Forbes Global 2000: South Korea’s Largest Companies
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The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of South Korean companies featured on the list in 2013.
The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.
In total, there were 64 South Korean companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $684 billion, with $2.989 billion in assets; generating $1.356 trillion in revenues and $66 billion in profits.
The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of South Korean companies featured on the list in 2013.
The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.
In total, there were 64 South Korean companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $684 billion, with $2.989 billion in assets; generating $1.356 trillion in revenues and $66 billion in profits.
Click on the companies’ names to find out more information on the company, including the type of industry it is in and its listing name in the stock exchange.
Alternatively, you can browse other Forbes Global 2000 companies, by country, at the end of this article.
| Global Rank | Company | Sales ($billion) |
Profits ($billion) |
Assets ($billion) |
Market Value ($billion) |
| 20 | Samsung Electronics | 187.8 | 21.7 | 196.3 | 174.4 |
| 89 | Hyundai Motor | 75 | 7.6 | 114.3 | 41.5 |
| 184 | Posco | 56.5 | 2.2 | 74.5 | 22.9 |
| 251 | Shinhan Financial Group | 16.3 | 2.1 | 277.5 | 17.2 |
| 268 | Kia Motors | 42 | 3.4 | 30.5 | 19.8 |
| 278 | Hyundai Mobis | 28.9 | 3.3 | 28.1 | 26.4 |
| 327 | KB Financial Group | 15.6 | 1.5 | 265.1 | 13.2 |
| 330 | Samsung Life Insurance | 19.1 | 0.8 | 142.2 | 17.7 |
| 366 | SK Innovation | 65.1 | 1.1 | 31.8 | 13.7 |
| 379 | Hyundai Heavy Industries | 48.8 | 0.9 | 46.3 | 11.6 |
| 383 | Woori Finance Holdings | 15.2 | 1.4 | 306.2 | 9 |
| 405 | SK Holdings | 106.3 | 0.9 | 85.2 | 7 |
| 431 | Hana Financial Group | 12.5 | 1.5 | 263.9 | 8.5 |
| 470 | Lotte Shopping | 22.2 | 1 | 34.6 | 10.3 |
| 482 | LG Chem | 21.9 | 1.4 | 15.4 | 16.2 |
| 548 | Korea Electric Power | 43.9 | -2.8 | 129.3 | 17.4 |
| 550 | KT Corp | 21.1 | 0.9 | 32.4 | 8.1 |
| 555 | SK Telecom | 14.5 | 1 | 24.1 | 11.5 |
| 593 | Industrial Bank of Korea | 9.3 | 1 | 185.9 | 6.4 |
| 612 | Samsung Fire & Marine | 14.7 | 0.7 | 34.5 | 8.2 |
| 695 | Samsung C&T | 23.8 | 0.4 | 24.2 | 8.5 |
| 730 | LG Electronics | 45.3 | 0.1 | 29.6 | 11.6 |
| 762 | S-Oil | 30.8 | 0.5 | 11.7 | 9.4 |
| 773 | Hyundai Steel | 13.3 | 0.7 | 21.4 | 6.3 |
| 781 | LG Corp | 8.7 | 0.8 | 15.1 | 10.2 |
| 795 | Samsung Heavy Industries | 12.9 | 0.7 | 15.6 | 7.5 |
| 824 | LG Display | 26.1 | 0.2 | 23 | 10.4 |
| 828 | Hanwha Life Insurance | 9.4 | 0.5 | 61 | 5.3 |
| 858 | Korea Gas | 31.1 | 0.3 | 34.3 | 4.7 |
| 951 | SK Hynix | 9.6 | -0.1 | 17.1 | 18 |
| 1026 | Hyundai Engineering | 11.8 | 0.5 | 12 | 6.4 |
| 1197 | Samsung SDI | 5.1 | 1.3 | 10.2 | 5.5 |
| 1203 | GS Holdings | 8.7 | 0.4 | 12 | 5.4 |
| 1219 | E-mart | 11.3 | 0.4 | 11.5 | 5.4 |
| 1234 | Hyundai Glovis | 10.4 | 0.4 | 4 | 6.7 |
| 1276 | Lotte Chemical | 14.1 | 0.3 | 9.8 | 6.5 |
| 1278 | CJ Corp | 15.7 | 0.2 | 20.1 | 3.6 |
| 1352 | DSME | 12.5 | 0.2 | 15.2 | 5 |
| 1354 | Hyundai Marine & Fire | 8.1 | 0.4 | 16 | 2.3 |
| 1373 | Korean Air | 11.3 | 0.2 | 21.6 | 2.6 |
| 1374 | Dongbu Insurance | 8.2 | 0.3 | 15.6 | 2.5 |
| 1376 | Samsung Engineering | 10.8 | 0.5 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 1442 | KT&G | 3.7 | 0.7 | 6.3 | 8.4 |
| 1444 | Hanwha Corp | 10.2 | 0.3 | 14.9 | 2.1 |
| 1471 | Samsung Electro-Mechanic | 7 | 0.4 | 6.5 | 6.4 |
| 1477 | NHN | 2.1 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 10.4 |
| 1479 | Daelim Industrial | 9.6 | 0.4 | 10.2 | 2.8 |
| 1491 | SK Networks | 24.8 | 0 | 10 | 1.7 |
| 1508 | Samsung Card | 3.3 | 0.7 | 15.3 | 4.1 |
| 1533 | BS Financial Group | 2.1 | 0.3 | 38.6 | 2.8 |
| 1586 | Hyosung | 11.2 | 0.1 | 12.9 | 1.6 |
| 1622 | Doosan Infracore | 7.2 | 0.4 | 10.5 | 2.3 |
| 1660 | Korea Zinc | 4.9 | 0.5 | 4.6 | 5.7 |
| 1683 | STX Offshore | 10 | 0.1 | 12.1 | 0.5 |
| 1725 | LIG Insurance | 8 | 0.2 | 13.9 | 1.1 |
| 1742 | Doosan Heavy Industries | 8.6 | 0 | 12.6 | 3.5 |
| 1786 | CJ Cheiljedang | 8.8 | 0.2 | 11.6 | 4 |
| 1801 | Hanjin Shipping | 10 | -0.6 | 10.3 | 1.3 |
| 1810 | LG Uplus | 10.2 | -0.1 | 9.9 | 3.5 |
| 1829 | DGB Financial Group | 1.7 | 0.2 | 32.2 | 2 |
| 1840 | LS Corp | 10.6 | 0.2 | 9.5 | 2.6 |
| 1881 | GS Engineering | 8.3 | 0.1 | 10.8 | 2.3 |
| 1942 | Hyundai Wia | 6.2 | 0.4 | 4.3 | 4 |
| 1992 | LG International | 11.4 | 0.2 | 4.7 | 1.4 |
All Forbes Global 2000 Companies – By Country
