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Lee Kun-hee

Korea 84 years old

Overview

Source of Wealth: Samsung
Industry: Diversified
Residence
Organization: Chairman at Samsung Electronics
Education: Waseda University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Children: 3

Assets

Cheil Industries

5,426,000 shares @ -

-

028260-KR
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

249,273,000 shares @ -

-

005930-KR
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

54,153,600 shares @ -

-

005930-KR
Samsung Electronics Preferred

620,000 shares @ -

-

005935-KR
Samsung Life Insurance

41,519,000 shares @ -

-

032830-KR
Samsung SDS

10,000 shares @ -

-

018260-KR

Biography

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 third 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, Hong Ra-hee, a daughter of a media tycoon who chaired one of the country's largest newspapers.

About

Lee's son Jay Y. Lee spent a year in jail on bribery charges involving former president Park Geun-hye and was released with a suspended sentence in February 2018.

In 1987, shortly after his father's death, Lee took the helm and eventually turned the Samsung Group into South Korea's No. 1 conglomerate.