SK Group

SK Group

The SK Group Headquarters in January 2014
Native name	에스케이그룹
Company type	Private
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	8 April 1953; 71 years ago (1953-04-08)
Founder	Chey Jong-gun
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Chey Tae-won (Chairman & CEO) Cho Dae-sik (Chairman of the SUPEX Council (de facto head))[1]
Products	Energy and chemicals, telecommunications, information technology, trading and services, semiconductors
Subsidiaries	SK Innovation SK Telecom SK Hynix SK Inc.
Website	www.sk.com/en/

SK Group (Korean: SK그룹, 에스케이그룹) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing and services conglomerate headquartered in Seoul. A chaebol (Korean family-owned conglomerate), SK Group is second largest such conglomerate by revenue in South Korea, after Samsung Group. Through a number of subsidiaries, it is engaged in various businesses, including manufacture of chemicals and petrochemicals, semiconductors, flash memory and miscellaneous information technology, as well providing telecommunications services worldwide among its other less notable ventures.

The conglomerate is composed of 186 subsidiaries and affiliates that share the SK brand name and the group's management culture, named SKMS (SK Management System). It changed its name from Sunkyong Group (Korean: 선경그룹, Hanja: 鮮京그룹) to SK Group in 1998. The group is controlled by estate of Chey Tae-won through a holding company, SK Inc. The cornerstone of SK Group is its energy and chemicals division.^[2]

While its largest businesses are primarily involved in the energy, petroleum, and chemical industries, the group also owns the nation's largest wireless mobile phone service provider SK Telecom, and provides services in construction, marketing, local telephone communications, high-speed internet, and wireless broadband WiBro. Since 2012, SK Hynix, one of the world's largest random access memory and semiconductor manufacturers, has also been majority owned by the group.