The Top 300 Companies Increased Employment by 18,000 in One Year... Samsung Electronics Hired 6,000 More

CXO Research Institute Survey... Number of Employees in the First Half Increased by About 18,000 Compared to Last Year
Samsung Electronics Ranks 1st with an Increase of 6,166 Employees... Female Employee Growth Rate Rises by 6.6%

The number of employees in the top 300 domestic companies increased by about 18,000 compared to a year ago in the first half of the year. Samsung Electronics had the largest increase with about 6,000 employees.

The Korea CXO Institute, a corporate analysis specialist organization, announced data on employment changes in the top 400 domestic companies on the 5th. They surveyed a total of 300 companies, 30 from each of 10 industries ranked by sales.

The total number of employees in these companies in the first half of the year was 1,085,399. This is an increase of 18,162 (1.7%) from the first half of last year (1,067,237). Among the 300 surveyed companies, 185 (61.7%) increased their number of employees compared to the first half of last year, while 115 (38.3%) decreased.

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong inspecting the multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) production plant at Samsung Electro-Mechanics' Tianjin site in China on March 24.
[Photo by Yonhap News]

Samsung Electronics saw the largest increase in employees in the first half of the year. As of the first half, it had 124,070 employees, up 6,166 (5.2%) from 117,904 in the first half of last year. SK Hynix (1,622), Hyundai Motor Company (847), CJ Freshway (801), Hyundai AutoEver (630), T'way Air (541), Samsung C&T Corporation (525), LG Chem (502), and others also increased their workforce by more than 500 employees. On the other hand, LG Display (1,065), E-Mart (952), KT (746), LG Electronics (594), Naver (567), and Lotte Shopping (556) reduced their number of employees by more than 500.

A notable feature was that the growth rate of female employees was more than twice that of male employees. The number of female employees in the 300 companies increased by 8,090 (2.9%) from 275,388 in the first half of last year to 283,478 in the first half of this year. Male employees increased by 10,072 (1.3%) from 791,849 to 801,921. The proportion of female employees also rose by 0.3 percentage points from 25.8% in the first half of last year to 26.1% in the first half of this year.

The company that hired the most female employees was Samsung Electronics. The number of female employees increased by 2,010 (6.6%) from 30,638 in the first half of last year to 32,648 in the first half of this year. Male employees increased by 4,156 (4.8%) from 87,266 to 91,422. As of the first half, 28 companies had a female employee ratio of over 50%. Companies such as Shinsegae International (76.3%), CJ Freshway (70.9%), Youngone Corporation (69.1%), Shinsegae (68.2%), Lotte Shopping (67.1%), Ottogi (65.8%), and Amorepacific (64.9%) had female workforce ratios exceeding 60%.

By industry, the number of employees increased most in transportation (7,723), food (2,489), automotive (1,738), construction (1,137), and pharmaceuticals (955). Meanwhile, petrochemicals (475), metal and steel (391), distribution trading companies (227), and finance (193) saw decreases.

Samsung Electronics also ranked first in the number of employees by company. As of the first half, it had 124,070 employees, accounting for 11.4% of the total employees among the 300 companies. Hyundai Motor Company (71,520; 6.6%), Kia (35,438; 3.3%), LG Electronics (34,198; 3.2%), SK Hynix (32,217; 3%), LG Display (28,380; 2.6%), E-Mart (23,295; 2.1%), Lotte Shopping (20,122; 1.9%), KT (20,117; 1.9%), and Korean Air (17,839; 1.6%) were also in the top 10.

The top 10 companies employed 407,196 people, accounting for 37.5% of the total 1,085,399 employees in the 300 companies.

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