Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
The largest company in terms of liquid assets was Samsung at 85,900.5 billion won, followed by Hyundai Motor (59,288.7 billion won), LG (30,815.4 billion won), SK (20,175.1 billion won), and Hyundai Heavy Industries (17,361.1 billion won).
Liquid assets are defined as those assets that can be cashed out in one year, including cash, ordinary account deposits, temporarily held securities, goods, inventories, raw materials, and money paid in advance. The reason the liquid asset balance has risen so much for the past two years was the companies had few investment outlets due to uncertainties in domestic and international markets.