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Top tech employers in South Korea

Kakao leads South Korean tech with a Visibility score of 89.7 out of 100, level with Naver. Samsung is third. The list covers the 42 tech employers AI recommends to job seekers in South Korea.

42 employers · scores out of 100 · Data updated:

  1. 1

    Kakao

    #1 in South Korean tech#1 for Product ManagementEvery AI

    Every AI recommends it for purpose, the hiring process and culture, among others. The tech employer AI recommends most in South Korea.

    89.7
  2. 1

    Naver

    #1 in South Korean tech#1 for Cloud & Infrastructure#1 for Data & AI#1 for Product Management

    Every AI recommends it for purpose, the hiring process and culture, among others. The tech employer AI recommends most in South Korea.

    89.7
  3. 3

    Samsung

    Top 3#1 for Sales#1 for Software EngineeringEvery AI

    Every AI recommends it for leadership, career growth and inclusion, among others.

    84.6
  4. 4

    LG Electronics

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for leadership, career growth and innovation, among others.

    71.8
  5. 4

    SK hynix

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for leadership, career growth and innovation, among others.

    71.8
  6. 6

    Coupang

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for the hiring process, work-life balance and pay, among others.

    51.3
  7. 7

    Hyundai

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for job security.

    38.5
  8. 8

    LG CNS

    AI recommends it most for work-life balance and onboarding. One AI does not mention it yet.

    23.1
  9. 8

    NCSOFT

    Every AI

    Every AI recommends it for culture.

    23.1
  10. 10

    Google

    Global starEvery AI

    AI recommends it most for work-life balance, the hiring process and interviews.

    17.9
  11. 10

    Microsoft

    Global starEvery AI

    AI recommends it most for work-life balance, the hiring process and interviews.

    17.9
  12. 10

    SK Telecom

    Every AI

    AI recommends it most for purpose.

    17.9

Everyone else

13 to 28LY Corp, SK Group, Amazon, Apple and 26 moreShow
  1. 13LY Corp15.4
  2. 13SK Group15.4
  3. 15Amazon12.8
  4. 16Apple10.3
  5. 16KRAFTON10.3
  6. 16Kia10.3
  7. 16Nexon10.3
  8. 16Woowa Brothers10.3
  9. 21Baemin7.7
  10. 21Hanwha7.7
  11. 21Meta7.7
  12. 24IBM5.1
  13. 24LG Display5.1
  14. 24LY Corporation5.1
  15. 24Oracle5.1
  16. 28CJ ENM2.6
  17. 28CJ Group2.6
  18. 28Cisco2.6
  19. 28HP2.6
  20. 28Hanwha Aerospace2.6
  21. 28Intel2.6
  22. 28KT2.6
  23. 28LG2.6
  24. 28LG Uplus2.6
  25. 28Lotte2.6
  26. 28POSCO2.6
  27. 28SK Innovation2.6
  28. 28Salesforce2.6
  29. 28Samsung SDI2.6
  30. 28Sk Square2.6

Best for what candidates ask about

The South Korean tech employer AI recommends most when candidates ask about each topic.

By role

Who AI recommends to engineers is not who it recommends to salespeople. Each role has its own ranking.

About this ranking

This is the first measurement of this ranking, so there is no earlier order to compare it with yet.

What separates the top five from the rest is onboarding and innovation: AI recommends the leaders for these far more often than the employers below them. The gap is smallest on work-life balance, where the rest of the list keeps closer to the leaders.

Across the 23 countries the index covers for tech, the leader here has the 8th highest score. Elsewhere the lead changes hands: in India, AI recommends TCS first.

More than half of the 42 employers score 7.7 or less, while a place in the top ten takes a score of 17.9. The leader's 89.7 shows how far ahead the most recommended employers sit.

Most lists of the best tech companies to work for come from employee surveys or awards. This one tracks what AI tells job seekers, because many candidates now ask AI where to work before they open a careers page.

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Questions about this ranking

What are the top tech companies to work for in South Korea?

Going by who AI recommends most to South Korean job seekers right now: Kakao, Naver, Samsung, LG Electronics and SK hynix.

Which South Korean tech employers does AI recommend for purpose?

Kakao and Naver are both named by every AI when candidates ask about purpose.

How does the Employer Visibility Index work?

We ask AI assistants the questions job seekers ask about employers, by industry, country and role. We record which employers they recommend and turn that into a Visibility score out of 100.

How often are rankings updated?

Rankings refresh with each new round of AI answers. Each page shows the date its data was updated, and the arrows next to each score show how an employer has moved since the previous measurement.

Do I need to be a PerceptionX customer to appear in the index?

No. Any employer AI recommends often enough appears automatically. Customers get the full picture behind their Visibility score and well beyond it: how positively AI describes them (Sentiment), the themes it links them with, the sources it relies on, custom reports by country and role, and clear steps to improve how candidates see them.