Tuesday 29 April 2008

8. Salaries in Korea according to corporations and occupation


The amount of salary is one of the subjects university students are concerned with.

What is the average salary and of the Koreans?

Koreans say we have almost reached $20,000 income per head. How much of this is it true? According to the most recent statistics, Hyundai Motors and Kia Motors shared first slace of highest starting salary with KRWON 38,590,000. Followed by Hyundai Contruction, GS Construction, Woori Bank, City Bank Korea, Dae Lim and Daewoo shipbuilding and marine engineering with the starting salary of KRWON 34,000,000. Samsung electronics and Posco ranked 44th with KRWON 30,000,000 and LG electronics had slightly higher salary with KRWON 31,500,000.


According to the research carried out by Ministry of Labor, Pilot(Ship) had highest income over all other occupations with KRWON 91,470,000. The next ten were

2 opthalmologist with KRWON 70,690,000

3 University President with KRWON 68,890,000

4 Laywer with KRWON 68,840,000

5 Director, or Executive of a company with KRWON 63,330,000

6 Surgeon with KRWON 58,160,000

7 Dentist with KRWON 57,950,000

8 Executives of the Administration with KRWON 56,840,000

9 Phychiatrist 56,780,000

10 Otorhinolaryngologist with KRWON 56,610,000


These are only average figures and surprisingly the occupation with the lowest income was 전도사 with lower income than shoe fixer. The occupation with the highest income ship pilot had been holding the first place for the highest income for a long time, which was least expected by most of the students.


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