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Hive Chairman and ‘Squid Game’ Actor’s Stock Wealth Plummet as Cultural and Content Stocks Decrease

Due to the ‘Min Hee-jin incident’, Hive’s stock price has been falling, and Hive Chairman Bang Si-hyuk’s stock wealth has fallen by more than KRW 500 billion in 4 months. It was found that the stock wealth of actor Lee Jung-jae, who gained great popularity by appearing in ‘Squid Game’, evaporated by 27 billion that he earned in four months.

According to the ‘Survey on the status of individual shareholders with a stock valuation of KRW 10 billion or more among major domestic cultural and content stocks’ published the previous day by the Korea CXO Research Institute, a company analysis expert, on the 9th, total valuation the stock of the 30 shareholders who joined the ‘KRW 10 billion club’ was KRW 3 trillion. Due to the weak stock price, it decreased to about 857.8 billion won from 4.7057 trillion won at the beginning of the year. This survey targeted domestic listed companies that produce or distribute cultural content and content such as films, albums, dramas, web-owns, and web novels. The stock valuation was calculated based solely on the number of stocks held in the culture and content sectors based on the closing price of common stocks on the 2nd.

Among them, the leader in stock wealth was Hive Chairman Bang Si-hyuk, who owned 13,151,394 shares of Hive stock. Based on the valuation on the 2nd of this month, it holds stocks worth 2.63 trillion won. However, due to the drop in Hive’s stock price, Chairman Bang’s stock wealth decreased by 545.7 billion won (17.2%) compared to 3.176 trillion won at the beginning of the year. Compared to 3.7415 trillion won on May 2 last year, a year ago, it decreased more than 1.1 trillion won.

JYP Entertainment’s largest shareholder, CEO Jin-young Park, producer and COO (Chief Creative Executive) came in second, owning 365.7 billion which earned JYP’s stock value. Representative Park stock assets also decreased by 182 billion won (33.2%) in four months from 547.7 billion won at the beginning of this year.

YG Entertainment executive producer Yang Hyun-seok came third in terms of stock wealth with 154 billion won. YG Entertainment’s stock price also fell by more than 10% since the beginning of this year, but its stock valuation increased by 4.2 billion won (2.8%) as the number of stocks held by the two executive producers increased during the same period.

Next, D&C Media board chairman Shin Hyun-ho (KRW 95.7 billion), Hive executive director Scooter Braun (KRW 72.4 billion), D&C Media shareholder Lee Mi-ja (KRW 50.8 billion), Danal Chairman Park Sung-chan (KRW 47.2 billion). ), Kim Yong-hwa, the largest shareholder of Dexter Studio (KRW 34.6 billion), and Kim Woo-taek NEW Chairman (KRW 33.5 billion) and Corpus Korea CEO Oh Young-seop (KRW 33.4 billion) are among the top 10 rich people in culture and content stocks.

Lee Jung-jae, who is due to release the new Star Wars series ‘Acolyte’ on Disney Plus next month, was excluded from the list of rich stocks in related industries because it is not a culture or content stock , but was found to hold stock assets in the billions. Lee Jeong-jae is Artist Unite’s largest shareholder, and is said to own 42.8 billion won, including 6.2 billion won in Raemongraein stock, totaling 49 billion won in stock assets. At the beginning of this year, the combined stock valuation of Lee Jeong-jae from Artists United and Raemongrae reached 76.1 billion won, but it was recently found that the stock value has dropped more than 27 billion won.

Reporter Kwon Yi-sun 2sun@segye.com

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