This year, 491 female executives in the top 100 companies... The proportion has been around 6% for 4 years

According to a survey by the Korea CXO Research Institute, the number of female executives in Korea's top 100 companies increased slightly this year compared to last year, but their share of the total has been around 6% for the fourth year in a row.

On the 9th, the Korea CXO Research Institute, which specializes in corporate analysis, investigated this year's semi-annual reports of the top 100 listed companies in sales based on separate financial statements in 2025, and found that there were 491 female executives, an increase of 3.2% (15 people) from last year (476 people).

Executives included both inside directors and unregistered executives, outside directors were excluded from the survey, and owners were included in the survey.

This is the first time that the number of female executives has reached the 490 level, but the proportion of women among all executives only increased by 0.1 percentage points to 6.6% compared to the previous year (6.5%).

The proportion of female executives in the top 100 companies has remained in the 6% range for four years, following 6.3% in 2023 and 2024 and 6.5% in 2025.

However, the number of companies producing female executives is increasing.

The number of companies with female executives reached 81 this year, an increase of 2 from last year, exceeding 80 for the first time.

The company with the most female executives was Samsung Electronics (80). Afterwards, ▲ Naver (28 people) ▲ Hyundai Motor Company (22 people) ▲ CJ CheilJedang (21 people) ▲ Samsung C&T (18 people) ▲ Mirae Asset Securities (16 people) ▲ LG Electronics, LG Chemical (13 people each) ▲ SK Hynix, SK Innovation (11 people each) ▲ Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (each) 10 people) appeared in that order.

Samsung C&T's number of female executives increased by 6 in a year from 12 as of last year's half-yearly report, and SK Hynix increased its number by 5 from 6 last year.