Lee Dong-chae
$946.4M
as of 02/28/25
About Lee Dong-chae
Lee Dong-chae is founder of EcoPro, a chemicals group, which he started in 1998.
EcoPro's battery-materials-making unit, EcoPro BM, is South Korea's largest producer of cathodes used in electric car batteries.
In 2022, a joint venture between EcoPro BM and Samsung's battery arm completed construction of the world's largest cathode material plant by output capacity.
In 2023, Lee was sentenced to a two-year prison term and fined 2.2 billion won ($1.7 million) for insider trading. He has appealed the court's ruling.
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South KoreaSource of wealth
ChemicalsResidence
Cheongju, South KoreaBirth date
10/01/59 (age 65)Self-made
self-madeLee Dong-chae’s fortune is worth
16K
troy ounces of gold
15K
median U.S. household
9K
median U.S. income
0.019%
U.S. credit card volume
0.004%
GDP of the United States
0.003%
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