Leaders Index Analysis... Asset Leader is Assemblyman Ahn Cheol-soo

The top stock holdings among current high-ranking officials at the vice minister level or above and 22nd National Assembly members were Samsung Electronics, Apple, Tesla, and others. The richest stockholder is Ahn Cheol-soo, a member of the People Power Party.

Members of the National Assembly and Deputy Ministers Also Hit by '50,000 Won Electronics'... Holding Samsung Electronics, Apple, and Tesla View original image

On the 22nd, Leaders Index, a corporate analysis research institute, analyzed the stock holdings from the asset disclosures of 308 government high-ranking officials at the vice minister level or above and 300 members of the 22nd National Assembly. The results showed that a majority (55.1%) of 335 individuals held stocks in their own name or in the names of their spouses or children.


Among current high-ranking officials, 183 (59.4%) held stocks in their own or family members' names, while 152 (50.7%) of the National Assembly members did so.


The most commonly held stock was Samsung Electronics. A total of 236 individuals held 175,821 shares. Based on the closing price on the 17th, the valuation was 10.49651 billion KRW. Go Dong-jin, a member of the People Power Party, held the largest amount of Samsung Electronics stock, with a total of 72,041 shares under his name and those of his spouse and children.


Following were Apple (82 people), Tesla (72 people), Kakao (65 people), Naver (48 people), Nvidia (40 people), Hyundai Motor (36 people), Microsoft (33 people), Alphabet (32 people), and LG Energy Solution (31 people).


The individual with the largest stock assets among those surveyed was Ahn Cheol-soo, the largest shareholder of AhnLab and a member of the People Power Party. Ahn reported holding 1.86 million shares of AhnLab, valued at 128.1 billion KRW.


Second was Hong Cheol-ho, Senior Secretary for Political Affairs at the Presidential Office. The value of shares in the unlisted company Plus One Co., Ltd. was 21.9 billion KRW. Third was Yoon Sang-hyun, a member of the People Power Party, who reported a total of 17.5 billion KRW in stock assets, including Samsung Electronics shares owned by himself (54.9 million KRW) and listed and unlisted stocks owned by his spouse.



Following them were Kang Eun-hee, Superintendent of Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education (unlisted company Winitech Co., Ltd., 13.9 billion KRW), and Baek Jong-hyun, a member of the People Power Party (Geumgang Industry and unlisted stocks, 12.8 billion KRW).


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