Rank #542
Cho Jung-ho
Net worth $7.2B
Finance · South Korea
- Born
- Oct 05, 1958
- Age
- 67
- Source
- Finance
- Residence
- Seoul
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, IMD; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern California
Net worth over time
Biography
- Cho Jung-ho is the chairman of Meritz Financial Group.
- He is the youngest of the four sons of Cho Choong-hoon, the late founder of Hanjin Group, the parent company of Korean Air.
- He worked for Korean Airlines in Europe and returned home in 1989 as a director with Hanjin Investment & Securities, as Meritz was then named.
- Cho's father started out with a single truck and went on to build an empire based mostly on transportation.
- He has outstripped his brothers in wealth and success; Meritz's value has multiplied since it broke away from the Hanjin Group in 2005.
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