A survey found that Samsung Electronics regained the No. 1 spot as the "corporation where Korean office workers most want to work" after three years.
On the 1st, Blind, an anonymous community platform for office workers, said an analysis of 236,106 responses to its "Top 100 corporations people most want to work for" survey from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 last year showed Samsung Electronics ranked first.
It is the first time in three years since 2022 that Samsung Electronics has topped this category.
Looking at the companies and job statuses of respondents who chose Samsung Electronics as the corporation they most want to work for, many were employees of LG Electronics and civil servants.
Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor, which had held No. 1 for two years since 2023, fell to sixth in this survey.
Kia, which rose from eighth in 2023 to fourth in 2024, climbed two more spots this time to take second place.
Coupang and SK hynix maintained third and fifth, respectively, for the second straight year following the year before last. Viva Republica, operator of Toss, jumped three spots to seize fourth.
Rounding out seventh to 10th were Hanwha Aerospace, Naver, Hyundai AutoEver and POSCO, in that order.
Overall, manufacturing sectors related to semiconductors, automobiles and defense, and large IT-based corporations were cited as the most popular fields.
Expanding the scope to the top 20 shows many state-run corporations included, such as Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) (12th), Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) (13th), Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL) (15th), Seoul Metro (17th) and National Health Insurance Service (18th).
Preference was also high for the gaming industry, such as Nexon (11th) and Krafton (14th), and for finance and IT platform corporations, including Bithumb (16th), KakaoBank (19th) and Karrot Market (20th).
A Blind data analysis manager said, "Last year particularly stood out for the popularity of large manufacturing job categories and the finance and IT sectors," adding, "Looking at the keywords mentioned alongside these corporations, performance-based compensation systems appear to have heightened industry interest."
However, the manager noted, "Only a very small number of corporations maintain this level of attention over the long term," and added, "They share the common trait of consistently narrowing the gap between employees' actual experiences and external expectations."