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is not a day or two to be listed as an unregistered executive of the head family, who only takes care of their position and high salaries while avoiding legal responsibility. Although transparent governance is more emphasized than ever in corporate management, this practice has not changed.



Reporter Han Sang-woo reports.



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Shinsegae Chairman Lee Myung-hee and her husband, Honorary Chairman Jeong Jae-eun, Vice Chairman Jeong Yong-jin, and General President Jeong Yoo-kyung are all unregistered executives.



However, in the first half of this year, the salaries of these family members are over 7.9 billion won.



Vice Chairman Yong-Jin Jung alone is paid more than twice as much as the CEO who is a professional manager.



[Kim Woo-chan/Professor, Korea University Business School: Excessive, because I get paid several times that of professional managers with the same experience. (In the Capital Market Act) the standards and procedures for setting remuneration are required to be disclosed. But I do, but I'm doing it stupidly. very vaguely... .]



CJ Chairman Lee Jae-hyun received 3.85 billion won in the first half of the year as an unregistered executive at five affiliates.



My sister Lee Mi-kyung, vice chairman, and the wife, eldest daughter and son-in-law all received high salaries as unregistered directors of affiliates.



Hanwha Chairman Seung-yeon Kim, who returned to management after 7 years, also received 3 billion won from three affiliates as an unregistered executive.



Of the 106 listed companies in the top 10 group, more than 13% of them are unregistered executives.



If we expand to 60 groups, 35% or 21 people, or 1 in 3 people, are unregistered executives.



Criticism is raised that while maintaining authority and status and setting high remuneration, it does not take on the legal responsibilities granted by the Commercial Act.



A representative of a large corporation even said that the registration status is not important because the major shareholder has unlimited liability.



[Ahn Sang-hee/Director of the Responsible Investment Center, Daeshin Economic Research Institute: Because of the Korean corporate governance and centralized ownership structure, the idea that business can be done without registration and the fact that registration can avoid legal responsibility … .] As



ESG becomes a hot topic in the economic world, transparency in governance is emphasized more and more.



(Video coverage: Kim Gyun-jong, video editing: Park Soo-seon)