SK hynix Inc. (SKHY)

Nohjung Kwak, president and chief executive officer, has sat on the board since March 2022. He came up through manufacturing, having run the Manufacturing and Technology Division and technology and development at the Cheongju fab, and he chairs the SK Group's semiconductor committee. Seon Yong Cha, president and head of research and development and formerly head of DRAM development, joined the board in March 2026. Woo Hyun Kim is chief financial officer, after posts at SK Broadband and SK Telecom. Tae Won Chey, chairman of the SK Group, also holds the title of chairman at SK hynix, guiding its long-term vision. 1234

Independent directors must make up a majority of the board, and six of its ten members are independent; since March 2026 it has been chaired by one of them, Seung Beom Koh, a former chairman of Korea's Financial Services Commission. The SK Group controls the company all the same: SK square holds 20.50% of the shares and must by law keep at least 20%; SK Inc., which Tae Won Chey chairs and 17.90% of which he holds, owns 32.14% of SK square; and the chief executives of SK Inc. (Yong Ho Jang) and SK square (Jung Kyu Kim) sit on the board as non-executive directors. Korea's National Pension Service holds 8.06%. 567891011

At March 31, 2026 it had 47,639 full-time employees across the group, 35,321 of them in Korea, 11,333 in China and 591 in the United States; the parent company alone employed 35,929. It has collective bargaining agreements with three unions, the two largest representing 15,684 employees, under two-year agreements in effect since April 2024. A profit-sharing program pays out 10% of operating profit, and the company reports no strike or other material work stoppage in recent years. 121314