive | 49,238 | 1,051 | 52,578 | Seoul |
| 8 | 261 | Hanwha | Conglomerate | 44,303 | 426 | 58,070 | Seoul |
| 9 | 335 | SK Hynix | Technology | 36,763 | 14,125 | 33,000 | Icheon |
| 10 | 376 | GS Caltex | Oil and Gas | 33,052 | 640 | 3,212 | Seoul |
| 11 | 393 | Hyundai Mobis | Automotive parts | 31,949 | 1,717 | 34,782 | Seoul |
| 12 | 426 | Samsung Life Insurance | Insurance | 29,305 | 1,513 | 5,420 | Seoul |
| 13 | 434 | KB Financial Group | Banking | 29,001 | 2,783 | 27,040 | Seoul |
| 14 | 444 | Samsung C&T | Construction | 28,319 | 1,557 | 17,274 | Seoul |
| 15 | 463 | CJ Corporation | Holdings | 26,835 | 251 | 64,832 | Seoul |
| 16 | 490 | LG Chem | Chemicals | 25,617 | 1,339 | 33,694 | Seoul |
2019 Forbes list
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2018. The 50 highest ranked companies from South Korea are listed.[2]
| Rank | Forbes 2000 rank |
Name | Headquarters | Revenue (billions US$) |
Profit (billions US$) |
Assets (billions US$) |
Value (billions US$) |
Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | Samsung Electronics | Suwon | 221.5 | 39.9 | 304.1 | 272.4 | Technology |
| 2 | 179 | SK Hynix | Seoul | 36.8 | 14.1 | 57.1 | 47.6 | Technology |
| 3 | 225 | Hyundai Motor | Seoul | 88.0 | 1.4 | 161.9 | 31.2 | Automotive |
| 4 | 276 | KB Financial Group | Seoul | 27.4 | 2.8 | 431.2 | 15.9 | Banking |
| 5 | 281 | Shinhan Bank | Seoul | 20.1 | 2.8 | 411.9 | 18.7 | Banking |
| 6 | 313 | SK Group | Seoul | 92.2 | 2.0 | 107.1 | 13.1 | Conglomerate |
| 7 | 323 | POSCO | Seoul | 59.0 | 1.5 | 70.1 | 19.0 | Steel |
| 8 | 353 | Samsung Life Insurance | Seoul | 26.9 | 1.5 | 259.3 | 13.4 | Insurance |
| 9 | 390 | Hyundai Mobis | Seoul | 31.9 | 1.7 | 38.6 | 19.4 | Automotive parts |
| 10 | 440 | Samsung C&T | Seoul | 28.3 | 1.7 | 38.0 | 16.1 | Construction |
| 11 | 447 | Kia Motors | Seoul | 49.2 | 1.1 | 46.4 | 15.0 | Automotive |
| 12 | 454 | SK Innovation | Seoul | 49.5 | 1.5 | 32.3 | 14.8 | Oil and gas |
| 13 | 468 | LG Chem | Seoul | 25.6 | 1.3 | 25.9 | 24.9 | Chemicals |
| 14 | 471 | SK Telecom | Seoul | 15.3 | 2.8 | 38.0 | 15.5 | Telecommunications |
| 15 | 478 | Hana Financial Group | Seoul | 13.1 | 2.0 | 345.1 | 10.0 | Finance |
| 16 | 502 | LG Electronics | Seoul | 55.7 | 1.1 | 39.7 | 11.7 | Technology |
| 17 | 546 | Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance | Seoul | 18.6 | 1.0 | 70.5 | 11.2 | Insurance |
| 18 | 575 | Woori Financial Group | Seoul | 11.0 | 1.7 | 305.1 | 8.3 | Finance |
| 19 | 588 | Korea Electric Power Corporation | Naju | 55.1 | −1.2 | 166.0 | 16.3 | Utilities |
| 20 | 616 | Industrial Bank of Korea | Seoul | 11.1 | 1.6 | 259.5 | 7.3 | Banking |
