Lee Byung-chull

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Lee in 1950
Korean spelling
Hangeul 이병철
Hanja 李秉 喆
Revised
Romanization 		I Byeong-cheol
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yi Pyŏngch'ŏl

Lee Byung-chull (born February 12, 1910 in Uiryeong , Gyeongsangnam-do , † November 19, 1987 in Seoul ) was a South Korean entrepreneur and founder of the Samsung Group .

Born into a wealthy family, he enrolled in 1934 at the Waseda University in Tokyo for political science one, but made no statements. He used his inheritance to open a rice mill in 1936, but was not very successful with this investment. The small import-export company Samsung Trading Company was founded by him in 1938 and in 1939 he founded a logistics company which he called Cheil . He founded the Samsung Corporation in 1948. In 1965 he founded the daily newspaper JoongAng Ilbo in Seoul .

Lee had three sons and five daughters. His third oldest son, Lee Kun-hee, succeeded him as CEO of the family business.

In November 1955 he began to use the stage name Ho-Am ( 호암 , 湖 巖 ), which means something like "to fill a room with clear water". Three years after his death, the Samsung Welfare Foundation decided to create an award in his memory, which was first awarded in 1991 and was christened the Ho Am Award .

He has often been called the richest man in Korea .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Lee Byung-chull on the Ho Am Prize website. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  2. ↑ Samsung Heirs Stage a Korean Soap Opera . The New York Times of April 24, 2012 (English).
  3. ↑ History on the Ho Am Prize website. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ Lee Byung Chull, 77, Industrialist of Korea . Obituary in The New York Times, November 20, 1987.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Byung-chull is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Byung-chull
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이병철 (Korean, Hangeul); 李秉 喆 (Korean, Hanja); I, Byeong-cheol (Revised Romanization); Yi, Pyŏngch'ŏl (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Uiryeong , Gyeongsangnam-do
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1987
Place of death Seoul