10 largest stock shareholders of Korea - most are from Samsung, but Hybe is included

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Korea's largest stockholders, as of Dec 19, 2025 (all figures from exchange rates as of today)

1. Jay Lee, owner of Samsung,US $16.2 Billion (all subsequent figures in USD)

2. Cho Jungho, owner of Meritz Security group, 7.4B (he is a relative of the family who owns Korean Air)

3. Hong Rahee, mother of #1, 6.8B

4. Lee Boojin, sister of #1, 6.1B

5. Lee Seohyeon, another sister of #1, 5.6B

6. Chung Mongkoo, owner of Hyundai and Kia Motors, 4.3B

7. Chung Euiseon, son of #6, 4.1B

8. Park Soonjae, owner of Alteogen Inc. a biotech company, 3.16B. He is the richest self made stockholder since he is not related to any Chaebol families.

9. Chung Mongjun, brother of #6, owning Hyundai Heavy Industries, a shipbuilding company. 2.86B

10. Bang Sihyuk, CEO of Hybe, 2.85B

So, there are 4 people related to Samsung, 3 related to Hyundai, 1 related to the family who owns Korean Air, and 2 self made richest stockholders in this ranking.

Bang is there, while his situation is in shambles and the future of BTS is very uncertain now.

(For those who will question me about why Bang is shown to be richer than Annie of ADP's family, Annie's family wealth is mostly in real estate, although she is related to Jay Lee.)

It also includes the stockholder list of those younger than 30. Most of them are scions of this tycoon or that tycoon.

Notable is in the list of Korea's richest stockholders under 30, 3 people are tied at #28. (It lists 1-10 and these 3 at #28)

They are Kim Taehyung, Park Jimin and Jeon Jungkook, who own 21.6 billion KRW of Hybe stock, or $14.9 million

(other members are older than 30, as well as the former owner of Edam Entertainment, whose compensation was noted by yours truly in this post

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Dividends collected by Korean moguls - and a nonKPop singer

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The number in the next to last column is the dividends the moguls claimed in millions of KRW.

For example, #1, Jay Lee of Samsung, was paid 346,583 million KRW of dividends. Make it 346 billion KRW, or $240 million.

#2 Chung Mongkoo, owner of Hyundai Motors, 189B KRW=$132m.
(I will only show USD figures for the others)
#3 Chung Eui-sun, son of the above, Hyundai Motors, $121m
#4 Lee Boojin, sister of Jay Lee, $103m
#5 is the mother of Jay Lee
#6 is another sister of Jay Lee
#7 Choi Taewon,…

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Apr 29th 2025

. her dividend was #13 in all of Korea.)

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Your Christmas break must horribly borring and lonly. Just like your weekends.

well, it does give me more time to research Kpop topics.

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#8 is basically the one which build empire so and because he has daughter who is already shareholder this means he started a new chaebol family

At least he is building his own chaebol family, instead of Bang who has no heirs (no one knows whehter his sister has children or not).

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soo what would be the ballpark on 1 bts member's networth? 50 million?

Shy of 100m, for sure.

Not counting Annie Moon, who is an outlier, only Jaejoong and IU broke the 100m mark

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This remind me of the daughter of Korean Hair

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Are all chaebols in Korea really as bitter as they’re portrayed in K-dramas, or is it just this ajumma?

I’m curious, lol

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The incredible thing is she was the nicest of the family

The rest of her family needs no description

Annie's grandmother, a daughter of the founder of Samsung and the aunt of Jay Lee, drove Ko Hyunjung, the actress married to her son, crazy. Ko Hyunjung is no pushover, but she had to walk out of the marriage with virtually nothing.

What is shown is just the tip of iceberg since the media knows it should not really mess around such figures who are , for all practical purposes, royalty.

Jang Kiha's family is way below that, but it is rumored (not confirmed) that the person left of this post once went to see Kiha's mother and the latter said if she wanted to get into the family she should quit showiz and become a housewife, like what Ko Hyunjung did when she was married to the department store heir. We all know what the person gracing the left of this post did.