Korea ranks 9th in global entrepreneurship index 2020 Posted : 2021-05-06 15:04 / gettyimagesbank South Korea been ranked ninth among 44 countries in the global entrepreneurship index 2020, rising six notches from a year earlier, the government said Thursday. Asia's fourth-largest economy won 5.49 points out of the full 10 in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's National Entrepreneurship Context Index, up from 5.13 in 2019, according to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. South Korea was ranked first in the internal market dynamics category with 7.9 points but came in 29th in the professional and commercial infrastructure access section with 4.8. South Korea obtained better points than most major global economies, such as the United States, Canada, Britain, European Union countries, China and Japan.