SK Group
| SK Group
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1953 |
| Seat | Seoul , South Korea |
| management | Cho Dae-sik |
| Branch | Conglomerate |
| Website | www.sk.com |
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| Korean alphabet : | SK 그룹 or 에스케이 그룹 |
| Revised Romanization : | SK Geurup or Eseukei Geurup |
| McCune-Reischauer : | SK Kŭrup or Esŭk'ei Kŭrup |
SK Group (formerly Sunkyung) is one of the five largest conglomerates ( Jaebeol ) in South Korea . The company headquarters are in Seoul . In 2001 the group consisted of more than 60 subsidiaries in the energy, chemical, telecommunications, logistics and finance industries, had sales of 48 billion US dollars and employed around 25,000 people.
On January 10, 2012, SK Innovation and Continental Aktiengesellschaft announced that they are planning a worldwide cooperation for drives for electric vehicles. However, the battery joint venture between the two companies was given up in 2014. The reason was the immense competition in the battery business.
In December 2012, Chey Tae-won resigned as chairman and nephew of the company's founder after 14 years at the helm.
Optical and magnetic storage media ( CD-R , DVD +/- R , cassettes ) from SKC are mainly represented on the German market .
In 2019, the SK Group was the first Jaebol to introduce the four-day week.
Divisions and Subsidiaries
Energy and chemistry
- SK innovation
- SK energy
- SK global chemical
- SK lubricants
- SK incheon petrochem
- SK trading international
- SK chemicals
- SKC
- SK E&S
- SK gas
- SK biopharmaceuticals
IT and semiconductors
- SK telecom
- Sk planet
- SK hynix
- SK broadband
- SK telesys
- SK telelink
- SK communications
Marketing and Service
- SK networks
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SK Group: Board Members ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ computerwire.com
- ↑ Continental press portal: Continental and SK Innovation want to pool their strengths in drives for electric vehicles from January 10, 2012.
- ↑ Henrik Mortsiefer: SK Continental gives up. Der Tagesspiegel, October 15, 2014, accessed on June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ SK chairman Chey steps down . The Korea Herald of December 18, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Oh Young-jin: 4-day work week in Korea: SK starts with hope, doubt. In: The Korea Times . May 21, 2019, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
