Among founders of newly listed corporations since 2020, the top 100 by stock value were tallied at about 22.5 trillion won, with HYBE Chair Bang Si-hyuk taking the No. 1 spot among stock tycoons.
On the 15th, CEO Score, a corporate data research institute, examined the stock value (based on the closing price at the end of September) of founders of corporations newly listed since 2020 as of the end of September this year, and found that the total stock value held by the top 100 was 22.4836 trillion won. Those who inherited equity or a company from parents, and founders of companies listed before 2020, were excluded.
Bang Si-hyuk, chair of HYBE, ranks No. 1. Bang holds 31.6% of HYBE's shares, worth 3.4983 trillion won as of the end of September this year. That accounts for 15.6% of the total stock value of the top 100 new stock tycoons.
Founder Kim Byung-hoon, CEO of APR, a cosmetics company, ranked second with a stock value of 2.9884 trillion won.
KRAFTON Chair Jang Byung-gyu recorded a stock value of 2.0866 trillion won, placing third.
▲ No. 4 Park Dong-seok, CEO of Sanil Electric (1.2073 trillion won) ▲ No. 5 Kim Hyun-tae, CEO of VORONOI (1.0777 trillion won) ▲ No. 6 Kim Hyung-tae, CEO of SHIFT UP (930.2 billion won) ▲ No. 7 Kim Sung-woon, CEO of SILICON2 (873.8 billion won) ▲ No. 8 Ban Sung-yeon, CEO of d'Alba Global (318.2 billion won) ▲ No. 9 Oh Jun-ho, co-founder of Rainbow Robotics (297.9 billion won) ▲ No. 10 Lee Seul-gi, CEO of D&D Pharmatech (284.2 billion won) followed.
Among the 100 surveyed, only two were women: Park So-yeon, chair of Prestige Biopharma, and Kim Joo-hee, CEO of Inventage Lab.
Among the 92 individuals whose educational background could be verified (bachelor's degree level), Seoul National University graduates were the most with 15 (16.3%). Next were Yonsei University (8, 8.7%), KAIST (6, 6.5%), Hanyang University (5, 5.4%), and Korea University and Kyunghee University (4 each, 4.3%).
By major, science and engineering led with 66 (71.7%), followed by business and economics (14, 15.2%), humanities (5, 5.4%), medicine and pharmacy (4, 4.3%), and other (3, 3.3%).