SK Group · Seoul South Korea

SK Group, one of South Korea's top five chaebol (industrial conglomerates), covers a broad spectrum of businesses through its affiliates. The company has about 40 affiliated companies, with operations ranging from energy, telecommunications, finance, and construction. Its energy and chemical arm, SK Energy, is Korea's largest petroleum refiner. Like other chaebol under government orders to reorganize in the wake of the Korean financial collapse of the late-1990s, SK Group has pared down its affiliates. The slimmer SK Group is focusing on three core businesses: information and telecommunications (through SK Telecom), energy and chemicals (through SK Energy), and trading and services (SK Networks). To read the full description, subscribe now.