Hyundai Heavy Industries executives made up of 14% from Seoul National University, 12.5% from Pusan National University and 8.5% from Yeungnam University
Many executives in KEPCO and Samsung Life Insurance as well
[2008-9-11]
Yeungnam University alumni have been reported to work as executives in many large conglomerates in Korea such as Hyundai Heavy Industries, KEPCO, Samsung Life Insurance, etc.
According to JobKorea, an online recruiting company (www.jobkorea.co.kr), data submitted by the top 30 companies in their 2008 quarterly report to the Financial Supervisory Service showed that Yeungnam University alumni was third in the 200 executives at Hyundai Heavy Industries. 8.5% (17) of Hyundai Heavy Industries executives were students at Yeungnam University, which was third only after Seoul National University at 14% (28) and Pusan National University at 12.5% (25). Following Yeungnam University was Hanyang University at 7.5% (15) and Ulsan University at 7% (14).
Yeungnam University alumni also took up 11.1% at KEPCO executives, following Korea University (22.2%) and Seoul National University (16.7%). Following was Yonsei, Sungkyunkwan, Kyungpook and Konkuk University (each at 5.6%).
For executives at Samsung Life Insurance, Yeungnam was tied for third with Korea University at 9.1%, following alumni from foreign universities (22.1%) and Seoul National University (16.9%). Following Yeungnam was Yonsei University and other 4-year universities in Korea at 6.5%.
JobKorea analyzed the results of the education for 1,849 executives at the top 30 revenue companies in Korea, which showed that the highest percentage were from foreign universities at 14.4% (267).
