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By Park Si-soo
One in four executives at Korea's top 30 companies holds a foreign university diploma and their average age is 53, a report showed on Thursday.
The finding was based on recruiting information provider Job Korea's analysis of published documents containing information about 2,962 executives at the 30 biggest companies in terms of 2018 market capital.
The number of foreign diploma holders was up 3 percent from 2016, the report showed. It did not provide a breakdown of the schools they graduated from.
Among domestic degree holders, Seoul National University graduates accounted for the biggest portion ― 11.1 percent or 329. Yonsei University ranked second with 6.9 percent or 204, followed by Korea University (6.7 percent or 198), KAIST (6.2 percent or 183), Hanyang University (4.7 percent or 139), Sungkyunkwan University (131 or 4.4 percent) and Pusan National University (120 or 4.1 percent).
The average age of the executives was 52.9 ― 73.3 percent of them were in their 50s, 21.2 percent in their 40s and 5.3 percent in their 60s.
Executives in their 30s accounted for only 0.3 percent or 9, and they worked at Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, Celltrion, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea Zinc or Netmarble.
Men overwhelmingly dominated executive seats with 95.7 percent.
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