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Korea's "biggest company" ranking measures hope, not output
Korea's largest-firm ranking is by market capitalization — a priced bet on the future, not what a company makes, employs, or earns. We call it capital intensity, not productivity. Here is why the ranking misleads.
Most Korea market-cap rankings count Samsung twice — here is the list when you do not
Samsung Electronics is 29% of the Korean stock market and SK hynix 21% — nearly half between them. Most rankings count Samsung twice, because its preferred shares list separately, pushing the true tenth firm off the table.
Four stocks are half of Korea's entire stock market
Of 2,764 listed companies, the four biggest are 52% of all market value and the top ten are 60%. Samsung alone is a quarter. Meanwhile 1,822 KOSDAQ names together are just 7%. Korea's market is a few giants and a very long tail. Not advice.
Market value per employee ranges 3,100-fold across Korean firms. Almost all of it is an artifact.
Divide a company's market cap by its staff and the spread is absurd — 3,100 times. Remove the holding companies and pre-revenue biotech, and what survives is a 17-fold gap between industries: capital intensity, not what anyone produced.