June 22, 2026

SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company

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For a quarter of a century, the most valuable company in South Korea was Samsung Electronics, and the question was never really open. On Wednesday it became open, and then it closed the other way. SK Hynix, the smaller of the country’s two memory-chi...