- Source of Wealth: Electronics, Insurance
- Age: 79
- Birth Place: Uiryeong, South Korea
- Full Name: Lee Kun-hee
- Nationality: Korean
- Date of Birth: January 9, 1942
- Ethnicity: Korean
- Occupation: Businessman
- Education: George Washington University, Waseda University
- Children: 3 (Lee Jae-yong, Lee Boo-jin, Lee Yoon-hyung)
With a total net worth of $16.8 billion in July 2019, Lee Kun-Hee, the chairman of Samsung Group, is considered as the largest conglomerate in Korea today. His Galaxy S-Smartphone continues to be a big hit in the market which increased his total net worth by around $1.5 billion. Samsung Electronics, a subsidiary of Samsung Group, is hailed as one of the world’s leading producers and developers of semiconductors.
Lee Kun-Hee took his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Waseda University in Tokyo Japan and pursued his MBA at the George Washington University. He came from a family of business-oriented people. His siblings are directly involved in many large corporations in Korea until today. In February 2012, his siblings filed a legal suitcase against him claiming that their father willed them a large portion of Samsung shares which amount to 800 billion dollars. Court hearings began in May 2012.