Koo Kwang-mo

Koo Kwang-Mo is the chairman and chief executive of LG, one of South Korea's top five conglomerates. He inherited the shares of his late father and former LG chairman Koo Bon-Moo after his death in May 2018. He is an adopted son of the former chairman, who lost his biological son in 1994; Kwang-Mo was born as a nephew to Bon-Moo. In 2019, at age 41, he became the youngest chairman of a major Korean conglomerate. In 2018 he was part of a business delegation that accompanied President Moon to Pyongyang, North Korea.