Among the top 500 companies in terms of sales last year, there are 43 construction and construction material companies, a decrease by 3 companies from the previous year. With sales growth, 5 companies including Woomi Construction and Jungheung Construction joined the top 500 companies newly and 8 companies Aju and Dongwoo were delisted due to decrease in earnings and conversion to a holding company.

According to the ‘2019 Top 500 Companies (based on sales in 2018)’ published by CEO Score, a corporate business performance evaluation site on May 15, there are 43 construction and construction material companies included in the list. The sales of the 500^th company was KRW 924.6 billion.

First, Samsung C&T ranked highest in the construction and construction material business. Samsung C&T (sales of KRW 31.5564 trillion) ranked 15^th out of top 500 companies, one notch down from last year (14^th). Hyundai E&C (sales of KRW 16.7309 won) ranked second in construction business and 39^th out of top 500 companies (36^th, previous year). GS E&C ranked third in the construction industry (sales of KRW 13.1394 trillion).

DL E&C (56^th), Daewoo E&C (58^th), SK ecoplant (82^nd) and POSCO E&C (88^th) were included in the top 100 companies but their rank decreased from the previous year.

Lotte Engineering & Construction (102^nd), Taeyoung (144^th), Hanwha E&C (147^th), Kolon Global (164^th), LG Hausys (167^th) and HDC (191^st) were included in the top 200 companies.

Jungheung Construction (204^th), Kyeryong Construction Industrial (230^th), Hanshin Engineering (243^rd), IS DONGSEO (285^th) were listed in the top 300 companies and Hoban Construction (304^th), Bando Construction (311^st), Doosan E&C (314^th), Ssangyong E&C(321^st), Etec E&C (326^th), Booyoung Housing (329^th), Eugene Crop. (332^nd), MDM Group (334^th), Kumho E&C (345^th), Halla (358^th), Unicity (369^th), DS Networks (385^th) and Ssangyong E&C (394^th) were listed as top 400 companies.