Who owns it?
Built and owned by KR South Korea, 1967 · never sold

Hyundai is independent. It owns itself.

Hyundai Motor Company gives 29 December 1967 as its date of establishment; that is the origin of the carmaker itself, and not of the wider Hyundai chaebol, which had been building other businesses for two decades by then.

Where it sits

Nowhere. There is no level above this one.

Hyundai
KR Seoul Hyundai Motor Company 005380.KS the chain ends here
The top

Also part-owned by

A stake that is not control, so it does not decide who owns it.

59 years, one owner

The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.

  1. 1967 Hyundai Motor Company gives 29 December 1967 as its date of establishment; that is the origin of the carmaker itself, and not of the wider Hyundai chaebol, which had been building other businesses for two decades by then.
Hyundai 2 marques

Hyundai and Genesis are badges on one Korean company, not businesses it bought. No shareholder controls it: the group's parts maker is its largest holder, and the founding family's grip runs through a ring of cross-holdings rather than a holding company.

South Korea 2
Genesis a marque
Hyundai Seoul