The number of Korean companies in the world's top 5-hundred by market capitalization is down to just two.<br />According to Korea Exchange on Thursday,… South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics is ranked 20th with a market cap of 2-hundred-68 billion U.S. dollars.<br />Major chipmaker SK hynix is ranked 2-hundred-67th …with 52 billion dollars.<br />Apple leads the ranking with a market cap of one-point-two trillion dollars,… with Microsoft and Google's Alphabet making up the top three.<br />At the end of 2010,... eight Korean companies were in the top five-hundred.<br />According to analysts,... the fall can be attributed to the shift in industrial structure from manufacturing to IT …and Korea's export-dependent economy.<br />
