SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s tech giant, topped other local companies in the number of female executives this year, a local head hunting firm said Monday. Unico Search Inc. conducted a survey of the country’s top 100 companies in terms of sales to see how many female executives they [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of female executives at South Korea’s major companies came to 7 percent in the first quarter of 2023 following last year’s implementation of a related law, a corporate tracker said Tuesday. The number of female executives at 349 out of the country’s top 500 firms by sales [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of female executives at South Korea’s top 100 firms increased in 2021 from a year earlier to surpass the 300 mark for the first time, data showed Wednesday. Those leading companies in Asia’s fourth-largest economy had a combined 322 women executives as of end-June this year, up [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Slightly over 1 in 100 executives at South Korea’s top 30 conglomerates are women, data showed Wednesday, pointing to a high C-suite glass ceiling in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. As of end-September last year, 256 units of the leading business groups had 21 female directors, a mere 1.3 percent of [...]