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[CEO Hye-yum] How old is our chairman?… Lee Jae-yong and Chung Yong-jin, Choi Tae-won and Lee Jae-hyun, Shin Dong-bin and Jang In-hwa, Kim Young-seop and Lim Jong-ryong, Yang Jong-hee and Jin Ok-dong are ‘same age’

 

[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] There was a time when the 386 generation was the mainstream of the world. After that, the novel and movie "Kim Ji-young, Born 1982" had a big impact on the public, and even the book "The 90s Are Coming" contained the worries and pains of contemporary people across generations. There was even a saying among office workers that "The 90s are coming, the 70s are crying."

 

The first generation of Korean conglomerates, including Lee Byung-chul (1910), Chung Ju-young (1915), Koo In-hoe (1907), Cho Hong-je (1906), Shin Kyuk-ho (1922), and Park Tae-joon (1927), were the original patriotic entrepreneurs who led the industrialization of the Republic of Korea and laid the foundation for economic growth. Afterwards, the second generation of conglomerates born in the 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s quantitatively grew their companies along with the industrial growth based on technology based on informatization.

 

Shinsegae Group Chairman Lee Myung-hee was born in 1943, Asan Foundation and Asan Nanum Foundation Chairman Chung Mong-joon was born in 1951, HD Hyundai Chairman Kwon Oh-gap was born in 1951, Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-yeon was born in 1952, Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin was born in 1955, POSCO Group Chairman Jang In-hwa was born in 1955, Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun was born in 1955, Doosan Group former Chairman Park Yong-man was born in 1955, Kolon Group Chairman Lee Woong-yeol was born in 1956, Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo was born in 1956, GS Group Chairman Huh Tae-soo was born in 1957, KT Group Chairman Kim Young-seop was born in 1959, and Woori Financial Group Chairman Lim Jong-yong was born in 1959.

 

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won born in 1960, CJ Group Chairman Lee Jae-hyun born in 1960, KB Financial Group Chairman Yang Jong-hee born in 1961, Shinhan Financial Group Chairman Jin Ok-dong born in 1961, National Agricultural Cooperative Federation Chairman Kang Ho-dong born in 1963, Kakao founder Kim Beom-soo born in 1966, Naver founder Lee Hae-jin born in 1967, NCSoft founder Kim Taek-jin born in 1967, Samsung Group Chairman Lee Jae-yong born in 1968, Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin born in 1968, Daum founder Lee Jae-woong born in 1968, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun born in 1970, and LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo born in 1978.

 

In recent years, there has been a generational shift in the chaebol family. Group chairmen and CEOs born in the 80s are appearing one after another. Those born in the 80s have the important responsibility of creating new growth engines and sources of income in the rapidly changing era of artificial intelligence (AI). If they fail to demonstrate their abilities in this changing era, they will only receive the cold gaze of the public who say, “They are living comfortably because they were born to good parents.”

Let's take a look at the ages of the successors to the conglomerates born in the 1980s and the CEOs of major Korean companies who will lead the Korean economy and industry for the next 30 years or more.

 

SK Networks CEO Choi Sung-hwan was born in 1981, HD Hyundai and HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Vice Chairman Jeong Ki-sun was born in 1982, Hanwha Group Vice Chairman Kim Dong-kwan was born in 1983, Samyang Group (Samyang Holdings) President Kim Geon-ho was born in 1983, Kolon Group Vice Chairman Lee Kyu-ho was born in 1984, Hanwha Life Insurance President Kim Dong-won was born in 1985, Lotte Executive Director Shin Yoo-yeol was born in 1986, and Hanwha Galleria, Hanwha Hotels & Resorts, and Hanwha Robotics Vice President Kim Dong-sun was born in 1989.

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