Korean listed companies, ranked

Every listed company in Korea files the same workforce table once a year: how many people it employs, how long they stay, and what they are paid, split by sex. Almost nobody reads it, because it sits inside a PDF in Korean. Here is all of it, sorted however you like.

Download the whole table (CSV)2,862 companies · fiscal year 2025 · free, no sign-up. Source and definitions are in the file header. For the workforce-wide pay ladder this joins to, see the National Pension wage panel.

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#	Company	Average tenure	Employees	Industry
1	WINIA Co., Ltd. 071460	26.46	240	Electrical equipment
2	KG Mobility Corp. 003620	25.31	4,126	Motor vehicles
3	YOOSUNG ENTERPRISE CO.,LTD 002920	23.83	537	Motor vehicles
4	SEOUL CITY GAS CO.,LTD 017390	23.50	499	Electricity and gas
5	SJM CO.,LTD 123700	23.16	287	Motor vehicles
6	SJG SEJONG CO.,LTD 033530	22.63	617	Motor vehicles
7	SNT MOTIV CO.,LTD 064960	22.25	536	Motor vehicles
8	KISCO Corp. 104700	22.20	299	Basic metals
9	KIA CORPORATION 000270	20.76	36,566	Motor vehicles
10	DAESUNG ENERGY CO.,LTD 117580	20.72	383	Electricity and gas
11	AUSTEM CO.,LTD 031510	20.20	293	Motor vehicles
12	MOTONIC CORPORATION 009680	19.78	278	Motor vehicles
13	INCHON CITY GAS 034590	19.51	206	Electricity and gas
14	HITEJINRO HOLDINGS CO., LTD 000140	19.45	11	Financial services
15	Union Materials Corp. 047400	19.44	242	Non-metallic minerals
16	Citibank Korea Inc. 016830	19.43	1,498	Financial services
17	Dongwon Mobility CO.,LTD 018500	19.43	532	Motor vehicles
18	KT CORPORATION 030200	19.27	14,701	Telecommunications
19	YOUNGBO CHEMICAL CO.,LTD 014440	19.22	234	Rubber and plastics
20	Shinhan Card Co.,Ltd 032710	19.21	2,440	Financial services
21	MICHANG OIL IND CO.,LTD 003650	19.05	84	Coke and refined petroleum
22	SAMWONSTEEL Co.,Ltd. 023000	19.04	276	Motor vehicles
23	TBC 033830	19.03	114	Broadcasting
24	DAECHANG FORGING CO.,LTD 015230	18.84	85	Motor vehicles
25	PaperCorea Inc. 001020	18.84	158	Pulp and paper
26	ASIA HOLDINGS CO.,LTD 002030	18.83	10	Professional services
27	SeoSanCo.Ltd. 079650	18.78	63	Non-metallic minerals
28	YOULCHON CHEMICAL CO.,LTD 008730	18.71	654	Rubber and plastics
29	Hanon Systems 018880	18.65	2,223	Machinery and equipment
30	DY POWER Corporation 210540	18.62	363	Machinery and equipment
31	ECOPLASTIC CORPORATION 038110	18.52	625	Motor vehicles
32	HL Mando CO.,LTD 204320	18.42	3,828	Motor vehicles
33	Daegu Department Store Co., Ltd 006370	18.37	127	Retail trade
34	KOREAN AIR LINES CO.,LTD 003490	18.36	18,318	Air transport
35	HITE JINRO 000080	18.30	2,935	Beverages
36	TK CHEMICAL CORPORATION 104480	18.26	162	Chemicals
37	KT&G Corporation 033780	18.21	4,331	—
38	KEC CORPORATION 092220	18.20	542	Electronics and telecom equipment
39	KUMHO TIRE CO., INC. 073240	18.17	5,463	Rubber and plastics
40	Standard Chartered Bank Korea Ltd 000110	18.02	3,352	Financial services
41	KOREA MOVENEX CO., LTD. 010100	17.95	500	Motor vehicles
42	HANJIN HEAVY IND. & CONST. HOLDINGS CO., LTD 003480	17.84	7	Electricity and gas
43	HANWHA GALLERIA CORPORATION 452260	17.80	761	Retail trade
44	Kyongnam Bank Co., Ltd. 192520	17.67	2,231	Financial services
45	KR MOTORS CO., LTD 000040	17.66	41	Other transport equipment
46	DongshinEngineering&Construction 025950	17.63	668	Building construction
47	MOORIM PAPER CO.,LTD 009200	17.53	447	Pulp and paper
48	MIRAE ASSET Life Insurance CO., Ltd. 085620	17.53	793	Insurance and pensions
49	SINDOH CO.,LTD 029530	17.51	303	Electronics and telecom equipment
50	KYUNGDONG CITY GAS CO.,LTD 267290	17.50	301	Electricity and gas

How to read this table

Check the headcount column before the value column. A holding company files a pay figure for its head office — often fewer than 200 people — not for the group whose name it carries. The top of the pay ranking is mostly head offices. We wrote about exactly this.
No measure here is a verdict. Long tenure can mean a company people want to stay at, or a labour market they cannot leave. We publish the number and its direction, and leave the interpretation where it belongs.
A blank is not a zero. Where a company did not file a figure, the cell is empty and the company is left out of that ranking rather than sorted to the bottom.

Sources and what we removed

Source — Financial Supervisory Service, DART Open API: the employee-status, executive-status and corporate-registry items of the 2025 annual reports. Figures are as filed by each company.
59 companies were removed for filing a figure outside any plausible range — pay above 1bn won or below 10m, or tenure above 35 years. Korean filers may enter units freely, so months arrive where years belong and thousands of won where won belong. These were removed, not corrected: a corrected figure would be ours, not theirs.
Coverage is uneven and we do not hide it. Of the 2,862 companies listed here, pay is filed by 95.9%, headcount by 97.5%, tenure by 97.1% and a datable CEO term by 85.8%. Rankings are computed on the companies that filed.
148 CEO terms are marked with an asterisk because the term filed is longer than the company has existed. That is impossible as stated, and there are two plausible reasons — the filer counted service at a predecessor or affiliate, or the incorporation date on file is a re-incorporation after a merger or spin-off. The data cannot tell us which. So these are marked, not removed and not adjusted: removing them would delete 6.2% of the column and, because they cluster at the top, would push the whole ranking down.
Executive pay is not in this table. It is disclosed separately and is not inside the average-pay figure.

Data as of 2026-08-08 08:07:39 KST · fiscal year 2025 · Not investment advice.