With each employee entitled to an average of 180 shares, the payments would total 900,000 won, or $752, each worker.

That level is 33 percent higher than the year's daily average of 290 million shares.

The company had an average of 505 million shares outstanding in the fourth quarter.

It was about 23 percent above this year's daily average of 331 million shares.

Yesterday's trading was 24 percent more than this year's daily average of 286 million shares.

Trading volume, however, continues to be light, far below this year's daily average of 513.4 million shares on the Big Board.

Volume was 2.77 million shares, more than triple the daily average of 814,077 shares in the last three months.

This was about 16 percent above this year's daily average of 297 million shares.

Each employee will receive an average of 3,000 shares.

In 2008, Knight traded an average of 3.97 billion shares per day.