'3 Trillion Won Man' Bang Si-hyuk, Overwhelming Stock Billionaire No.1... 34 Members in the 10 Billion Won Club of Culture and Content Industry

2nd and 3rd are JYP Park Jin-young and YG Yang Hyun-suk
All BTS members included

The richest stockholder among major domestic culture and content sectors is Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of HYBE, whose stock valuation has surpassed 3 trillion won.

On the 18th, Korea CXO Research Institute, a corporate analysis specialist, announced the results of a survey on individual shareholders of cultural content production and distribution companies in fields such as movies, albums, dramas, webtoons, and web novels among listed companies in Korea. The stock valuation is based on the closing price of common stocks (excluding preferred stocks) as of the 12th, and only stocks held in a single company were considered. Related sectors such as games, characters, entertainment, and travel were excluded from the survey.

Bang Si-hyuk, Chairman of HYBE [Photo by HYBE]

Chairman Bang holds 13,151,394 shares of HYBE, and his stock assets were valued at 3.0774 trillion won. Compared to the stock valuation of 2.5684 trillion won recorded on February 10, Chairman Bang's stock assets increased by approximately 509 billion won over 10 months.

Chairman Bang's stock assets were 6.1 times larger than those of Park Jin-young (501.8 billion won), JYP's Chief Creative Officer (CCO), who ranked second, and 18.3 times greater than Yang Hyun-suk (168.5 billion won), founder of YG Entertainment, who ranked third.

The survey found that there are 34 individual shareholders with stock assets exceeding 10 billion won among major domestic culture and content-related stock items. All seven members of BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan) were included in the 10 billion won club. The BTS members, born in the 1990s, hold between 52,385 and 68,385 shares of HYBE.

Suga (Min Yoon-gi), Jimin (Park Ji-min), V (Kim Tae-hyung), and Jungkook (Jeon Jung-kook) each hold 68,385 shares. Based on the closing price of 234,000 won on the 12th, the individual stock valuation of these four members exceeded 16 billion won.

J-Hope (Jung Ho-seok) and RM (Kim Nam-joon) were evaluated to hold 62,784 shares worth 14.6 billion won and 58,000 shares worth 13.5 billion won, respectively. Jin (Kim Seok-jin), who holds the fewest shares, was found to own 52,385 shares valued at over 12.2 billion won.