Rank #3060
Kim Nam-jung
Net worth $1.0B
Food · South Korea
- Born
- Jan 01, 1973
- Age
- 53
- Source
- Food
- Residence
- Seoul
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Korea University; Master of Business Administration, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Net worth over time
Biography
- Kim Nam-jung is the chairman of Dongwon Industries, a conglomerate best known for its famous canned tunas in Korea.
- He is the younger son of Dongwon founder Kim Jae-chul, who started the business in 1969; his first overseas base was in Ghana in 1973.
- In addition to a wide range of packaged seafood, Dongwon provides outsourced meals, operates cold-storage facilities and has a logistics operation.
- He took over the position in 2019 when the elder Kim stepped down as Dongwon's chairman after 50 years.
- Nam-jung joined the business in a blue-collar position in 1996.
- Dongwon acquired leading U.S. tuna brand StarKist in 2008.
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