Name
Chung Mong-joon
Chung Mong-joon
Seoul, South Korea
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Seoul National University | Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University | Master of Business Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
South Korea
Hyundai Heavy Industries
shipbuilding, industrial machines
$1,100,000,000
1818
#36 Korea's 50 Richest 2019
#1818 Billionaires 2019
Chung Mong-joon is the largest shareholder of shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries. He is the sixth son of the late Hyundai group founder Chung Ju-yung, who got his start repairing trucks for the U.S. Army after the Korean War.Chung ran Hyundai Heavy Industries until he entered politics in 1988; he served seven terms in the National Assembly.
In 2014 he ran for mayor of Seoul but lost.He is a former vice president of international soccer body FIFA.
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