| 21 | 763 | LG Corporation | Seoul | 9.7 | 1.7 | 20.5 | 11.5 | Conglomerate |
| 22 | 792 | Hanwha Group | Seoul | 44.3 | 0.4 | 152.0 | 1.9 | Conglomerate |
| 23 | 799 | Lotte Chemical | Seoul | 15.0 | 1.4 | 18.6 | 8.5 | Chemicals |
| 24 | 940 | KT Corporation | Seongnam | 21.3 | 0.6 | 28.8 | 5.9 | Telecommunications |
| 25 | 984 | Korea Gas Corporation | Daegu | 23.8 | 0.5 | 35.6 | 3.5 | Oil and gas |
| 26 | 1000 | Samsung SDI | Seoul | 8.3 | 0.6 | 17.3 | 13.4 | Automotive |
| 27 | 1009 | GS Group | Seoul | 15.9 | 0.8 | 20.3 | 4.4 | Conglomerate |
| 28 | 1024 | DB Insurance | Seoul | 13.1 | 0.5 | 45.1 | 3.8 | Insurance |
| 29 | 1033 | CJ CheilJedang | Seoul | 17.0 | 0.8 | 17.5 | 4.5 | Food production |
| 30 | 1116 | LG Display | Seoul | 22.1 | −0.2 | 29.7 | 6.8 | Technology |
| 31 | 1146 | Samsung SDS | Seoul | 9.1 | 0.6 | 7.2 | 15.8 | IT services |
| 32 | 1166 | CJ Group | Seoul | 26.8 | 0.2 | 28.4 | 3.1 | Retail |
| 33 | 1188 | Hyundai Steel | Incheon | 18.9 | 0.4 | 29.8 | 5.7 | Steel |
| 34 | 1204 | S-Oil | Seoul | 23.1 | 0.2 | 14.3 | 9.7 | Oil and gas |
| 35 | 1215 | LG Household & Health Care | Seoul | 6.1 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 20.7 | Consumer goods |
| 36 | 1273 | Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance | Seoul | 12.0 | 0.3 | 38.7 | 2.7 | Insurance |
| 37 | 1292 | Doosan Group | Seoul | 16.5 | −0.1 | 25.9 | 1.7 | Conglomerate |
| 38 | 1318 | Hyundai Heavy Industries | Ulsan | 11.9 | −0.5 | 22.2 | 7.5 | Heavy equipment |
| 39 | 1326 | Lotte Shopping | Seoul | 16.2 | −0.7 | 23.5 | 4.5 | Retail |
| 40 | 1386 | Meritz | Seoul | 8.1 | 0.3 | 46.5 | 1.6 | Insurance |
| 41 | 1421 | Busan Bank | Busan | 4.0 | 0.4 | 88.5 | 2.0 | Banking |
| 42 | 1427 | Mirae Asset Daewoo | Seoul | 3.4 | 0.4 | 105.8 | 4.8 | Finance |
| 43 | 1432 | E-mart | Seoul | 15.5 | 0.4 | 15.0 | 4.3 | Retail |
| 44 | 1441 | Korea Investment Corporation | Seoul | 2.3 | 0.5 | 57.4 | 3.6 | Finance |
| 45 | 1442 | Naver | Seongnam | 5.1 | 0.6 | 8.9 | 15.2 | IT services |
| 46 | 1446 | Korean Air | Seoul | 11.8 | −0.2 | 22.9 | 3.0 | Airline |
| 47 | 1493 | Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation | Daejeon | 4.1 | 0.8 | 9.1 | 11.3 | Consumer goods |
| 48 | 1500 | Hyundai Engineering & Construction | Seoul | 15.2 | 0.3 | 16.2 | 5.0 | Construction |
| 49 | 1532 | Daelim | Seoul | 10.0 | 0.6 | 11.5 | 3.2 | Construction |
| 50 | 1548 | GS Engineering & Construction | Seoul | 11.9 | 0.5 | 10.8 | 2.7 | Construction |
References
- "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
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