List Of Companies Of South Korea

South Korea is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Highly urbanized at 92%, South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle; half of them live in high-rises concentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents and the world's sixth-leading global city with the fourth-largest economy and seventh-most sustainable city in the world.

Driven by a Programme for International Student Assessment, highly educated and skilled workforce, it has the world's Developed country#Gallup median household and per-capita income, eighth-highest median household income, the highest in Asia, and its singles in particular Developed country#Net take-home pay of OECD members, earn more than all G7 nations. Globally, it ranks highly in List of countries by intentional homicide rate, personal safety, job security, and List of countries by quality of health care, healthcare quality, with the world's List of countries by life expectancy, third-highest Healthy Life Years, health adjusted life expectancy and fourth-most efficient healthcare system. It is the world's List of countries by research and development spending, largest spender on R&D per GDP, leading the OECD in graduates in science and engineering and ranking third in the Youth Wellbeing Index. Home of Samsung, LG and Hyundai Motor Group, Hyundai-Kia, South Korea was named the world's most innovative country in the Bloomberg Innovation Index, ranking first in List of countries by business R&D intensity, business R&D intensity and World Intellectual Property Indicators, patents filed per GDP. As of 2014, it has the world's List of countries by average Internet connection speed, fastest Internet speed and List of countries by smartphone penetration, highest smartphone ownership, ranking first in ICT Development Index, ICT Development, e-Government and List of countries by 4G LTE penetration, 4G LTE coverage.

For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Types of business entity#Korea, South, Business entities in South Korea".

Largest firms

This list shows firms in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks firms by total revenues reported before March 31, 2017. Only the top five firms (if available) are included as a sample.

Notable firms

This list includes notable company, companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ced operations are included and noted as defunct.

File:Gangnam Seoul January 2009.jpg, Gangnam District, Gangnam Commercial Area.
File:Hyundai car assembly line.jpg, Hyundai Motor Company, Hyundai automotive assembly line.
File:Hanjin Spain (7892310174).jpg, ''Hanjin Spain'' passing Hamburg.
File:Hyundai Heavy Industries ship yard, South Korea (15037403187).jpg, Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard.

See also

* Chaebeol
* Economy of South Korea
* Education in South Korea
* KOSDAQ
* KOSPI
* Mobile phone industry in South Korea

References

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