Lee Kun-hee

$20.89B

as of 10/24/20

About Lee Kun-hee

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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

South Korea

Source of wealth

Samsung

Birth date

01/09/42

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Waseda University

Self-made

inherited and growing

Lee Kun-hee’s fortune is worth

348K

troy ounces of gold

321K

median U.S. household

209K

median U.S. income

0.418%

U.S. credit card volume

0.084%

GDP of the United States

0.061%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

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.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

KOREA | 028260-KR

Cheil Industries

KOREA | 005930-KR

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

KOREA | 005930-KR

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

KOREA | 005935-KR

Samsung Electronics Preferred

KOREA | 032830-KR

Samsung Life Insurance

KOREA | 018260-KR

Samsung SDS