The performance is bad, but the number of executives is the highest ever...The big company is blowing the wind.

Despite poor management performance last year, the number of executives of Korea's top 100 companies increased to 7,400 this year, the highest number since 2010, according to a forecast that there will be a sharp wind in personnel appointments at the end of this year.Unico Search, a headhunting company specializing in

, surveyed inside directors and unregistered executives of the top 100 companies by sales, and found that 7,404 executives this year were up 0.8% from last year.

Meanwhile, sales of the nation's top 100 companies fell 1.1 percent year-on-year to 1,417 trillion won last year, and operating profit plunged 48 percent to 58 trillion won.

Utico Search said that despite increasing the number of executives when management performance was not good, management performance is also expected to be low this year, and pointed out that the number of executives at large companies is likely to decrease slightly at the end of this year and early next year.