Hong Ra-hee

About Hong Ra-hee

Hong Ra-hee is the widow of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who had long been South Korea's richest person before his death in October 2020.

She was the director of the Samsung Museum of Art, known as Leeum, and the Ho-Am Art Museum before her resignation in 2017.

Hong is an arts graduate of Seoul National University, and both museums contain collections from her father-in-law, Samsung founder Lee Byung-Chull.

Her father was chairman of one of Korea's largest daily newspapers, JoongAng Ilbo, which is now run by her nephew.

One of her brothers, Hong Seok-joh, chairs Korea's biggest convenience-store chain and is also a billionaire.