Smile-Up vs YG Entertainment

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Smile-Up is the older of the two, founded in 1962 — 33 years before YG Entertainment.

Founded: 1962; 1995
Status: Active; Active
Headquarters: Akasaka, Japan; Hapjeong-dong, South Korea
Industry: entertainment industry; entertainment industry
Founders: Johnny Kitagawa; Yang Hyun-suk
Employees: 210; 254
Legal form: kabushiki gaisha; joint-stock company
Listed on: Not recorded; Korean Stock Exchange
Website: smile-up.inc; ygfamily.com

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Smile-Up and YG Entertainment.