KOREA’S RICHEST- No. 1 LEE KUN-HEE

Lee Kun-hee

Chairman, Samsung Electronics
REAL TIME NET WORTH
$17.6B as of 8/27/18
2018 KOREA’S 50 RICHEST NET WORTH
$20.6B

Lee Kun-hee is chairman of Korea’s largest conglomerate, Samsung Group, best known for its consumer electronics division.

In May 2014, Lee suffered a heart attack and remains hospitalized. No concrete information has emerged about his condition.

The Samsung Group encompasses everything from fashion, theme parks and insurance to advanced materials, IT services and smartphones and TVs.

Lee is the 3rd son of Samsung Group founder Lee Byung-Chull, son of a wealthy landowner who started a modest trading company nearly 80 years ago.

His fortune includes that of his wife’s, Hong Ra-hee, a daughter of a media tycoon who chaired one of the country’s largest newspapers.

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