Lee Seo-hyun
Seoul, South Korea
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Parsons School of Design
South Korea
Samsung C&T
computer services, tourism
$1,400,000,000
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#24 Korea's 50 Richest 2019
#1349 Billionaires 2019
Lee Seo-hyun oversees the Samsung Welfare Foundation, a charity founded by her father Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung Electronics. In December 2018, she stepped down as president of the group's fashion division, Samsung C&T, a post she held for three years. She joined Samsung Group's Cheil Industries as a manager in 2002, after graduating from the Parsons School of Design in New York.
Lee developed the company's casual-wear brand Bean Pole and was behind the 2011 acquisition of the Italian exotic leather brand Colombo via della Spiga. In 2014, in partnership with YG Entertainment, a top Korean entertainment agency, she launched a street fashion brand called Nonagon.
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