Big Firms Trump Small in Production Growth

Data from Statistics Korea shows that production at large corporations continues to exceed that of small and medium-sized companies. 

The statistics agency said Monday that the production index for large corporations came to 150-point-five in the second quarter of the year, up 14-point-seven percent from the same period of 2008, shortly before the nation was hit by the global crisis. 

Meanwhile, the production index for smaller companies over the same period rose just six percent to 124-point-five.

In terms of production, it took smaller companies nine months longer than large corporations to return to precrisis levels.