Shin Dong-joo

$1.06B

as of 10/04/24

About Shin Dong-joo

Shin Dong-joo is the eldest son of Shin Kyuk-Ho, the late founder of Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth largest conglomerate.

Lotte Group is South Korea's largest retailer and has interests ranging from food and beverages to chemicals, construction and professional baseball.

In early 2015 he was dismissed from his executive positions in the group after a bitter feud with his brother Dong-Bin.

Personal stats

Citizenship

South Korea

Source of wealth

retail

Residence

Tokyo, Japan

Marital status

Married

Birth date

01/28/54 (age 70)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University; Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School

Self-made

inherited

Shin Dong-joo’s fortune is worth

18K

troy ounces of gold

16K

median U.S. household

11K

median U.S. income

0.021%

U.S. credit card volume

0.004%

GDP of the United States

0.003%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

At the start of his career he worked for Mitsubishi in Japan in 1978.