Shin Kyuk-ho
| Shin Kyuk-ho | |
|---|---|
| Korean name | |
| Hangeul | 신격호 |
| Hanja | 辛格浩 |
| Revised Romanization | Sin Gyeok-ho |
| McCune-Reischauer | Sin Kyŏkho |
| Japanese name | |
| Kanji | 重 光 武雄 |
| Rōmaji after Hepburn | Shigemitsu Takeo |
Shin Kyuk-ho (born October 4, 1921 in Ulsan , today's South Korea , † January 19, 2020 ) was a Japanese - South Korean manager . He was the founder and CEO of Lotte , a multinational corporation.
Life
Shin Kyuk-ho was born in Ulsan in the then Japanese Empire and now South Korea and belonged to the Korean minority in Japan . He had a bachelor's degree from Waseda University and founded Lotte in Tokyo in 1948 . He chose the name based on Charlotte (short: Lotte) from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther . In 2010, at 88, he was the oldest CEO among the 1,000 largest Korean companies. According to US Forbes Magazine , he and his children are among the richest South Koreans . Shin was married with three legitimate children. His youngest daughter Yoo-mi (* 1983) comes from an extramarital relationship with a beauty queen in 1977. As with many Jaebeols , his legitimate children (Young-ja, Dong-bin and Dong-ju) hold managerial positions in his company. He lived in South Korea for a few months of the year and in Japan the other months.
In 2000 he received an honorary citizenship of Busan .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte. Lotte Japan, accessed November 27, 2012 .
- ^ Kim Tae-gyu: Lotte's Shin oldest among Korean CEOs. In: The Korea Times . December 1, 2010, accessed November 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Shin Kyuk-ho & family. In: Forbes Magazine. 2006, accessed November 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Kim Tae-gyu: Lotte founder Shin's youngest daughter comes into limelight. In: The Korea Times . May 26, 2010, accessed November 27, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shin, Kyuk-ho |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 신격호 (Korean, Hangeul); 辛格浩 (Korean, Hanja); Sin, Gyeok-ho (Revised Romanization); Sin, Kyŏkho (McCune-Reischauer); Shigemitsu, Takeo (Japanese name); 重 光 武雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulsan , Korea |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th January 2020 |